MKUltra Subproject 11

Subproject 11 was funded under Project MKULTRA. The surviving file shows it paid for a natural products screening program run by a researcher and institution whose names are redacted. The first grant was $5,000.00, set up in the fall of 1953.

A letter dated 13 October 1953 broke down the planned $5,000 spending: Labor $1,725, Material $285, and Overhead $2,990. The writer explained that overhead covered supervision, library and other interdepartmental services, analytical and assay work, physical measurements, and specially built apparatus. A 2 September 1953 memo, signed by Sidney Gottlieb as Chief of the Chemical Division, asked the Finance Division to pay Invoice No. 1 with a $5,000.00 cashier's check. A certificate and a memorandum receipt show Gottlieb received Treasurer's check No. 125017 for $5,000.00 around 16 September 1953.

Later records show the work continued. A letter dated 22 August 1955 billed $3,174 in accumulated charges on the natural products screening program (Labor $1,431, Supplies $358, Overhead $1,385). Two draft memos, dated 1 August 1954 and 1 August 1955, extended Subproject 11 for one year each because it had expired with funds still remaining. A 25 March 1955 letter set strict mail security rules: double envelopes, registered first class mail, no true names in correspondence, and use of a first name and last initial or an assigned nom de plume. An allotment record lists $11,000.00 obligated under allotment 3.3503240-001.