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Are They Still Operating Under Artichoke or Have They Started Calling It MK-Ultra?
In April of 1953, Alan Dolis gives that big speech at Princeton where he says that communist spies are about to play the American mind like a phonograph. A few days later, on April 13, 1953, he officially bundles up all of the research the US government is going doing into mind control and he called it MK-Ultra. Now, under the terms of the agreement that Gottlieb had made with Dolis, MK-Ultra is granted 6% of the entire CIA operating budget. The president of the United States does not know about this program in anything but the broadest terms.