Can we talk about why everyone thinks MKUltra was shut down in 1973?

I keep seeing people online say the CIA's MKUltra program ended when they destroyed the files in 1973. But I just read through the Church Committee report from 1975, and it clearly shows they kept running behavior modification experiments at least through 1974 at McGill University and a few other places. The files were burned, sure, but the actual work continued under new names. Has anyone else dug into those later records from the Senate hearings?

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seanperry29d ago

My buddy's dad worked at a psych hospital back then and he said stuff kept going under different names way later than people think. They'd call it "patient conditioning programs" or "therapeutic intervention studies" to get funding approved. The McGill stuff is real, I read a paper from 1976 that talked about sleep deprivation experiments on students that was basically a carbon copy of MKUltra methods. Even the Canadian government was trying to cover their tracks on that one. The whole "we stopped in 73" thing is just the official story to make people feel better.

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sullivan.elliot29d ago

Oh, so you're telling me the government just "rebranded" their brainwashing programs like a bad reality show getting a new season? Classic move. I guess "Therapeutic Intervention Studies" sounds a lot nicer than "We're going to mess with your head until you forget your own name." And people wonder why nobody trusts official timelines on this stuff. Makes you wonder what's still running under some boring name like "Cognitive Wellness Workshops" right now, huh?

thompson.tyler29d ago

My buddy said his uncle found old files labeled "behavior modification workshops" from 1988.