Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) announced on Wednesday that the House will hold a hearing on a Cold War-era CIA program in May.
The Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets will hold a hearing on the controversial MKUltra program on May 13, Luna announced in a post to X.
MKUltra ran from around 1953 through 1973, during the Cold War years when U.S. intelligence was racing to compete with Soviet espionage. MKUltra was born out of the CIA’s Project Bluebird, and involved behavioral research projects, including ones that sought to develop mind control drugs or “truth serum.”
In the top-secret Project Artichoke, the CIA experimented with using drugs such as LSD, including on subjects without their knowledge. Sidney Gottlieb, who was head of the chemical division of the CIA’s technical services, oversaw much of MKUltra, often experimenting with unknowing subjects, including prisoners, mental patients, and prostitutes.
Luna has vowed to investigate the program after being appointed to lead the six-month Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets in February. The panel is probing a number of events, including the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, and the origins of COVID-19 and UFOs.
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In late February, Luna referenced concerns stemming from newly declassified CIA documents about the Artichoke program. At the time, she suggested a hearing would be coming soon.
“It is time to give Americans the answers they deserve, which is why I am honored to lead this bipartisan task force that seeks truth and transparency,” Luna said.