JOHN WAS VERY PLEASED WITH THE ATTACHED AND BELIEVES IT IS RIGHT ON

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86B00885R000100040094-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 22, 2007
• Sequence Number: 94
• Publication Date: September 12, 1983
• Content Type: MEMO

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STATEMENT ON MKULTRA
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? Because of reports that the Soviet Union may have
developed the capability to affect human behavior through the.
use of drugs, the Agency initiated a program of research in
this area called MKULTRA which continued from 1953 to 1964
Much of this research, which principally involved the use of
LSD, was conducted at well-known institutions under the control
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acid direction of resonrchers at, and to the s tandards -of 2 those
institutions. The research and its results were generally
unclassified and published in the normal manner by such
institutions. Other MKULTRA research was performed in a
questionable manner: research and tests were conducted on
individuals who were not witting that they were the subjects of
a research program and that they were being given a drug. This
unwitting testing generally took place in social situations
among friends and acquaintances of the researcher. When
questions were raised within the Agency about this progra n,,it
was discontinued and its nature and termination were reported
to our then Congressional overseers. Public attention was
later drawn to the program in'the 1975 Rockefeller Commission
Report and in the Church Committee hearings in 1977.
Safeguards were subsequently promulgated through Presidential
Executive orders and are strictly adhered to. The current
Presidential Executive Order, 12333, provides guidelines for
the effective conduct of U.S. intelligence activities and the
protection of constitutional rights. It requires that research
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which might be conducted involving humans be subject to Health,
Education and Welfare promulgated guidelines and that the
subjects' informed consent be documented in accordance with -
those guidelines',
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