{ "schema": "mkultra-subproject-index-v1", "updated": "2026-10-18", "primary_source_id": "MK-024", "primary_source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf", "scope": "All 149 number slots are enumerated for tracking. This is NOT an assertion that all 149 entries have been independently verified or that all contemplated experiments occurred.", "counts": { "slots": 149, "summary_located": 149, "needs_page_level_review": 0 }, "rules": [ "Do not add multiple numbers in one grouped monetary amount; attribution and witting status apply to the specific record.", "Do not equate an affiliated researcher with institutional involvement.", "Distinguish a proposal, funded experiment and performed test with separate source proof.", "Blank status is pending extraction, not evidence that no historical data exists.", "For cross-linked numbers 8,10,63,66 and 9/26, do not add CIA retrospective approximate totals before matched grant vouchers and exact periods are reconciled.", "Distinguish cash-management or personnel-support entries from human testing. A briefing's word volunteer is not a completed consent audit.", "Subproject 18's $400,000 authorization and $1,337.45 outlay describe different accounting states, not $401,337.45 of activity.", "Subproject 21 reports a retrospective $5,800 amount while explicitly stating no funds were expended; do not convert the field into an expenditure.", "For Subproject 23, treat the Senate memorandum's $658.05 and alternate OCR $652.05 as a known unresolved transcription discrepancy, not distinct expenses.", "For Subproject 35, a CIA lawyer's analysis of government matching contributions and avoided 80% hospital overhead is documentary evidence of planned mechanics, not proof the institution knew the CIA was paying or that the matching payment occurred.", "Subproject 50 was explicitly cancelled by CIA Finance; exclude proposed funds from any expenditure ledger and preserve the denial as an oversight decision.", "Subproject 54 was explicitly cancelled and not financed by CIA; prior Navy research must be verified in a distinct source before assigning it to MKULTRA.", "For Subproject 47, CIA use of 'volunteer' does not independently establish freely given informed consent in a custodial setting; $2,900 inmate payments are a reported subset, not an additional program total.", "For Subproject 45, the CIA summary reports proposed later human experimentation with advanced-cancer patients without outcome records; do not convert the proposed tests into completed treatment or conflated Subproject 23 expense.", "A named employee's J. P. Morgan & Co. affiliation in Subproject 58, specifically described as unwitting, does not constitute company sponsorship or financial participation.", "Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology cover costs in Subprojects 57, 60, 61, 63, 65 and 66 must be separated by financial instrument, dates and purpose; nested grant flows cannot simply be added.", "The $30,475 continuation ceiling in Subproject 66 and retrospective $75,000 are distinct reporting windows; 63 advisory activity was transferred, so totals and headcounts require overlap reconciliation." ], "records": [ { "number": 1, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Plant alkaloid research", "years": "1953–1954", "institution": "Princeton University", "funding": "$1,300", "category": "chemical analysis", "pdf_page": 3, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=3", "evidence_limit": "Proposed research on alkaloids affecting the central nervous system; source lists a witting project participant." }, { "number": 2, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Behavioral-modification consultancy", "years": "1953–1958", "institution": "Redacted consultant; associated Stanford proposal", "funding": "$20,000", "category": "research proposal", "pdf_page": 5, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=5", "evidence_limit": "File describes two proposals and states there is no record of results; human testing could not be established from the brief." }, { "number": 3, "status": "summary_located", "title": "New York unwitting drug tests", "years": "1953–1956", "institution": "New York City / George White", "funding": "$8,875", "category": "human testing", "pdf_page": 12, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=12", "evidence_limit": "CIA briefing describes initiation of unwitting testing; George White used the cover identity Morgan Hall.", "r32_r33_accountability": { "pass": "R33", "date": "2026-10-18", "additional_source_ids": [ "MK-046", "MK-047", "MK-048" ], "finding": "The 1979 subject-notification memo concerns George White diary entries and a bounded diary-specific set of possible participants. The reported 12 contacts and 3 unidentified individuals cannot be generalized to all testing associated with Subproject 3.", "verification": "Original finance-instrument page images, source mirror's October 1979 full PDF and individual consent/notification records not fully authenticated; privacy-protecting aggregate only. No direct Epstein operational connection." } }, { "number": 4, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Magician tradecraft manual", "years": "1953–1954", "institution": "John Mulholland", "funding": "Shared group total $5,500", "category": "covert tradecraft", "pdf_page": 14, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=14", "evidence_limit": "One of the three linked subprojects 4, 15 and 19; do not sum group total more than once." }, { "number": 5, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Hypnosis studies", "years": "1953–1956", "institution": "University of Minnesota, later University of Denver", "funding": "About $12,000 a year", "category": "hypnosis", "pdf_page": 17, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=17", "evidence_limit": "Evaluation of hypnosis as a purported tool for recall, learning and resistance to questioning; distinct from proof of efficacy." }, { "number": 6, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Domestic LSD sourcing", "years": "1953–1955", "institution": "Eli Lilly, Indianapolis", "funding": "$5,000 approved; unspent", "category": "chemicals", "pdf_page": 19, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=19", "evidence_limit": "CIA summary says company did not charge for work and no testing was done under this entry." }, { "number": 7, "status": "summary_located", "title": "LSD effects studies", "years": "1953–1954", "institution": "Harold Abramson / multiple locations", "funding": "Combined amount cannot be split from group summary", "category": "drug research", "pdf_page": 21, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=21", "evidence_limit": "One of related subprojects 7, 27 and 40 carried forward from RO-37; corroborate each subproject separately.", "r40_original_memo_crosswalk": { "pass": "R40", "source_ids": [ "MK-053", "MK-024" ], "relationship": "Research was continued as 27, and contemplated unwitting dosing in a later year without proof it occurred", "verification": "Source is a later CIA memorandum whose underlying original proposals, personnel notices and 1977 institution letters must be separately authenticated; page-image screenshot unavailable.", "status": "retrospective_cia_memo_qualified_implementation_and_payment_unresolved" } }, { "number": 8, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Volunteer LSD effects and antagonists", "years": "1953–1955", "institution": "Research institution redacted in original CIA summary", "funding": "Approx. $40,000 CIA retrospective; June 1953 authorization $39,500 grant plus $790 intermediary service, ceiling $40,290", "category": "human testing", "pdf_page": 42, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=42", "evidence_limit": "CIA retrospective says 12 human volunteers in one adrenal-cortex study, and describes other LSD studies. Voluntary status is a record statement, not an independently consent-audited conclusion. The 1953 $40,290 ceiling and retrospective $40,000 are separate accounting descriptions, not additive.", "related_numbers": [ 10, 63, 66 ], "source_pages": [ 42, 43, 44 ] }, { "number": 9, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Depressant-drug psychiatric clinical research", "years": "1954–1955", "institution": "Researchers and specific sites redacted in original CIA summary", "funding": "Approx. $21,000; Geschickter Fund", "category": "psychiatric drug research", "pdf_page": 46, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=46", "evidence_limit": "The briefing identifies drugs researched for manic/psychotic patients, alcoholism and schizophrenia; investigator awareness statuses vary, with two people marked unwitting. This does not by itself establish the consent status of every tested subject.", "related_numbers": [ 26 ], "source_pages": [ 46, 47 ] }, { "number": 10, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Predicting LSD and alcohol effects in controlled volunteer studies", "years": "1952–1957", "institution": "Principal researcher and location not legible or redacted in initial CIA summary", "funding": "Approx. $150,000; Geschickter Foundation for Medical Research", "category": "human testing", "pdf_page": 49, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=49", "evidence_limit": "CIA briefing describes human subjects in controlled conditions and labels them volunteers. The total spans several years and related research numbered 8/63/66; do not sum across linked studies until vouchers show nonoverlapping grants.", "related_numbers": [ 8, 63, 66 ], "source_pages": [ 49, 50 ] }, { "number": 11, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Plant toxins and abrin supply research", "years": "1953–1955", "institution": "Contractor and site redacted", "funding": "Approx. $5,000, Treasury check; no cover mechanism noted", "category": "toxin research", "pdf_page": 55, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=55", "evidence_limit": "Original briefing describes preparing a supply of toxic protein abrin for experimentation, but the summary does not itself evidence a particular human administration, field use or completed experiment.", "source_pages": [ 55 ] }, { "number": 12, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Piscidia erythrina bark bioactive compounds", "years": "1953–1954", "institution": "Contractor and site redacted", "funding": "Approx. $30,000, cashier's checks; 'notional' cover mechanism", "category": "plant chemistry", "pdf_page": 57, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=57", "evidence_limit": "Original CIA page describes investigation of chemicals in bark used historically as analgesic, narcotic and fish poison. The summary does not demonstrate human administration or covert field deployment.", "source_pages": [ 57 ] }, { "number": 13, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Fort Detrick operational petty-cash fund", "years": "1953–1955", "institution": "CIA activity at Fort Detrick, Maryland", "funding": "Approx. $3,000 cash", "category": "operational financing", "pdf_page": 59, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=59", "evidence_limit": "CIA summary describes funds to cover sensitive support purchases and cites December 1954 vehicle rental and June 1955 West Virginia cabin rental. Unusual expenditures do not by themselves establish a toxin delivery, actual experiment or wrongdoing outside the agency's own concern about misuse.", "related_numbers": [ 30 ], "source_pages": [ 59 ] }, { "number": 14, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Operation Black interagency personnel transfer", "years": "July–November 1953", "institution": "U.S. Bureau of Narcotics / CIA; George H. White; New York City work", "funding": "Approx. $4,300 total; narrative specifies a $4,000 CIA-to-Bureau personnel transfer", "category": "operational administration", "pdf_page": 61, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=61", "evidence_limit": "Original CIA briefing identifies George White and Commissioner Harry Anslinger and a personnel-support arrangement. A financing or staffing entry is not proof of a particular safehouse experiment; it is distinct from separately documented unwitting tests.", "source_pages": [ 61 ] }, { "number": 15, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Magician tradecraft manual", "years": "1953–1954", "institution": "John Mulholland", "funding": "Shared group total $5,500", "category": "covert tradecraft", "pdf_page": 14, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=14", "evidence_limit": "Shared source and shared total for 4/15/19; no duplicate accounting." }, { "number": 16, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Testing-facility maintenance after Subproject 3", "years": "One-year support extension; original authorization date requires corroboration", "institution": "CIA TSS Chemical Division and associated Applied Physics Division; operating facility redacted", "funding": "$7,740 estimated for one year, proposed, not yet receipt-verified", "category": "facility maintenance and infrastructure", "pdf_page": 117, "source_id": "MK-002", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mindcontrol/hearing.pdf#page=117", "evidence_limit": "An original memo reproduced in the 1977 Senate hearing identifies Subproject 16 as maintenance of facilities established under Subproject 3, citing unexpected alterations, supplies and equipment. The $7,740 is a one-year estimate rather than verified payment or a separate confirmed human experiment. Page text checked; image fetch failed, so finer authorization fields remain provisional.", "source_pages": [ 117 ], "related_numbers": [ 3 ] }, { "number": 17, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Isotope-labelled LSD metabolic and antidote research", "years": "1953–1955", "institution": "Research site redacted in CIA briefing; Geschickter Foundation intermediary", "funding": "Approximately $30,000 reported in CIA project summary; underlying disbursements not reconciled", "category": "LSD chemical research", "pdf_page": 67, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=67", "evidence_limit": "CIA briefing proposes/is characterized as isotope-labelled chemical studies of LSD action, metabolism and possible blocking agents. It labels at least one research participant unwitting and others unknown; this does not by itself prove human-subject dosing, patient consent, or investigator identity.", "source_pages": [ 67, 68 ] }, { "number": 18, "status": "summary_located", "title": "LSD procurement authorization and Eli Lilly travel cover", "years": "December 1953", "institution": "CIA Technical Services Division; Eli Lilly named as cover for C. V. S. Roosevelt travel", "funding": "$400,000 obligated/authorized; only $1,337.45 expended according to CIA retrospective (not additive)", "category": "procurement and fiscal authorization", "pdf_page": 70, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=70", "evidence_limit": "Original CIA summary separates a $400,000 procurement authorization from $1,337.45 actually spent. It describes Eli Lilly as cover for a CIA officer's trip; this does not demonstrate Lilly's informed participation or a $400,000 payment to the company.", "source_pages": [ 70 ] }, { "number": 19, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Magician tradecraft manual", "years": "1953–1954", "institution": "John Mulholland", "funding": "Shared group total $5,500", "category": "covert tradecraft", "pdf_page": 14, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=14", "evidence_limit": "Shared source and shared total for 4/15/19; no duplicate accounting." }, { "number": 20, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Yohimbine chemical derivative procurement", "years": "1953", "institution": "Pedlow-Nease Chemical Company Inc., Lock Haven, Pennsylvania", "funding": "Approximately $202, indicated via sterile cashier's check; specific paid voucher not independently reviewed", "category": "chemical procurement", "pdf_page": 74, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=74", "evidence_limit": "CIA briefing identifies manufacture/supply of a dimannich derivative of yohimbine hydrochloride for use in other approved projects. No human test or eventual use is identified. Supplier status does not establish corporate awareness of CIA sponsorship.", "source_pages": [ 74 ] }, { "number": 21, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Proposed covert pharmacological screening that did not proceed", "years": "1953", "institution": "Intended testing institution redacted; C. F. Geschickter mentioned as prospective cut-out", "funding": "$5,800 retrospective approximate total field; CIA narrative explicitly says no funds were ever expended", "category": "cancelled or unexecuted proposal", "pdf_page": 76, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=76", "evidence_limit": "Original CIA summary says institutional policies prevented testing as planned and no money was spent; the summary nevertheless contains a $5,800 approximate-total field. Do not count $5,800 as paid or infer that the proposed covert testing was performed. A research participant is labelled unwitting, without proof testing occurred.", "source_pages": [ 76, 77 ] }, { "number": 22, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Plant- and fungus-derived psychoactive compounds", "years": "1954–1963", "institution": "Research institution partly obscured; Geschickter Fund and Medical Sciences Research Foundation identified as financial covers", "funding": "More than $100,000 reported, exact total not calculated in CIA summary", "category": "natural-product chemistry with animal/human testing references", "pdf_page": 79, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=79", "evidence_limit": "CIA source describes research on seeds and Amanita muscaria and refers to animal and human tests; it does not identify participant knowledge or establish informed consent. Over-$100,000 figure is not a verified payment total.", "source_pages": [ 79, 80 ] }, { "number": 23, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Hospital expenses for chemical testing involving terminal cancer patients", "years": "1954–1955 (August 25 1955 expense memorandum)", "institution": "CIA TSS Chemical Division and unnamed contractor/hospital; participants' identities withheld", "funding": "Initial $42,700 one-year proposed obligation; $15,000 proposed supplement ($57,700 ceiling); separate $658.05 hospital expenses according to Senate-printed memo; alternate OCR capture gives $652.05, pending image/voucher reconciliation", "category": "human testing and hospital-expense payments", "pdf_page": 122, "source_id": "MK-002", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mindcontrol/hearing.pdf#page=122", "evidence_limit": "Senate-reproduced Aug. 25 1955 CIA memo reports hospital bills paid for terminal cancer patients to allow chemical-effects testing, following chief's verbal approval. It does not provide an independent informed-consent record or proof of subject notification. Printed Senate reproduction says $658.05; a separate original-file OCR index reads $652.05; exact cents pending image and payment voucher reconciliation. Do not add the $658.05 expense to the 1954 annual project ceiling without same-instrument audit.", "source_pages": [ 119, 120, 121, 122 ] }, { "number": 24, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Sterile-location coordination meetings", "years": "1954", "institution": "MKULTRA contractors and CIA Technical Services; meeting locations redacted", "funding": "$2,900 retrospective amount", "category": "contractor meetings and coordination", "pdf_page": 85, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=85", "evidence_limit": "CIA source describes witting and unwitting contractors meeting at sterile sites. It does not identify experimental subjects or show drugs were administered during meetings.", "source_pages": [ 85 ] }, { "number": 25, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Operational-applicability study of hypnosis", "years": "1954–1955", "institution": "Researcher/location redacted; Geschickter Foundation funding route", "funding": "Approximately $12,000 in cashier's checks", "category": "hypnosis research", "pdf_page": 87, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=87", "evidence_limit": "The source establishes a hypnosis research objective and an approximate funding field; it lists no research participant, which cannot prove there was no human involvement, and gives no confirmed operational deployment.", "source_pages": [ 87 ] }, { "number": 26, "status": "summary_located", "title": "University of Illinois psychiatric-drug studies", "years": "1954–1955", "institution": "University of Illinois; Geschickter Fund intermediary", "funding": "Approximately $5,000; linked to subproject 9, no voucher de-duplication", "category": "human drug tests described as volunteer", "pdf_page": 89, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=89", "evidence_limit": "CIA summary describes approximately 200 paid volunteers per month at $5 to $10 each. Those are CIA classifications, not independent consent findings. Subproject 26 is explicitly a follow-on to number 9, so headcount or money must not be simply added to number 9.", "source_pages": [ 89 ], "related_numbers": [ 9 ] }, { "number": 27, "status": "summary_located", "title": "LSD effects studies", "years": "1954–1955", "institution": "Harold Abramson / multiple locations", "funding": "Combined amount cannot be split from group summary", "category": "drug research", "pdf_page": 21, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=21", "evidence_limit": "Linked to subprojects 7 and 40; do not misread OCR year 1935.", "r40_original_memo_crosswalk": { "pass": "R40", "source_ids": [ "MK-053", "MK-024" ], "relationship": "Continuation of Subproject 7 with separate service-charge accounting corrected under 33", "verification": "Source is a later CIA memorandum whose underlying original proposals, personnel notices and 1977 institution letters must be separately authenticated; page-image screenshot unavailable.", "status": "retrospective_cia_memo_qualified_implementation_and_payment_unresolved" } }, { "number": 28, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Emory-area central-nervous-system drug studies", "years": "1954–1955", "institution": "Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia; another investigator/institution redacted", "funding": "Approximately $25,000 via Geschickter Foundation", "category": "human and animal drug research", "pdf_page": 93, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=93", "evidence_limit": "Summary describes drug studies in animals and humans and references volunteers; investigator awareness is not fully stated. Retrospective funding does not certify disbursement or independently established consent.", "source_pages": [ 93 ] }, { "number": 29, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Hypnotic-susceptibility profiling research", "years": "1954–1955", "institution": "University of Denver, investigator obscured", "funding": "Approximately $19,000 via Geschickter Foundation", "category": "hypnosis and psychological profiling", "pdf_page": 95, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=95", "evidence_limit": "CIA synopsis explicitly cross-references subproject 25 and describes profiling for potential field relevance. No actual field use or informed-consent documentation is supplied. Linked research grants should be cross-checked before aggregation.", "source_pages": [ 95 ], "related_numbers": [ 25 ] }, { "number": 30, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Fort Detrick petty-cash support and supplies", "years": "1958–1960", "institution": "CIA/Fort Detrick, Maryland", "funding": "Approximately $3,000 cash fund", "category": "facility operating expenses and chemical-biological support", "pdf_page": 97, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=97", "evidence_limit": "CIA summary documents a cash mechanism for unusual security or urgent expenses, including sampling gear and transport. It does not establish chemical use against subjects. It cites number 13 as related, requiring same-account reconciliation.", "source_pages": [ 97, 98 ], "related_numbers": [ 13 ] }, { "number": 31, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Rare chemical supply by Pedlow-Nease", "years": "1954", "institution": "Pedlow-Nease Chemical Company, Lock Haven, Pennsylvania", "funding": "Approximately $1,500 via cashier's checks", "category": "chemical supply contract", "pdf_page": 100, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=100", "evidence_limit": "Retrospective summary identifies a two-kilogram supply of an unnamed rare chemical, not experimentation or supplier knowledge of CIA end-use. It explicitly references subproject 20, and original invoices are required before treating this as distinct payment.", "source_pages": [ 100 ], "related_numbers": [ 20 ] }, { "number": 32, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Medicinal plant chemistry continuation", "years": "1954–1955", "institution": "Research institution redacted; active plant-compound research", "funding": "Approximately $30,000 via cashier's checks", "category": "botanical chemical research", "pdf_page": 102, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=102", "evidence_limit": "CIA summary explicitly describes continuation of subproject 12, with no human testing established from this entry. Continuation and later accounting may refer to overlapping grant instruments.", "source_pages": [ 102 ], "related_numbers": [ 12 ] }, { "number": 33, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Subproject 27 financial correction", "years": "1954", "institution": "Geschickter Fund administrative payment channel", "funding": "$400 correction to project 27 service-fee calculation", "category": "bookkeeping adjustment only", "pdf_page": 104, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=104", "evidence_limit": "CIA summary describes a $400 accounting correction, with no research participant or separate experiment. It must not be counted as an independent experimental program; verify adjustment against project 27 master expense ledger.", "source_pages": [ 104 ], "related_numbers": [ 27 ], "r40_original_memo_crosswalk": { "pass": "R40", "source_ids": [ "MK-053", "MK-024" ], "relationship": "Administrative service-fee correction to Subproject 27, not separate performed experiment", "verification": "Source is a later CIA memorandum whose underlying original proposals, personnel notices and 1977 institution letters must be separately authenticated; page-image screenshot unavailable.", "status": "retrospective_cia_memo_qualified_implementation_and_payment_unresolved" } }, { "number": 34, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Covert delivery and disguise techniques", "years": "1955–1958", "institution": "John Mulholland", "funding": "$1,800", "category": "covert tradecraft", "pdf_page": 105, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=105", "evidence_limit": "Consulting on covert delivery, movement, disguise and signalling." }, { "number": 35, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Hospital research-wing arrangement", "years": "1955 onward", "institution": "Geschickter Fund / unidentified institution in redacted summary", "funding": "$375,000 final figure in CIA compilation", "category": "funding intermediary", "pdf_page": 107, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=107", "evidence_limit": "CIA synopsis describes research wing and cover; redactions limit identification of actual institution.", "additional_contemporaneous_source": { "source_id": "MK-002", "url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mindcontrol/hearing.pdf#page=123", "document": "Lawrence R. Houston, CIA General Counsel, memorandum to DCI on Subproject 35, December 21 1954", "summary": "CIA General Counsel explicitly discusses disguised federal gift financing, possible multiplication of government matching support and hospital overhead otherwise set at 80 percent for government contracts; characterizes apparent foregone overhead as potentially morally problematic while concluding no legal obstacle on the facts described.", "limitations": "Legal counsel's anticipated effect is not a complete reconciled grant ledger, proof of institutional knowledge or a ruling that specific misconduct occurred; no actual matching-payment voucher yet checked.", "access": "Senate 1977 reproduced contemporaneous memo; PDF text checked, image access cache miss" } }, { "number": 36, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Symposium financing with NIH cover and uniform reimbursement", "years": "1954–1955", "institution": "CIA symposium attendees; National Institutes of Health cited as cover", "funding": "Approximately $3,000 cashier-check funding; separate $169.09 uniform reimbursement described", "category": "administrative gathering", "pdf_page": 111, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=111", "evidence_limit": "The CIA retrospective describes a professional meeting and a $169.09 reimbursement for clothing connected with an NIH cover identity. No research participant or human experiment is identified by this record. The $169.09 may be within total costs; do not add until vouchers agree.", "source_pages": [ 111 ], "source_review_level": "original_pdf_page_image_checked", "related_numbers": [] }, { "number": 37, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Botanical growing and testing through Geschickter Foundation", "years": "1954", "institution": "Researcher/location withheld; Geschickter Foundation funding cut-out", "funding": "Approximately $23,000 in cashier's checks", "category": "plant research", "pdf_page": 113, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=113", "evidence_limit": "Retrospective lists growing and examining botanicals, with no specific human test and no named experiment site. Account status is a retrospective figure; original disbursement vouchers uninspected.", "source_pages": [ 113 ], "source_review_level": "original_pdf_text_checked_image_pending", "related_numbers": [] }, { "number": 38, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Human drug testing financed by anonymous donation", "years": "1954–1955", "institution": "Institution and investigator redacted", "funding": "Approximately $1,000 via sterile cashier's check identified as an anonymous donation", "category": "human testing; consent unknown", "pdf_page": 115, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=115", "evidence_limit": "CIA summary expressly records human administration of chlorpromazine and other compounds, states it does not know whether people were volunteers or unwitting, and describes most other funding as from a redacted institution. CIA researcher-awareness is unknown; anonymous money is not proof the institutional sponsor knew the CIA source.", "source_pages": [ 115 ], "source_review_level": "original_pdf_page_image_checked", "related_numbers": [] }, { "number": 39, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Ionia State Hospital tests", "years": "1950s", "institution": "Ionia State Hospital, Michigan", "funding": "Amount not transcribed in this pass", "category": "human testing", "pdf_page": 116, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=116", "evidence_limit": "CIA summary identifies confined persons considered for LSD-related investigations; original case pages need full subject/consent audit." }, { "number": 40, "status": "summary_located", "title": "LSD effects studies", "years": "1956", "institution": "Harold Abramson / multiple locations", "funding": "Combined amount cannot be split from group summary", "category": "drug research", "pdf_page": 21, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=21", "evidence_limit": "Related to 7 and 27; no assumption that every proposed study was implemented.", "r40_original_memo_crosswalk": { "pass": "R40", "source_ids": [ "MK-053", "MK-024" ], "relationship": "Continued support for related Abramson work, with proposed additional tests requiring original completion evidence", "verification": "Source is a later CIA memorandum whose underlying original proposals, personnel notices and 1977 institution letters must be separately authenticated; page-image screenshot unavailable.", "status": "retrospective_cia_memo_qualified_implementation_and_payment_unresolved" } }, { "number": 41, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Pedlow-Nease chemical procurement, subsequent related award", "years": "1955", "institution": "Pedlow-Nease Chemical Company Inc.", "funding": "Approximately $1,500, sterile cashier's checks", "category": "chemical procurement", "pdf_page": 122, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=122", "evidence_limit": "CIA describes purchase of organic compounds and links project 41 to 20 and 31. The supplier's role does not independently establish knowledge of ultimate government use or any human test; linked monetary descriptions must be reconciled by invoice.", "source_pages": [ 122 ], "source_review_level": "original_pdf_text_checked_image_pending", "related_numbers": [ 20, 31 ] }, { "number": 42, "status": "summary_located", "title": "San Francisco covert-testing site", "years": "1950s", "institution": "San Francisco / George White network", "funding": "Amount not transcribed in this pass", "category": "human testing", "pdf_page": 123, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=123", "evidence_limit": "Briefing-book safehouse entry; follow original scan and corroborating Senate evidence before asserting individual incidents.", "r32_r33_accountability": { "pass": "R33", "date": "2026-10-18", "additional_source_ids": [ "MK-046", "MK-047", "MK-048" ], "finding": "A 1979 archival reproduction concerns the subject notification review of George White safehouse activity. The CIA's historical effort to identify those participants cannot establish that every person tested was contacted or remedy provided.", "verification": "Original finance-instrument page images, source mirror's October 1979 full PDF and individual consent/notification records not fully authenticated; privacy-protecting aggregate only. No direct Epstein operational connection." } }, { "number": 43, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Oklahoma hypnosis and drug-influenced susceptibility studies", "years": "1955–1956", "institution": "University of Oklahoma", "funding": "Approximately $21,000 via Geschickter Foundation", "category": "human research; consent unknown", "pdf_page": 134, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=134", "evidence_limit": "CIA summary reports experimental drug-influenced hypnosis in humans, with volunteers versus nonvolunteers unrecorded. A retrospective remark about promising results is CIA's assessment rather than independent efficacy evidence; no original subjects' consent or research protocols reviewed.", "source_pages": [ 134 ], "source_review_level": "original_pdf_text_checked_image_pending", "related_numbers": [] }, { "number": 44, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Illinois animal screening with proposed human follow-on", "years": "1956–1958", "institution": "University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago", "funding": "Approximately $43,000 in checks to university through Geschickter Foundation", "category": "animal study; proposed human follow-on", "pdf_page": 137, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=137", "evidence_limit": "CIA summary explicitly says research used small animals and proposed later human studies but lacks indication that latter occurred. Existing university contract indicated institutional research control; this does not by itself establish full knowledge of covert sponsor.", "source_pages": [ 137 ], "source_review_level": "original_pdf_text_checked_image_pending", "related_numbers": [] }, { "number": 45, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Geschickter pharmacology and advanced-cancer patient testing question", "years": "1955–1963", "institution": "Dr. Charles Geschickter; several institutions partly redacted", "funding": "Approximately $600,000 CIA retrospective total; separate 1961 proposal $40,000 CIA share of $71,500 planned total, neither additive", "category": "biomedical research; proposed human testing", "pdf_page": 140, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=140", "evidence_limit": "CIA summary mentions patient bodily-fluid screening and animal tests, while anticipated testing on patients with advanced cancer is not confirmed as performed by that project; source says no further information found. Do not import the independently documented Subproject 23 hospital bills as proof of Subproject 45 testing.", "source_pages": [ 140 ], "source_review_level": "original_pdf_text_checked_image_pending", "related_numbers": [ 23 ] }, { "number": 46, "status": "summary_located", "title": "LSD assay, antidote and chemical-structure investigation", "years": "1955–1963", "institution": "Research team redacted; Eli Lilly and Public Health Service listed by CIA under other sponsors", "funding": "Approximately $285,000 via Geschickter Fund and cashier's checks", "category": "chemical and pharmacological research", "pdf_page": 143, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=143", "evidence_limit": "Agency retrospective names Eli Lilly and Public Health Service as other sponsors but does not establish particular agreement, disbursement, corporate officer knowledge or human subject experimentation under this subproject.", "source_pages": [ 143 ], "source_review_level": "original_pdf_text_checked_image_pending", "related_numbers": [] }, { "number": 47, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Pfeiffer drug testing with incarcerated research participants", "years": "1955–1962", "institution": "Carl C. Pfeiffer; Atlanta Federal Penitentiary and New Jersey correctional facilities", "funding": "Approximately $375,000 CIA retrospective via Geschickter Foundation; $2,900 described as compensation paid to Atlanta inmate volunteers during June 1957–May 1958, subset not additive", "category": "human testing; prisoner consent audit needed", "pdf_page": 146, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=146", "evidence_limit": "CIA summary describes studies at Atlanta Federal Penitentiary; 100 inmate-volunteers in New Jersey state prison during 1960; further work in 1962. 'Volunteer' is CIA's word and does not resolve coercion, informed consent, institutional approval or actual participant-by-participant compensation; dollar totals cannot be added without invoices.", "source_pages": [ 146 ], "source_review_level": "original_pdf_text_checked_image_pending", "related_numbers": [] }, { "number": 48, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Cornell motivational research and Human Ecology organizational route", "years": "1955", "institution": "Cornell University Medical School; Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology", "funding": "Over $150,000 estimate; CIA summary says it could not calculate exact total", "category": "motivational research; funding intermediary", "pdf_page": 149, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=149", "evidence_limit": "CIA briefing identifies studies of recruitment motivation, defectors and indoctrination, and says the project helped create the Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology cut-out. The cited retrospective source alone does not identify who at Cornell knew the covert sponsor or corroborate participants' individual consent.", "source_pages": [ 149 ], "source_review_level": "original_pdf_text_checked_image_pending", "related_numbers": [], "r36_fiscal_reallocation": { "source_id": "MK-050", "document": "28 June 1956 CIA Comptroller memorandum, inside Subproject 65 official finance collection", "original_fy56_authorization_usd": 240479, "revised_fy56_parent_authorization_usd": 166479, "reassigned_from_48_to_65_usd": 74000, "class": "reassignment of previously obligated funds, not independently verified new expenditure", "note": "Original 1956 memo establishes account reallocation to continue research under 65. This is not proof of $74,000 in 1956 cleared bank payments or a separate $74,000 award to add to 1958 obligations.", "image_review": "First-party CIA indexed original-document text; CIA original PDF redirects and signed page images not individually authenticated." } }, { "number": 49, "status": "summary_located", "title": "University of Denver hypnosis research", "years": "FY1956", "institution": "University of Denver Psychology Department; Geschickter Fund for Medical Research", "funding": "Approximately $34,000", "category": "hypnosis research and operational proposals", "pdf_page": 150, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=150", "evidence_limit": "CIA summary describes research into hypnosis, learning, interrogation and counter-interrogation. It links this work to Subprojects 5, 25 and 29; actual experiment protocols and paid grant records have not been independently verified.", "source_pages": [ 150 ], "review_pass": "R29", "access_basis": "Original CIA 149-entry briefing text for individual subproject page. Page image and signed funding evidence still pending.", "related_numbers": [ 5, 25, 29 ] }, { "number": 50, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Unapproved Fort Detrick imprest fund request", "years": "1955", "institution": "Fort Detrick, Maryland; CIA Office of Finance", "funding": "None; project disapproved and cancelled", "category": "cancelled fiscal proposal", "pdf_page": 153, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=153", "evidence_limit": "CIA summary explicitly records the refusal of Finance to approve an additional petty-cash fund when Technical Services declined to submit accounting outside MKULTRA channels. This is not evidence of a successful grant, disbursement or experiment; cross-reference 13 and 30 without adding a zero-money proposal.", "source_pages": [ 153 ], "source_review_level": "original_pdf_text_checked_image_pending", "related_numbers": [ 13, 30 ] }, { "number": 51, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Natural products and CNS-related chemical research", "years": "1955–1962", "institution": "Researcher redacted; source does not establish a corporate institution", "funding": "Approximately $117,000", "category": "laboratory chemistry", "pdf_page": 154, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=154", "evidence_limit": "CIA describes chemistry relating to naturally occurring compounds and research fellows with unknown awareness of CIA sponsorship. Original awards and fellowship recipient notice remain unverified.", "source_pages": [ 154 ], "review_pass": "R29", "access_basis": "Original CIA 149-entry briefing text for individual subproject page. Page image and signed funding evidence still pending." }, { "number": 52, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Chemical and botanical procurement consultation", "years": "Dates not stated in summary", "institution": "Consultant redacted; Geschickter Fund for Medical Research", "funding": "Approximately $52,000", "category": "procurement and consultancy", "pdf_page": 157, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=157", "evidence_limit": "CIA summary describes consulting and specimen acquisition. No clinical trial or actual human administration is attributed to Subproject 52 by this entry.", "source_pages": [ 157 ], "review_pass": "R29", "access_basis": "Original CIA 149-entry briefing text for individual subproject page. Page image and signed funding evidence still pending." }, { "number": 53, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Research-literature evaluation and project review", "years": "FY1955–FY1960", "institution": "Researcher redacted; sterile check mechanism", "funding": "Approximately $60,000", "category": "literature analysis and scientific review", "pdf_page": 159, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=159", "evidence_limit": "CIA summary describes review of open pharmacology research and assessment of other project reports. This entry is not independent proof that reviewed experiments occurred.", "source_pages": [ 159 ], "review_pass": "R29", "access_basis": "Original CIA 149-entry briefing text for individual subproject page. Page image and signed funding evidence still pending." }, { "number": 54, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Cancelled Naval-concussion study proposal", "years": "1955", "institution": "Research site redacted; previous Office of Naval Research work referenced", "funding": "Approximately $60,000 proposed, not approved or funded by CIA", "category": "cancelled research proposal", "pdf_page": 162, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=162", "evidence_limit": "CIA summary explicitly states no CIA funding and cancellation; anticipated study on human cadavers cannot be represented as an experiment performed under MKULTRA. Navy earlier research is a separate sponsor/period requiring independent verification.", "source_pages": [ 162 ], "source_review_level": "original_pdf_text_checked_image_pending", "related_numbers": [] }, { "number": 55, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Pharmacological effects of candidate compounds in animals", "years": "1956", "institution": "Researcher and university redacted in CIA source", "funding": "Approx. $2,800 through Geschickter Fund, summary not payment-voucher verified", "category": "animal pharmacology", "pdf_page": 163, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=163", "evidence_limit": "CIA says animal tests were conducted on compounds prepared by pathology researchers. No specific human experiment under this number is shown. Principal scientist was described as witting; research assistants' awareness unknown.", "source_pages": [ 163 ], "access_basis": "CIA retrospective original-source extracted PDF text and page-index; screenshot service showed blank reverse sides and did not confirm all source page images; underlying approval and disbursement receipts pending" }, { "number": 56, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Alcohol absorption and tolerance research", "years": "1956–1960", "institution": "Stanford University / School of Medicine named in retrospective; identity fields partly redacted", "funding": "Approx. $131,000; Geschickter Fund mentioned in funding field; grant-payment ledger unreviewed", "category": "alcohol pharmacology", "pdf_page": 165, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=165", "evidence_limit": "CIA describes studies of food, drugs, alcohol absorption and tolerance. The original summary lists no significant aspects and no named research participants; it does not establish unwitting administration or informed institutional awareness.", "source_pages": [ 165 ], "access_basis": "CIA retrospective original-source extracted PDF text and page-index; screenshot service showed blank reverse sides and did not confirm all source page images; underlying approval and disbursement receipts pending" }, { "number": 57, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Sleep and narcosis-induced insomnia research", "years": "1956–1957", "institution": "Institution redacted; CIA TSD employee allegedly posed as assistant research professor", "funding": "Approx. $33,000 via Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology cashier's checks; $300 explicitly budgeted for human subjects", "category": "human research proposal and covert staff placement", "pdf_page": 167, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=167", "evidence_limit": "CIA briefing says human subjects 'to be used' with $300 budget; a budget is not proof of completed recruitment, payment or consent. An agency staff member used an academic cover. Witting references concern project personnel, not proof the subjects understood CIA sponsorship.", "source_pages": [ 167 ], "access_basis": "CIA retrospective original-source extracted PDF text and page-index; screenshot service showed blank reverse sides and did not confirm all source page images; underlying approval and disbursement receipts pending" }, { "number": 58, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Mushroom-collection expedition with J. P. Morgan employee reference", "years": "June–July 1956", "institution": "Expedition; an individual identified as connected with J. P. Morgan & Co., New York", "funding": "Approx. $2,100 routed through Geschickter Fund; actual expense vouchers unreviewed", "category": "botanical field collection", "pdf_page": 169, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=169", "evidence_limit": "CIA file notes an individual connected to J. P. Morgan & Co. was unwitting of Agency sponsorship. That reference is not evidence that J. P. Morgan & Co. sponsored, controlled or knowingly financed the expedition; a separate Agency consultant is described as cleared and witting.", "source_pages": [ 169 ], "access_basis": "CIA retrospective original-source extracted PDF text and page-index; screenshot service showed blank reverse sides and did not confirm all source page images; underlying approval and disbursement receipts pending" }, { "number": 59, "status": "summary_located", "title": "University of Maryland pharmacological screening", "years": "1956–1957", "institution": "University of Maryland", "funding": "Approx. $4,000 via Geschickter Fund; recipient/disbursement ledger not audited", "category": "drug screening and evaluation", "pdf_page": 171, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=171", "evidence_limit": "CIA briefing describes evaluating chemical compounds for potential technical-service interest, without documenting administration to identified human subjects or independent University awareness of the covert sponsor.", "source_pages": [ 171 ], "access_basis": "CIA retrospective original-source extracted PDF text and page-index; screenshot service showed blank reverse sides and did not confirm all source page images; underlying approval and disbursement receipts pending" }, { "number": 60, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Intermediary grant mechanism", "years": "1959 onward", "institution": "Unnamed / redacted intermediary", "funding": "$59,240 proposed continuation", "category": "funding intermediary", "pdf_page": null, "source_id": "MK-012", "source_url": "https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/MKULRA%20SUBPROJECT%2060%20%20%2811%5B8145504%5D.pdf", "evidence_limit": "Funding-cover mechanism described in separate CIA original document MK-012; page index in this compilation pending.", "additional_briefing_source": { "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=173", "pdf_page": 173, "summary": "CIA retrospective identifies the Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology, Inc. as covert funding mechanism derived from Cornell Human Ecology Studies, and says benign cover projects were deliberately funded to make the foundation appear legitimate.", "funding_conflict": "Briefing total says amount cannot be determined. The separate MK-012 $59,240 proposed continuation is a narrower and differently dated item, not the grand total of SIHE funding.", "date_warning": "Retrospective PDF extracted chronology reads '1956–1952', internally inconsistent and apparently OCR or typographical; do not use this as an actual date range until an authoritative original image corrects it.", "consent_awareness": "CIA described two Cornell-related participants as witting; this does not impute awareness to the university, each recipient or experiment participant." } }, { "number": 61, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Cornell brain, stress and adaptive-behavior research", "years": "1956–1960", "institution": "Cornell University Medical School, Ithaca, New York, as identified by CIA retrospective", "funding": "Approx. $226,000 routed through Medical Sciences Research Foundation and Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology; original awards not reconciled", "category": "human behavior research and covert foundation support", "pdf_page": 176, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=176", "evidence_limit": "CIA source describes brain/adaptive behavior research and seventeen research assistants of unknown sponsor awareness. It calls one research participant witting; this does not establish consent, knowledge or payments for every participant or institutional office. Cornell archival catalogs require first-party folder review.", "source_pages": [ 176 ], "access_basis": "CIA retrospective original-source extracted PDF text and page-index; screenshot service showed blank reverse sides and did not confirm all source page images; underlying approval and disbursement receipts pending" }, { "number": 62, "status": "summary_located", "title": "NIH-associated anthropoid CNS research and LSD-project expenses", "years": "1956–1963", "institution": "National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, association in CIA retrospective", "funding": "Approx. $35,000 via sterile cashier's checks; receipts and any NIH cofunding unresolved", "category": "animal research and operational expense records", "pdf_page": 178, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=178", "evidence_limit": "CIA lists research on physical and chemical effects on anthropoids alongside travel and expense notes, including electroshock equipment and an 'LSD Project'. The NIH is named as other sponsor with CIA awareness explicitly unknown. This summary alone does not prove the NIH knowingly joined CIA covert tests or that human subjects received shocks.", "source_pages": [ 178 ], "access_basis": "CIA retrospective original-source extracted PDF text and page-index; screenshot service showed blank reverse sides and did not confirm all source page images; underlying approval and disbursement receipts pending" }, { "number": 63, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Alcohol behavior consultancy and field-observation research", "years": "1956–1961", "institution": "Identity redacted; consultations and bar/tavern behavioral observations described", "funding": "Approx. $5,600 retrospective; initially sterile cashier checks then Human Ecology Fund; linked to 8/10/66", "category": "consultancy and human behavioral research", "pdf_page": 181, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=181", "evidence_limit": "CIA calls out human testing but says volunteer/non-volunteer status is unknown. Source connects 63 with 8, 10 and 66; do not treat associated spending or human headcounts as independent without grant/voucher crosswalk.", "related_numbers": [ 8, 10, 66 ], "source_pages": [ 181 ], "access_basis": "CIA retrospective original-source extracted PDF text and page-index; screenshot service showed blank reverse sides and did not confirm all source page images; underlying approval and disbursement receipts pending" }, { "number": 64, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Geschickter personal consultation and covert procurement compensation", "years": "1955–1956", "institution": "Dr. Charles F. Geschickter, Washington, DC", "funding": "Approx. $3,000 in cash; original cash account and receipts unverified", "category": "intermediary administration and consulting", "pdf_page": 188, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=188", "evidence_limit": "CIA explicitly describes separate personal-service compensation, covert procurement and consulting outside the Fund's standard project charges. It does not identify or prove specific human tests attributable solely to this numbered entry.", "source_pages": [ 188 ], "access_basis": "CIA retrospective original-source extracted PDF text and page-index; screenshot service showed blank reverse sides and did not confirm all source page images; underlying approval and disbursement receipts pending" }, { "number": 65, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Cornell defector-behavior and allegiance studies", "years": "1957–1958", "institution": "Cornell University Medical School", "funding": "Approx. $75,000 via Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology; original grant instrument pending", "category": "behavioral and social research", "pdf_page": 190, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=190", "evidence_limit": "CIA says researchers studied causes of defection, detection of potential defectors and methods to encourage defection using information from Hungarian defectors. Awareness of several involved researchers is labelled unknown; no person-level operational manipulation is verified in the file.", "source_pages": [ 190 ], "access_basis": "CIA retrospective original-source extracted PDF text and page-index; screenshot service showed blank reverse sides and did not confirm all source page images; underlying approval and disbursement receipts pending", "r34_financial_stages": { "review_date": "2026-10-18", "source_ids": [ "MK-050", "MK-024" ], "scope": "CIA archival Subproject 65 index for FY1958 grant accounting, separately from broader historical retrospective $75,000 figure", "stages": [ { "event": "Initial FY1958 award / checks", "amount_usd": 50000, "character": "Two cashier checks of $30,000 and $20,000 identified in CIA finance/accounting paperwork; original bank clearance not independently obtained." }, { "event": "Additional authorized final invoice", "amount_usd": 2150, "character": "Supplemental services/invoice and grant advance. Must not add as a separate historical trial." }, { "event": "Fiscal-year aggregate obligation", "amount_usd": 52150, "character": "Reported obligation total includes $50,000 and additional $2,150. Budget/fiscal scope differs from the original 149-number multiyear retrospective." }, { "event": "September 1958 subsidiary work income", "amount_usd": 2150, "character": "Agency-indexed recipient accounting reports receipt of $2,150 for completed prediction work." }, { "event": "September 1958 subsidiary payments", "amount_usd": 2100, "character": "CIA-indexed recipient accounting reports total onward distribution of $2,100." }, { "event": "September 1958 subsidiary end balance", "amount_usd": 50, "character": "CIA-indexed recipient accounting shows $50 remaining, not a distinct extra expenditure." } ], "nonaddition_rule": "$50,000 + $2,150 = $52,150 same fiscal obligation. $2,100 + $50 = $2,150 subsidiary allocation. Different reporting levels; never add all amounts together, never treat multiyear $75,000 as a correction absent original rollup.", "overlap": "CIA file says original $50,000 portion accounted for in overall MKULTRA and specifically refers accounting under Subproject 61. Separate SIHE/Human Ecology accounts and receipt chain required.", "document_quality": "Official CIA index extracts original 31-page financial file; direct original scan redirects to CIA reading room. No bank cleared check or complete signed invoice page-image examined." }, "r36_fiscal_reallocation": { "source_id": "MK-050", "date": "1956-06-28", "original_source_project": 48, "reobligated_authorization_usd": 74000, "fiscal_1956_project_proposal_usd": 76056, "fiscal_1956_remaining_proposed_gap_usd": 2056, "fiscal_1958_original_grant_usd": 50000, "fiscal_1958_supplement_usd": 2150, "fiscal_1958_total_obligation_usd": 52150, "fiscal_1958_supplement_downstream_paid_usd": 2100, "fiscal_1958_unspent_balance_usd": 50, "nonaddition_rule": "Prior FY1956 $74,000 transferred from 48 to 65, FY1956 $76,056 proposed scope, and later FY1958 $52,150 obligation belong to different periods and states. Do not total all as cash disbursed without 1956/58 signed vouchers and grant continuity ledger.", "unverified": "Whether original FY1956 $74,000 transfer was cleared to particular payees, how FY1958 grant relates to 1956 transfer, original Society and Subproject 61 vouchers, institutional notice and participant consent." } }, { "number": 66, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Alcohol, LSD prediction and human field studies", "years": "1956–1960", "institution": "Names redacted; Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology/Human Ecology Fund", "funding": "Approx. $75,000 retrospective project summary; 1958–59 continuation instrument cites $30,475 ceiling, not automatically additive", "category": "human research with consent questions", "pdf_page": 193, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=193", "evidence_limit": "CIA retrospective describes experiments on approximately 100 subjects, reportedly volunteers and possibly unwitting. This is a source assertion requiring independent consent/experimental files. Original continuation memorandum explicitly discontinues Subproject 63 consultancy and folds it into 66; budgeted amounts and participant counts cannot be added across projects.", "related_numbers": [ 8, 10, 63 ], "source_pages": [ 193 ], "access_basis": "CIA retrospective original-source extracted PDF text and page-index; screenshot service showed blank reverse sides and did not confirm all source page images; underlying approval and disbursement receipts pending" }, { "number": 67, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Library and consultancy services through Indiana University", "years": "1957", "institution": "Institute for Sex Research, Indiana University", "funding": "Approximately $2,000 via Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology", "category": "institutional research support", "pdf_page": 202, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=202", "evidence_limit": "CIA summary describes document searches, translations, transcription and advisory evaluation. Does not establish behavioral testing at the Institute or that university administrators knew the CIA source.", "source_pages": [ 202 ], "access_basis": "CIA original retrospective PDF page-indexed extracted text; primary scan image not yet visually verified at this page. Original grant vouchers and subject records remain missing." }, { "number": 68, "status": "summary_located", "title": "D. Ewen Cameron psychiatric experiments, Allan Memorial Institute", "years": "1957–1960 (full grant dates pending)", "institution": "Allan Memorial Institute of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal", "funding": "Approximately $60,000 via Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology, in cashier's checks", "category": "human testing; patient consent unresolved", "pdf_page": 204, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=204", "evidence_limit": "Original scanned CIA briefing describes LSD-related psychiatric treatment, intensive verbal repetition, isolation and induced prolonged sleep; patients' consent awareness is explicitly undocumented in the reviewed file. Cameron is characterized as unwitting of CIA funding. The 1960 Air Force consideration of cosponsorship is not proof it occurred. Reported more than 100 cases is from the CIA's quotation of an April 1959 memorandum, not independently audited participant records.", "source_pages": [ 204, 205 ], "access_basis": "CIA PDF page 204 image visually inspected; funding and project attributes additionally confirmed from extracted 205 text. Signed study and grant files remain missing.", "related_numbers": [ 205 ] }, { "number": 69, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Hungarian refugee sociological interviews", "years": "1957", "institution": "Rutgers University", "funding": "Approximately $5,000 through Society for Investigation of Human Ecology cashier's check", "category": "social research; sponsor awareness unresolved", "pdf_page": 207, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=207", "evidence_limit": "CIA notes a research participant as unwitting of Agency sponsorship. This does not establish that refugee interviewees knew about the Agency or that they underwent drug exposure; original questionnaire, recruitment and funding records missing.", "source_pages": [ 207 ], "access_basis": "CIA original retrospective PDF page-indexed extracted text; primary scan image not yet visually verified at this page. Original grant vouchers and subject records remain missing." }, { "number": 70, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Stanford temporary incapacitant and involuntary sleep research", "years": "1957–1961", "institution": "Stanford University Medical School", "funding": "Approximately $150,000 via Medical Sciences Research Foundation", "category": "animal research; human phase unknown", "pdf_page": 209, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=209", "evidence_limit": "CIA explicitly calls this a continuation of Subproject 57. Animal experimentation described; the same summary says it was not known whether humans were tested under 70. Distinct signed payments and 57/70 award overlap not established.", "source_pages": [ 209 ], "access_basis": "CIA original retrospective PDF page-indexed extracted text; primary scan image not yet visually verified at this page. Original grant vouchers and subject records remain missing.", "related_numbers": [ 57 ] }, { "number": 71, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Stanford anti-interrogation drug evaluation and consulting", "years": "1957–1961", "institution": "Stanford University School of Medicine, Neurology Division", "funding": "Approximately $40,000 reported through sterile cashier's checks", "category": "clinical drug research; consent records absent", "pdf_page": 211, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=211", "evidence_limit": "CIA describes clinical drug testing/evaluation, Stanford program monitoring and a miniature-polygraph development attempt. No individual subject-consent evidence or particular successful device is established by the retrospective.", "source_pages": [ 211 ], "access_basis": "CIA original retrospective PDF page-indexed extracted text; primary scan image not yet visually verified at this page. Original grant vouchers and subject records remain missing.", "related_numbers": [ 70, 72 ] }, { "number": 72, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Stanford central-nervous-system antagonist research", "years": "1956–1957", "institution": "Stanford University School of Medicine", "funding": "Approximately $50,000 via Medical Sciences Research Foundation", "category": "neuropharmacology; activity scope requires original trial files", "pdf_page": 213, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=213", "evidence_limit": "CIA states study of CNS antagonists and synergists and crossreferences Subprojects 70 and 71. No separate human-subject protocol or independent transfer-voucher validation was located in this summary.", "source_pages": [ 213 ], "access_basis": "CIA original retrospective PDF page-indexed extracted text; primary scan image not yet visually verified at this page. Original grant vouchers and subject records remain missing.", "related_numbers": [ 70, 71 ] }, { "number": 73, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Hypnosis and drug-susceptibility research", "years": "1957", "institution": "Institution not established in redacted CIA entry", "funding": "Approximately $7,000 via Medical Sciences Research Foundation", "category": "hypnosis research; implemented procedures unresolved", "pdf_page": 215, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=215", "evidence_limit": "CIA describes proposed investigation of susceptibility to hypnosis under alcohol, mescaline, scopolamine or LSD, and advisory research. The summary does not establish any particular person's experimental exposure or whether an unredacted institutional arrangement was completed.", "source_pages": [ 215 ], "access_basis": "CIA original retrospective PDF page-indexed extracted text; primary scan image not yet visually verified at this page. Original grant vouchers and subject records remain missing." }, { "number": 74, "status": "summary_located", "title": "SIHE smaller-cover grant portfolio", "years": "1958–1962", "institution": "Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology; more than 25 individuals and institutions", "funding": "Approximately $100,000 retrospective umbrella estimate; individual indexed $15,000 grant includes $111.23 accounting write-off unresolved", "category": "cover grants and funding intermediary", "pdf_page": 217, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=217", "evidence_limit": "CIA summary says SIHE funded otherwise scientifically ordinary proposals to establish bona fides. Neither CIA interest in an activity nor grantee awareness can be inferred from inclusion. A separate CIA-indexed 74 grant includes $15,000 and $111.23 unreconciled balance, possibly part of portfolio; must not add to umbrella $100,000 estimate.", "source_pages": [ 217, 218 ], "access_basis": "Original CIA retrospective scan, PDF extracted text and page-index; image review incomplete (individual screenshot views failed/blank for some adjacent leaves); contemporaneous agreement and paid voucher not acquired.", "review_pass": "R22", "secondary_source_ids": [ "MK-038" ] }, { "number": 75, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Psychopharmacology comparison in human research", "years": "1960–1961", "institution": "Recipient redacted; Geschickter Fund for Medical Research intermediary", "funding": "Approximately $7,000 retrospective project, including $2,756 symposium publication support", "category": "human psychopharmacology; consent unresolved", "pdf_page": 220, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=220", "evidence_limit": "CIA describes comparison of psilocybin, LSD and mescaline with psychological and physiological observations among a small known human population. Consent, dosing, recruitment and treatment outcomes are absent. $2,756 publication expense is a reported component, not an additional award.", "source_pages": [ 220 ], "access_basis": "Original CIA retrospective scan, PDF extracted text and page-index; image review incomplete (individual screenshot views failed/blank for some adjacent leaves); contemporaneous agreement and paid voucher not acquired.", "review_pass": "R22" }, { "number": 76, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Anti-authoritarian behavior and prisoner-of-war study", "years": "1958–1959", "institution": "Recipient redacted; Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology", "funding": "Approximately $10,000 retrospectively reported", "category": "behavioral / political imprisonment research", "pdf_page": 222, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=222", "evidence_limit": "CIA presents planned one-year analysis of anti-authoritarian behavior connected with earlier studies of Communist imprisonment of U.S. prisoners of war. No direct experiment on prisoners of war is established by the project summary.", "source_pages": [ 222 ], "access_basis": "Original CIA retrospective scan, PDF extracted text and page-index; image review incomplete (individual screenshot views failed/blank for some adjacent leaves); contemporaneous agreement and paid voucher not acquired.", "review_pass": "R22" }, { "number": 77, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Educational Testing Service personality assessment", "years": "1957–1962", "institution": "Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey", "funding": "Approximately $110,000 via SIHE and later Human Ecology Fund", "category": "personality assessment / indirect observation", "pdf_page": 224, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=224", "evidence_limit": "Retrospective describes theoretical and indirect personality assessments, and identifies two involved investigators as witting of Agency relationship. It does not establish that all ETS employees, participants or institutions were informed or identify experiments on unwitting subjects.", "source_pages": [ 224, 225 ], "access_basis": "Original CIA retrospective scan, PDF extracted text and page-index; image review incomplete (individual screenshot views failed/blank for some adjacent leaves); contemporaneous agreement and paid voucher not acquired.", "review_pass": "R22" }, { "number": 78, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Microbiological and biological technical support", "years": "1957–1964", "institution": "Recipient redacted; CIA Technical Services Division", "funding": "Approximately $190,000 reportedly paid through sterile checks", "category": "technical microbiology; procurement and cover", "pdf_page": 227, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=227", "evidence_limit": "CIA describes biological laboratory support, special materials, tagging and blood-type identification, with a stated cutout role. Neither specific weapon deployment nor any particular human experiment is demonstrated; original invoices, authorization and material chain-of-custody are missing.", "source_pages": [ 227 ], "access_basis": "Original CIA retrospective scan, PDF extracted text and page-index; image review incomplete (individual screenshot views failed/blank for some adjacent leaves); contemporaneous agreement and paid voucher not acquired.", "review_pass": "R22" }, { "number": 79, "status": "summary_located", "title": "H. J. Rand Foundation confidential research funding cutout", "years": "1957–1962", "institution": "H. J. Rand Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio", "funding": "Sterile CIA checks identified; retrospective gives no total amount", "category": "financial intermediary / institutional awareness", "pdf_page": 229, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=229", "evidence_limit": "CIA describes Rand Foundation as financing sensitive research for others and labels its foundation participants as witting of the relationship. Exact individual downstream grantees, purpose, cash receipts, and affiliated entities are not documented in this one-page retrospective.", "source_pages": [ 229 ], "access_basis": "Original CIA retrospective scan, PDF extracted text and page-index; image review incomplete (individual screenshot views failed/blank for some adjacent leaves); contemporaneous agreement and paid voucher not acquired.", "review_pass": "R22" }, { "number": 80, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Drug, toxin and biological-material detection in human tissue", "years": "1958–1962", "institution": "Recipient unspecified; Geschickter Fund", "funding": "Approximately $25,000 retrospective total", "category": "analytical toxicology; human tissue handling", "pdf_page": 231, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=231", "evidence_limit": "CIA describes extraction and identification techniques for drugs, toxins and biological entities from human tissues; agency files leave participants unspecified. Using human tissues for analysis does not itself establish drug administration to living participants.", "source_pages": [ 231 ], "access_basis": "Original CIA retrospective scan, PDF extracted text and page-index; image review incomplete (individual screenshot views failed/blank for some adjacent leaves); contemporaneous agreement and paid voucher not acquired.", "review_pass": "R22" }, { "number": 81, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Cornell Hungarian-refugee adjustment and testing", "years": "1958", "institution": "Cornell University; Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology", "funding": "Intermediary identified, amount absent from extracted CIA page", "category": "refugee psychological testing and adjustment studies", "pdf_page": 233, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=233", "evidence_limit": "The summary identifies psychological testing/examination of some Hungarian refugees. It supplies no complete informed-consent procedures, names of academic decision-makers, actual financial amount or original questionnaire and recruitment records. Financial or participant overlap with 65/82 must be tested from grants.", "source_pages": [ 233 ], "access_basis": "Original CIA retrospective scan, PDF extracted text and page-index; image review incomplete (individual screenshot views failed/blank for some adjacent leaves); contemporaneous agreement and paid voucher not acquired.", "review_pass": "R22", "related_numbers": [ 65, 82 ] }, { "number": 82, "status": "summary_located", "title": "1956 Hungarian refugee adaptation research", "years": "CIA extraction reads 1953–1960; may be transcription/date inconsistency because project describes 1956 uprising. Original image verification required.", "institution": "Researcher/location redacted; Human Ecology Fund", "funding": "Extracted figure appears about $15,000; original scan needed for exact amount", "category": "refugee adjustment research / redacted participants", "pdf_page": 235, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=235", "evidence_limit": "CIA describes adjustment problems for refugees following 1956 uprising. Text extraction contains a likely date conflict (1953–1960) and unclear figure; figures and time period remain provisional. No individual participant consent or direct institutional overlap with Cornell project 81 established.", "source_pages": [ 235 ], "access_basis": "Original CIA retrospective scan, PDF extracted text and page-index; image review incomplete (individual screenshot views failed/blank for some adjacent leaves); contemporaneous agreement and paid voucher not acquired.", "review_pass": "R22", "related_numbers": [ 81 ] }, { "number": 83, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Human Ecology exploratory editorial and graphology survey", "years": "1958–1960", "institution": "SIHE employee; related consultants redacted", "funding": "Approximately $55,000 umbrella amount; $3,500 subordinate grant mentioned", "category": "research survey and subset grant", "pdf_page": 237, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=237", "evidence_limit": "CIA describes an editorial and technical review of graphology, extrasensory perception, hypnosis, perception and related topics. A $3,500 downstream grant is described within a broader $55,000 program, without proof that it is additive or that listed topics represented completed experiments.", "source_pages": [ 237 ], "access_basis": "Original CIA retrospective scan, PDF extracted text and page-index; image review incomplete (individual screenshot views failed/blank for some adjacent leaves); contemporaneous agreement and paid voucher not acquired.", "review_pass": "R22" }, { "number": 84, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Harvard motivation, hypnosis and agent assessment", "years": "Dates not reported on extracted summary", "institution": "Harvard University; Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology", "funding": "Approximately $55,000 retrospective amount", "category": "motivation and hypnosis assessment research", "pdf_page": 239, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=239", "evidence_limit": "CIA describes study of motivation and limits of hypnosis to improve agent assessment; labels an unnamed research participant witting. No original institutional acceptance terms, subject-level consent records or experimentally completed protocol are established by this summary.", "source_pages": [ 239 ], "access_basis": "Original CIA retrospective scan, PDF extracted text and page-index; image review incomplete (individual screenshot views failed/blank for some adjacent leaves); contemporaneous agreement and paid voucher not acquired.", "review_pass": "R22" }, { "number": 85, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Stanford blood-group identification work", "years": "1958–1959", "institution": "Stanford University School of Medicine; Medical Sciences Research Foundation", "funding": "Approximately $1,000 retrospective support", "category": "blood group identification / biological identification", "pdf_page": 241, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=241", "evidence_limit": "CIA describes use of blood groupings to substantiate identity of staff or agents. The retrospective does not establish covert blood collection, institutional knowledge beyond documented file, or link to the neighboring polygraph grant.", "source_pages": [ 241 ], "access_basis": "Original CIA retrospective scan, PDF extracted text and page-index; image review incomplete (individual screenshot views failed/blank for some adjacent leaves); contemporaneous agreement and paid voucher not acquired.", "review_pass": "R22" }, { "number": 86, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Stanford miniature polygraph feasibility", "years": "1958–1959", "institution": "Stanford University School of Medicine; Medical Sciences Research Foundation", "funding": "Approximately $43,000 retrospective support", "category": "instrument development; proposed unwitting observation", "pdf_page": 243, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=243", "evidence_limit": "The project aimed to build a miniature polygraph and explore its potential use on unwitting subjects. No evidence in this summary that a working prototype was built or applied to unwitting persons. Compare project 71's parallel polygraph effort before claiming separate results or funds.", "source_pages": [ 243 ], "access_basis": "Original CIA retrospective scan, PDF extracted text and page-index; image review incomplete (individual screenshot views failed/blank for some adjacent leaves); contemporaneous agreement and paid voucher not acquired.", "review_pass": "R22", "related_numbers": [ 71 ] }, { "number": 87, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Johns Hopkins chemical-toxicants and allergy-inducing substances", "years": "1959–1966", "institution": "Johns Hopkins University", "funding": "Approximately $20,700; cashier checks and foundation routes", "category": "chemical-toxicants research", "pdf_page": 245, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=245", "evidence_limit": "CIA retrospective explicitly describes technical support for an offensive chemical toxicants capability. Research, delivery and deployment must be distinguished. Johns Hopkins research participation/awareness is not determined from the retrospective.", "source_pages": [ 245 ], "access_basis": "Original CIA retrospective MK-024 PDF extracted text from numbered subproject entry, 1970s compilation. Page-specific image not independently authenticated in this pass; initial page-screen requests returned cache errors and a nontext verso. Individual signed authorizations/vouchers and archival originals remain pending.", "review_pass": "R23", "r30_r31_accountability": { "reviewed": "2026-10-18", "pass": "R31", "additional_source_ids": [ "MK-042" ], "status": "CIA postprogram human-involvement review found no evidence of human experiments under 87/related Grant 7, identified marmosets as tested animals, and called Johns Hopkins administration unwitting of CIA funding.", "related_numbers": [ 7 ], "limitations": "Retrospective screening is Agency conclusion, not independent University board knowledge or welfare review." }, "related_numbers": [ 7 ] }, { "number": 88, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Princeton cultural-awareness training package", "years": "1958–1959", "institution": "Princeton University", "funding": "Approximately $5,000 via Society for Investigation of Human Ecology", "category": "covert funding of training", "pdf_page": 248, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=248", "evidence_limit": "CIA describes cultural-awareness training for intelligence case officers and identifies a research participant as unwitting. Does not establish that the institution's leadership knowingly accepted Agency support.", "source_pages": [ 248 ], "access_basis": "Original CIA retrospective MK-024 PDF extracted text from numbered subproject entry, 1970s compilation. Page-specific image not independently authenticated in this pass; initial page-screen requests returned cache errors and a nontext verso. Individual signed authorizations/vouchers and archival originals remain pending.", "review_pass": "R23" }, { "number": 89, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Hungarian refugee return-decision research", "years": "1958–1960", "institution": "Researcher redacted; Society for Investigation of Human Ecology", "funding": "Approximately $6,900 retrospective", "category": "refugee social research", "pdf_page": 250, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=250", "evidence_limit": "Examines reasons Hungarian refugees in the United States returned to Hungary. The CIA summary does not describe drug experiments or identify affected refugees, informed-consent practices or an actual operational intervention. Compare projects 69, 81 and 82 for separate grants.", "source_pages": [ 250 ], "access_basis": "Original CIA retrospective MK-024 PDF extracted text from numbered subproject entry, 1970s compilation. Page-specific image not independently authenticated in this pass; initial page-screen requests returned cache errors and a nontext verso. Individual signed authorizations/vouchers and archival originals remain pending.", "review_pass": "R23" }, { "number": 90, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Independent MIT-affiliated scientist study", "years": "1958–1959", "institution": "Independent researcher linked to MIT's Center for International Studies", "funding": "About $12,000", "category": "institution boundary", "pdf_page": 253, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=253", "evidence_limit": "CIA correction says research was neither administered nor funded through MIT. Researcher described as unwitting." }, { "number": 91, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Preclinical psychochemical research and animal evaluation", "years": "1959–1962", "institution": "Investigator redacted; Medical Sciences Research Foundation", "funding": "Approximately $110,000 retrospective", "category": "animal pharmacology", "pdf_page": 254, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=254", "evidence_limit": "CIA specifies testing promising new psychochemicals on animals; file reports some researchers as aware and presumes awareness for others without supporting receipts. This entry alone cannot establish human exposure.", "source_pages": [ 254 ], "access_basis": "Original CIA retrospective MK-024 PDF extracted text from numbered subproject entry, 1970s compilation. Page-specific image not independently authenticated in this pass; initial page-screen requests returned cache errors and a nontext verso. Individual signed authorizations/vouchers and archival originals remain pending.", "review_pass": "R23", "r30_r31_accountability": { "reviewed": "2026-10-18", "pass": "R31", "additional_source_ids": [ "MK-042" ], "status": "CIA review said no human experimentation under 91 and 94. The cancelled 135 $25,000 transfer to 91 is an appropriation trail, not a separate executed trial.", "related_numbers": [ 94, 135 ], "limitations": "Human-subject negative applies to reviewed project period, not every separate program." }, "related_numbers": [ 94, 135 ] }, { "number": 92, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Harvard foreign-language teaching machines", "years": "1959–1960", "institution": "Harvard University; Human Ecology Foundation", "funding": "Approximately $23,000 retrospective", "category": "language-training research", "pdf_page": 256, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=256", "evidence_limit": "Research into adapting teaching machines to foreign-language training. Summary indicates no research participant category; does not document human drug testing or institutional sponsor awareness.", "source_pages": [ 256 ], "access_basis": "Original CIA retrospective MK-024 PDF extracted text from numbered subproject entry, 1970s compilation. Page-specific image not independently authenticated in this pass; initial page-screen requests returned cache errors and a nontext verso. Individual signed authorizations/vouchers and archival originals remain pending.", "review_pass": "R23" }, { "number": 93, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Unidentified research purpose and sponsor chain", "years": "FY1962", "institution": "Researcher and subject not established; Medical Sciences Research Foundation", "funding": "Approximately $15,080 retrospective", "category": "unclassified funding, purpose unknown", "pdf_page": 258, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=258", "evidence_limit": "CIA's own compilation expressly labels the purpose and principal researcher unknown. Secondary claims of confirmed toxin deployment or work under this number must not be presented as established.", "source_pages": [ 258 ], "access_basis": "Original CIA retrospective MK-024 PDF extracted text from numbered subproject entry, 1970s compilation. Page-specific image not independently authenticated in this pass; initial page-screen requests returned cache errors and a nontext verso. Individual signed authorizations/vouchers and archival originals remain pending.", "review_pass": "R23" }, { "number": 94, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Animal electrode stimulation and remote direction", "years": "1959–1962", "institution": "Researcher redacted; Medical Sciences Research Foundation then Geschickter Fund", "funding": "Approximately $124,231 retrospective", "category": "animal behavior and potential delivery research", "pdf_page": 260, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=260", "evidence_limit": "Project explored electrode stimulation of animals, with possible future operational delivery applications. Neither a human implant program nor actual operational deployment is established by this summary.", "source_pages": [ 260 ], "access_basis": "Original CIA retrospective MK-024 PDF extracted text from numbered subproject entry, 1970s compilation. Page-specific image not independently authenticated in this pass; initial page-screen requests returned cache errors and a nontext verso. Individual signed authorizations/vouchers and archival originals remain pending.", "review_pass": "R23", "r30_r31_accountability": { "reviewed": "2026-10-18", "pass": "R31", "additional_source_ids": [ "MK-042" ], "status": "CIA review says no human experimentation under 91 and 94, even where proposed animal technical applications had field-use language.", "related_numbers": [ 91 ], "limitations": "No inferable human brain implant or deployed animal operation from the retrospective." }, "related_numbers": [ 91 ] }, { "number": 95, "status": "summary_located", "title": "University of Illinois cross-cultural semantics and communications", "years": "1959–1962", "institution": "University of Illinois affiliates; Society for Investigation of Human Ecology", "funding": "Approximately $155,000 retrospective", "category": "cross-cultural communication and human research ethics", "pdf_page": 262, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=262", "evidence_limit": "CIA described communication studies serving agent-handling and political objectives, and calls other Illinois participants unwitting. Specific institutional authorization, research subjects and any real field use require independent confirmation.", "source_pages": [ 262 ], "access_basis": "Original CIA retrospective MK-024 PDF extracted text from numbered subproject entry, 1970s compilation. Page-specific image not independently authenticated in this pass; initial page-screen requests returned cache errors and a nontext verso. Individual signed authorizations/vouchers and archival originals remain pending.", "review_pass": "R23" }, { "number": 96, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Ohio State researcher-personality survey", "years": "1959", "institution": "Ohio State University; Society for Investigation of Human Ecology", "funding": "Approximately $34,465 retrospective", "category": "behavioral/personality survey", "pdf_page": 264, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=264", "evidence_limit": "CIA summary targets attitudes and personality information about European scientists and labels a research assistant witting. It does not establish general university administrative awareness or subject consent.", "source_pages": [ 264 ], "access_basis": "Original CIA retrospective MK-024 PDF extracted text from numbered subproject entry, 1970s compilation. Page-specific image not independently authenticated in this pass; initial page-screen requests returned cache errors and a nontext verso. Individual signed authorizations/vouchers and archival originals remain pending.", "review_pass": "R23" }, { "number": 97, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Wisconsin psychotherapy personality-change research", "years": "1959", "institution": "University of Wisconsin; Human Ecology Fund", "funding": "Approximately $15,000 retrospective", "category": "psychotherapy and human-subject safeguards", "pdf_page": 266, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=266", "evidence_limit": "CIA describes psychotherapy of people with schizophrenia and a control group, with about seven participating psychotherapists. Independent patient consent, institutional approval and actual research methods remain unverified.", "source_pages": [ 266 ], "access_basis": "Original CIA retrospective MK-024 PDF extracted text from numbered subproject entry, 1970s compilation. Page-specific image not independently authenticated in this pass; initial page-screen requests returned cache errors and a nontext verso. Individual signed authorizations/vouchers and archival originals remain pending.", "review_pass": "R23" }, { "number": 98, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Queens College proposal on mass conversion and brainwashing", "years": "1959–1960", "institution": "Queens College, New York; Society for Investigation of Human Ecology", "funding": "Approximately $9,375 retrospective", "category": "social-psychology proposal", "pdf_page": 268, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=268", "evidence_limit": "CIA calls the work a proposal on mass conversion, defection and brainwashing; no actual mass-conversion experiment or subject treatment is proven by this summary.", "source_pages": [ 268 ], "access_basis": "Original CIA retrospective MK-024 PDF extracted text from numbered subproject entry, 1970s compilation. Page-specific image not independently authenticated in this pass; initial page-screen requests returned cache errors and a nontext verso. Individual signed authorizations/vouchers and archival originals remain pending.", "review_pass": "R23" }, { "number": 99, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Physical chemistry and optical research for CNS-active materials", "years": "1959–1961", "institution": "Researcher redacted; Medical Sciences Research Foundation", "funding": "Approximately $24,000, described as sterile checks", "category": "chemical and physical laboratory research", "pdf_page": 270, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=270", "evidence_limit": "CIA describes optical/crystal investigations and notes various co-workers as unwitting of CIA sponsorship. That is not evidence the co-workers themselves received drugs or that any resultant material was deployed.", "source_pages": [ 270 ], "access_basis": "Original CIA retrospective MK-024 PDF extracted text from numbered subproject entry, 1970s compilation. Page-specific image not independently authenticated in this pass; initial page-screen requests returned cache errors and a nontext verso. Individual signed authorizations/vouchers and archival originals remain pending.", "review_pass": "R23" }, { "number": 100, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Pennsylvania State soil microbiology study", "years": "1959–1964", "institution": "Pennsylvania State University; Medical Sciences Research Foundation / Geschickter Fund", "funding": "Approximately $226,000 retrospective", "category": "soil microbiology and detection research", "pdf_page": 272, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=272", "evidence_limit": "CIA describes investigation of soil microorganisms for sample-information collection. Technical purpose is partially redacted. Amount cannot be treated as an individual researcher payment or proof of field use.", "source_pages": [ 272 ], "access_basis": "Original CIA retrospective MK-024 PDF extracted text from numbered subproject entry, 1970s compilation. Page-specific image not independently authenticated in this pass; initial page-screen requests returned cache errors and a nontext verso. Individual signed authorizations/vouchers and archival originals remain pending.", "review_pass": "R23" }, { "number": 101, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Ohio State biophysics consultation", "years": "1959", "institution": "Ohio State University affiliate; direct agency financing", "funding": "Approximately $2,000 retrospective", "category": "central-nervous-system biophysics consultation", "pdf_page": 274, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=274", "evidence_limit": "The CIA calls this consultation on CNS biophysics and labels a research participant witting; the entry does not establish university-level institutional consent or actual human experiments.", "source_pages": [ 274 ], "access_basis": "Original CIA retrospective MK-024 PDF extracted text from numbered subproject entry, 1970s compilation. Page-specific image not independently authenticated in this pass; initial page-screen requests returned cache errors and a nontext verso. Individual signed authorizations/vouchers and archival originals remain pending.", "review_pass": "R24" }, { "number": 102, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Study of adolescent boys in naturally formed groups", "years": "1959–1960", "institution": "University of Oklahoma professor; Texas and Oklahoma youth; Society for Investigation of Human Ecology", "funding": "Approximately $5,750 retrospective", "category": "minors and social research", "pdf_page": 276, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=276", "evidence_limit": "CIA describes observational analysis of boys' peer-group membership and environment. It does not show physical experimentation, but participant/parental informed consent and knowledge of Agency funding are not demonstrated.", "source_pages": [ 276 ], "access_basis": "Original CIA retrospective MK-024 PDF extracted text from numbered subproject entry, 1970s compilation. Page-specific image not independently authenticated in this pass; initial page-screen requests returned cache errors and a nontext verso. Individual signed authorizations/vouchers and archival originals remain pending.", "review_pass": "R24" }, { "number": 103, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Children's International Summer Villages adolescent reunion study", "years": "1959", "institution": "Children's International Summer Villages, Inc., Cincinnati; Society for Investigation of Human Ecology", "funding": "Approximately $1,900 cashier check retrospective", "category": "minor-participant research; sponsor unawareness; CIA interest", "pdf_page": 278, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=278", "evidence_limit": "CIA recorded an intelligence interest in assessing 16-year-olds for possible Agency use. A contemporaneous institutional clarification within the compilation states CISV received an unwitting grant and CIA took no part in study design or execution. No subsequent individual recruitment or operational involvement established.", "source_pages": [ 278 ], "access_basis": "Original CIA retrospective MK-024 PDF extracted text from numbered subproject entry, 1970s compilation. Page-specific image not independently authenticated in this pass; initial page-screen requests returned cache errors and a nontext verso. Individual signed authorizations/vouchers and archival originals remain pending.", "review_pass": "R24" }, { "number": 104, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Houston petroleum-deterioration microbiology", "years": "Jan 1960–Mar 1961", "institution": "University of Houston; Medical Sciences Research Foundation", "funding": "Approximately $10,000 retrospective", "category": "industrial sabotage-relevant biology", "pdf_page": 280, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=280", "evidence_limit": "CIA describes studying microbes associated with deterioration of petroleum products for possible sabotage. The summary does not establish actual sabotage or deployment.", "source_pages": [ 280 ], "access_basis": "Original CIA retrospective MK-024 PDF extracted text from numbered subproject entry, 1970s compilation. Page-specific image not independently authenticated in this pass; initial page-screen requests returned cache errors and a nontext verso. Individual signed authorizations/vouchers and archival originals remain pending.", "review_pass": "R24" }, { "number": 105, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Wisconsin bacterial and staphylococcal toxin identification", "years": "1950–1961 as OCR; original date check required", "institution": "University of Wisconsin bacteriology researcher; Medical Sciences Research Foundation", "funding": "Approximately $4,000 retrospective", "category": "microbiology and toxin characterization", "pdf_page": 282, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=282", "evidence_limit": "The CIA summary concerns staphylococci and identification tests, while the extracted time range begins 1950, before MKULTRA. Need original scan to separate antecedent work from funded project; no use against people established.", "source_pages": [ 282 ], "access_basis": "Original CIA retrospective MK-024 PDF extracted text from numbered subproject entry, 1970s compilation. Page-specific image not independently authenticated in this pass; initial page-screen requests returned cache errors and a nontext verso. Individual signed authorizations/vouchers and archival originals remain pending.", "review_pass": "R24" }, { "number": 106, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Biological stimulus-response quantification", "years": "1959–1960", "institution": "Researcher redacted; Medical Sciences Research Foundation", "funding": "Approximately $35,000 retrospective", "category": "biophysical research", "pdf_page": 284, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=284", "evidence_limit": "CIA describes quantifying biological response to stimuli; project summary alone does not establish behavioral experimentation on human subjects or operational deployment.", "source_pages": [ 284 ], "access_basis": "Original CIA retrospective MK-024 PDF extracted text from numbered subproject entry, 1970s compilation. Page-specific image not independently authenticated in this pass; initial page-screen requests returned cache errors and a nontext verso. Individual signed authorizations/vouchers and archival originals remain pending.", "review_pass": "R24" }, { "number": 107, "status": "summary_located", "title": "American Psychological Association travel grant", "years": "Date unclear in extracted original entry", "institution": "American Psychological Association; Society for Investigation of Human Ecology", "funding": "Approximately $15,000 retrospective", "category": "professional society travel; potential institutional sponsor awareness", "pdf_page": 286, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=286", "evidence_limit": "CIA describes support for selected psychologists to travel and establish contacts. It does not prove all APA leadership knew CIA sponsorship or that conference attendees participated in CIA experiments.", "source_pages": [ 286 ], "access_basis": "Original CIA retrospective MK-024 PDF extracted text from numbered subproject entry, 1970s compilation. Page-specific image not independently authenticated in this pass; initial page-screen requests returned cache errors and a nontext verso. Individual signed authorizations/vouchers and archival originals remain pending.", "review_pass": "R24" }, { "number": 108, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Unwitting scholar's source-contact recruitment", "years": "1959–1961", "institution": "Unidentified scholar; Society for Investigation of Human Ecology", "funding": "Approximately $8,100 retrospective", "category": "covert intelligence source development", "pdf_page": 288, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=288", "evidence_limit": "CIA description states an unwitting grantee was funded to cultivate access to research subjects or sources for intelligence information. Redactions prevent reliable subject or geographical identification; no individual private person named.", "source_pages": [ 288 ], "access_basis": "Original CIA retrospective MK-024 PDF extracted text from numbered subproject entry, 1970s compilation. Page-specific image not independently authenticated in this pass; initial page-screen requests returned cache errors and a nontext verso. Individual signed authorizations/vouchers and archival originals remain pending.", "review_pass": "R24" }, { "number": 109, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Psychopharmacological structure–activity studies", "years": "1960–1965 likely; extracted text reads 1960–1955", "institution": "Researcher redacted; Geschickter Fund for Medical Research", "funding": "Approximately $30,000 retrospective", "category": "chemical/pharmacology research", "pdf_page": 290, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=290", "evidence_limit": "CIA sought characterization of molecular constitution and biological response. OCR time range is internally reversed, and independent image check required; does not prove administration to people.", "source_pages": [ 290 ], "access_basis": "Original CIA retrospective MK-024 PDF extracted text from numbered subproject entry, 1970s compilation. Page-specific image not independently authenticated in this pass; initial page-screen requests returned cache errors and a nontext verso. Individual signed authorizations/vouchers and archival originals remain pending.", "review_pass": "R24" }, { "number": 110, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Pathogen supply and delivery-capability research", "years": "1950–1964 retrospective; exact subproject award dates unverified", "institution": "Research facility redacted; CIA TSD", "funding": "Approximately $270,000 in cashier checks reported", "category": "biological agents and delivery, operational-status claim", "pdf_page": 292, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=292", "evidence_limit": "CIA retrospective describes established material-supply capability and proposed expansion. Retrospective operational-status wording must be checked against original facility/authority records; it does not demonstrate an identified incident of use.", "source_pages": [ 292 ], "access_basis": "Original CIA retrospective MK-024 PDF extracted text from numbered subproject entry, 1970s compilation. Page-specific image not independently authenticated in this pass; initial page-screen requests returned cache errors and a nontext verso. Individual signed authorizations/vouchers and archival originals remain pending.", "review_pass": "R24" }, { "number": 111, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Motivation and indirect personality assessment", "years": null, "institution": "Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology", "funding": "Approximately $33,000", "category": "historical research grant", "pdf_page": 294, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=294", "evidence_limit": "CIA retrospective summary only; no separately authenticated grant receipt, consent record or proof of an applied intelligence operation.", "source_pages": [ 294 ], "access_basis": "Original CIA PDF extracted text; source-image verification incomplete", "review_pass": "R25" }, { "number": 112, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Children's occupational roles and status research", "years": null, "institution": "Indiana University / Human Ecology", "funding": "Approximately $6,056", "category": "historical research grant", "pdf_page": 296, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=296", "evidence_limit": "CIA retrospective summary only; no separately authenticated grant receipt, consent record or proof of an applied intelligence operation.", "source_pages": [ 296 ], "access_basis": "Original CIA PDF extracted text; source-image verification incomplete", "review_pass": "R25" }, { "number": 113, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Gas-propelled spray and aerosol device research", "years": "1950–1953", "institution": "Unidentified contractor; direct agency checks", "funding": "Approximately $5,000", "category": "technical device research", "pdf_page": 298, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=298", "evidence_limit": "CIA describes design and formulation work. No specific application, human exposure or independently documented completion is established.", "source_pages": [ 298 ], "review_pass": "R25", "access_basis": "Original CIA briefing PDF extracted text; signed instrument and page image verification pending" }, { "number": 114, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Butler Health Center social-drinking behavior studies", "years": "Dates internally inconsistent in original text", "institution": "Butler Health Center, Providence; Human Ecology intermediary", "funding": "Approximately $8,000", "category": "human behavioral research", "pdf_page": 300, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=300", "evidence_limit": "CIA describes alcohol-related behavioral ratings and a possible drug-related extension, while noting a lack of information about study subjects. Original trial and consent records are needed.", "source_pages": [ 300 ], "review_pass": "R25", "access_basis": "Original CIA briefing PDF extracted text; signed instrument and page image verification pending" }, { "number": 115, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Mental-health interaction study", "years": "Reported year unclear", "institution": "Unidentified research grantee; Human Ecology intermediary", "funding": "Approximately $4,000", "category": "behavioral research", "pdf_page": 302, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=302", "evidence_limit": "Source describes an investigation involving people receiving mental-health care. The numbered heading is degraded in the extracted text; identification follows sequence and requires visual confirmation.", "source_pages": [ 302 ], "review_pass": "R25", "access_basis": "Original CIA briefing PDF extracted text; signed instrument and page image verification pending" }, { "number": 116, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Procurement of specialized research compounds", "years": "Dates inconsistent in source", "institution": "Contractor redacted; direct agency funding", "funding": "Approximately $206,000", "category": "technical procurement", "pdf_page": 304, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=304", "evidence_limit": "Source describes historical procurement and associated research-material production. Original fiscal instruments and recipients have not been authenticated, and no applied use is demonstrated.", "source_pages": [ 304 ], "review_pass": "R25", "access_basis": "Original CIA briefing PDF extracted text; signed instrument and page image verification pending" }, { "number": 117, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Cornell cross-cultural family and personality studies", "years": "1960", "institution": "Cornell University-affiliated researcher; Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology", "funding": "Approximately $7,035 reported through Society; NIH also listed as sponsor", "category": "institutional social research with joint sponsor question", "pdf_page": 306, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=306", "evidence_limit": "CIA lists cross-cultural family-structure and personality research and another NIH sponsorship line. This does not prove NIH knew the CIA funded a separate part of the work; funding overlap, participating families' notice and informed consent are unresolved.", "source_pages": [ 306 ], "review_pass": "R26", "access_basis": "Original CIA briefing book DOC_0000190090: direct PDF page-indexed extracted text, with native page screenshot calls returning errors. Contemporary vouchers, original study protocols, the exact scanned page image and third-party corroboration remain pending." }, { "number": 118, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Penn State microbiology detection consulting", "years": "1960", "institution": "Pennsylvania State University-affiliated microbiologist", "funding": "Approximately $5,000 described as sterile cashier's checks", "category": "biological/chemical detection consultancy", "pdf_page": 308, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=308", "evidence_limit": "CIA source describes consulting for biological and chemical warfare detection and a researcher as witting. It does not document weapon use or extend the individual's knowledge to the university's administration.", "source_pages": [ 308 ], "review_pass": "R26", "access_basis": "Original CIA briefing book DOC_0000190090: direct PDF page-indexed extracted text, with native page screenshot calls returning errors. Contemporary vouchers, original study protocols, the exact scanned page image and third-party corroboration remain pending." }, { "number": 119, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Texas Christian University literature review on bioelectrics", "years": "1960", "institution": "Texas Christian University-associated researcher", "funding": "Approximately $6,000 reported through Human Ecology Fund", "category": "literature review and indirect technical assessment", "pdf_page": 310, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=310", "evidence_limit": "CIA source describes a critical review of literature on human bioelectric signals and possible remote behavioral activation, marking a researcher unwitting. It provides no evidence that remote activation of a human subject was demonstrated or conducted.", "source_pages": [ 310 ], "review_pass": "R26", "access_basis": "Original CIA briefing book DOC_0000190090: direct PDF page-indexed extracted text, with native page screenshot calls returning errors. Contemporary vouchers, original study protocols, the exact scanned page image and third-party corroboration remain pending." }, { "number": 120, "status": "summary_located", "title": "CNS drug effects in animals, experimental procedures", "years": "1960–1966", "institution": "Researcher and laboratory redacted", "funding": "Approximately $22,000 retrospective", "category": "animal pharmacology; no human tests according to CIA", "pdf_page": 312, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=312", "evidence_limit": "CIA explicitly states no human testing occurred in this subproject. Broader MKULTRA historical human experiments must not be assigned to this animal-only record.", "source_pages": [ 312 ], "review_pass": "R26", "access_basis": "Original CIA briefing book DOC_0000190090: direct PDF page-indexed extracted text, with native page screenshot calls returning errors. Contemporary vouchers, original study protocols, the exact scanned page image and third-party corroboration remain pending." }, { "number": 121, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Society research with an incomplete recruitment-purpose notation", "years": "1960–1963", "institution": "Researcher and place redacted in direct text extraction", "funding": "Approximately $13,850 reported through Society for Investigation of Human Ecology", "category": "partially redacted research with stated intelligence interest", "pdf_page": 314, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=314", "evidence_limit": "CIA text includes a partially obscured phrase referencing recruiting promising young people. The specific research protocol, identities, outcomes and whether recruitment occurred are not established from the truncated wording. Full visual scan needed for location and purpose.", "source_pages": [ 314 ], "review_pass": "R26", "access_basis": "Original CIA briefing book DOC_0000190090: direct PDF page-indexed extracted text, with native page screenshot calls returning errors. Contemporary vouchers, original study protocols, the exact scanned page image and third-party corroboration remain pending." }, { "number": 122, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Neurokinin purification and stress-response research", "years": "FY1960", "institution": "Researcher/institution not identified in extract", "funding": "Approximately $2,000 through Society for Investigation of Human Ecology", "category": "biochemical stress mediator laboratory research", "pdf_page": 316, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=316", "evidence_limit": "CIA describes biochemical purification and study of neurokinin and possible relevance to stress. No human exposure or intelligence use is established by this summary.", "source_pages": [ 316 ], "review_pass": "R26", "access_basis": "Original CIA briefing book DOC_0000190090: direct PDF page-indexed extracted text, with native page screenshot calls returning errors. Contemporary vouchers, original study protocols, the exact scanned page image and third-party corroboration remain pending." }, { "number": 123, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Columbia research on social perceptions during independence", "years": null, "institution": "Columbia University / Human Ecology", "funding": "Approximately $20,000", "category": "historical research grant", "pdf_page": 318, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=318", "evidence_limit": "CIA retrospective summary only; no separately authenticated grant receipt, consent record or proof of an applied intelligence operation.", "source_pages": [ 318 ], "access_basis": "Original CIA PDF extracted text; source-image verification incomplete", "review_pass": "R25" }, { "number": 124, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Psychiatric-patient carbon dioxide and acid-base research", "years": "1960–1965", "institution": "Medical researcher / facility redacted; Human Ecology Fund", "funding": "Approximately $6,500 Human Ecology Fund", "category": "human physiological intervention with consent questions", "pdf_page": 320, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=320", "evidence_limit": "CIA describes measurements of blood pH and psychiatric-patient acid-base equilibrium and states there was testing on human volunteers, including possible carbon dioxide inhalation. Wittingness of several research participants is marked unknown, and consent records are not independently established. Connected number references 2 and 140 require funding overlap and separate scientific protocol review.", "source_pages": [ 320 ], "review_pass": "R26", "access_basis": "Original CIA briefing book DOC_0000190090: direct PDF page-indexed extracted text, with native page screenshot calls returning errors. Contemporary vouchers, original study protocols, the exact scanned page image and third-party corroboration remain pending.", "related_numbers": [ 2, 140 ] }, { "number": 125, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Martinsburg VA domiciliary active-drug and placebo study", "years": "1960–1963", "institution": "Veterans Administration Center, Martinsburg, West Virginia", "funding": "Approximately $12,000 reported through Society for Investigation of Human Ecology", "category": "human drug testing with an unaware-treatment group", "pdf_page": 325, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=325", "evidence_limit": "CIA retrospective describes four treatment conditions including people unaware that they had received active d-amphetamine (10 mg), along with two publications. A separately indexed CIA internal review (MK-039) describes around 80 participants and an agency determination that no further action was needed. Neither agency account proves contemporaneous informed consent or appropriate institutional disclosure.", "source_pages": [ 325 ], "review_pass": "R26", "access_basis": "Original CIA briefing book DOC_0000190090: direct PDF page-indexed extracted text, with native page screenshot calls returning errors. Contemporary vouchers, original study protocols, the exact scanned page image and third-party corroboration remain pending.", "secondary_source_ids": [ "MK-039" ] }, { "number": 126, "status": "summary_located", "title": "University of Florida disaster/stress adaptation study", "years": "CIA extracted date reads 1950; questionable pre-MKULTRA chronology", "institution": "University of Florida-associated researcher; Society for Investigation of Human Ecology", "funding": "Approximately $4,225 through Society for Investigation of Human Ecology", "category": "disaster-stress sociological research", "pdf_page": 328, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=328", "evidence_limit": "CIA describes stress and human adaptation to disaster with interest in mission application. Retrospective marks a researcher witting, but institutional awareness and study-participant recruitment controls are unknown. The 1950 date appears before MKULTRA and needs image inspection.", "source_pages": [ 328 ], "review_pass": "R27", "access_basis": "Original CIA briefing book DOC_0000190090: direct PDF page-indexed extracted text, with native page screenshot calls returning errors. Contemporary vouchers, original study protocols, the exact scanned page image and third-party corroboration remain pending." }, { "number": 127, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Fifty-year historical voting-behavior analysis", "years": "CIA date extraction reads 1950–1962; verify actual grant dates", "institution": "Researcher and institution not identified in extracted summary", "funding": "Approximately $7,580 via Society for Investigation of Human Ecology", "category": "archival voting records and political behavior", "pdf_page": 330, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=330", "evidence_limit": "CIA records study of publicly available voting histories over a fifty-year period. The entry does not establish coercive manipulation of voters, and funding and researchers require original grant file.", "source_pages": [ 330 ], "review_pass": "R27", "access_basis": "Original CIA briefing book DOC_0000190090: direct PDF page-indexed extracted text, with native page screenshot calls returning errors. Contemporary vouchers, original study protocols, the exact scanned page image and third-party corroboration remain pending." }, { "number": 128, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Rapid hypnotic-induction studies in possible operational settings", "years": "CIA extracted date reads 1950–1961", "institution": "Research setting and researcher redacted", "funding": "Approximately $9,000 retrospective; cover not indicated", "category": "human hypnosis research / consent unresolved", "pdf_page": 332, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=332", "evidence_limit": "CIA says the project aimed to test rapid induction techniques in simulated and real operational settings, yet does not describe the specific settings, subject enrollment or consent. Do not infer successful coercive hypnosis from the aim alone.", "source_pages": [ 332 ], "review_pass": "R27", "access_basis": "Original CIA briefing book DOC_0000190090: direct PDF page-indexed extracted text, with native page screenshot calls returning errors. Contemporary vouchers, original study protocols, the exact scanned page image and third-party corroboration remain pending." }, { "number": 129, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Polygraph bioelectric-signal computer analysis", "years": "1960–1961", "institution": "Research institution redacted; Society for Investigation of Human Ecology", "funding": "CIA approximately $2,505; a separate USAF Office of Scientific Research $27,500 funding line", "category": "instrument analysis with separate federal funding", "pdf_page": 334, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=334", "evidence_limit": "CIA summary lists computer analysis of bioelectric patterns and a separate USAF-funded amount. These two funders may represent distinct expense scopes, and combining them requires original contract and federal sponsor-award files. No involuntary monitoring is demonstrated.", "source_pages": [ 334 ], "review_pass": "R27", "access_basis": "Original CIA briefing book DOC_0000190090: direct PDF page-indexed extracted text, with native page screenshot calls returning errors. Contemporary vouchers, original study protocols, the exact scanned page image and third-party corroboration remain pending." }, { "number": 130, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Columbia-linked clinical personality theory and indirect assessment", "years": "1961–1962", "institution": "Columbia University sponsorship entry; research site not specified", "funding": "Approximately $13,570 through Society for Investigation of Human Ecology", "category": "patient-based personality theory, institutional awareness unresolved", "pdf_page": 336, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=336", "evidence_limit": "CIA summary describes investigation of personality theory among patients with varied symptoms and lists Columbia University as another sponsor. It does not establish individual patient awareness of CIA funding or university-level agreement, and the provider/patient context requires privacy protection.", "source_pages": [ 336 ], "review_pass": "R27", "access_basis": "Original CIA briefing book DOC_0000190090: direct PDF page-indexed extracted text, with native page screenshot calls returning errors. Contemporary vouchers, original study protocols, the exact scanned page image and third-party corroboration remain pending." }, { "number": 131, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Deep-cover agent salary and travel funding through Society", "years": "1961", "institution": "Undisclosed deep-cover CIA staff agent and location", "funding": "Approximately $15,000 from division funds via Society for Investigation of Human Ecology", "category": "operational cover finances, not human experiments", "pdf_page": 338, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=338", "evidence_limit": "CIA describes salary, travel and other costs of a deeply covered staff agent with the Society used as financing intermediary. This is a CIA operational fiscal use of the intermediary; not evidence of psychiatric or other human research at a university.", "source_pages": [ 338 ], "review_pass": "R27", "access_basis": "Original CIA briefing book DOC_0000190090: direct PDF page-indexed extracted text, with native page screenshot calls returning errors. Contemporary vouchers, original study protocols, the exact scanned page image and third-party corroboration remain pending." }, { "number": 132, "status": "summary_located", "title": "New York and Chicago nonattributable R&D field-test facilities", "years": "1961–1964", "institution": "New York and Chicago; research operator and facilities redacted", "funding": "Approximately $26,000 reported as sterile checks", "category": "field testing with safehouse-continuation question", "pdf_page": 340, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=340", "evidence_limit": "CIA describes realistic operational tests of Chemical Branch R&D materials using facilities and personnel with nonattributable sponsorship, apparently following earlier Morgan Hall activity. The summary claims no controversial material in file, while actual consent, participants, experimental substances and actions are not established. Further evidence needed before identifying facility or assuming unwitting subject testing.", "source_pages": [ 340 ], "review_pass": "R27", "access_basis": "Original CIA briefing book DOC_0000190090: direct PDF page-indexed extracted text, with native page screenshot calls returning errors. Contemporary vouchers, original study protocols, the exact scanned page image and third-party corroboration remain pending.", "related_numbers": [ 3, 42, 149 ], "r30_r31_accountability": { "reviewed": "2026-10-18", "pass": "R30", "additional_source_ids": [ "MK-040", "MK-041" ], "status": "CIA retrospective identifies New York/Chicago field cover. Separate CIA Task Force explicitly describes 132 as continuation of 42 and 149 as successor to 132. Role of named cover figure was disputed in 1977 testimony.", "related_numbers": [ 3, 42, 149 ], "limitations": "Continuity at account or location level does not establish the same operator or independently documented conducted tests in each year." } }, { "number": 133, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Marine mineral microbial research", "years": "1962", "institution": "Unwitting researcher / scientific grant via intermediary", "funding": "$9,360 second-year proposal", "category": "other scientific research", "pdf_page": null, "source_id": "MK-011", "source_url": "https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/00693632", "evidence_limit": "CIA document MK-011 proposes microbial work on marine manganese nodules; no mine operation established.", "r30_r31_accountability": { "reviewed": "2026-10-18", "pass": "R30", "additional_source_ids": [ "MK-011" ], "status": "Original CIA continuation grant memorandum proposes $9,000 direct research costs plus a $360 4% intermediary charge, for total $9,360 second-year budget.", "related_numbers": [], "limitations": "Written program budget and cover fee, not paid-voucher confirmation or two additive totals." }, "r32_r33_accountability": { "pass": "R32", "date": "2026-10-18", "additional_source_ids": [ "MK-044", "MK-045" ], "finding": "First-party CIA index locates an 80-page collection of 38 1961–66 original award and invoice materials. Existing 1962 proposed $9,360 budget included a $360 4-percent intermediary charge and $9,000 direct work. Paid receipts and final charge reversals remain unchecked. CIA Office of Finance also recalled unnumbered folders numbered about 150–160 for administrative use.", "verification": "Original finance-instrument page images, source mirror's October 1979 full PDF and individual consent/notification records not fully authenticated; privacy-protecting aggregate only. No direct Epstein operational connection." }, "r39_original_document_status": { "date": "2026-10-18", "pass": "R39", "source_ids": [ "MK-011", "MK-045" ], "document_character": "CIA FOIA 00693632 July 24, 1962 memorandum is marked DRAFT in the first-party indexed text; the separate 00017392 collection covers 38 original documents over 80 pages.", "proposed_research_budget_usd": 9000, "proposed_intermediary_fee_usd": 360, "proposed_total_ceiling_usd": 9360, "signed_approval_authenticated": false, "payment_cleared_authenticated": false, "final_refund_authenticated": false, "distinction": "Administrative proposal and reported approval fields do not independently prove the final historical paid amount or activity. Do not add the 4 percent fee twice.", "limitation": "Original indexed CIA PDF currently redirects. The first-party OCR does not replace signed original-document image and voucher-level review. RD-59 remains unsent." } }, { "number": 134, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Body type and temperament research", "years": "1961–1963", "institution": "Researcher redacted; Human Ecology Fund", "funding": "About $22,000", "category": "personality assessment", "pdf_page": 345, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=345", "evidence_limit": "The CIA classified its research participant as unwitting of sponsorship. An indirect-assessment purpose is described, but no identified individual's subsequent assessment or misuse is established.", "source_pages": [ 345 ], "review_pass": "R28", "access_basis": "CIA retrospective PDF original page-extracted text. Scan image not individually authenticated owing to image fetch limitations; no original paid voucher or protocol recovered." }, { "number": 135, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Cancelled clinical-testing proposal", "years": "1961", "institution": "Researcher redacted; Medical Sciences Research Foundation", "funding": "$25,000 authorization transferred to 91; no separate test supported", "category": "cancelled proposal and interproject transfer", "pdf_page": 347, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=347", "evidence_limit": "CIA expressly says the proposed human clinical project was cancelled before it began and funds were transferred to Subproject 91. Do not count a performed test or add the $25,000 to 91 without receipts.", "source_pages": [ 347 ], "review_pass": "R28", "access_basis": "CIA retrospective PDF original page-extracted text. Scan image not individually authenticated owing to image fetch limitations; no original paid voucher or protocol recovered.", "related_numbers": [ 91 ] }, { "number": 136, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Research into claims of extrasensory perception", "years": "FY1961", "institution": "Researcher redacted; Human Ecology Fund", "funding": "About $8,579", "category": "exploratory research with sponsor unawareness", "pdf_page": 349, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=349", "evidence_limit": "CIA records a grant to evaluate potential intelligence relevance of reported extrasensory perception and labels a participant unwitting. Funding proves neither paranormal effects nor operational use.", "source_pages": [ 349 ], "review_pass": "R28", "access_basis": "CIA retrospective PDF extracted text plus individually viewed scanned page; original signed grant and payment still unverified" }, { "number": 137, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Graphology publication and illustrated writing lexicon", "years": "1961–1963", "institution": "Researcher redacted; Society for Investigation of Human Ecology", "funding": "About $2,000", "category": "publication and indirect personality assessment", "pdf_page": 351, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=351", "evidence_limit": "CIA says the writing/graphology study was eventually published acknowledging Society funding. Publication, sponsor awareness and any agency application require distinct evidence.", "source_pages": [ 351 ], "review_pass": "R28", "access_basis": "CIA retrospective PDF original page-extracted text. Scan image not individually authenticated owing to image fetch limitations; no original paid voucher or protocol recovered." }, { "number": 138, "status": "summary_located", "title": "University of Texas biomedical-instrumentation research", "years": "1961–1962", "institution": "University of Texas; Geschickter Fund / Medical Sciences Research Foundation", "funding": "About $36,000", "category": "remote physiological measurement research", "pdf_page": 353, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=353", "evidence_limit": "The CIA describes biomedical measurement research, including remote test concepts. No covert test on any named human participant or implemented intelligence use established.", "source_pages": [ 353 ], "review_pass": "R28", "access_basis": "CIA retrospective PDF original page-extracted text. Scan image not individually authenticated owing to image fetch limitations; no original paid voucher or protocol recovered." }, { "number": 139, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Penn State research on bird-borne disease transmission", "years": "Original summary reads 1951–1965; start date requires correction", "institution": "Pennsylvania State University; Geschickter Fund / Medical Sciences Research Foundation", "funding": "About $40,000", "category": "animal and disease-vector research", "pdf_page": 355, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=355", "evidence_limit": "CIA describes avian vectors of disease, with a partially redacted purpose. The document does not demonstrate any particular biological release; grant start date appears to precede program founding.", "source_pages": [ 355 ], "review_pass": "R28", "access_basis": "CIA retrospective PDF original page-extracted text. Scan image not individually authenticated owing to image fetch limitations; no original paid voucher or protocol recovered." }, { "number": 140, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Clinical studies described under a thyroid-research cover", "years": "1962–1965 (CIA year field is internally reversed)", "institution": "Unidentified investigator; sterile checks then Geschickter Fund", "funding": "About $63,000", "category": "human research and sponsor-disclosure question", "pdf_page": 357, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=357", "evidence_limit": "CIA describes preliminary clinical studies of behavioral materials and participant marking under a thyroid-research cover, with people it calls volunteers. Researcher awareness and true sponsor disclosure are unresolved; overlap with projects 2 and 124 requires grant review.", "source_pages": [ 357 ], "review_pass": "R28", "access_basis": "CIA retrospective PDF original page-extracted text. Scan image not individually authenticated owing to image fetch limitations; no original paid voucher or protocol recovered.", "related_numbers": [ 2, 124 ] }, { "number": 141, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Geschickter Fund unclassified accumulated research expenses", "years": "1962", "institution": "Dr. Charles Geschickter, Washington DC; Geschickter Fund", "funding": "About $40,000", "category": "accounting purpose unknown", "pdf_page": 361, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=361", "evidence_limit": "The CIA describes possible accumulated research expenses without identifying exact activity. No independent trial, beneficiary or separate payment can be concluded.", "source_pages": [ 361 ], "review_pass": "R28", "access_basis": "CIA retrospective PDF original page-extracted text. Scan image not individually authenticated owing to image fetch limitations; no original paid voucher or protocol recovered." }, { "number": 142, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Cold-blooded animal behavioral research", "years": "1963–1965", "institution": "Research contractor redacted; Human Ecology Fund", "funding": "About $7,500", "category": "animal research with proposed applications", "pdf_page": 363, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=363", "evidence_limit": "CIA records comparative animal research and potential future application claims. No human implantation or operational deployment is demonstrated.", "source_pages": [ 363 ], "review_pass": "R28", "access_basis": "CIA retrospective PDF original page-extracted text. Scan image not individually authenticated owing to image fetch limitations; no original paid voucher or protocol recovered." }, { "number": 143, "status": "summary_located", "title": "University of Houston petroleum microbiology research", "years": "January 1963–December 1964", "institution": "University of Houston; Geschickter Fund", "funding": "About $41,500", "category": "microbiological research with Agency sabotage interest", "pdf_page": 366, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=366", "evidence_limit": "CIA describes studies in petroleum microbiology and notes research assistants unwitting of sponsorship. A stated potential use does not prove an actual sabotage incident.", "source_pages": [ 366 ], "review_pass": "R28", "access_basis": "CIA retrospective PDF original page-extracted text. Scan image not individually authenticated owing to image fetch limitations; no original paid voucher or protocol recovered." }, { "number": 144, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Unidentified MKULTRA project entry", "years": "1963", "institution": "Recipient, institution and funded activity unknown", "funding": "About $26,000 reported; payment instruments missing", "category": "purpose unknown", "pdf_page": 368, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=368", "evidence_limit": "The CIA's own form marks research objective, cover and participants unknown. Do not assign this number a specific experiment based on neighboring entries.", "source_pages": [ 368 ], "review_pass": "R28", "access_basis": "CIA retrospective PDF original page-extracted text. Scan image not individually authenticated owing to image fetch limitations; no original paid voucher or protocol recovered." }, { "number": 145, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Unidentified MKULTRA project entry", "years": "1963", "institution": "Recipient, institution and funded activity unknown", "funding": "About $15,500 reported; payment instruments missing", "category": "purpose unknown", "pdf_page": 370, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=370", "evidence_limit": "The CIA summary gives no supported project activity or grantee. Treat as unknown-purpose retrospective amount pending grant-file recovery.", "source_pages": [ 370 ], "review_pass": "R28", "access_basis": "CIA retrospective PDF original page-extracted text. Scan image not individually authenticated owing to image fetch limitations; no original paid voucher or protocol recovered." }, { "number": 146, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Plant pathology consultation for anticrop policy research", "years": "1963–1964", "institution": "Researcher redacted; direct agency payment", "funding": "About $7,500 via checks", "category": "agricultural-impact research", "pdf_page": 372, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=372", "evidence_limit": "CIA documents a historical examination of crop vulnerability. No actual crop destruction or deployment is established by the summary.", "source_pages": [ 372 ], "review_pass": "R28", "access_basis": "CIA retrospective PDF original page-extracted text. Scan image not individually authenticated owing to image fetch limitations; no original paid voucher or protocol recovered." }, { "number": 147, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Harris Isbell research on psychomimetic-drug cross-tolerance", "years": "1963–1964", "institution": "Dr. Harris Isbell; institutional place unspecified", "funding": "About $3,806", "category": "drug research; human involvement unresolved", "pdf_page": 374, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=374", "evidence_limit": "The CIA summary identifies Isbell and a cross-tolerance research title, but lists significant aspects as unknown. Original protocol, payments and any participant consent remain unverified.", "source_pages": [ 374 ], "review_pass": "R28", "access_basis": "CIA retrospective PDF original page-extracted text. Scan image not individually authenticated owing to image fetch limitations; no original paid voucher or protocol recovered.", "r30_r31_accountability": { "reviewed": "2026-10-18", "pass": "R31", "additional_source_ids": [ "MK-042" ], "status": "CIA review describes this as continued MKPILOT NIH-supervised cross-tolerance work with volunteers and its internal disposition was no further CIA action.", "related_numbers": [], "limitations": "Independent NIH consent and original protocol/clinical follow-up files not obtained; CIA review conclusion is not a court decision." } }, { "number": 148, "status": "summary_located", "title": "Technical Services toxicology and pharmacology consultant mechanism", "years": "1953–1964", "institution": "Consultant redacted; direct agency payment", "funding": "About $5,000 sterile check", "category": "technical consultancy; activities not established", "pdf_page": 376, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=376", "evidence_limit": "CIA describes a funding mechanism for consulting expertise. It does not establish a specific additional performed human trial, individual subject, or distinct disbursed total.", "source_pages": [ 376 ], "review_pass": "R28", "access_basis": "CIA retrospective PDF extracted text plus individually viewed scanned page; original signed grant and payment still unverified" }, { "number": 149, "status": "summary_located", "title": "New York covert field-test account with possible earlier-file duplication", "years": "January 1964–March 1965", "institution": "New York City; researcher redacted; direct sterile checks", "funding": "About $10,000 reported", "category": "possible duplicate/continuation of earlier safehouse file", "pdf_page": 378, "source_id": "MK-024", "source_url": "https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/MKULTRA2/DOC_0000190090/DOC_0000190090.pdf#page=378", "evidence_limit": "Contemporaneous summary describes technical field-testing support; a Turner-era note says the file appears duplicate of Subproject 3 and may continue the work associated with 42. The duplicate claim remains archival assessment, not a proved separate test or expenditure.", "source_pages": [ 378 ], "review_pass": "R28", "access_basis": "CIA retrospective PDF original page-extracted text. Scan image not individually authenticated owing to image fetch limitations; no original paid voucher or protocol recovered.", "related_numbers": [ 3, 16, 42, 132 ], "r30_r31_accountability": { "reviewed": "2026-10-18", "pass": "R30", "additional_source_ids": [ "MK-040", "MK-041" ], "status": "CIA retrospectives disagree in labels but align on lineage; 1964 separate administrative successor cover, field-testing stand-down and continued rent payments. Independent signed checks, event diaries and actual post-standdown testing unresolved.", "related_numbers": [ 3, 16, 42, 132 ], "limitations": "Original summary's duplicate suspicion must be compared with the 1979 CIA Task Force's 149→132→42 continuity and MKSEARCH 4 successor. 1964 rent/authorization does not prove applied human tests." }, "r32_r33_accountability": { "pass": "R33", "date": "2026-10-18", "additional_source_ids": [ "MK-046", "MK-047", "MK-048" ], "finding": "CIA later categorized 149 as administrative successor to 132/42. The 1979 notification addendum covers a subset of individuals tied to diary entries and does not confirm the exact number of people tested across all 149-related work.", "verification": "Original finance-instrument page images, source mirror's October 1979 full PDF and individual consent/notification records not fully authenticated; privacy-protecting aggregate only. No direct Epstein operational connection." } } ], "last_completed_pass": "R41" }