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Project Bluebird

FILE DATE 1950

CROSS-REFS 01

STATUS NEVER CLOSED

SUMMARY

Where it started: interrogation, hypnosis, and the search for the off switch.

FULL DOSSIER

Project BLUEBIRD (1950), renamed ARTICHOKE (1951): the CIA's first formal mind-control programs, predating MKULTRA — 'special interrogation' research combining hypnosis, drugs, and isolation, tested on agency personnel and 'expendables.' Documented in declassified memos including the direct question of whether a man could be made to commit assassination unknowingly. BLUEBIRD is the paper trail's origin point: the moment the question 'can a mind be seized' entered a government filing system with a budget line.

SOURCES ON RECORD

01Project BLUEBIRD authorization memos (1950), CIA FOIA

02Marks, The Search for the 'Manchurian Candidate' (1979)

03Church Committee (1976)

CROSS-REFERENCED FILES

PROJECT ARTICHOKE

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