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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## b) Immediate objectives A montally disturbed person offers a particularly strong stimulus from the viewpoint of social observation: the undie- guised appearance of instinctive behavior traits usually arouses conscious or unconscious anxiety in the observer. The attitudes thus generated are highly emotional and, in principle, they can probably be described within a few independent dimensions. It may be preliminarily assumed that, for instance, the dimensions syzphathy - antiphthy and observing - manipulating will appear. A more accurate definition of the dimensions is planned on the basis of empirical preliminary inquiries. After the dimensions are accurately defined, it is intended to clarify the dependence of attitudes on different social factors It is impossible to formulate more explicit hypotheses at this stage, but it is proposed to consider at least the following factors: i) the degree of integration of the community; 2) the nature of disorganization within the community and the correlated cultural procedures; 3) rural-urban dichotomy; 4) migration; 5) social mobility; 6) social participation; 7) social restraint and control; 8) socio-economic status; 9) norms and their back-ground (religious, political and other ideologies). A study of "norm speakers" (influentials) will be linked to this one as a separate further study. It is also proposed to consider in this stage of research some variables measuring norm conflict and possibly some variables of the psychology of personality. An attempt would thus be made to clarify the correlations between attitudes and social factors and at the same time information might be obtained about the meaning of social structure from the point of view of the genesis and "maintenance" of mental diseases. ## c) Long-range objectives An important native of research has been the empirical assumption that there are many unresilient and negative attitudes toward mental disease, the significance of which may often be very fatal for the aggravated reoidivation. Therefore it is proposed that the typical "attitude-social structure" configurations have been mapped out to investigate the means of changing these attitudes.
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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.