> It was an expensive and extensive program, too big too hide.
Two of the three assertions in that sentence are not supportable. The Wiki article indicates it cost less than $100 mil in inflation-adjusted dollars; you could sink a program like that into the CIA black budget without a problem.
And if they hid the mass surveillance programs as long as they did, they can surely hide something like this.
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/national/13inmate_ProjectMKULTRA.pdf
Here’s a link to the 1977 Joint Hearings on CIA Research Behavioral Modification. -MKUltra
(Some redacted, very disturbing.)
You bet they can. They got by uninhibited for decades ‘75. They probably scaled it back and changed the players. Give it a new name and not so many campuses and operators.
Everything is fresh: new operators, new drugs, new techniques, new goals...
They’re quick to erase records after some of these massacres happen. Their ability to supplant false evidence -false trails has improved dramatically since 1963.