The United States CIA used the site to test drugs including LSD on prisoners as part of Project BLUEBIRD, the predecessor to MKUltra.
Prior to World War II, what later became known as Auswertstelle West, was established in 1936 as an educational farm under the auspices of the University of Frankfurt.
[1] During World War II the land below the school was adapted to military use as Auswertstelle West, often erroneously called Dulag Luft.
On September 19, 1946, (General Order 264) named the intelligence center "Camp King", after Colonel Charles B.
[5] The book The History of Camp King lists[vague] the following people: Some civilians were held at the post, including German test pilot Hanna Reitsch and—at the request of the FBI, before her transfer to the United States and trial for treason—the German-American Mildred Elizabeth Sisk, one of the propagandists referred to as "Axis Sally".
In July 1946 General Reinhard Gehlen (former chief of the Wehrmacht Foreign Armies East military intelligence service on the eastern front during World War II) arrived on the post and established the Gehlen Organization which later went on to become the BND (Bundesnachrichtendienst, or "Federal Intelligence Service").
[5][7] CIA experiments using drugs to attempt to break prisoners' ego control and elicit information were conducted here as part of Project BLUEBIRD (predecessor to MKUltra) under Sidney Gottlieb.
[8][9] As part of Operation Paperclip, Nazi doctor Kurt Blome, who participated in chemical and biological warfare experiments on concentration camp inmates during the Holocaust, was brought to Camp King by Gottlieb to participate in the research after Blome was acquitted of war crimes charges at the Nuremberg Doctors' Trial due to the intervention of the United States.
[8][10] Walter Schreiber (a brigadier-general (Generalarzt) of the Wehrmacht Medical Service during World War II was also brought to Camp King.
In 1968 the United States Army Movements Control Center - Europe (USAMCAEUR) was assigned to Camp King.
Its mission, as stated in military records, was to operate integrated transportation service in support of US forces in Central Europe.