Project MKUltra
The CIA or The Central Intelligence Agency was founded on September 18th, 1947. Throughout the decades that the agency has been active, they have engaged in many classified and sometimes illegal projects. One of the CIA’s activities that was disclosed to the public was Project MKUltra.
Project MKUltra took place between 1953 and 1964. The base idea for this project was to test the effects of different types of drugs on the human body, and it monitors the ability to control people's thoughts and actions based on the effects of the drugs. Everything that the CIA performed while the project was underway was completed in secret. There was over 120 human experiments that took place, and prisoners of war were commonly practiced upon. The subjects were locked in solitary hospital rooms to monitor the effects of the numerous drugs that had been administered. There were hundreds of drugs conducted during the eleven years the project took place. Although there countless drugs used, it was narrowed down to seven that showed the most effects: MDMA (ecstasy), mescaline, heroin, barbiturates, methamphetamine, psilocybin (“magic mushrooms”), and LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide). …show more content…
During the prohibition era the CIA knew of the production of some alcoholic beverages despite the enactment of the twenty first amendment. As an attempt to stop civilians from drinking alcohol entirely, they poisoned some supplies being brought into speakeasies. The poisoning of the alcohol killed over 10,000 people and sickened thousands of others. All of this project was practiced in secret until the mass death toll was brought to the attention of congress. Even though it was heavily debated between the CIA and Congress, the program still continued for many years, but the CIA destroyed most of the documents that had existed for its top secret