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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reasonable to assume that a mentally disturbed person is a "necessity" for his own interpersonal system, especially for the maintenance of its balance. Any assumptions of this kind must, however, be submitted to thorough scrutiny before using them as a basis for specific hypotheses or construction of research instruments. When describing and analyzing phenomena of this kind it seems suitable to make use of the concept of anomie introduced by Durkheim (illustrated on the personality level by items such as rigidity, frustration, withdrawal, etc. anomie might also be considered a phenomenon emerging from the interaction of personality and sociocultural variables). One might assume that the occurrence of anomie would be significantly more eminent in the patient than is a neighbor or fellow worker, for instance. But in order to be authorized to raise this hypothesis (or any connected with the problems to be taken into consideration) a thorough familiarity with relevant literature must have been established. After a sufficient number of hypotheses has been deduced on the basis of literature - the measuring instruments will be constructed. This in planned to be done in accordance with the lines sketched in passage 2.b.) in the initial research proposal. Naturally all variables and views indicated to be relevant by any competent sources will be carefully taken into consideration. The last stage in Phase I will be the checking of the sick-reports of the protest sample. The purpose of this procedure is to run a kind of psychiatric census ad modum Hollingshead & Redlich. An additional goal is to discover whether there is in the sick-reports any relevant sociological material to be extracted and, at the same time, to obtain information about stresses preceding the overt illness - to the extent possible.
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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.