A congressional task force reopened the CIA's MK Ultra mind-control program, raising fresh questions about past abuses and whether similar experiments could be happening today.

• Rep. Anna Paulina Luna held the first hearing on MK Ultra in almost 50 years, with authors Stephen Kinzer and Tom O'Neill as expert witnesses.
• Both said the CIA lied to Congress in 1977 by calling the program a failure, and that key files were deliberately burned.
• They see likely ties between the program and figures like Charles Manson and Jack Ruby through CIA doctor Jolly West, though the destroyed records make proof impossible.
• The program recruited former Nazi scientists and ran experiments on people the CIA judged expendable, ignoring the Nuremberg rules set after WWII.
• Kinzer warned that new tools in AI and neuroscience mean a "21st century MK Ultra" could already be underway and should be investigated.

Outlook: Luna plans to push further, including seeking MK Ultra victims in Germany and pressing for release of remaining CIA documents.