See more Daily Mail on Google - save us as a Preferred SourceBy CHRIS MELORE, US DEPUTY SCIENCE EDITOR Published: 16:50 BST, 30 June 2026 | Updated: 17:12 BST, 30 June 2026
The CIA's Wild West era of mind control, bioweapons and secret human experiments may still be going on, bombshell testimony at a congressional hearing alleged. On Tuesday, the House Oversight Committee heard from two experts who have investigated the actions of the secretive government program known as MKUltra that was exposed to the American public in the 1970s.MKUltra was led by chemist and spymaster Sidney Gottlieb and allegedly included 149 projects from the 1950s to the 1970s.The program drugged Americans without their knowledge in an effort to develop procedures and chemicals that could be used during interrogations during the Cold War, weakening individuals and forcing confessions through brainwashing and torture.Stephen Kinzer, a senior fellow in International and Public Affairs at Brown University, and investigative journalist Tom O’Neill warned House members that the sinister CIA experiments could still be happening in secret decades later.Kinzer said: 'There have been enormous advances in cyber technology, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence. Covert agencies may have access to tools for mind control that Sidney Gottlieb could not have imagined.'O’Neill added: 'Is it happening today? Did it continue? I don't know. I can't imagine that it didn't, though, because the technology they worked to establish over 20-25 years and spent more money than any operation the CIA ever conducted was successful. I imagine it's being used, I have no evidence it's being used.'During the hearing, members of the House Oversight Committee openly questioned whether alleged MKUltra mind control experiments to turn ordinary citizens into assassins had been secretly continued and used to target political figures such as President Trump. Witnesses at a congressional hearing on the actions of MKUltra claimed that the infamous mind control program may still be in operation today (Stock Image) Stephen Kinzer (Left) and Tom O’Neill (Center) testified at a House Oversight hearing on MKUltra on June 30, 2026Congressman Tim Burchett of Tennessee asked both Kinzer and O'Neill if they suspected that failed presidential assassin Thomas Crooks could have been the pawn of a brainwashing program which now uses computer algorithms instead of mind-altering drugs.O'Neill declined to speculate about the Butler, Pennsylvania shooting and the murder of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk, but did state that the CIA 'developed means that we've never been told about many, many years ago, and I imagine they've evolved to be much more effective now.'Burchett has previously claimed without evidence that mind control programs using radio waves and computer programs were still in use today and were still transforming American citizens into potential killers.According to the congressman, Crooks was allegedly 'programmed' to act as a disposable patsy, sending a warning that Trump and his supporters were targets of the so-called 'deep state' - a near identical description as JFK's advisor Arthur Schlesinger in 1961.This is a breaking story. More details to follow. MKUltra was an infamous CIA program led by chemist Sidney Gottlieb (Pictured) to develop mind control techniques during the Cold War Government records prove the CIA was testing drugs and other techniques on American citizens during the 1950s and 60s to develop new interrogation processes such as mind control
