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 study discussed here does not alone offer a sufficient basis for this purpose, but complementary studies have been planned, the first of which would treat of all important norm speakers in the ones of the mentally ill in the country, such as members of the tenchors, etc., and b) in terms, the social welfare office and the social welfare board The difference between the situation in towns and in the country in such that it seems necessary to make use of such different criteria in selecting groups. ## 2. research procedures ## n) subjunto to obtain an great variety and depth of information no possible it is proposed to carry out the research from the patient-control group suspect so that it will cover 100 mental patients as well as the nearest relative, one of the parents, the closest neighbour, and a follow worker of each patient, 1.00. 300 persons in all. In this way the risk of superficiality of general attitude research will be avoided. The following principles will be observed in the selection of subjects: - 27% mentally disturbed person; 100 persons, in working age 25-40 years; 50 from 25 years, 50 women, who are married and under hospital care; 50 newly contracted illness, 30 chronic, all psychotics (clearly exogenic cases not included); - the nearest relative: husband or wife - ple of the parentg = in order of preference mother, father - the closest neighbour = the "next-door" neighbour the follow worker one with when the patient has worked before hospitalization. It in thought that such a plan will roveil as many sides of the problem as possible since the following expects will be represented: the patient himself described his expectation and the attitude of the community toward him the picture given by the husband or wife in a "close-up" of the present situation, while the parent given a "close-up" of the formative years,
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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.