“Let me be clear what I believe that we are dealing with here,” said Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) in her opening statement at a hearing of the House Oversight Committee’s Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets on June 30, 2026.
“Administering drugs to people without their knowledge or consent, subjecting humans to psychological torture, and using prisoners and hospital patients as non-consenting research subjects — these are crimes against humanity.”
Luna was referring to the CIA’s mind control and human behavior modification programs that started in the late 1940s and ran for over 20 years. They are collectively often known by the CIA cryptonym MKULTRA. Formally launched in 1953, MKULTRA included dosing unwitting humans…
