Extent of participation 44 American colleges or universities, 15 research foundations or chemical or pharmaceutical companies and the like, 12 hospitals or clinics (in addition to those associated with universities, and 3 prisons are known to have participated in MKULTRA. Famous subjects Considerable evidence supports the contention that Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski participated in CIA-sponsored MK-ULTRA experiments conducted at Harvard University by Henry A. Murray, a professor in Social Relations, from the fall of 1959 through the spring of 1962. Kaczynski was a precocious, though impressionable, sixteen-year-old when he began his participation his assigned code name was "Lawful" He emerged, years later, as a terrorist and has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Merry Prankster" Ken Kesey, author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, volunteered for