Doc 0000147407
CIA
This document is a memorandum for the record from November 21, 1951, discussing an individual's inquiries about CIA research on drugs for interrogation purposes, referencing Project Artichoke and the need to conceal current government activities in this area.
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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This page features a stylized graphic of a bank vault door on the left, with glowing blue accents. The text on the right, rendered in white and yellow, states that the document was obtained from "The Black Vault," an online database of declassified government documents, specifically from the MKULTRA/Mind Control Collection. It mentions that the collection contains over 20,000 declassified pages from the CIA and provides a URL for online access. There are no photographs of people, locations, equipment, or subjects, nor any handwritten annotations, signatures, stamps, forms, diagrams, tables, redactions, or visual evidence of experimental procedures. The visual elements are purely graphic and informational, designed to indicate the source and nature of the document.
The document is a typed memorandum from the "MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD" series, dated November 21, 1951. There are numerous handwritten annotations, primarily in dark ink, on the left and right margins, as well as scattered within the text. These annotations appear to be initials and possibly notes or cross-references, such as "A", "C", "H-B/3", and "B/3". A significant portion of the text is obscured by heavy black redactions, making it impossible to read specific details within the memorandum. The document also contains a handwritten date and initials in the top right corner, "A/B, 25/18" and "21 November 1951".
The document is a typewritten page with handwritten annotations in the margins. Redacted text is present in several areas, obscuring specific information within the main body of the text and in call-out boxes. Handwritten markings include "H-B/3", "A", and "C" in the left margin, and the designation "B/3" below that. There are also two instances of the letter "A" written in the lower half of the page, and a stamp-like marking associated with "OSI" near the bottom. The visual content primarily highlights emphasized or classified information through redaction, and organizational or reference notations via handwriting.
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