DIRECTORATE OF OPERATIONS REVIEW OF(Sanitized) BRANCH AND CERTAIN RETIRED RECORDS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R001900070028-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 10, 2004
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: May 23, 1978
• Content Type: MF

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23 May 1978
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MEMORANDUM FOR: General Counsel
Assistant General Counsel
SUBJECT : Directorate of Operations Review of
Certain Retired. Reco rids
Branch and
1. You asked that I give you my thoughts and recommendations on what
we need to do, if anything, , about certain "questionable" activities that have
surfaced in the course of the subject document review. Before doing that I
think it is necessary to understand some of the background on the what, how,
and why of the review.
2. Last summer, three events combined to cause and shape a document
review within the Directorate of Operations (DO), which has not yet been
completed. First, in early July 1977, the DCI was made aware of the discovery
of certain documents concerning MKULTRA and drug testing which were
previously thought to have been destroyed. You are aware of this and the
embarrassment and work that it has caused. Secondly, on 29 July 1977, the
Acting DDCI issued a directive in memorandum form entitled "Implementation
of Records Control Schedules. " The primary purpose of this directive was to
initiate a review and screening of records in the Agency Archives and Records
Center in order to identify permanent Agency records for retention (and other
nonpermanent records for disposition) in accordance with records control
schedules that had been submitted for approval of the Archivist of the United
States. Finally, on 19 August 1977, Bill Donnelly, Chief, Information Services STAT
Staff (now Information Management Staff), DO informed the DDO that an IG review
of the Branch had surfaced a quantity of records that had not previously
been rev;PU,P,a 1-?> rcc 7 L__
Mr. Donnelly stated: Q'LLCIILIVn
to various DO elements . Frequently, _"~""
employees in the Branches
today do not know what is in these files and ISS certainly doesn't
know. The point I wish to emphasize is that information pertaining
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