SSCI RELEASE OF DECLASSIFIED TRANSCRIPTS OF SIDNEY GOTTLIEB TESTIMONY ON DRUG TESTING PROGRAMS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP00M01614R000100010001-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 26, 2009
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: August 24, 1995
• Content Type: MF

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25 YEAR
RE-REVIEW
OCA 95-2245
24 August 1995
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
VIA: Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
Executive Director
Director of Congressional Affairs
STAT
SUBJECT: SSCI Release of Declassified Transcripts
of Sidney Gottlieb Testimony on Drug
Testing Programs
1. Last week, the SSCI completed its review of the
declassified transcripts of Sidney Gottlieb's testimony
before the SSCI in 1975 on the MKULTRA project and other
behavioral control research programs. On Friday, 11 August,
the Committee approved the release of the transcript to the
Office of General Counsel for use in depositions in an
ongoing litigation, Kronisch. Executrix of the Estate of
Stanley Milton Glickman v. US. 83 Civ. 2458, S.D.N.Y.
(referred to as the Glickman case). On 14 August, the
Office of General Counsel received a copy of the
declassified transcripts. OGC immediately sent a copy to
plaintiff's counsel. _
2. The SSCI will also release this transcript to
death. That release will probably occur this week.
retained by the family of Frank Olson to investigate his
a forensic pathologist who has been
that will generate new interest in these matters.
3. Information on MKULTRp, and other behavioral control
research programs conducted in the 1950s and 1960s has been
declassified and released to the public under the Freedom of
Information Act. These programs, which included
experimentation with LSD, were also well documented in the
Church Committee report. Nevertheless, it is possible that
either the Olson family or the plaintiff in the Glickman
case may make public statements concerning these transcripts
STAT
STAT
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SUBJECT: SSCI Release of Declassified Transcripts of Sidney
Gottlieb Testimony on Drug Testing Programs
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(15 August 95) OCA 95-2245 STAT
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