Documents / FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency file gathers 11 documents on MKULTRA Subproject 115, dated from 1960 onward. It holds invoice checklists, funding authorizations, payment memoranda signed for the TSD/Research Branch, an expenditure accounting, and a research proposal. The subproject funded a one-year study of the interaction between the mentally disturbed and their environment, costing about $4,085. The stated Agency interest was insight into factors influencing human behavior, and the researchers were to remain unwitting of the sponsor. None of the material concerns UFOs.
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The first goal will be a thorough inventory and examination of literature concerning the research problem. The main sources will be selected from sociological and psychiatrical literature, but because of the interdisciplinary nature of this research, sociopsychiatric, sociopsychological, and psychoanalytical works will also be used. As far as we know, no previous research work has been carried out on premises essentially similar to those planned as the basis of our study. Therefore, it would be of great importance for the success of the whole research to enter this early stage as carefully as possible. Our opinion is that it is most essential to have a sound and cohesive theoretical frame of reference. For the time being, however, it is hardly rewarding to outline any final theoretical constructions; consequently, hypotheses, if any, can be but forth only in very general terms. We plan to center the main interest of the research on "... the interpersonal situations through which persons manifest mental health and mental disorder" (Sullivan). In order to do this it will be necessary to study the structure of the patient's social environment as, for instance, Hollingshead & Redlich, Myers & Roberts, Lidz & Lidz, etc. indicate. Before starting the work it would obviously be advantageous to try to give a theoretical definition to the interpersonal meaning of a mental disease. A mentally disturbed person may be considered as a kind of "protest phenomenon" that tends to evoke fear, aggression, and frustration in persons who come into contact with him (Blackman); on the other hand, it may be quite
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 31 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.