TERMINATION OF UNWITTING TESTING WITH BEHAVIORAL DRUGS

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00146160
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 17, 2024
• Document Release Date: January 15, 1983
• Publication Date: August 27, 1975

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27 August 1975
SUBJECT: Termination of Unwitting Testing With Behavioral
Drugs
1. With the destruction of the 1VLKULTRA files in early 1973,
it is believed that there are no definitive records in CIA that would
record the termination of the program lot; testing behavioral .drugs
on unwitting persons. . �
2. In a memorandum for the Deptity Director of Central
Intelligence dated 17 December 1963, Subject: Testing of Psycho-
chemicals and Related Materials, the Deputy Director for Plans
recomm.. ended the continuition of the unwitting testing pro-gram
with the Bureau of Narcotics. The Acting Director of Central-
Intelligence in his reply dated 24 December 1963 stated that after
discussion the Director recommended that tile- matter be considered
in depth after the first of the year and that in the meantime "please
continue the freeze on unwitting testing." �
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3. There is no record, to our knowledge, that this freeze
was ever lifted. In June 1964 the Acting Director of Central
Intelligence, in approving continuation of the general research '.
project; stated that "unwitting testing will be subject of a separate
�E*isting records, however, do not indicate whether a
decision'On t;nwitting testing was later made. The consensus 5s.
that the freeze was never liftt.:d.
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4. As the actual testing was conducted by personnel in. the
Bureau of Narcotics there may be some better record in its
successor organizations.