Project MKULTRA, The CIA's Program of Research in Behavioral Modification: Joint Hearing Before the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research of the Committee on Human Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-fifth Congress, First Session, August 3, 1977

First edition, first printing. [iv], 171 pp. Bound in publisher's green wraps. A few minor scuffs and miniscule tear at head, else Fine. An unusually neat, presentable copy. An extremely uncommon document of a 1977 U.S. Senate investigation into Central Intelligence Agency mind control and behavioral modification programs, released in the wake of Watergate and the revelations of The Church Committee in 1975-- wherein, specifically, the existence of MKULTRA was mentioned in public for the first time. CIA attempts to create hypnosis- or drug-altered couriers were mentioned, as were very vague outlines of how U.S. government-directed political assassinations in the Cold War might have worked. The wild tidbits of information the Senate turned up, while generally ignored by esteemed historians and journalists for decades afterwards, would influence popular culture immensely, deeply problematizing what had been the reserve of James Bond and feelgood patriotism.