(LifeSiteNews) — A CIA whistleblower said during a Wednesday Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing that the agency had taken 40 boxes of files related to John F. Kennedy (JFK)’s assassination and Project MK-Ultra.
James Erdman III, during congressional testimony alleging “concerted” COVID-19 cover-up, said under oath that the CIA “took back 40 boxes of JFK files and MK-Ultra files being processed for declassification” from Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard.
Project MK-Ultra is a U.S. mind control experimentation program launched in 1953. Colonel Douglas Macgregor has pointed out that a congressional investigation in 1975 “led to revelations that at least 80 American universities, colleges, hospitals” engaged in MK-Ultra “subprojects involving … forced administration of mind-altering drugs, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, isolation, sexual abuse, and torture.” The project was allegedly discontinued in 1973, although some believe it is still ongoing.
In response to Erdman’s revelation, Representative Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) sent a letter on Wednesday to CIA Director John Ratcliffe requesting that he “preserve all existing and future records” related to the assassination of JFK and MK-Ultra, given the congressional testimony that the CIA seized these files.
Luna told Fox News that this seizure defied President Donald Trump’s executive order to declassify files pertaining to JFK’s assassination, and was also “very troubling” because of prior CIA allegations that all MK-Ultra documents were either released or destroyed.
A spokesperson for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) denied that a “raid” of Gabbard’s office had taken place, but did not specifically question the claim that files were taken.
Olivia Coleman, the press secretary for ODNI, in an X comment on a Fox News report about the claims, wrote, “This is false—the CIA did not raid the DNI’s office.”
Luna had clarified on X just prior to this post, “Also, this did not happen today and was not a ‘raid’ however it did take place and we are just being made aware of it based on reporting etc.”
She has given the CIA an ultimatum, writing on Wednesday afternoon, “The CIA has 24 hours to return the documents to Tulsi Gabbard’s office or else I will make a motion to issue a subpoena. These documents have been requested by Congress.”
The Florida congresswoman shared with podcaster Joe Rogan last year that Gabbard had recently uncovered classified State Department wires suggesting that the U.S. State Department had prior knowledge of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.
Luna also shared that she found MK-Ultra archive documents that tied the “initial phases of the MK-Ultra program to Operation Paperclip,” a secret post-World War II U.S. program that imported over 1,600 Germans, including many former Nazis, to work for the U.S. government.