Final Letter

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 05956999
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: March 9, 2023
• Document Release Date: December 14, 2021
• Case Number: F-2014-00973
• Publication Date: January 29, 2013

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Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
1 February 2013
Mr. Donald Vance
Reference: F-2013-00528
Dear Mr. Vance:
This is a final response to your undated Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request,
postmarked 26 December 2012, received in the office of the Information and Privacy Coordinator
on 3 January 2013, for a copy of any unclassified CIA documents pertaining to the following
Cryptonym, MKCHICKWIT. We have assigned your request the reference number above.
Please use this number when corresponding so that we can identify it easily.
With regard to behavioral research, the CIA had a program known as MKULTRA which
involved the sponsoring of nearly 150 behavioral research projects. We already conducted
exhaustive searches and reviews on the term "human behavior," including LSD testing, and located
and released over 20,000 pages of documents on the general subject of human behavior studies.
With regard to MKULTRA, we already conducted exhaustive searches and reviews on the
term "human behavior," including LSD testing, and located and released over 20,000 pages of
documents on the general subject of human behavior studies. Much of the MKULTRA material is
very limited in scope and consists primarily of financial records. These records concern funding
approvals for research projects described in general terms. You can identify the basic file for each
subproject on the enclosed Requester Report by their titles: "MKULTRA Subproject #"; the basic
files appear on the first six pages. The persons or institutions that actually conducted the research
retained the clinical records generated under Project MKULTRA. This collection includes
MKCHICKWIT.
In addition, the Requester Report includes previously released records we retrieved under
searches on BLUEBIRD/ARTICHOKE (project BLUEBIRD was renamed Project ARTICHOKE
in August 1951). This program had to do with interrogation, including by the use of hypnosis,
polygraph, and drugs.
The most concise and comprehensive document available on MKULTRA is a 172-page
transcript of the CIA testimony at a joint hearing in 1977 before the Select Committee on
Intelligence and the Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research of the Committee on Human
Resources of the United States Senate. This testimony includes all recallable aspects of the
Agency's involvement in research in behavior control during the 1950s and 1960s and is a far more
descriptive account of MKULTRA than the CIA documents themselves. This document is
identified as MORI ID # 163357 on page 54 of the MKULTRA listing.
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If you would like to order documents from the enclosed Requester Report, please clearly
mark those you want and return the marked pages to us. Document copies are ten cents per page
less the first 100 pages to which you are entitled free of charge. Because the page counts on the
listing are not always accurate, please do not send payment in advance. We will bill you at the
time we provide the documents you choose. At that time, we will ask you to make your check
payable to the Treasurer of the United States. I have enclosed a copy of our fee schedule for your
reference.
In addition, the documents listed on the enclosed Requester Report were compiled into a
three CD set. The images on the CDs are viewable with any standard software package that
supports TIF images. Because the "documents" on the discs are "image" files and not ASCII files,
they are relatively large and require current technology for best performance access. The CDROM
MKULTRA collection is available for $30, compared to the nearly $2,000 that we would charge to
print the contents on paper. CIA requires that requesters pay for the CDs in advance of shipment.
If you are interested in obtaining a copy of the CD set, please send me a check or money order for
U.S. $30, made payable to the Treasurer of the United States. Please cite reference number F-
2013-00528 to ensure proper credit to your account.
Sincerely,
Michele Meeks
Information and Privacy Coordinator
Enclosures
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IMS/IRRG/PIP 29 January 2013
Distribution:
Orig � Adse
1 � PIPD/F-2013-00528 GIF (MK ULTRA Letter)
Fina00528 Vance GIF
Enclosure: Released 86 pages Requester Report for MKULTRA
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