RECORDS ABOUT DRUG EXPERIMENTATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82T00285R000100250003-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 28, 2002
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: October 31, 1978
• Content Type: MF

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OIA-97/78
31 October 1978
MEMORANDUM FOR: Executive Officer, NFAC
ATTENTION . Acting Records Management Officer
SUBJECT . Records About; Drug Experimentation
REFERENCE . Your Memo of 24 October 1978, Same Subject
The Office of Imagery Analysis has reviewed its records in the past
for information pertaining to known drug testing programs and found no
pertinent information. Moreover, during other reviews of OIA records in
response to FOIA and PA requests unrelated to drug testing, we have
found no records pertaining to any Agency drug testing program. Given
the number of file searches that we conducted and the nature of our
responsibilities, I believe that it is highly unlikely that any records
pertaining to Agency programs involving drug experimentation exist in
our files.
Noel E. Firth
Director
Imagery Analysis
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24 October 1978
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director, Office of Imagery Analysis
FROM
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e Officer
SUBJECT : Records About Drug Experimentation
REFERENCE : DDA memo dated 18 Oct 1978,
same subject
1. The referenced memorandum (attached) requests a report be
submitted to the Deputy Director for Administration that describes the
results of previous or current NFAC records searches and the degree of
confidence that these searches have identified records concerning drug
testing programs. Your Records Management Officer is most knowledgeable
of the current records review at the Agency Archives and Records Center
and your Division Chiefs together with the RMO should be knowledgeable
of the contents of the files at Headquarters.
2. Please prepare a memorandum over your signature for receipt by
the Acting UAL, Records N emerit Officer, Room 2F28, Headquarters,
by close uo lbusiness 7 October i97 )stating the progress of the records
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outlined in paragraph two of the referenced memorandum. Specifically
include a statement of the degree of confidence you feel that no records
pertaining to drug activities remain undisclosed,.
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Attachment:
As stated
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director, National Foreign Assessment Center
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 per-
sons who may still suffer adverse effects from drugs that were admin-
istered to them without their knowledge as part of Agency sponsored
drug testing programs. People who have been involved in searches per-
taining to known projects (~LKULTRA/MKSEARCH, BLUEBIRD/ARTICHOKE, and
OFTEN/CHICKWIT) are confident that all records relating to those pro-
jects 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 spon-
sored 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 al-
ready 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 1 November 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 confidence you feel that no records pertain- l
ing to drug activities remain undisclosed. If you feel further search
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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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the
Counsel on how to proceed on subject. The DCI hasbapp
rovednthelrecom-
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.
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 th DCI
DDA 78-2930/2
.MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Science and Technology
Inspector General
Director of Technical Service
Director of Security
Director of. Medical Services
FROM:
Deputy Director for Administration
SUBJECT: MKULTRA - Program to-Identify Subjects. of
Agency-Sponsored Drug Testing
2. The Purpose randum is to inform you that I have
appointed s the MKULTRA A-locator program
coordinator. this time I would ask each addressee to notif
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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 td the task force. I I- 25X1A
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