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The Central Intelligence Agency directs funding for "mind control" and other social science research through private foundations.

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"The [Central Intelligence Agency] CIA's intrusion into the foundation field in the 1960s can only be described as massive... CIA funding was involved in nearly half the grants the non-‘Big Three’ [Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie] foundations made during this period in the field of international activities" (Price, 2007).

According to a U.S. Senate report, directing funding in this way made it appear that there was support for Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) programming in the general public: "The Agency study contended that this technique was ‘particularly effective for democratically-run membership organizations, which need to assure their own unwitting members and collaborators, as well as their hostile critics, that they have genuine, respectable, private sources of income" (Price, 2007).