SECURITY RECORDS CONCERNING DRUG EXPERIMENTATION

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 1, 2001
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: November 30, 1978
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Administration
FROM: Robert W. Gambino
Director of Security
SUBJECT: Security Records Concerning
Drug Experimentation
REFERENCE: DDA 78-3761/5
1. The Security personnel most knowledgeable of this
matter, i.e., Messrs. have pooled
their knowledge of Office of Security records concerning drug
experimentation, that is the ARTICHOKE/BLUEBIRD records. They
conclude that the understanding appearing in the final para-
crarsh of the referenced memorandum can be supported
2. Specifically, the conclusion is that United States
citizens were not involved in ARTICHOKE/BLUEBIRD drug experi-
mentations
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3 OCT '978
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Finance
FROM: John F. Blake
Deputy Director for Administration
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SUBJECT: Records About Drug Experimentation
REFERENCE: Multiple adse from DDA,, dtd 16 Aug 78
Subject: MKULTRA - Program to Identify
Subjects of Agency-Sponsored. Drug Testing
CDDA 78-2930/2)
1. The Agency is committed, to identify, find and
notify persons who may still suffer adverse effects from
drugs that were administered to them without their know-
ledge as part of Agency sponsored drug testing programs.
People who have been involved in searches pertaining to
rojects (MKULTRA/MKSEARCH, BLUEBIRD/ARTICHOKE, and
HICKWIT) are confident that all records relating to
ti projects have been found. Nevertheless, a nagging
uncertainty lingers in some quarters that there may yet be
some unidentified project buried somewhere in the archives
that no one knows anything about. To begin with, we need
to be as certain as it is possible to be that all records
pertaining in anyway to any drug testing program sponsored
by the Agency have been surfaced.
2. During the past year or so, for one reason or
another, components of the Agency have conducted. exhaustive
searches through all of their records, in their.offices.as
well as at the Agency Archives and Records Center. In
order to avoid repeating research that has already been
done, we need to know what has been done and. how confident
we can be that all records pertaining to drug activity have
been found. Accordingly, you are requested. to submit to
the Deputy Director for Administration by 18 October 1978
a report describing the records search as it has been, or
is being, conducted in your office. We are particularly in-
terested, of course, in the attention given to drug related
activities and the degree of certainty you feel that if
there were any records pertaining to such activities, they
would have been found. It is requested specifically that
you include in your report a statement of the degree of
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confidence you feel that no records pertaining to drug
activities remain undisclosed. If you feel further search
is required to give comfortable assurance, your estimate
of the volume of records that will have to be reviewed and
the man hours that will be needed to complete such a
search should be included in your report.
/s/ John P. Blake
John F. Blake
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DDA 78-2930/2
16 August 1978
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Science and Technology
Inspector General
Director of Technical Service
Director of Security
Director of- Medical Services
FROM:' John F. Blake
Deputy Director for Administration
SUBJECT: MKULTRA - Program to-Identify Subjects of
Agency-Sponsored Drug Testing
REFERENCE: Memo dtd 24 Jul 78 to DCI via DDCI fr GC, same subj
1. Reference memorandum, a copy of which is attached for your
information, contained recommendations to the DCI by the General
Counsel on how to proceed on subject. The DCI has approved the recom-
mendations. The General Counsel and myself, having mutually reviewed
the almost infinite scope of this activity have agreed that the
organization and conduct of this undertaking will be under my cogni-
zance and, additionally, I will appoint a senior staff officer to be
responsible for the matter.
2. The purpose of this memorandum is to inform you that I have
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coordinator. i ld ask each addressee to notif
office by phone identifying their referent on this matter-
will then establish contact with that referent in order to acquain
himself with the file holdings and records that exist.
3. Our initial endeavors will be to try to size the scope of the
problem. After that has been accomplished, we will implement the
General Counsel's recommendation that a task force be created. It may
be necessary to ask you to post a full-time detail for an unspecified
period to the task force.
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Logistics
FROM: John F. Blake
Deputy Director for Administration
SUBJECT: Records About Drug Experimentation
REFERENCE: Multiple adse from DDA, dtd 16 Aug 78
Subject: MKULTRA - Program. to Identify
Subjects of Agency-Sponsored Drug Testing
(DDA 78-2930/2)
1. The Agency is committed to identify, find and
notify persons who may still suffer adverse effects from
drugs that were administered to them without their know-
ledge as part of Agency sponsored drug testing programs.
People who have been involved in searches pertaining to
projects (MKULTRA/MKSEARCH, BLUEBIRD/ARTICHOKE, and
CHICKWIT) are confident that all records relating to
ose projects have been found. Nevertheless, a nagging
uncertainty lingers in some quarters that there may yet be
some unidentified project buried somewhere in the archives
that no one knows anything about. To begin with, we need
to be as certain as it is possible to be that all records
pertaining in anyway to any drug testing program sponsored
by the Agency have been surfaced.
2. During the past year or so, for one reason or
another, components of the Agency have conducted exhaustive
searches through all of their records, in their offices as
well as at the Agency Archives and Records Center. In
order to avoid repeating research that has already been
done, we need to know what has been done and how confident
we can be that all records pertaining to-l.drug activity have
been found. Accordingly, you are requested to submit to
the Deputy Director for Administration by 18 October 1978
a report describing the records search as it has been, or
is being, conducted in your office. We are particularly in-
terested, of course, in the attention given to drug related
activities and the degree of certainty you feel that if
there were any records pertaining to such activities, they
would have been found. It is requested specifically that
you include in your report a statement of the degree of
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confidence you feel that no records pertaining to drug
activities remain undisclosed. If you feel further search
is required to give comfortable assurance, your estimate
of the volume of records that will have to be reviewed and
the man hours that will be needed to complete such a
search should be included in your report.
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DDA 78-2930/2
16 August 1978
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Science and Technology
Inspector General
Director of Technical Service
Director of Security
Director of Medical Services
FROM: John F. Blake
Deputy Director for Administration
SUBJECT: MKULTRA - Program to-Identify Subjects of
Agency-Sponsored Drug Testing
REFERENCE: Memo dtd 24 Jul 78 to DCI via DDCI fr GC, same subj
1. Reference memorandum, a copy of which is attached for your
information, contained recommendations to the DCI by the General
Counsel on how to proceed on subject. The DCI has approved the recom-
mendations. The General Counsel and myself, having mutually reviewed
the almost infinite scope of this activity have agreed that the
organization and conduct of this undertaking will be under my cogni-
zance and, additionally, I will appoint a senior staff officer to be
responsible for the matter.
2. r ose of this memorandum is to inform you that I have
25X1 A appoi me s the MKULTRA.locator program
coordinator. At this time I would ask each addressee to notify my
office by phone identifying their referent on this matter.
will then establish contact with that referent in order to aRF1 =
himself with the file holdings and records that exist.
3. Our initial endeavors will be to try to size the scope of the
problem. After that has been accomplished, we will implement the
General Counsel's recommendation that a task force be created. It may
be necessary to ask you to post a full-time detail for an unspecified
period to the task force.
John F. Blake
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Medical Services
FROM: John F. Blake
Deputy Director for Administration
SUBJECT: Records About Drug Experimentation
REFERENCE: Multiple adse from DDA, dtd 16 Aug 78
Subject: MKULTRA - Program to Identify
Subjects of Agency-Sponsored Drug Testing
(DDA 78-2930/2)
1. The Agency is committed to identify, find and
notify persons who may still suffer adverse effects from
drugs that were administered to them without their know-
ledge as part of Agency sponsored drug testing programs.
People who have been involved in searches pertaining to
known projects (MKULTRA/MKSEARCH, BLUEBIRD/ARTICHOKE, and
CHICKWIT) are confident that all records relating to
RMose projects have been found. Nevertheless, a nagging
uncertainty lingers in some quarters that there may yet be
some unidentified project buried somewhere in the archives
that no one knows anything about. To begin with, we need
to be as certain as it is possible to be that all records
pertaining in anyway to any drug testing program sponsored
by the Agency have been surfaced.
2. During the past year or so, for one reason or
another, components of the Agency have conducted exhaustive
searches through all of their records, in their offices as
well as at the Agency Archives and Records Center.. In
order to avoid repeating research that has already been
done, we need to know what has been done and how confident
we can be that all records pertaining to drug activity have
been found. Accordingly, you are requested to submit to
the Deputy Director for Administration by 18 October 1978
a report describing the records search as it has been, or
is being, conducted in your office. We are particularly
interested, of course, in the attention given to drug re-
lated activities and the degree of certainty you feel that
if there were any records pertaining to such activities
they would have been found. It is requested specifically
that you include in your report a statement of the degree of
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confidence you feel that no records pertaining to drug
activities remain undisclosed. If you feel further search
is required to give comfortable assurance, your estimate
of the volume of records that will have to be reviewed and
the man hours that will be needed to complete such a
search should be included in your report.
/s/ john F Blake
John F. Blake
Distribution:
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1 - DDA Subj
1 - DDA Chrono
1 - JFB Chrono
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DDA 78-2930/2
16. August 1978
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Science and Technology
Inspector General
Director of Technical Service
Director of Security
Director of Medical Services
FROM: John F. Blake
Deputy Director for Administration
SUBJECT: MKULTRA - Program to Identify Subjects of
Agency-Sponsored Drug Testing
REFERENCE: Memo dtd 24 Jul 78 to DCI via DDCI f r GC, same subj
1. Reference memorandum, a copy of which is attached for your
information, contained recommendations to the DCI by the General
Counsel on how to proceed on subject. The DCI has approved the recom-
mendations. The General Counsel and myself, having mutually reviewed
the almost infinite scope of this activity have agreed. that the
organization and conduct of this undertaking will be under my cogni-
zance and, additionally, I will appoint a senior staff officer to be
responsible for the matter.
2. Th ur ose of this memorandum is to inform you that I have
25X1A appointed as the MKULTRA locator program
coordinator. is time would ask each addressee to notif m
office by phone identifying their referent on this matter.
will then establish contact with that referent in order to acquaint
himself with the file holdings and records that exist.
3. Our initial endeavors will be to try to size the scope of the
problem. After that has been accomplished, we will implement the
General Counsel's recommendation that a task force be created. It may
be. necessary to ask you to post a full-time detail for an unspecified
period to the task force.
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3 OCT 1978
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Security
FROM: John F. Blake
Deputy Director for Administration
SUBJECT: Records About Drug Experimentation
REFERENCE: Multiple adse from DDA, dtd 16 Aug 78
Subject: MKULTRA - Program to Identify
Subjects of Agency-Sponsored Drug Testing
(DDA 782930/2)
1. The Agency is committed to identify, find and
notify persons who may still suffer adverse effects from
drugs that were administered to them without their know-
ledge) as part of Agency sponsored drug testing programs.
People who have been involved in searches pertaining to
rojects (MKULTRA/MKSEARCH, BLUEBIRD/ARTICHOKE, and
HICKWIT) are confident that all records relating to
ose projects have been found. Nevertheless, a nagging
uncertainty lingers in some quarters that there 1iay yet be
some unidentified project buried somewhere in the archives
that no one knows anything about. To begin with, we need
to be as certain as it is possible to be that all records
pertaining in anyway to any drug testing program sponsored
by the Agency have been surfaced.
2. During the past year or so, for one reason or
another, components of the Agency have conducted exhaustive
searches through all of their records, in their offices as
well as at the Agency Archives and Records Center. In
order to avoid repeating research that has already been
done, we need to know what has been done and how confident
we can be that all records pertaining to drug activity .
have been found. Accordingly, you are requested to submit
to the Deputy Director for Administration by 18 October
1978 a report describing the records search as it has been,
or is being, conducted in your office. We are particularly
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interested, of course, in the attention given to drug re-
lated activities and the degree of certainty you feel that
if there were any records pertaining to such activities,
they would have been found. It is requested specifically
that you include in your report a statement of the degree
of confidence you feel that no records pertaining to drug
activities remain undisclosed. If you feel further search
is required to give comfortable assurance, your estimate
of the volume of records that will have to be reviewed and
the man hours that will be needed to complete such a search
should be included in your report.
3. Exploratory discussions with representatives of
your Office have given the impression that they are as
confident as they can reasonably be, excepting only the in-
escapable possibility of human error, that all records re-
lating to BLUEBIRD/ARTICHOKE have been found. We under-
stand that United States citizens were not involved in
drug experimentation. The purpose of the program was to
find information about interrogation supplements, primarily
hypnosis, but drugs that were used were used on foreign na-
tionals - POWs and Defectors - and are not likely to have
produced long term aftereffects - still affecting the health
of the individual. If you will verify the accuracy of this
understanding, or correct it where it errs,.BLUEBIRD/ARTI-
CHOKE can be excluded from further consideration.
l e 3O-fin F. Blake
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DDA 78-2930/2
16 August 1978
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Science and Technology
Inspector General
Director of Technical Service
Director of Security
Director of Medical Services
FROM: John F. Blake
Deputy Director for Administration
SUBJECT: MKULTRA - Program to-Identify Subjects of
Agency-Sponsored Drug Testing
REFERENCE: Memo dtd 24 Jul 78 to DCI via DDCI fr GC, same subj
1. Reference memorandum, a copy of which is attached for your
information, contained recommendations to the DCI by the General
Counsel on how to proceed on subject. The DCI has approved the recom-
mendations. The General Counsel and myself, having mutually reviewed
the almost infinite scope of this activity have agreed that the
organization and conduct of this undertaking will be under my cogni-
zance and, additionally, I will appoint a senior staff officer to be
responsible for the matter.
2. The purpose of this memorandum is to inform you that I have
appointed M as the MKULTRA.locator program
coordinator. is time 1 would ask each addressee to notif
office by phone identifying their referent on this matter.
will then establish contact with that referent in order to acquaint
himself with the file holdings and records that exist.
3. Our initial endeavors will be to try to size the scope of the
problem. After that has been accomplished, we.will implement the
General Counsel's recommendation that a task force be created. It may
be necessary to ask you to post a full-time detail for an unspecified
period to the task force.
John F. Blake
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