Project MKULTRA ran for 23 years, across 149 subprojects and 80 institutions, and in January 1973 the CIA ordered every record of it destroyed. A clerical accident spared 20,000 financial vouchers, and almost everything that can be documented about the program is documented from those. This is the whole story, built from the surviving paper. The entire series is free. No paywall, no tier, no sign-up. LIVE NOW The series trailer, and Chapter 1: The Program Family. The remaining chapters are being rebuilt and are added here as they land. Stranger Than Fiction separates what the declassified record documents from what remains claimed and uncorroborated, and says plainly which is which. Where the paper trail stops, these episodes stop too. THE CHAPTERS 1. The Origins of MKULTRA. BLUEBIRD, ARTICHOKE and the pre-MKULTRA interrogation cells. Allen Dulles and Sidney Gottlieb launch 149 subprojects. 2. The 1973 Purge. Richard Helms orders the destruction. What burned, what survived, and why. 3. The Cutout System. How the CIA ran research through 80 American universities, hospitals and prisons using front organisations including the Human Ecology Fund. 4. The 1977 Senate Hearing. Ted Kennedy, Stansfield Turner and the 20,000 vouchers that reopened the file. 5. Sidney Gottlieb and Frank Olson. The Deep Creek Lake dosing, Room 1018 of the Statler Hotel, and the 1975 White House apology. 6. Ewen Cameron and Subproject 68. Depatterning and psychic driving at the Allan Memorial Institute in Montreal, and Orlikow v. United States. 7. Operation Midnight Climax. George Hunter White and the CIA safehouses in San Francisco and New York. 8. Louis Jolyon West. The CIA-cleared psychiatrist who examined Jack Ruby in his jail cell. 9. Andrija Puharich. The Round Table Foundation, the 1952 Pentagon ESP briefing, and the route from chemical interrogation to parapsychology. 10. Project Stargate. Remote viewing, the Monroe Institute, SRI, and the institutional heirs that outlived MKULTRA by two decades. 11. Harris Isbell at the Lexington Narcotic Farm. Addicted prisoners paid in pharmaceutical heroin and morphine, and 77 consecutive days of LSD. 12. From MKULTRA to Havana Syndrome. Microwave research, directed energy, and the sixth domain of war. A complete one-hour cut of all twelve chapters follows the last of them. READ THE FULL INVESTIGATIONS AT STRANGER THAN FICTION MKULTRA Was One Program in a Family. Here Is the Whole Family. www.strangerthanfiction.org/2026/05/mkultra-progra… Sidney Gottlieb: The Architect Who Lived www.strangerthanfiction.org/2026/05/sidney-gottlie… Ewen Cameron Wrote the Code at Nuremberg. Then He Violated It in Montreal. www.strangerthanfiction.org/2026/05/ewen-cameron-m… George Hunter White's Brothels and the Killing of Frank Olson www.strangerthanfiction.org/2026/05/george-hunter-… Louis Jolyon West: The Credentialed Academic as Intelligence Asset www.strangerthanfiction.org/2026/05/louis-jolyon-w… Harris Isbell and the Seventy-Seven Days at Lexington www.strangerthanfiction.org/2026/05/harris-isbell-… Andrija Puharich: How MKULTRA Changed Addresses www.strangerthanfiction.org/2026/05/andrija-puhari… Congress Held Its First MKULTRA Hearing Since 1977. The Records Are Still Gone. www.strangerthanfiction.org/2026/07/mkultra-congre… The Church Committee Exposed Everything. Then America Moved On. www.strangerthanfiction.org/2026/05/the-church-com… Subscribe so the next chapter finds you. Site: strangerthanfiction.org