Doc 0000147386
CIA
This document is a memo from March 12, 1952, regarding Project Artichoke, detailing the Technical Research Staff's work on developing techniques and plans for security purposes, with principal interests in hypnosis and photography.
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 provided image is not a declassified CIA document page but rather an informational graphic that appears to be a header or a landing page for "The Black Vault," an online database of declassified government documents. Visually, it features a stylized graphic of a vault door on the left side, with a glowing blue accent. The title "THE BLACK VAULT" is prominently displayed in a white, stylized font against a dark background. Below the title, a block of white text explains that the document was obtained from The Black Vault, specifying that it pertains to the MKULTRA/Mind Control Collection and consists of over 20,000 declassified CIA pages available for download. A bright yellow hyperlink, "http://mkultra.theblackvault.com," is also present. There are no photographs of people, locations, equipment, annotations, signatures, official stamps, forms, diagrams, tables, redactions, or visual evidence of experimental procedures.
The document is a typed memo with significant handwritten annotations and redactions. The top right corner features a handwritten notation "A/B, 4, 23/36" and the date "12 March 1952". Large, handwritten letters "A", "C", and "H-B/6" are present in the margins, likely for categorization or routing. Several large sections of text are completely obscured by black redactions. There are no photographs, diagrams, or official stamps visible on this particular page. The visual elements highlight the heavily censored nature of the document, suggesting sensitive information is contained within.
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