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Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna announces House hearing on MK Ultra next month
(Gray News) - Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna announced Wednesday that the House of Representatives would hold a hearing on MK Ultra in May.
“Hearing on May 13. MK Ultra. House Oversight Task Force,” she wrote in an X post.
MK Ultra was a CIA program from 1953 to 1973 that studied mind control and the alteration of human behavior.
People used as test subjects were given high doses of psychoactive drugs such as LSD without their consent.
They also underwent methods like electroshock, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, isolation, verbal and sexual abuse and other forms of torture.
James “Whitey” Bulger, a notorious organized crime boss, was an unknowing test subject for the MK Ultra program. While at United States Penitentiary Atlanta, he was given high doses of LSD for 15 months, causing him to experience intense paranoia, hallucinations and nightmares.