John K. Vance; uncovered LSD project at CIA

Posted: Saturday, June 18th, 2005 4:16 pm

John K. Vance, 89, a member of the Central Intelligence Agency inspector general’s staff in the early 1960s who discovered that the agency was running a research project that included administering LSD and other drugs to unwitting human subjects, died May 27 of respiratory arrest.

Mr. Vance learned about MKULTRA in the spring of 1963 during a wide-ranging inspector general survey of the agency’s technical services division… Read full obituary