Timeline Monday 13 April 1953

Events on Monday 13 April 1953 2

• 1953 CIA Launches MKUltra Program Covert mind-control research begins The Central Intelligence Agency authorized Project MKUltra, a covert program researching behavioral modification and interrogation techniques, including the use of drugs such as LSD on unwitting subjects. The program ran for two decades before being curtailed and later exposed by congressional investigations in the 1970s. It remains one of the most notorious episodes in CIA history.
• 1953 Ian Fleming publishes Casino Royale Ian Fleming publishes his first James Bond novel, Casino Royale, introducing the world to Agent 007 of the British Secret Service. Fleming based Bond partly on himself and wartime intelligence colleagues. The book sells out its first print run of 4,750 copies within a month.