ANALYSIS OF NEWLY DISCOVERED BLUEBIRD/ARTICHOKE DOCUMENTS (Sanitized)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-00261R000300050004-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 8, 2002
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: August 25, 1977
• Content Type: MF

Approved For Release 2003/03/10
2 AUG 1977
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence 01 s,a,Raq
VIA: Acting Deputy Director of
Central Intelligence
FROM: Michael J. Malanick
Acting Deputy Director for Administration
SUBJECT: Analysis of Newly D vered BLUEBIRD/
ARTICHOKE Documents
REFERENCE: Memorandum for Acting Director of Central
Intelligence, dated 17 August 1977, subject:
Newly Discovered Documents Pertaining to ...
Projects ARTICHOKE and BLUEBIRD
Action Requested: None; for your information
only.
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2. Back round: Reference memorandum contains
the results Ot an n t al review of subject documents. This
material has now received a more thorough review by a team
of Office of Security (OS) personnel assisted by a member of
the Office of Inspector General. The purpose of this review
was to organize and summarize this collection and to determine
if it contained any new information which had not previously
been reported to Congressional investigative and oversight
committees. A summary of the contents of this collection is
attached.
3. The reference memorandum reported that it
appeared a material contained in these 14 boxes generally
does not contain any major activities that were not previously
reported. This current review of the material comparing it
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teams to several countries was reported to the Senate. We
have now discovered one or two trips that we did not previously
know about, but they are not of special significance. We had
informed the Senate that hypnotic experiments were conducted
using volunteer Agency employees. Wo now have detailed infor-
mation on Q _ a p rjiAents including the names o e
em yel es involved. (NOTB: Included in this collection are
pho as-gn-C-A-mo an picture film of hypnotic experiments on
Agency employees. In view of privacy issues, this material
should be tightly controlled.) This collection also contains
detailed information concerning individuals in other Government
agencies and in the scientific and academic community who were
contacted to discuss techniques of BLUIBIRD/ARTICHOKE interest.
However, most of these contacts appear to have been on a
witting basis and unlike MKULTRA there was no significant'
funding of external projects.
S. hile this material does not contain any signifi-
cant research areas not previously known, the level of detail
does provide data which will interest Congressional investiga-
tors and could be exploited by the press. There are a few
items in these documents that may result in unfavorable
publicity:
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6. Included in this collection are two boxes of
files on is in other Government agencies and the
scientific community who were consulted on BLUEBIRD/ARTICHOKE
matters. Many of these people were later given research con-
tracts under the MKULTRA program. This caller.-mss Gr~~u,~
gva~ abi r~~ ~at;~dua3 5. When this task is completed
we will be prepared to address the problem of whether addi-
tional institutions will need to be informed of an unwitting
association with CIA.
Vichnol J. V .l~njn
Attachment
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