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created: 2026-05-15
updated: 2026-05-17
title: James Moore
aliases:
- James Moore
- James Moore
category: "Scientists & Researchers"
tags:
- Person
- Researcher
summary: "James Moore was a chemist who worked for the Central Intelligence Agency on MKULTRA Subproject 58, a classified effort to locate and mass-produce the hallucinogenic mushroom *teonanáctl* (God's flesh) for intelligence use."
- CIA
- MKULTRA
- Chemistry
- 1950s
summary: "James Moore was a CIA-employed chemist who ran MKULTRA Subproject 58, infiltrating East Coast mycology circles under the cover of a Geschickter Fund professor to locate and obtain psilocybin mushrooms, accompanying R. Gordon Wasson's 1956 Mexico expedition before Wasson's Life magazine article inadvertently publicized the hallucinogen."
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# James Moore
James Moore was a chemist who worked for the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] on [[Project MKUltra|MKULTRA Subproject 58]], a classified effort to locate and mass-produce the hallucinogenic mushroom *teonanáctl* (God's flesh) for intelligence use[^1].
Moore was assigned the task of infiltrating East Coast mycology groups, posing as a deep-pocketed professor backed by funding from the Geschickter Fund for Medical Research, a principal funding source for the CIA's brain warfare program. His cover story was that he was interested in natural-product chemistry and wanted to fund private mushroom-hunting expeditions[^1].