LETTER (SANITIZED) FROM LARRY R. STRAWDERMAN

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
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• Sequence Number: 56
• Publication Date: April 10, 1984
• Content Type: LETTER

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10 APR 1984
This is to acknowledge your letter of 28 March 1984 which was
received on 2 April 1984 and your letter of 30 March 1984 which was
received on 3 April 1984.
Your letter of 28 March 1984 presented an appeal of denials made
in our 26 March 1984 response to your Freedom of Information Act request
for information on "...research or experimentation supported in whole or
part by the Central Intelligence Agency within hospitals and/or mental
health centers of the Illinois Department of Mental Health between the
years of 1945 and 1960." Accordingly, arrangements will be made for
consideration of our initial determination by the Information Review
Committee. This appeal has been assigned request n tuber F--~for
identification purposes.
The information requested, other than that included in your
initial request and subsequent appeal as outlined above, constitutes
a new request or requests under the Freedom of Information Act and will
be treated in separate correspondence.
In order to process appeals in the most equitable manner possible,
we have adopted the policy of treating the appeals on a first-received,
first-out basis. To date, we have a backlog of approximately 12S appeals.
Please be assured, however, that your appeal will be processed as quickly
as possible and that you will be advised of the outcome as soon as our
processing has been completed.
Sincerely,
/9V I"
A St'raw?le
Larry R. Strawderman
Information and Privacy Coordinator
IPD/ALB: I_ _ (6 April 1984)
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1 - IPD Appeal Acknowledgment
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OFFICE OF THE PUBLIC GUARDIAN
COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS
March 30, 1984
CIA Information Review Committee
c/o Mr. Larry R. Strawderman
Information and Privacy Coordinator
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
SUPPLEMENT TO APPEAL
Please consider the following a supplement to the
letter of appeal which was sent to you yesterday and a
copy of which is attached herein.
By virtue of the Freedom of Information Act, we are
seeking information from files of the Central Intelligence
Agency concerning all CIA supported research, experimentation
or by whatever name such intervention may have been called,
in institutions run by the Illinois Department of Mental
Health and Developmental Disabilities or the Department of
Public Health or by whatever name such mental health or
developmental disabilities may have been known, between the
years of 1945 and 1960.
1) Specifically we are asking for the names of all
institutions including mental health facilities, institutions
for the retarded, universities, university hospitals, in-
cluding but not limited to the University of Chicago, which
received CIA funding or support for research or experimental
projects using mental patients or retarded individuals
as the subject matters for research, experimentation or by
whatever name such investigation may have been known.
2) Particularly we are also seeking the names and
other identifying criteria of all individuals who may have
been involved in the research, investigation or experimentation
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described in the above two paragraphs and who resided
in Illinois institutions and who may have been the
subject matter of such CIA sponsored research as described
above.
3) Specifically, we are further seeking names of all
institutions and individuals and other identifying data
within the state of Illinois who were involved in any research,
experimentation, or investigation in the MKULTRA Project
between the years 1945 and 1960.
As Public Guardian of Cook County I am seeking this
information because of the fact that some of our present
wards may have been involved in such investigation, research
or experimentation in the 1950's. I am further seeking the
information because many individuals, at present incompetent,
may have causes of action which would entitle them to
estates because of such research, experimentation and/or
investigation. These individuals now reside in nursing homes,
half-way houses and mental health facilities and may have been
harmed by such research and have the possibility of lawsuits
against the institutions named and even against the federal
government. However, because of their incompetency they are
unable to understand that they have such lawsuits. Because of
the nature of their mental illness and/or retardation during
the time in which the experimentation, research or investigation
went on they were equally unable to determine the fact that
they had possible causes of action. Because of their incompetency
there is no legal limit to the time in which they may bring
suit.
As Public Guardian of Cook County, it is my responsibility
to protect the interests of incompetent individuals and
pursuant to that duty that I seek this information.
Hoping to hear from you very
I remain
this appeal
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OFFICE OF THE PUBLIC GUARDIAN
COOK COUNTY. ILLINOIS
March 28, 1984
CIA Information Review
c/o Mr. Larry R. Strawderman
Information and Privacy Coordinator
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
This letter is to inform you that I am appealing
the denial of my Freedom of Information Act request (dated
10 February, 1984) for information on research or ex-
perimentation supported in whole or in part by the Central
Intelligence Agency within hospitals and/or mental health
centers of the Illinois Department of Mental Health
between the years 1945 and 1960. This appeal is based
on the fact that as Public Guardian of Cook County, Illinois
I.am responsible for some 200 mentally ill adults in Illinois,
some of whom were hospitalized in Illinois Department of
Mental Health hospitals or mental health centers between
the years 1945 and 1960 and were T '-?'ieve the subject of
this research and experimentatlOLL. nz, their legal guardian, I
stand in their stead and am entitled to this information.
Please also be advised that I am expanding my request
under the Freedom of Information Act to include any information
on research or experimentation supported in whole or in part
by the Central Intelligence Agency within the University
of Chicago Hospital, Chicago, Illinois between the years
1945 and 1960.
Thank you for your cooperation in this matter.
Very truly yours,
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OFFICE OF THE PUBLIC GUARDIAN
COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS
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March 28, 1984
CIA Information Review
c/o Mr. Larry R. Strawderman
Information and Privacy Coordinator
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
This letter is to inform you that I am appealing
the denial of my Freedom of Information Act request (dated
10 February, 1984) for information on research or ex-
perimentation supported in whole or in part by the Central
Intelligence Agency within hospitals and/or mental health
centers of the Illinois Department of Mental Health
between the years 1945 and 1960. This appeal is based
on the fact that as Public Guardian of Cook County, Illinois
I am responsible for some 200 mentally ill adults in Illinois,
some of whom were hospitalized in Illinois Department of
Mental Health hospitals or mental health centers between
the years 1945 and 1960 and were, I believe, the subject of
this research and experimentation. As their legal guardian, I
stand in their stead and am entitled to this information.
Please also be advised that I am expanding my request
under the Freedom of Information Act to include any information
on research or experimentation supported in whole or in part
by the Central Intelligence Agency within the University
of Chicago Hospital, Chicago, Illinois between the years
1945 and 1960.
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2 6 MAR 1984
Tr?i - is a Lo) lc>.;-ui, to our letter of 10 Fc`.: uarv
car:cc.. r:lnc
your f'rec ur? of 1rftior *kct re:;ut.st for
i forin ation on "...research or cape: imerlL-%)tluri s ul:portc.J in
whole- or part ty t:te Central Intc-Ili-genec
nospitaI S an'3,or mental he a1 thh ce?ntei s of the= I1 1 inoi
Lcri.nrtne:n?t of l,tr.tal Health between ti-,e years of 1945 anti 19C:C."
'o tilt- extent that yuur request seeks reccrds that k?cu1-'.
rtvcal a covert cunne'tion betrcti, CIA and thc suoject of your
request, I must intor i. you trzat tit CIA can ncitiit r con.firli: nor
3(-?ny t~)o exl?tence or non-existence of OocuL.enta t:i:3t woulu
reveal a contldentiil or covert relationstlip, or interest in
uevelot,ing such a relationship, with any particular individual
organization, or ott:c~r entity. Record disclosing this< type of
inioruiation necessarily would be classified pursuant to
Lxecutiv&: Order 12350. Furtt er , the fact of the existence or
nonexistence of such records would relate di rectl.y to
information, concerning intelligence sources anti methods whic`i,
in accordance witn subsection 102(d)(3) of the 14ationai
Security Act of 1947 and Section > of the CI?. Act of 1949, the
Director of Central intelligence has the legal respo*isihllity
and obligation to protect from unauthorized disc)or-ure.
Therefore, to the extent your request mitliht concern recor,;a
containing such ir.formatior., it is denied pursuant to FCIF_
exemptions (t-)(1) ant: (h)(3); an explanation of t.nese
exervptions is enclossi. The denying official for any such
iniormation is r.r. Stanley Sporkin, General Counsel. PV this
action we are neither confirrinc nor denying that any such
information exists. You have the right to appeal this
deter ininat-ion by adurescing your appeal to the CIA Information
Review Committee, in my care; should you cinoose to do this,
please explain the basis of your appeal.
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Although we can neuiner cuni.irm nor deny the participation
of specific institutions in the project unless tney
have already peen acknowlec:geu official]y, we wish to
assure you that all institutions that participated in
research sponsored by this Agency in connection with the
M ULTPJ. project have been notified of CIA interest. In soiue
instances the institutions subsequently acknowledged their
participation publicly, but a significant number have requested
that their identities continue tc be protected. The records of
this Agency do not contain the names of the subject individuals
participatinq in tie research, in any event. These names must
cue sought from the institutions tnat conducted
trio research.
Sincerely,
/s/ Larry R. Strawderman
Larry F. Str awdoru n
Information anJ Privacy :~~or~;inator
IPD/KVR/em 28 Feb 84
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10 FEB 1964
Your letter of 31 January 1`i84 requesting documents under
the provisions of Freedom of Information Act has been received
in the office of the Informatior, and Privacy Coordinator. Our
analysts will review your request, an(. we will he in toucr wi ti)
you an, -'4 of an, problemm k?e nave a COuntcrt c , or whether
we can searcn for docurents without any ud;ition3l in oraiation.
Your reyue:t nas been assigned Reference
iuc_ntification purposes.
Sincerely,
/s/ Larry R. Strsw~ler
Larry R. 8trawderr-an
Information and Privacy Coordinator
IPD/em 8 February 1984
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COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS
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January 31, 1984
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Central Intelligence Agency
Division of Information and Privacy
Washington, D.C. 20505
Our office wishes to obtain, through the FREEDOM
OF INFORMATION ACT, copies of any and all documents, notes,
tapes or other notations which was gathered as a result
of research or experimentation supported in whole or part
by the Central Intelligence Agency within hospitals and/or
mental health centers of the Illinois Department of Mental
Health between the years of 1945 and 1960.
It is our understanding that the CIA did, in fact,
support research involving LSD at the Manteno State Hospital
in 1954 and 1955 (enclosed please find a Chicago Sun Times
article to state that effect). We are most interested in
determining the extent of the research and/or experimentation
supported by the Central Intelligence Agency in Illinois
hospitals because many of our wards were in these hospitals
at that time.
Please be advised that in case such documents are not
in the hands of the Central Intelligence Agency but in the
hands of researchers at universities or hospitals we would
like documents which could indicate in whose hands the re-
search documents now are.
If this information is not specific enough or if you
require more information, please contact me either by
telephone or in writing.
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January 31, 1984
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