Can we get control of an individual to the point where he will do our bidding against his will and even against fundamental laws of nature such as self-preservation? (CIA Document, Project ARTICHOKE, MORE ID 144686, 1952)As cited by Dr Ellen P. Later, p57

— Orit Badouk Epstein

In 1953, Allen Dulles, then director of the USA Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), named Dr Sidney Gottlieb to direct the CIA's ULTRA program, which included experiments conducted by psychiatrists to create amnesia, new dissociated identities, new memories, and responses to hypnotic access codes. In 1972, then-CIA director Richard Helms and Gottlieb ordered the destruction of all ULTRA records. A clerical error spared seven boxes, containing 1738 documents, over 17,000 pages. This archive was declassified through Freedom of Information Act Request in 1977, though the names of most people, universities, and hospitals are redacted. The CIA assigned each document a number preceded by "MORE", for "Management of Officially Released Information", the CIA's automated electronic system at the time of document release. These documents, to be referenced throughout this chapter, are accessible on the Internet (see: abuse-of-power (dot) org/modules/content/index.php?id=31). The United States Senate held a hearing exposing the abuses of ULTRA, entitled "Project ULTRA, the CIA's program of research into behavioral modification" (1977).

— Orit Badouk Epstein