KENNEDY COMMITTEE INTEREST IN IG SURVEYS OF OTS

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00146169
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 17, 2024
• Document Release Date: January 15, 1983
• Publication Date: October 31, 1975

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3 I OCT 1975
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
FROM Inspector General,
SUBJECT Kennedy Committee Interest in IC Surveys of OTS
1. This memorandum is for your information.
2. OLC recently asked us to review the IC surveys of�OTS for
information of possible interest to the Kennedy Committee. Of.the �
three such surveys (1957, 1963, and 1971), only the 1957 report
had not been reviewed previously. Our review of the 1957 report
revealed several references to the drug related aspects of Project
MKULTRA. Copies of a number of pages from that report have been
sanitized and coordinated with pr. Stevens for passage to OLC and, we
presume, eventually for the Kennedy Committee. They contain the
following matters of interest.
3. The organization, functions, and methods of operation of
Chemical Division (CD), TSS are described. MKULTRA appears as a
funding procedure for sensitive R&D programs including expenditures
in the field of influencing human behavior. A section on influencing
human behavior includes a general description of CD's interest and
objectives, mentioning improved interrogation techniques through the
use of psychochemicals and the development of defensive measures against
hostile interrogation. .
4. In discussing the problem of arranging for tests and experimentation
in the behavioral program, the following statement is made:
"Some of the activities are considered to be professienally
unethical and in some instances border on the illegal.
� These difficulties have not been entirely surmounted but
good progress is being made. Another problem is raised-by
the lack of professional knowledge of lysergic acid, (LAO
basic substance with which CD is concerned. Very little--
research has been done by the medical profession and CD
is breaking new ground in its efforts to develop this
material for operational use."
5. The report notes that preliminary tests are conducted on
animals, and the best results in human experimentation have been
obtained from mental institutions under controlled conditions. It
goes on to comment on "security" hazards surrounding some aspects
of the human behavior program as follows:
"Precautions must be taken not only to protect operations
from exposure to enemy forces but also to conceal these
activities from the American public in general. The
knowledge that the Agency is engaging in unethical and
illicit activities would have serious repercussions in
political and diplomatic circles .and would be detrimental
to the accomplishment of its mission."
6. Apart from the general descriptions and statements outlined
above, the 1957 report does not go into detail on the subject of
human experimentation. It makes no recommendations on discontinuing
such activities. Its recommendations on the subject of human behavior
involve
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Donald F. Chamberiain
� Inspector General
cc: OLC
DDS&T
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