Former CIA Officer Drops Explosive Testimony: MK-Ultra Was Never Stopped - Slay News
A former CIA officer has delivered explosive testimony before Congress, warning that the agency’s notorious MK-Ultra mind control research may never have truly ended.
The bombshell claims were made during a House Oversight Committee hearing led by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL).
The hearing, titled “Mind Control and Accountability: Uncovering the Truth of the CIA’s MK-Ultra Experiments,” exposed chilling allegations about decades of CIA abuse, destroyed evidence, secret torture sites, and a continuing effort to keep the truth hidden from Congress and the American people.
MK-Ultra ran from 1953 to 1973.
- Advertisement -The program subjected unwitting victims, including American citizens, hospital patients, prisoners, and veterans, to LSD, psychological torture, electroshock, hypnosis, and sensory deprivation.
The goal was to develop mind control techniques.
Luna described the program as “crimes committed by the Central Intelligence Agency against American citizens.”
She also called the experiments “crimes against humanity.”
- Advertisement -“This was a deliberate, systematic governmental operation… authorized by the very top of U.S. intelligence apparatus,” Luna said
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I believe this opening statement by Anna Paulina Luna will go down in history.
MK Ultra is REAL and the CIA committed Crimes Against Humanity with it. pic.twitter.com/D6wWFuAeKs
— RealAF Patriot (@RealAF_Patriot) June 30, 2026
CIA Destroyed MK-Ultra Records
Luna detailed how then-CIA Director Richard Helms personally ordered MK-Ultra records destroyed in 1973 as he left office.
- Advertisement -Responding to Watergate, Helms ordered the destruction of all records related to MK-Ultra, according to a research paper published by the Harvard Kennedy School’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy.
Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA scientist who ran the program, and his team reportedly spent an entire day burning 152 files.
Gottlieb then had his personal papers destroyed.
The head of the CIA’s own records center objected in writing.
He was overruled.
“That is obstruction of justice. That is criminal destruction of federal records,” Luna said.
No one went to prison.
- Advertisement -No victims received formal compensation.
The CIA has long claimed MK-Ultra was a “failure.”
But lawmakers and witnesses argued that Congress and the American people were deliberately misled for more than 50 years.
Luna also announced that the CIA is working to declassify newly discovered documents tied to what she described as a previously unknown “forgery program.”
- Advertisement -Whistleblower Says CIA Removed Sensitive Records
CIA whistleblower and former officer James Erdman III testified that roughly 40 boxes of sensitive records were removed from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence during declassification review efforts.
Erdman previously delivered explosive testimony in May 2026 before the Senate Homeland Security Committee.
He testified that the CIA “took back 40 boxes of JFK files and MK-Ultra files being processed for declassification by DNI Tulsi Gabbard.”
Erdman described the move as part of “documented efforts to circumvent oversight.”
Luna and House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) responded by sending a preservation letter demanding that all records be preserved and returned.
Luna later confirmed on X that the MK-Ultra documents were specifically requested by her task force for its investigation.
She clarified that the incident was “not a raid.”
However, the removal of records raises disturbing questions about whether the CIA is complying with lawful congressional oversight and declassification orders.
Alleged CIA Torture Site in Germany Under Review
Luna also revealed that she is investigating disturbing allegations involving a CIA facility in Germany where MK-Ultra victims were allegedly tortured.
She questioned witnesses about possible locations of remains.
Luna also said she plans to contact the German government for assistance, including possible law enforcement involvement to help locate and identify victims.
- Advertisement -A witness at the hearing claimed to have identified what may have been a secret CIA prison or black site in Germany connected to the experiments.
Luna called the entire program “criminal in nature” and “horrifying.”
She said it went “unvetted, unchecked, and that there was no accountability.”
The allegations suggest MK-Ultra may have extended far beyond what the public was ever told.
They also raise the possibility that victims may still be unidentified decades later.
Former CIA Officer Says Research May Have Continued
One of the most alarming moments came when a former CIA officer testified that the research may not have ended.
“I don’t believe that the research stopped,” the former officer said.
That warning strikes at the heart of the MK-Ultra scandal.
The official government story is that the program was shut down in the 1970s.
But witnesses told lawmakers that the agency had every incentive to hide, rebrand, or preserve the tools it developed.
Investigative journalist Tom O’Neill, author of “Chaos,” told the committee that the CIA misled Congress in 1977.
He submitted documents showing that the agency’s earlier claims about LSD experiments contradicted what it later told lawmakers.
“I believe the agency misled Congress in 1977 when it characterized MK-Ultra as a failure,” O’Neill said.
O’Neill also pointed to figures such as psychiatrist Louis Jolyon West and his ties to Charles Manson and Jack Ruby.
His testimony underscored how deeply MK-Ultra may have reached into major real-world events.
The message was clear.
The full story was buried on purpose.
Documents Reveal Memory Manipulation Experiments
One of the most disturbing revelations came from historical documents referenced during the hearing.
A participant in the original program documented the ability to replace true memories with false ones without a subject’s knowledge.
The document described the method in chilling terms.
“It’s feasible to take the memory of a definite event in the life of an individual, and through hypnotic suggestion, bring about the subsequent conscious recall to the effect that this event never actually took place,” the description stated.
“But that a different fictional event actually did occur.”
The implications are staggering.
If the U.S. government was experimenting with memory replacement in the 1950s, lawmakers are now asking what intelligence agencies may be capable of today.
Artificial intelligence, brain-computer interfaces, neuroscience, surveillance technology, and directed energy tools have advanced far beyond anything MK-Ultra researchers had at the time.
That is what made the hearing so disturbing.
Congress was not merely examining old crimes.
It was confronting the possibility that modern tools could make those crimes far more dangerous.
Expert Warns CIA Had ‘License to Kill’
Author and journalist Stephen Kinzer, who has extensively studied MK-Ultra and Gottlieb, warned lawmakers that Gottlieb effectively operated with “a license to kill” from the U.S. government.
Kinzer described how the CIA used “cut-outs” such as universities and institutions to conduct research while concealing the agency’s involvement.
That allowed the CIA to hide behind trusted organizations while experimenting on unwitting people.
Kinzer warned that the danger today may be even greater.
“There have been enormous advances in cyber technology, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence,” Kinzer said.
“Covert agencies may have access to tools for mind control that Sidney Gottlieb could not have imagined.”
O’Neill agreed.
The CIA invested too much time, money, and effort into MK-Ultra for the capabilities to simply be abandoned.
The technology was too valuable.
The program was too secretive.
And the agency destroyed too many records.
Congress Demands Accountability
The hearing exposed one of the darkest truths in American intelligence history.
The CIA ran illegal experiments on unwitting Americans.
It destroyed evidence.
It misled Congress.
It used cut-outs to hide its involvement.
And now whistleblowers are warning that the research may never have stopped.
For decades, the American people were told to dismiss MK-Ultra as a Cold War scandal that belonged to the past.
But the testimony before Luna’s task force suggests the real story may still be unfolding.
The old tools were LSD, hypnosis, electroshock, and sensory deprivation.
The new tools could be AI, brain interfaces, cyber technology, and directed energy.
The question before Congress is no longer just what the CIA did.
It is what the CIA may still be doing.
And after more than 50 years of secrecy, destruction of records, and zero accountability, the American people deserve the truth.
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