OPENING STATEMENT BY SENATOR DANIEL K. INOUYE ON INTELLIGENCE HEARINGS ON PROJECT MKULTRA

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• Publication Date: August 3, 1977
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OPENING STATEME F
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SENATOR DANIEL K. INOUYE, CHAIRMAN
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HEARINGS ON PROJECT MKULTRA I`- J
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1977
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is meeting today and is joi ed.
by the Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research chaired by Senator Edward
Kennedy of Massachusetts and Senator Richard Schweiker of Pennsylvania. Senator
Hathaway and. Senator Chafee are members of both Comm.ttees. We are to hear
testimony from the Director of Central Intelligence, Admiral Stansfield.. Turner,
and from other Agency witnesses on issues concerning new documents supplied to
the Committee in the last week an drug testing conducted. by the Central Inteliigenc~.
Agency. It should be made clear from the outset that in general, we are focusin
on events that happened over 12 or as long as 25 year ago. It should be
emphasized that the programs that are of greatest concern have stopped and that
we are reviewing these past events in order to better understand what statutes
and other guidelines might be necessary to prevent the recurrence of such a.buses
in the future. We also need to know and understand what is now being done by
the CIA in the field of behavioral research to be certain that no current abuses
are occurring.
I want to commend Admiral Turner for his full cooperation with this Coiini.ttee
and with the Subcommit-L'ee on Health in recognizing that this issue needed our
attention. The CIA has assisted our Conu-nittees and staffs in their investigative
efforts and in arriving at remedies which will serve the best interests of our
country.
The reappearance of reports of the abuses of the Drug Testing; Program and
reports of other previously unknown drug programs and projects for behr v .oral.
control underline the nucess:Lt:y for effective oversight procedures both in the
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been working very closely with President Carter, Vice President Monda.le, and
Admiral Turner and his associates in developing basic concepts for statutory
guidelines which will govern all activities of the intelligence agencies of the
United States. In fact, it is my expectation that the President will soon
announce his decisions on how he has decided the intelligence agencies of the
United States shall be organized. This Committee will be working closely with
the President and Admiral Turner in placing this new structure under the law and
to develop effective oversight procedures.
It is clear that effective oversight requires that information must be full
and forthcoming. Full and timely information is obviously necessary if the
Committee and the public is t9 be confident that any transgressions can be dealt
with quickly and forcefully.
one purpose of this hearing is to give the Committee and the public an under
standing of what new information has been discovered that acids to the knowledge
already available from previous Church or Kennedy inquiries, and to hear the
reasons idly these documents were not available to the Church and Kennedy Committees
It is also the purpose of this hearing to address the issues raised by any
additional illegal or improper activities that have emerged from the files and.
to develop remedies to prevent such improper activities from occurring again.
Finally, there is an obligation on the part of both this Committee and the
CIA to make every effort to help those individuals.or institutions that may
have been harmed by any of these improper or illegal activities. I am sure that
Admiral Turner will work with this Committee to see that this will be done.
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