From Q’s Gov. linked file on MK Ultra:
MK Ultra: 1953-1964
1940’s – Operation Chatter – Scopolamine
1950’s – Operation Artichoke – Sodium Pentothal
1960’s – Operation Derby Hat & Third Chance – LSD
The LSD trials used on unwitting subjects used sloppy management and hid the cost from the auditors.
The 1977 hearings came about where some newly discovered documents were found after a previous Church investigation (1975) were told that all the MK Ultra docs had been destroyed in 1973. While the new docs did show 149 subprojects were funded using 44 universities, 12 hospitals and 14 other pharmaceutical, state and governmental institutions and 3 penal institutions, the new docs were mainly financing and audit forms that did not disclose the nature or outcomes of the different projects.
Essentially, Admiral Turner said:
1) All detail documents of the outcomes of the projects were destroyed.
2) No one can now remember what the outcomes of the projects.
3) They were only a few minor experiments that didn’t lead anywhere
4) Some funding was given through intermediaries, but was minimal.
5) Except for the LSD projects, all projects used subjects that were aware of what they were doing with the drugs
6) There had been ‘projects with more serious violations’ but that Turner had no knowledge that they had gone anywhere and assumed they were closed done.
7) A dart gun to administer the drugs to dogs had been developed, but didn’t work on humans….
8) The CIA had only done the experiments because they were afraid the enemy might use similar techniques on our prisoners and needed to prepare our actors for such an event.
Conclusion: MK Ultra was a poorly run failure that ended in 1965.