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Allen Dulles Signs Extension of Project MKUltra, 1953

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Yes — this memo is signed in Dulles's own hand, personally authorizing additional research budget for MKUltra's Technical Services Staff just months after the program began in April 1953.

The memo shows Subproject 18 as a new research effort added under the broader MKUltra framework, funded from the Technical Services Staff's FY1954 research budget.

Public-Interest Summary

A 30 November 1953 memorandum from CIA Director Allen W. Dulles to the Deputy Director for Administration, personally authorizing an additional research-budget allocation for MKUltra's Technical Services Staff — specifically funding a new Subproject 18 under the Project MKUltra framework established earlier that year. The one-page memo, signed in Dulles's own hand, shows the Director directly and personally extending the authority and budget for MKUltra research just months after the program's founding in April 1953, with all procedures and controls covering MKUltra left unchanged. It is one of relatively few surviving MKUltra records to carry Dulles's personal signature, underscoring how closely the CIA's top leadership was involved in authorizing the program from its earliest days.

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Allen W. Dulles Project MKUltra Technical Services Staff 30 November 1953

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https://archive.org/download/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp78-04913a000100030128-1/cia-rdp78-04913a000100030128-1.pdf

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