Doc 0000146066
CIA
This document is a declassified CIA MKUltra collection item titled "THE BLACK VAULT" which displays a graphic of a vault door and text indicating its origin from an online database of declassified government documents.
This is one record. The archive holds the rest — ask it anything across the MKUltra files and every answer is cited to the page.
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The page displays a graphic on the left, resembling a bank vault door with multiple gears and a circular lock mechanism, rendered in metallic tones with blue lighting. The right side of the page features bold white text announcing "THE BLACK VAULT" and subsequent lines in smaller white text detailing that the document originates from this online database of declassified government documents, specifically from the MKULTRA/Mind Control Collection, and provides a website URL in yellow for access. There are no photographs, handwritten annotations, stamps, forms, diagrams, tables, redactions, or visual evidence of experimental procedures present on this page.
The document is a typed agenda for an "ARTICHOKE MEETING" dated March 19, 1953, at 11:40 hours. It lists three agenda items: a progress report and general remarks, a report from CSI, and a report from T3S. There is a handwritten annotation in the upper right corner, a circled number "203". Portions of the text related to each agenda item are obscured by heavy black redactions. The document has a vertical line of text on the right margin, which appears to be some form of internal routing or classification markings, although the text is difficult to decipher.
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