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	In another lawsuit, Wayne Ritchie, a former United States Marshal, after hearing about the project's existence in 1990, alleged the CIA laced his food or drink with LSD at a 1957 Christmas party which resulted in his attempting to commit a robbery at a bar and his subsequent arrest. While the government admitted it was, at that time, drugging people without their consent, U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel found Ritchie could not prove he was one of the victims of MKUltra or that LSD caused his robbery attempt and dismissed the case in 2007.<ref>{{Web citation\|url=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/commons/5c/Ritchie.pdf \|title=Ritchie v. United States of America: United States District Court, Northern District of California No. C 00-3940 MHP. Findings of Fact and Conclusion of Law Re: Motion for Judgment on Partial Findings \|access-date=2008-10-16 }}</ref><ref>{{Web citation \|last1=Egelko \|first1=Bob \|title=Bid to sue over LSD rejected \|url=https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SAN-FRANCISCO-Bid-to-sue-over-LSD-rejected-2687007.php \|website=SFGate \|publisher=Hearst Communications \|access-date=28 September 2019 \|date=13 April 2005}}</ref>		In another lawsuit, Wayne Ritchie, a former United States Marshal, after hearing about the project's existence in 1990, alleged the CIA laced his food or drink with LSD at a 1957 Christmas party which resulted in his attempting to commit a robbery at a bar and his subsequent arrest. While the government admitted it was, at that time, drugging people without their consent, U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel found Ritchie could not prove he was one of the victims of MKUltra or that LSD caused his robbery attempt and dismissed the case in 2007.<ref>{{Web citation\|url=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/commons/5c/Ritchie.pdf \|title=Ritchie v. United States of America: United States District Court, Northern District of California No. C 00-3940 MHP. Findings of Fact and Conclusion of Law Re: Motion for Judgment on Partial Findings \|access-date=2008-10-16 }}</ref><ref>{{Web citation \|last1=Egelko \|first1=Bob \|title=Bid to sue over LSD rejected \|url=https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SAN-FRANCISCO-Bid-to-sue-over-LSD-rejected-2687007.php \|website=SFGate \|publisher=Hearst Communications \|access-date=28 September 2019 \|date=13 April 2005}}</ref>

			== See also ==

			* [[List of US human experiments]]

	==References==		==References==
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	*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090307031543/http://www.nemasys.com/rahome/library/programming/mkultra.shtml List of MKULTRA Unclassified Documents including subprojects]		*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090307031543/http://www.nemasys.com/rahome/library/programming/mkultra.shtml List of MKULTRA Unclassified Documents including subprojects]
	*[http://www.commissiononassisteddying.co.uk/mk-ultra-project/ MK Ultra Project]		*[http://www.commissiononassisteddying.co.uk/mk-ultra-project/ MK Ultra Project]
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	'''Project MKUltra''' (or '''MK-Ultra'''), also called the '''CIA mind control program''', is the code name given to a program of experiments on human subjects that were designed and undertaken by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, some of which were illegal.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/09/one-shocking-cia-programs-time-project-mkultra/\|title=One of the Most Shocking CIA Programs of All Time: Project MKUltra\|date=2013-09-23\|language=en-US\|access-date=2016-08-18}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.history.com/topics/us-government/history-of-mk-ultra\|title=MK-Ultra\|last=Editors\|first=History.com\|date=2018-08-21\|website=History.com\|publisher=A&E Television Networks\|access-date=2019-01-02\|quote=Though Project MK-Ultra lasted from 1953 until about 1973, details of the illicit program didn’t become public until 1975, during a congressional investigation into widespread illegal CIA activities within the U.S. and around the world.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book\|title=The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World\|last=Valentine\|first=Douglas\|publisher=Clarity Press\|date=2016\|isbn=978-0997287011\|quote=As Vietnam was winding down, the CIA was beset by Congressional investigations that revealed some of the criminal activities it was involved in, like MKULTRA.}}</ref> Experiments on humans were intended to identify and develop drugs and procedures to be used in interrogations in order to weaken the individual and force confessions through mind control. The project was organized through the Office of Scientific Intelligence of the CIA and coordinated with the United States Army Biological Warfare Laboratories.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/radiation/dir/mstreet/commeet/meet4/trnsct04.txt\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130713145805/http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/radiation/dir/mstreet/commeet/meet4/trnsct04.txt\|url-status=dead\|title=Advisory on Human Radiation Experiments, July 5, 1994, National Security Archives, retrieved January 16, 2014\|archive-date=July 13, 2013}}</ref> Other code names for drug-related experiments were Project Bluebird and Project Artichoke.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/search/site/artichoke\|title=FOIA \| CIA FOIA (foia.cia.gov)\|website=www.cia.gov}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/document/cia-rdp83-01042r000800010003-1\|title=PROJECT BLUEBIRD \| CIA FOIA (foia.cia.gov)\|website=www.cia.gov}}</ref>		'''Project MKUltra''' (or '''MK-Ultra'''), also called the '''CIA mind control program''', is the code name given to a program of experiments on human subjects that were designed and undertaken by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, some of which were illegal.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/09/one-shocking-cia-programs-time-project-mkultra/\|title=One of the Most Shocking CIA Programs of All Time: Project MKUltra\|date=2013-09-23\|language=en-US\|access-date=2016-08-18}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.history.com/topics/us-government/history-of-mk-ultra\|title=MK-Ultra\|last=Editors\|first=History.com\|date=2018-08-21\|website=History.com\|publisher=A&E Television Networks\|access-date=2019-01-02\|quote=Though Project MK-Ultra lasted from 1953 until about 1973, details of the illicit program didn’t become public until 1975, during a congressional investigation into widespread illegal CIA activities within the U.S. and around the world.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book\|title=The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World\|last=Valentine\|first=Douglas\|publisher=Clarity Press\|date=2016\|isbn=978-0997287011\|quote=As Vietnam was winding down, the CIA was beset by Congressional investigations that revealed some of the criminal activities it was involved in, like MKULTRA.}}</ref> Experiments on humans were intended to identify and develop drugs and procedures to be used in interrogations in order to weaken the individual and force confessions through mind control. The project was organized through the Office of Scientific Intelligence of the CIA and coordinated with the United States Army Biological Warfare Laboratories.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/radiation/dir/mstreet/commeet/meet4/trnsct04.txt\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130713145805/http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/radiation/dir/mstreet/commeet/meet4/trnsct04.txt\|url-status=dead\|title=Advisory on Human Radiation Experiments, July 5, 1994, National Security Archives, retrieved January 16, 2014\|archive-date=July 13, 2013}}</ref> Other code names for drug-related experiments were Project Bluebird and Project Artichoke.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/search/site/artichoke\|title=FOIA \| CIA FOIA (foia.cia.gov)\|website=www.cia.gov}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/document/cia-rdp83-01042r000800010003-1\|title=PROJECT BLUEBIRD \| CIA FOIA (foia.cia.gov)\|website=www.cia.gov}}</ref>

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