Doc 0000146335
CIA
This document is a redacted memorandum from the CIA's MKUltra/Mind Control Collection, featuring handwritten annotations and obscuring black ink.
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 "THE BLACK VAULT" in large, stylized text. Below this, a large graphic of a bank vault door is visible on the left side of the page, rendered in shades of grey and blue. To the right of the vault, white text details that the document was obtained from "The Black Vault," an online database of declassified government documents, specifically referencing the MKULTRA/Mind Control Collection housed by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The text also provides a URL for the collection. No photographs, handwritten annotations, signatures, official stamps, forms, diagrams, tables, redactions, or visual evidence of experimental procedures are present on this page; the visual content is solely illustrative and informational.
The page is a typed memorandum with handwritten annotations and significant portions of text redacted. There are no photographs, stamps, forms, diagrams, or tables visible. The document features handwritten markings in black ink, including "A/B, 5, 121/1" at the top, and notations of "C B/6" on the left margin, appearing multiple times. There is a large amount of black ink obscuring extensive sections of the typed text, particularly in the main body of the memo, with some of the original text still legible in places, such as "MEMORANDUM TO THE FILE", "SUBJ", "1. In response to our letter to", "6 December 1954", and the letter "A" at the bottom right.
The page is a typewritten document with significant portions obscured by black redactions. At the top right, there is a handwritten annotation "A/B,5,121/2" and a small, faint handwritten "A" is present lower down on the right side of the page. Additional handwritten marks are visible, suggesting someone may have been reviewing or annotating the document. The presence of the black redactions indicates that sensitive information has been deliberately removed. The visual content primarily consists of the typewritten text and the redactions, with minimal other visual elements.
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