Brave New World: Welcome Aboard by Joseph D. Douglass, Jr. January 1, 2003 MK-Ultra was a CIA “mind control” project. Allen Dulles approved the project in April 1953, shortly after he had taken over the helm of CIA. Its mission was to counter similar efforts underway in the Soviet Union.A few weeks later, in an unusual move, Dulles talked to a gathering of Princeton alumni about “brain warfare,” the world of MK-Ultra. His talk was subsequently published in U.S. News & World Report.In his provocative talk, Dulles explained that the Russians were “now using brain-perversion techniques… so subtle and so...
