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MKULTRA: THE PROGRAM THEY SWORE THEY ENDED

You want to know why the CIA is fighting so hard to keep those MKUltra files buried? Because what MKUltra actually was is something no government agency ever wants the public to fully comprehend in all of its documented, operational detail.

MKUltra wasn't a rogue experiment conducted by a few bad actors in a basement. It was a formally authorized, multi-decade CIA program that used American citizens — soldiers, prisoners, psychiatric patients, ordinary civilians — as unwitting test subjects for experiments involving LSD, psychological torture, sensory deprivation, hypnosis, and behavioral manipulation. The goal was simple and terrifying: mind control.

The program, which operated under code names including Bluebird and Artichoke before becoming MKUltra in 1953, was designed to produce confessions, extract intelligence, and control human behavior. And it was conducted on Americans. Without consent. Without knowledge. Without mercy.

Congress investigated in the 1970s. The CIA claimed most records had been destroyed. Yet somehow, 40 boxes of JFK and MKUltra materials were sitting in ODNI awaiting declassification — until the CIA came and took them back.

The documents don't just represent history. If they still exist in the volume Erdman described, they could represent evidence the CIA told Congress it had already destroyed.

That's not a transparency problem. That's potential obstruction on a generational scale.

And Rep. Luna knows it. That's exactly why she has announced upcoming congressional hearings specifically on MKUltra — to force the CIA to account for what it did, who it did it to, and what records it has been hiding while claiming they no longer exist.

THE JFK CONNECTION: SIXTY YEARS AND STILL CLASSIFIED

The JFK assassination files have been a flashpoint of government transparency battles for over six decades. In March 2025, the National Archives released roughly 80,000 pages of declassified JFK records. In July of the same year, thousands more documents related to MLK were published. Progress — real progress — was being made.

And then 40 boxes went missing.

President Trump had promised the American people complete disclosure. And ODNI, under Gabbard's direction, was making it happen — until the CIA apparently decided that some secrets are too big to release, regardless of what the President orders.

Here is what makes that position untenable: the JFK assassination happened in 1963. The victims, the witnesses, the conspirators if any existed, the intelligence operatives who knew anything about that day — most are dead. The Cold War is over. The geopolitical landscape that might have once justified secrecy has been gone for thirty years.

If the CIA's objection to releasing these files is genuinely about national security, they have never made that case with any specificity to Congress or the American public. You cannot invoke "national security" as a permanent, no-questions-asked shield for documents that are over sixty years old without offering at least a framework of justification.

And if it's not about national security — if it's about institutional self-protection, reputation management, or covering up what the agency actually knew about November 22, 1963 — then the American people have been lied to, methodically and deliberately, for six decades.

Either scenario is unacceptable in a democracy.