MKULTRA/MKDELTA

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00146164
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 17, 2024
• Document Release Date: January 15, 1983
• Publication Date: September 15, 1975

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
.SUBJECT : MKULTRA/MKDELTA
Statement from IG Report of 26 July 1963.
1. MKULTRA encompasses the R&D phase of a program concerned
with "the research and development of chemical, biological, and
radiological materials capable of employment in clandestine operations
to control human behavior. The end products of such research are
subject to very strict controls including a request for the personal
approval of the DD/P for any operational use made of these end products.."-
2. MKULTRA is the R&D phase, MKDELTA denotes the DD/P system
for'control of the operational employment of such materials.
3. "It is firm doctrine in TSD that testing of materials under
accepted scientific procedures fails to disclose the full pattern of
reactions and attributions that may occur in operational situations.
TSD initiated a program for covert testing of materials on unwitting US
citizens in 1953."
4. "The final step in the research and development sequence is the
delivery of MKULTRA. materials and the-MKDELTA control system.
governing their employment in clandestine operations."
5. "As of 1960 no effective knockout pill, truth serum, aphrodisiac,.
or recruitment pill was known to exist. MKDELTA was described as
inherently a high-risk, low-yield field of operations.
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7. In a 1960 Gottlieb report (1G has no copy. of this),"he observed
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that the Clandestine Services had encouraged TSD on various occasions to
develop and maintain the operational capability in special drugs and
chemicals, but that TSD had received little or no guidance in directing
the work and that the Clandestine Services had up.to that time shown
little inclination to use the end products operationally. �
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8. Specific records are scarce, but below are listed summaries
� of actual uses:
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Donald F. Chamberlain
Inspector General