MKUltra Subproject 61

MKUltra Subproject 61 funded research on the role of the human brain in adaptive behavior from 1956 through at least August 1961. The project studied how stress, sensory deprivation, and other factors caused behavioral changes through actual loss of cerebral tissue. A contractor identified as Dr. [redacted] received grant funding totaling $60,797.36. The surviving paperwork shows financial records including personnel salaries, experimental animal costs, chemicals, apparatus for EEG brain function studies, and special payments to experimental subjects for brain function studies. Budget documents from September 1960 through August 1961 itemize $13,959.00 in supplies and equipment, and $58,459.00 in salaries for staff including technicians, secretaries, and a part-time cleaner. The project was approved under authority granted April 13, 1953, from the Department of Defense to the Department of the Army. Invoice No. 6 in September 1960 represented the final fiscal year payment under CIA obligation.