AGENCY POLICY REGARDING MKULTRA-RELATED INQUIRIES AS TO INSTITUTIONAL INVOLVEMENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R000100020040-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 6, 2004
• Sequence Number: 40
• Publication Date: May 23, 1978
• Content Type: NOTES

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Office of General Counsel
I-OLC x18.19t01 l
23 May 1978
NOTE TO: Acting Legislative Counsel
FROM: Anthony A A. Lapham, General Counsel
SUBJECT: Agency Policy Regarding MKULTRA-
Related Inquiries as to Institutional
Involvement
REF: Your note to me of 22 May
Lyle:
While I am not insensitive to the "human factors"
here, I continue to fail to see how we can depart
from Agency policy in this regard without abandoning
it altogether. Surely in this case Senator Gravel's
office will be able to satisfy the constituent's con-
cern about unwitting drug testing with the infor-
mation already available to it, since she indicates
she is only interested in the period between 1971 and
1973 and your letter states these activities were
terminated in 1964.
The Victorian Hotel inquiry, dealing as it
does with use of properties as Agency safehouses,
raises considerations beyond those connected with
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MKULTRA. While these drug testing programs may
be rationalized away as activities in which CIA no
longer has an interest, the use of safehouses remains
an indispensable part of Agency operations which could
be seriously limited by a policy other than non-
comment.
An on . Laphain
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