MKUltra Subproject 92

Subproject 92 was a Teaching Machine Project that ran from at least 1959 to 1960. The surviving paperwork shows the CIA funded this research through a grant of $22,716.62 plus an additional $245.00, totaling approximately $22,961.62. The project involved designing and building teaching machines. Expenditures included principal investigator fees of $2,933.23, research assistants and programmers at $6,175.05, secretarial costs at $572.65, experimental subjects at $301.47, consultants at $501.54, machine design and engineering at $11,199.53, tape recording equipment at $605.16, travel at $1,015.85, and other operational costs. A memo dated April 9, 1959 describes a proposal to study teaching machines at an estimated cost of $10,000, with the researcher willing to develop the teaching machine but noting concerns about collaborative involvement. The final accounting shows total received of $22,716.62 with payments forwarded in June 1959 ($5,679.62), February 1960 ($5,000.00), and August 1960 ($5,000.00), leaving a balance of $7,037.00 as of the accounting date.