Project MKOFTEN was a covert
U.S. Department of Defense
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program developed in conjunction with the
Central Intelligence Agency
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(CIA) sometime in the late 1960s. A partner or descendant program of
MKSEARCH
Project MKUltra (or MK-Ultra) was an illegal human experimentation program designed and undertaken by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), intended to develop procedures and identify drugs that could be used in interrogations to weak ...
, the goal of MKOFTEN was to "test the behavioral and toxicological effects of certain drugs on animals and humans".
Testing of these drugs was done on animals, prisoners at
Holmesburg Prison
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in
Philadelphia
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, and military personnel at
Edgewood Arsenal
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.
See also
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Stargate Project
Stargate Project was a secret U.S. Army unit established in 1978 at Fort Meade, Maryland, by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and SRI International (a California contractor) to investigate the potential for psychic phenomena in military and ...
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Project ARTICHOKE
Project ARTICHOKE (also referred to as Operation ARTICHOKE) was a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) project that researched interrogation methods.
Preceded by Project BLUEBIRD, ARTICHOKE officially arose on August 20, 1951 and was operated by the ...
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Project MKULTRA
Project MKUltra (or MK-Ultra) was an illegal human experimentation program designed and undertaken by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), intended to develop procedures and identify drugs that could be used in interrogations to weak ...
References
Central Intelligence Agency operations
American medical research
MKOFTEN
Project MKOFTEN was a covert U.S. Department of Defense program developed in conjunction with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) sometime in the late 1960s. A partner or descendant program of MKSEARCH, the goal of MKOFTEN was to "test the beha ...
Mkoften
Project MKOFTEN was a covert U.S. Department of Defense program developed in conjunction with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) sometime in the late 1960s. A partner or descendant program of MKSEARCH, the goal of MKOFTEN was to "test the beha ...
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