The American government has a strange and dark secret - the mind control experiments conducted by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), which began in the 1950s.
The project was called "MK Ultra" (Project MKULTRA or MK-ULTRA). It was conducted by the CIA's Office of Scientific Intelligence from the early 1950s to the late 1960s.
Methods of controlling the human brain were used to make people more susceptible to suggestion. The subjects, which included American and Canadian citizens, were given drugs such as LSD and subjected to sensory deprivation and psychiatric intervention.
In 1973, CIA Director Richard Helms ordered the destruction of all MKULTRA documents. Two years later, the project came to the fore when an investigation was launched by a special committee of the US Senate to study intelligence activities, in 1975 led by Senator Frank Church. The committee collected evidence and surviving documents. Upon request, an additional 20,000 additional declassified documents were obtained under the US Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). This led to a Senate hearing in 1977.
"The deputy director of the CIA said that more than 30 universities and institutions were involved in an extensive program that included covert experiments on unsuspecting citizens from different backgrounds, Native Americans and foreigners," Senator Ted Kennedy said at a 1977 Senate meeting. "Some of these experiments involved the use of LSD by unknowing people, which led to at least one death."
Then the CIA announced that the MKULTRA experiments had been stopped. However, Victor Marchetti, a 14-year-old CIA officer, argued that the intelligence agency continued to exercise mind control. In a 1977 interview, he said that the announcement that the MKULTRA project had been discontinued was just a cover.
This has given rise to many "conspiracy theories" that the work of the American government in this area and experimentation on American citizens is still ongoing.
According to the investigation, the purpose of the experiments is to "split" the human brain so that the person loses their individuality and becomes susceptible to suggestion.
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Serhan Serhan, who confessed to the murder of Robert F. Kennedy, claimed to have been influenced to commit the murder.
“There is no doubt that it was programmed through hypnosis,” attorney William F. Pepper told ABC News in 2011. "They used it, they controlled it."