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<h1 class="text-4xl font-bold mb-6">Project ARTICHOKE</h1>
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The CIA's direct predecessor to MKUltra, focusing on interrogation techniques, truth serums, and behavior control from 1951 to 1956.
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<h2 class="text-2xl font-semibold mb-4 text-rose-400">Program Origins</h2>
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<h3 class="font-semibold">Project BLUEBIRD</h3>
<p class="text-sm text-slate-400">Predecessor program (1950-1951) focused on interrogation, hypnosis, and amnesia induction.</p>
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<h3 class="font-semibold">Korean War Influence</h3>
<p class="text-sm text-slate-400">Response to concerns about communist "brainwashing" techniques observed in POW camps.</p>
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<h3 class="font-semibold">Official Start</h3>
<p class="text-sm text-slate-400">Renamed ARTICHOKE in August 1951 under CIA's Office of Scientific Intelligence.</p>
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<h3 class="font-semibold">Direct Predecessor</h3>
<p class="text-sm text-slate-400">Immediate forerunner to MKUltra, sharing many personnel and research objectives.</p>
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<h2 class="text-2xl font-semibold mb-4 text-rose-400">Primary Objectives</h2>
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<h3 class="font-semibold">Truth Serum Development</h3>
<p class="text-sm text-slate-400">Testing drugs like scopolamine, mescaline, and LSD for interrogation purposes.</p>
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<h3 class="font-semibold">Amnesia Induction</h3>
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<h3 class="font-semibold">Hypnotic Programming</h3>
<p class="text-sm text-slate-400">Developing techniques to implant suggestions and control behavior through hypnosis.</p>
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<h3 class="font-semibold">Interrogation Resistance</h3>
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<h2 class="text-2xl font-semibold mb-4 text-rose-400">Key Experiments & Methods</h2>
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<h3 class="font-semibold text-lg">Drug Testing Programs</h3>
<p class="text-sm text-slate-400">Extensive testing of barbiturates, amphetamines, and psychedelics on both willing and unwitting subjects, including CIA employees, military personnel, and prisoners.</p>
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<h3 class="font-semibold text-lg">Hypnosis Research</h3>
<p class="text-sm text-slate-400">Experiments to determine if hypnosis could induce individuals to perform acts against their will, including attempts to create "hypnotic couriers" who would unknowingly transport materials.</p>
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<h3 class="font-semibold text-lg">Sensory Deprivation</h3>
<p class="text-sm text-slate-400">Early research into isolation techniques that would later be expanded under MKUltra, including water tanks and soundproof rooms.</p>
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<h3 class="font-semibold text-lg">Combined Techniques</h3>
<p class="text-sm text-slate-400">Testing combinations of drugs, hypnosis, and stress to break down resistance and extract information.</p>
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<h2 class="text-2xl font-semibold mb-4 text-rose-400">Notable Figures & Institutions</h2>
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<h3 class="font-semibold mb-2">Key Personnel</h3>
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<li>Morse Allen - Program director</li>
<li>Dr. Sidney Gottlieb - Chemical division</li>
<li>George White - Field operations</li>
<li>Various CIA technical services staff</li>
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<h3 class="font-semibold mb-2">Participating Institutions</h3>
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<li>CIA Technical Services Division</li>
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<li>Various university research departments</li>
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<h3 class="font-semibold">Program Expansion</h3>
<p class="text-sm text-slate-400">ARTICHOKE's limited scope led to the creation of the more comprehensive MKUltra program in 1953.</p>
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<h3 class="font-semibold">Broader Mandate</h3>
<p class="text-sm text-slate-400">MKUltra expanded beyond interrogation to include broader mind control and behavior modification research.</p>
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<h3 class="font-semibold">Increased Funding</h3>
<p class="text-sm text-slate-400">MKUltra received significantly more resources and operated on a much larger scale than ARTICHOKE.</p>
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<h3 class="font-semibold">Continuity of Research</h3>
<p class="text-sm text-slate-400">Many ARTICHOKE experiments and personnel continued under the MKUltra program.</p>
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<h2 class="text-2xl font-semibold mb-4 text-rose-400">Documentation & Legacy</h2>
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<h3 class="font-semibold mb-2">Historical Significance</h3>
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<li>Demonstrates evolution of CIA mind control efforts</li>
<li>Shows continuity from BLUEBIRD to ARTICHOKE to MKUltra</li>
<li>Provides context for MKUltra's more extreme experiments</li>
<li>Early example of government human experimentation ethics issues</li>
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