OSI COMMENTS REGARDING INFORMATION ON FOREIGN DRUG TESTING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79M00983A001500030012-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 14, 2006
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: August 17, 1977
• Content Type: MF

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17 August 977
MEMORANDUM FOR: Coordination and
Review Staff, Office of Legislative
Counsel
SUBJECT: OSI Comments Regarding Information on
Foreign Drug Testing
OSI maintains no files of up-to-date information on
the testing of drugs in foreign countries. Some years
ago we occasionally would review foreign research on
antibiotics and pharmaceuticals in connection with public
health and civil defense assessments. For a few years
beginning in 1949 we assessed foreign research on LSD
under Project Artichoke because of concern that such drugs
might be employed against Agency and other US personnel.
Information relative to this work has already been pro-
vided to relevant Committees. In this early work we also
occasionally looked at foreign human experimentation; we
long ago eliminated our holdings on this subject and no
collection requirements are any longer being served. As
consumer interest in this area has dropped off and higher
priority areas need attention, we have virtually no pre-
sent OSI coverage with the possible exception of an
occasional scanning of the literature for a specific pro-
i
gram. To the best of our knowledge no other unit n the
intelligence community is tracking this subject now.
KARL 11. WEBER
Director
Scientific Intelligence
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