Full list of MKUltra Institutions
🧠 The Full MKUltra List: Universities, Companies, and Organizations Involved
Project MKUltra was one of the most disturbing secret programs in U.S. history. Initiated by the CIA in 1953, it aimed to explore methods of behavior modification, interrogation, mind control, and psychological warfare—often without the consent of its subjects. This guide compiles the most complete list of institutions and individuals known to be involved, based on declassified documents, the Illuminati Rex list of subprojects, and historical research.
🧾 Over 149 subprojects were documented, involving more than 80 known institutions—including top universities, hospitals, private companies, and military facilities.
🔍 What We Know
- 149 subprojects make up the known MKUltra research umbrella.
- 80+ institutions were identified during Senate investigations in the 1970s.
- Over 185 private researchers were confirmed.
- The CIA coordinated MKUltra.
- The FBI likely participated in surveillance, but its role is less documented.
- Many MKUltra records were destroyed in 1973.
🧑🔬 Notable Individuals Involved in MKUltra
🕴️ Key CIA Officials
- Allen Dulles: CIA Director who launched MKUltra in 1953.
- Sidney Gottlieb: Program head; oversaw LSD experiments and covert operations.
- Richard Helms: CIA Director who ordered file destruction in 1973.
🧪 Prominent Researchers
- Donald Ewen Cameron: McGill psychiatrist behind Subproject 68 (electroshock, sleep deprivation).
- Frank Olson: Biochemist dosed with LSD, later died under suspicious circumstances.
- George Hunter White: CIA agent who ran LSD operations in Operation Midnight Climax.
- Louis Jolyon West: Psychiatrist tied to LSD, interrogation, and mind control work.
- Harold Abramson: Psychiatrist and LSD researcher.
- Carl Pfeiffer: Pharmacologist involved in drug-based studies.
- Harris Isbell: Conducted prisoner drug experiments.
- Robert Hyde: Early LSD researcher.
- Max Rinkel: Worked with Hyde on initial LSD trials.
- Paul Hoch: Studied LSD and mescaline effects.
- John Gittinger: Developed CIA’s Personality Assessment System.
🧬 Additional Researchers (via Subprojects)
- William Cook: Subproject 22 – plant-based hallucinogen studies.
- Lloyd Gould: Subproject 57 – sleep studies at GWU.
- Wallace Chan: Subproject 71 – drug tests at Stanford.
- A.J. Wiener: Subproject 90 – cybernetics work at MIT.
- Raymond Prince: Subproject 121 – cultural psychiatry at McGill.
- David Saunders & William Thetford: Subproject 130 – personality theory at Columbia.
- Klare G. Toman: Subproject 137 – handwriting analysis.
Due to the destruction of files, this list is incomplete but represents the best-documented participants.
🏛️ Institutions and Subproject Associations
| Subproject | Institution / Location |
|---|---|
| 1 | Princeton University |
| 2 | Stanford University |
| 5 | University of Minnesota, University of Denver |
| 6 | Eli Lilly Company, Indianapolis, Indiana |
| 8 | Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research, MA |
| 9 | Emory University, University of Illinois |
| 20 | Pedlow Nease Chemical Company, PA |
| 22 | Montana State College |
| 23 | University of Richmond |
| 25 | University of Minnesota |
| 26 | University of Illinois |
| 28 | Emory University |
| 29 | University of Denver |
| 30 | Fort Detrick, Maryland |
| 31 | Pedlow Nease Chemical Company, PA |
| 35 | Georgetown Hospital |
| 39 | Ionia State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, MI |
| 41 | Pedlow Nease Chemical Company, PA |
| 42 | San Francisco |
| 43 | University of Oklahoma |
| 44 | University of Illinois, College of Medicine, Chicago |
| 45 | University of Richmond |
| 47 | Emory University, New Jersey Neuropsychiatric Institute, Atlanta Federal Penitentiary |
| 48 | Cornell University Medical School |
| 49 | University of Denver |
| 50 | Fort Detrick, Maryland |
| 51 | University of Delaware |
| 52 | University of Delaware |
| 56 | Stanford University or School of Medicine |
| 57 | George Washington University |
| 59 | University of Maryland |
| 60 | Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology, NYC |
| 61 | Cornell University Medical School, Ithaca, NY |
| 62 | National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD |
| 65 | Cornell University |
| 66 | Butler Hospital and Health Center |
| 67 | University of Indiana (Kinsey Institute) |
| 68 | Allan Memorial Institute of McGill University, Canada |
| 69 | Rutgers University |
| 70–72 | Stanford University |
| 73 | University of Kentucky, Lexington Narcotics Farm |
| 74 | University of Wisconsin |
| 77 | Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ |
| 79 | H.J. Rand Foundation, Cleveland, OH |
| 81 | Cornell University |
| 82 | University of Nijmegen, Netherlands |
| 84 | Harvard University |
| 85–86 | Stanford University School of Medicine |
| 87 | Johns Hopkins University |
| 88 | Princeton University |
| 90 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
| 92 | Harvard University |
| 93–94 | Bio-Research Inc., Panoramic Research Inc. |
| 95 | University of Illinois |
| 96 | Ohio State University |
| 97 | University of Wisconsin |
| 98 | Queen’s College |
| 99–100 | Pennsylvania State University |
| 101 | Ohio State University |
| 102 | University of Oklahoma |
| 103 | Children’s International Summer Villages, Inc. |
| 104 | University of Houston |
| 105 | University of Wisconsin |
| 107 | American Psychological Association (APA) |
| 111 | University of London, UK |
| 112 | University of Indiana |
| 114 | Butler Hospital and Health Center |
| 115 | University of Helsinki, Finland |
| 117 | Cornell University |
| 118 | Pennsylvania State University |
| 119 | Texas Christian University |
| 121 | McGill University, Canada |
| 123 | Columbia University |
| 124 | St. Francis Memorial Hospital, San Francisco |
| 125 | Veterans Administration Center, Martinsburg, WV |
| 126 | University of Florida, National Research Council |
| 129 | George Washington University, Leler University of Georgia (possible typo) |
| 130 | Columbia University |
| 138 | University of Texas at Austin |
| 139 | Pennsylvania State University |
| 140 | St. Francis Memorial Hospital, San Francisco |
| 143 | University of Houston |
⚠️ Missing or Redacted Entities
Due to the destruction of documents and redacted names, several institutions and participants remain unidentified.
🧾 Sources
- Illuminati Rex – List of 149 MKUltra Subprojects
- CIA FOIA Reading Room – MKUltra Collection
- The Black Vault – MKUltra Files
- John D. Marks – The Search for the Manchurian Candidate (Archive.org)
- MKULTRA Briefing Book (Archive.org)
- Smithsonian – CIA Mind-Control Project
- NPR – Poisoner In Chief
- History.com – MKUltra
- The Intercept – Louis Jolyon West and MKUltra
- Tumblr – MKUltra Subprojects by Christopher Sebela
- Reddit Thread – MKUltra Involved Institutions
🧠 Final Thoughts
This list represents only the institutions and individuals we know about. Many names remain redacted or were never recorded due to the destruction of files in 1973. For researchers and truth-seekers, it’s critical to preserve these records, demand declassification, and never forget the human cost of covert experimentation.
Truth isn’t classified — it’s buried. And we’re here to dig it out.