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Luna announces MK Ultra hearing

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by Ashleigh Fields - 04/30/26 8:08 AM ET

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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) said Wednesday that the House Oversight Taskforce on the Declassification of Federal Secrets will hold a hearing next month into the controversial MK Ultra program.

“Hearing on May 13. MK Ultra. House Oversight Taskforce,” Luna, who chairs the task force, wrote in a post on social platform X.

Project MKUltra was a program headed by the CIA that began in 1953 and was halted in 1973 with intentions to study behavioral modification, according to University of Louisville records.

“The Central Intelligence Agency drugged American citizens without their knowledge or consent. It used university facilities and personnel without their knowledge. It funded leading researchers, often without their knowledge,” the late Sen. Daniel Ken Inouye (D-Hawaii) said in August 1977 during a joint meeting of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research.

“These institutes, these individuals, have a right to know who they are and how and when they were used,” the former senator said at the time. “As of today, the Agency itself refuses to declassify the names of those institutions and individuals, quite appropriately, I might say, with regard to the individuals under the Privacy Act.”

“It seems to me to be a fundamental responsibility to notify those individuals or institutions, rather. I think many of them were caught up in an unwitting manner to do research for the Agency,” he added.

The lawmakers at the time heard testimonies from former CIA Director Stansfield Turner and other CIA witnesses.

Luna has expressed an interest in resuming congressional hearings on the topic and cited a February article from The Daily Mail noting that a new report on the intelligence service studying mind control was added to the CIA reading room last year.

“Congressional ethics is a joke. They have so much dirt on members of Congress, and they do nothing,” the Florida lawmaker wrote in a post on X in February, referencing sexual assault allegations against some of her colleagues. “There is even a slush fund they use to pay people off with your tax dollars. This is part of why the system is so broken.”

“They’re sitting on reports, and if someone steps out of line, isn’t it ironic how they leak them, threaten to leak them, or time it for right after Election Day?” she added later. “As you can see, there is a serious problem up here, largely surrounding sexual misconduct.”

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