Anna Paulina Luna Announces May 13 Mk Ultra Hearing
Republican Representative Anna Paulina Luna announced a House Oversight Taskforce hearing on mk ultra for May 13. She wrote on X on Wednesday, "Hearing on May 13. MK Ultra. House Oversight Taskforce,".
The hearing brings back a CIA program established by Allen Dulles in 1953 and ended in 1963 after the agency was told to stop programs involving non-consenting volunteers. Luna serves as chairwoman of the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets and sits on the Oversight and Government Reform committee.
Luna's X Post
Luna's post gave the first public date for the hearing and tied it to the House Oversight Taskforce. The announcement places MKUltra back before lawmakers after new declassified records were published in 2024 by the National Security Archive and ProQuest.
MKUltra was a Cold War-era CIA mind control program that used behavior modification methods including electroshock therapy, hypnosis, polygraphs, radiation, and various drugs, toxins, and chemicals. Some test subjects volunteered, some were coerced, and some did not know they were part of a defense research program.
MKUltra Records
The program also left a paper trail that later narrowed. In 1973, the CIA director told workers to destroy records of the project, a step that followed the 1963 order to end programs involving non-consenting volunteers.
That history leaves the May 13 hearing with a narrow but concrete task: lawmakers are revisiting a program whose records were partly destroyed and partly recovered decades later. For readers tracking the issue, Luna's announcement sets the hearing date and shows where the matter now sits — in the House Oversight Taskforce.
