(Gray News) – Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna announced Wednesday that the House of Representatives would hold a hearing on MK Ultra in May.
“Hearing on May 13. MK Ultra. House Oversight Task Force,” she wrote in an X post.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., speaks outside the Chappaqua Performing Arts Center where former President Bill Clinton was testifying before U.S. House lawmakers as part of a congressional investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Friday, Feb. 27, 2026, in Chappaqua, N.Y.(AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)
MK Ultra was a CIA program from 1953 to 1973 that studied mind control and the alteration of human behavior.
People used as test subjects were given high doses of psychoactive drugs such as LSD without their consent.
They also underwent methods like electroshock, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, isolation, verbal and sexual abuse and other forms of torture.
Letters addressed to Janet Uhlar that she received through her correspondence with imprisoned Boston organized crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger, sit on her dining room table, Friday, Jan. 31, 2020, in Eastham, Mass. Before he died, though, Bulger engaged in extensive correspondence with Uhlar, writing her more than 70 letters, including several that detailed his unwitting role in the MK-ULTRA experiments. (AP Photo/David Goldman)(David Goldman | AP)
James “Whitey” Bulger, a notorious organized crime boss, was an unknowing test subject for the MK Ultra program. While at United States Penitentiary Atlanta, he was given high doses of LSD for 15 months, causing him to experience intense paranoia, hallucinations and nightmares.
MK Ultra has been considered a violation of individual rights and an example of the CIA’s abuse of power.
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