Richard Helms ordered the destruction of MKULTRA files in 1963.

Evidence

Helms didn’t want the public to know about the mind-melting work of MKULTRA, ever. Someone whose name is whited out wrote, in a CREST database document from January 17, 1975, “Over my stated objections the MKULTRA files were destroyed by order of the DCI (Mr. Helms) shortly before his departure from office.” — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 815

Categorization

• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 815
• XREF: connects to: Adorno judged Helms’s philology-based associative text more avant-garde than Beckett. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2245