Doc 0000146365
CIA
This document is a typewritten letter with handwritten annotations discussing research on LSD and its distribution in the brain, within the context of the CIA's MKUltra program.
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 featuring a large, stylized image of a bank vault door on the left, with blue light emanating from it. To the right of the vault, white text with a neon blue outline announces "THE BLACK VAULT." Below this, more white text details that the document originates from "The Black Vault," an online database of declassified government documents, specifically mentioning the "MKULTRA/Mind Control Collection." The text further states that over 20,000 pages have been declassified by the CIA and provides a web address for the collection.
The document is a typewritten letter with handwritten annotations. There are several large rectangular redactions, obscuring significant portions of the text and images. Handwritten annotations include a date "Jan 16, 1955," a series of alphanumeric characters "A/B, I, 211, 6," and a large "C" that appears multiple times. There are also two blacked-out stamps or seals at the top of the page. The remaining visible text discusses scientific investigations and an invitation to visit institutes and a home.
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