What is Project / Operation ARTICHOKE?

"Project ARTICHOKE (also referred to as Operation ARTICHOKE) was a CIA project that researched interrogation methods and arose from Project BLUEBIRD on August 20, 1951, run by the CIA's Office of Scientific Intelligence."
https://military.wikia.org/wiki/Project_ARTICHOKE

"Like many other projects that preceded it, Project ARTICHOKE aimed to research interrogation methods."
https://mentalitch.com/what-was-the-strange-and-unusual-cia-project-artichoke/

"Project ARTICHOKE was the Central Intelligence Agency's secret code name for carrying out in-house and overseas experiments using LSD, hypnosis, and total isolation as a form of physiological harassment for special interrogations on human subjects"
https://osa.3fprojects.org/operations/project-artichoke.html

"Project ARTICHOKE formally known as Project BLUEBIRD involved the CIA beginning to venture more into the area of mind control. To be more specific, ARTICHOKE involved “special” interrogations"
https://humanexperimentandethics.wordpress.com/2017/11/08/project-artichoke-bluebird/

"Project ARTICHOKE (also known as Operation ARTICHOKE) was run by the CIA’s Office of Scientific Intelligence . The project went deeper into interrogation methods studied in the CIA ‘ s Project BLUEBIRD. ARTICHOKE offensive mind control techniques experiments attempted to induce amnesia and highly suggestive states in its subjects."
https://sleepbutawhile.com/2011/03/01/inconvenient-truth-9-project-artichoke-the-manchurian-candidate/

"A memorandum by Richard Helms to CIA director Allen Welsh Dulles indicated Artichoke became Project MKULTRA on April 20, 1953."
https://mind-control.fandom.com/en/wiki/Project_ARTICHOKE

"1,373 pages of CIA files related to Project ARTICHOKE, the CIA's 1950's human behavior control experiment and research program. Some material in this collection was not released until April 2018."
https://downloads.paperlessarchives.com/p/vvuJ/