"The House Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets will hold a hearing on the CIA's MKULTRA experiments on Tuesday at 10 a.m. The hearing will examine the history and timeline of the CIA's MKULTRA project, which was a human experimentation program run during the Cold War from 1953 to 1973 to develop mind-control techniques to use during interrogations." Washington ExaminerWATCH LIVE: House to hold MKULTRA hearingThe CIA's MKULTRA project was a human experimentation program run during the Cold War to develop mind-control techniques to use during interrogations. Former CIA officer: 'I don't believe that the research stopped' on MKUltra A former CIA officer on Tuesday said that he does not believe that the agency's research on individuals through Project MKUltra ever stopped. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee's Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets received testimony during a hearing earlier in the day focused on MKUltra. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) has led the push to reveal more about the program, which started under former CIA Director Allen Dulles's orders in 1953. The program experimented on human subjects to study the impact of LSD and a "knockout drop" referred to as K, to manipulate a subject's actions, according to testimonies given during a 1977 Senate hearing. MKUltra was shut down out of fear of being exposed following the Watergate scandal. Tracy Walder, former CIA staff operations officer and NewsNation national security contributor, said "anything is possible" if the research survived the program. "Obviously, I wasn't privy to everything at the CIA. I worked in a specific area," Walder told Elizabeth Vargas during an appearance on "Elizabeth Vargas Reports" on NewsNation, The Hill's broadcast partner. "But at the same time, the CIA did continue to conduct ββ and it didn't work ββ experiments like this, actually using dogs to use them as, I guess, military soldiers, if you will," she added. Asked how the human experimentation program was kept quiet for so long, Walder pointed to the destruction of much of MKUltra's documentation as the reason, adding that the burning of these documents was "categorically wrong." Responding to Watergate, former CIA Director Richard Helms ordered the destruction of all records related to MKUltra, according to a research paper published by the Harvard Kennedy School's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. "You are absolutely not supposed to do that," she continued. "And that is where these conspiracy theories come from β¦ But I think some of this started coming to light because individuals want justice for what happened to them." The Hill has reached out to the CIA for comment. https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/intelligence/5949906-house-hearing-mkultra-testimony/