MKUltra Subproject 22

MKULTRA Subproject 22 funded research into the active chemical principals of certain plants of interest to the CIA. The surviving paperwork shows the project was initiated on 28 January 1954 and was listed as continuing. A status note describes work on the Rivea corymbosa preparation, separation of the active constituents of Amanita muscaria, and a start on separating Rhynchosia phaseoloides. These are psychoactive botanicals.

The file is mostly grant accounting. The work was paid as an annual research grant through an outside research office, with the researcher and institution names redacted. One memo lists current year funds of $11,567.00.

Two schedules of grant payments survive. The 1959 to 1960 schedule lists four quarterly payments of $2,891.75 for a total grant of $11,567.00. The 1961 to 1962 schedule lists quarterly payments near $3,852 for a total grant of $15,410.00. A final financial accounting dated April 17, 1964 for the grant period November 1, 1962 to July 15, 1963 breaks $7,705.00 into professional services ($4,500), travel ($1,115), living expenses ($1,950), and a laboratory fee ($140), leaving a zero balance. A 1963 letter from an Office of Research Administration confirms a $2,575.00 quarterly payment was received. Sidney Gottlieb appears as a signer on the advance accounting form.