LETTER TO HONORABLE SENATOR ALAN CRANSTON(Sanitized)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R001100030038-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 14, 2005
• Sequence Number: 38
• Publication Date: March 13, 1978
• Content Type: LETTER

THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
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Honorable Alan Cranston
United States Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510
Dear Senator Cranston:
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Thank-you for your note of Jr ti,
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letter from your constituent who expresses
his concerns for the human 3 who c~x.pxnwitting
participants involved in CIA Project MKULTPA.
The recently discovered files of Project MKU'L.TRA. do
contain evidence that research involving human testing was
conducted in the fields of behavior control using techn5ques
involving hypnosis, drugs, etc. Our records indicate such
testing on unwitting subjects ceased in 1964. Unfortunately,
Project MKULTRA files do not contain the navies of )persons
who may have been used as subjects.
The Director of Central. Intelligence has assured the
Congress that the CIA will attempt to identify those persons
who were the subjects of unwitting testing conducted under
Project .MKULTRA. To this end, the institutions where Project
MKULTRA testing. took place have been notified. of their
involvement with the project. The Director has offered
these institutions his full cooperatiorn, in helping them identify
the persons who were test subjects.
In addition, this Agency requested the assistance of
the Department of Justice-in determining the existennce,
nature, and extent of any responsibility on the part of
the government toward persons who may have been the unwitting
subjects of CIA-sponsored, drug testing as part of Project
MKULTRA.
Please be assured this Agency is making every a tempt
to rectify this situation.
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Thank you for your interest i n this matter.
you requested, we are returning the enclosure.
.r cerely,
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Acting Le
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