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Project Bluebird
The CIA's First Mind-Control Program Before MKULTRA Had a NameBy Steve Miller
Length1h 20m
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In April 1950, less than three years after the Nuremberg Code made consent the first rule of human experimentation, the CIA approved a Top Secret program code-named BLUEBIRD. Its tools: drugs, hypnosis and the polygraph. Its ambition: control of a person against his own will. Within months, a team in occupied Japan was injecting subjects, probably suspected double agents, with barbiturates and stimulants, chasing amnesia. Built on declassified CIA documents and official investigations, Project Bluebird reveals the forgotten program that became ARTICHOKE, then MKULTRA, and shows how Cold War fear turned an intelligence agency against the human mind.
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GenreHistory
Length1 hr 20 mins
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Publish dateOct 18, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2A Note on Sources
3CHAPTER 1 Before the Bluebird
4CHAPTER 2 A Mind-Control Gap
5CHAPTER 3 The Memo of April 5, 1950
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6CHAPTER 4 Tokyo, July 1950
7CHAPTER 5 The Men of the Office of Security
8CHAPTER 6 The Questions
9CHAPTER 7 Germany, Camp King and Villa Schuster
10CHAPTER 8 Brainwashing, Allies and a Hotel in Montreal
11CHAPTER 9 The Name Changes
12CHAPTER 10 Buried and Unburied
13CHAPTER 11 What BLUEBIRD Tells Us
14Timeline
15Key Figures
16Sources and Further Reading
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