Explosive testimony before the House Oversight Committee’s Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets reveals decades of CIA crimes against unwitting Americans, evidence destruction, secret torture sites in Germany, and a continuing deep state effort to hide the truth from Congress and the American people.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) chaired a powerful hearing Tuesday titled “Mind Control and Accountability: Uncovering the Truth of the CIA’s MKULTRA Experiments,” dropping bombshell after bombshell on one of the darkest chapters in American intelligence history.
The CIA’s infamous MKULTRA program, which ran from 1953 to 1973, subjected countless unwitting victims, including American citizens, hospital patients, prisoners, and veterans, to LSD, psychological torture, electroshock, hypnosis, and sensory deprivation in a quest for mind control techniques.
In her opening remarks, Luna called the program “crimes committed by the Central Intelligence Agency against American citizens” and “crimes against humanity.”
“This was a deliberate, systematic governmental operation… authorized by the very top of U.S. intelligence apparatus,” Luna said.
She detailed how CIA Director Richard Helms personally ordered the destruction of MKULTRA records in 1973 as he left office. Sidney Gottlieb and his team spent an entire day burning 152 files.
Gottlieb then had his personal papers destroyed. The head of the CIA’s own records center protested in writing and was overruled.
“That is obstruction of justice. That is criminal destruction of federal records,” Luna stated. No one went to prison. No victims received formal compensation.
The CIA long claimed the program was a “failure,” but Luna and lawmakers argue Congress and the American people were intentionally misled for over 50 years.
Luna announced that the CIA is now working to declassify newly discovered documents tied to what she described as a previously unknown “forgery program.”
CIA whistleblower and former officer James Erdman III testified that approximately 40 boxes of sensitive records were removed from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) during declassification review efforts. This echoes his explosive May 2026 testimony before the Senate Homeland Security Committee, which The Gateway Pundit reported on at the time.
As we previously detailed, Erdman testified that the CIA “took back 40 boxes of JFK files and MKULTRA files being processed for declassification by DNI Tulsi Gabbard” in what he described as “documented efforts to circumvent oversight.”
Rep. Luna and House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) responded by firing off a preservation letter demanding all records be preserved and returned. Luna later confirmed on X that the MKULTRA documents were specifically requested by her Task Force for its investigation.
Luna clarified that the incident was “not a raid,” but the removal of records still raises serious questions about the CIA’s willingness to comply with lawful oversight and declassification directives.
Luna also revealed she is investigating disturbing new allegations of a CIA facility in Germany where MKULTRA victims were allegedly tortured.
She questioned witnesses about potential locations of remains and announced plans to reach out to the German government for assistance, including possible law enforcement involvement to locate and identify victims.
A witness at the hearing claimed to have identified what may have been a secret CIA prison or black site in Germany connected to these experiments. Luna called the entire program “criminal in nature” and “horrifying,”noting it went “unvetted, unchecked and that there was no accountability.”
Adding to the alarm, a former CIA officer testified during the hearing that “I don’t believe that the research stopped” on MKULTRA.
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One of the most disturbing revelations came from historical documents referenced during the hearing. A participant in the original program documented the ability to replace true memories with false ones without the subject’s knowledge.
The exact description: “It’s feasible to take the memory of a definite event in the life of an individual, and through hypnotic suggestion, bring about the subsequent conscious recall to the effect that this event never actually took place. But that a different fictional event actually did occur.”
If the U.S. government could do this in the 1950s, the question hanging over the room was obvious. What can they do now with AI, brain-computer interfaces, and directed energy tools?
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