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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000100150030-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 20, 2007
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: December 10, 1978
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Intelligence ,Agency .'and'.-respond to
some-of the important issues you, raise
in your letter.:to. -The?. Daily ? dated
? November-_14;.1978::
As you point out in your. etter, the
Senate Select;'--Committee on
-Intelligence:Actiyites=:chaired by
-Senator- Frank Chuiclifl??Idahol'
.reported?that?a'broad range of-factbrs-
-
:shaped: ;the :;CIA;' including-: the
has
course of'- i'nternational::events,
pressures`frorri~= other;. government
agencies--land its own internal norms..
This. ?:is - an ; obvious assessment : with-
whiclisiiiely -na one..couid differ::But-it
does- riot g-ta light the essence of
our basic difference that the ClA is out
of control { sF W
;,
To, understand thi& basic conclusion,
it is-helpful-tlook back~on*sone of,
these: factors .wliiclr haver over,`the
course of tlie:=~CI1'' 3yea ,history;.
shaped this government: agency which
has always been;_and..remains athreat
to the ideal of dembcracy:;
The" CIA- was. established:`. in: .1947,
under the National Security. Acts when.
the Cold War was building and many in
this country perceived World Warr II as
as-very- real possibility.' United-States-
policy makers. ;, needed,-: accurate...
intelligence on and :objeativeaiialysis
of events outside?'of the country:: 'The
CIA-. was.' created.;"to provide:1ahat
service_; _
According to ;he Senate Select..
Committee's. final report `There is,no?,
substantial evidence= Shat;Congress
intended -by., passage'o - the::-National
Security Acto#1947 to authorize covert
action by the CIA'- or; tliat-=.Congress
:even anticipated&that_ theeCIA would
engage in such activities.
Again, according;to,WCo=nnutiee's.!
ort'-=~'the~director` rof~=~central~
re
STAT
STAT
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
10 December 1978
E WOULD LIKE -.TO,.; TAKE
.this. opportunity to clarify our
position on the 'activities of the Central
p
intelligent Happiove a~keevert
action projects; on=_his- ow 'authority
between 1949 and_1952-r From that'.point"
to the - mid-I950s ~ there :was only
minimal restrictions:placed on the DCI"
- the ' DEI .coordinated 7.a pproval~ of
covey, ar+tinn.': 'nrnieets. with~~'?f a
What is most important about this
virtually unfettered period in the CIA's
history is the attitude which pervaded
the. agency and the tone, -if not the
general demeanor, it set for all further
CIA covert activities. This.. attitude
a bout, and rationale. - for, covert
`.activities was described.--in the
introduction of,a-. top secret eport. on
CIA- covert:, activities prepared for.
',President. Eisenhower:..The';report'
stated:
It is now clear. that we are facing an,
world dominatior by whatever"~means, .and
at whatever cost -There are no rulesin such a -
`game. Hitherto. acceptable norms. of human
conduct do= not ?.apply If the U: . rs to
survive, longstanding.-American concepts. of
` fair play:"--must'be reconsidered,,.:We must.-.
develop-:--:1 ffective.: espconage = and-,
,counterespionage services and must- learn to
subvert, sabotage,. and destroy our enemies
by more.: clever, more' sophisticated;~`and
more effective methods. thair .those- `'used,
against us. It may become necessary that the
American people be made-acquainted with,
understand and support. this fundamentally
repugnant philosophy. ' :.
~W = f
TWAS THIS "fundamentally repug-
nant Phil osophy'.'.t the CIA
,
J
which gave rise to the secret'25-year;:
$25 million- effort- ,by:: the. agency-: to.?,
!.-learn hour to control the human-- mind:::;
Un-der. -the-- pr jest- names of
=:-ARTICHOKE ?
$LUEBIRD, ? r'
r, ?MKULTRA,: and -MKDELTA Ahe `CIA'
#:, essayed?~to devel"p;:; according _.to= a
"
January? 25,.:1952=CIA=memorandum,
"any method; by -+hich = we `can get
from a person against hiss
information
.
will and without his- knowledge:"
These experiments; often carried?out "
on unwitting subjects 1n: hospitals
mental institutions;` and' prisons,,' were
performed after the international
standard for medical experimentation
.on humans- had been setat -the-
Nuremberg trials - for '.Nazi- 'war.
.criminals. It - said- that -medical
experiments should be for the good of.
. mankind and- that a person must give.
.:-full .and. informed,consent before: beiiil
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