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REVIEW OF PROJECT FILE DATED 5 FEBRUARY 1975; AND REQUEST FROM AGENCY OFFICIAL, FOR INFORMATION ON PROJECT FILE DATED 3 FEBRUARY 1975 WITH ATTACHED NOTE DATED 10 FEBRUARY 1975
Document Type:
Collection:
Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST):
00146154
Release Decision:
RIPPUB
Original Classification:
U
Document Page Count:
4
Document Creation Date:
December 17, 2024
Document Release Date:
January 15, 1983
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Case Number:
Publication Date:
February 10, 1975
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Body:
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10 FEB 1975
NOTE: These 2 memos were seen by
WM on Friday, 7 Feb 75.
5 February 1975
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Review of Project File
1. At the request of DIMS I reviewed the
Project file which had been maintained and held by
DIMS. The request stems from an earlier require-
ment from senior Agency Official for information
on this Project:
2. The purpose of my review was to select for
reproduction documents from the file which would
be representative of the file and which would show
development aid direction of the Project. This I
have done and a group of documents have been re-
produced and assembled. These will be forwarded
to the Inspector General through a senior Agency -
Official. A copy of those items forwarded wil]
be maintained in a separate file by DIMS.
CL BY: 061378
Agency Physician
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31 December 1983
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3 February 1975
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Request from Agency Official, for Infor-
mation on Project File
1. On 28 January 1975 at the close of the regular
morning staff meeting, senior Agency Official kept the group to
brief them on Mr. Colby's meeting with the Rockefeller Commission
on 27 January 1975. At the conclusion of that briefing he
handed out a list of questions for information. As I under-
stood it these were questions that had come out of Mr. Colby's
meeting the previous day with the Commission. One of the
questions centered arbundthe Project. The responses _
were to be in by close of business 28 January 1975. On
returning to the office I gave the list of questions to,OAS
Officer and asked him to contact those people in the office he
needed to in order to compose a reply and instructed him
specifically to contact an Agency Physician,
on the Project or any similar projects. I told ONS Official
that I remembered participating in4VarimMP sometime
during my assignment iirlagetrib in a so-called
Project activity and I stated that to the best of my recollection
two Security officers and a Psychiatric Staff consultant visited
,eexman.y..for the purpose of using this technique on a foreign
national of interest to the Agency. I advised him that I had
no other knowledge of this Project. This report of mine was
included in the summary we prepared and forwarded to a senior Agencr
Officialon 28 January 1973. OMS Officer could find no doc-
umentation referring to anyone else in the office having
knowledge of the Project and it was so stated.
2. A couple of days later I received a call froma Senior
Agency Official who stated that an Agency Official,
had in some file somewhere found a memorandum referring
to the Project with a meeting being held with C/qacuri-,,
r./Medical Staff, and others attending said meetihg. t'advised
Senior Agency Official that we had checked all available records
and could find no documentation of any kind on the _
Project. I advised him that there was only one place
CL BY: 061378
31 December 1983
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SUBJECT: Request from Annk for Information on Project File
that had not been looked at and this was Dr. 41010gigair
private safe. Dr. iiINOMpo.was then on TDY imANOMME2 and
was not due to return to duty until 3 February 1975. Some
consideration was given to opening that safe by
. Dr. IIM9MMO-15..secretary, who had the combination
to it. However, that step was not undertaken and senior Agency
icial was aware of that and he expressed his willingness to wait
for D/MS to return to duty before pursuing this matter
further.
3. On 3 February 1975 on Dr. return to duty,
I briefed him on this matter and shortly thereafter he .
advised me that he had a file on the Project which had
been in his private safe. He stated that he had scanned it
but had not read it fully and he wanted me to see the file.
and know of its existence for two reasons. Firstly, that as
OMS Officer. I should know about it and secondly there is
material in it that confirmed my partici ation in one effort
by the so-called Project team in in 1954. I went
through the file and later told him that this is the first
time I was aware of the existence of the file and secondly
it was the first time that I was aware of arid had read a
report on this particular Projea' I participated in. He
asked me to go through the file again identifying those
Af documents which gave indication of the development and the
history of the Project. This I have done and have paper-
clipped 'those documents I thought to be pertinent. He then called
senior Agency Official in my presence and..advised him that he .
had found some data on the Project. Senior Agency .Official
invited him to his office immediately for further discussion.
OMS Officer
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