CIA Acknowledges FOIA Payment for MKULTRA Documents

The CIA has confirmed the receipt of a payment for documents related to the MKULTRA program, as part of a FOIA request.

Published: September 11, 2026
Declassified: Date not listed
Source agency: The Black Vault (FOIA archive)

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CIA Letter Confirms Payment for MKULTRA Records

The record Its subject is not MKULTRA itself but the mechanics of obtaining documents about it. 60, covering documents offered on October 24, 2018 in connection with a Freedom of Information Act request submitted on February 21, 2018. The enclosure is described as 233 documents consisting of 2316 pages, cited under Attachment A of the earlier October letter.

The CIA states that the account has been credited in full. That is the entire substance of the page. There is no description of program content, no list of experiments, no names of participants, and no narrative about MKULTRA's operations.

The correspondence is transactional: a fee is paid, a balance is cleared, and a batch of pages is transmitted. The letter also identifies an administrative channel for follow-up, noting that questions may be directed to the CIA's FOIA Public Liaison at the FOIA Hotline, 703-613-, and it is signed by Allison Fong,…

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