LETTER TO THE HONORABLE GRIFFIN B. BELL FROM STANSFIELD TURNER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00156R000300050023-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 22, 2003
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: July 6, 1979
• Content Type: LETTER

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Central Intelligence Agency
6 JUL 1979
Your interest and willingness to help in this matter are very much
appreciated. I have written separately to Dlr. Bensinger expressing to him
my appreciation for all the help given by his Administration. Again, many
thanks for your cooperation and assistance.
Yours,
/9/ Stanafield Turner
STAT
The Honorable Griffin B. Bell
Attorney General of the United States
Department of Justice
Washington, D.C. 20530
Last January, in response to my request for assistance in our effort
to identify persons who may have been administered drugs without their
knowledge or consent as a part of the 'fUJLTRA program conducted in safehouses
you asked the Administrator of the Drug
Enforcement Administration to designate a representative to work with us.
Mr. Bensinger designated a staff inspector assigned to
the Office of Internal Security at DEA, and made him available to us virtually
.full time since early February.
STAT With the very able, help of 0 and the gracious cooperation and
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office, we have completed our investigation. I am sending my final report
to Senator Bayh and Senator Kennedy today informing them that we learned
of seven, and possibly eight, cases where LSD had been administered to
individuals unwittingly, but were unable to establish with a comfortable
degree of certainty that these were the only cases. One of the subjects
died of cancer about five years after the incident. Two others have been
found and notified. While this cannot be counted as complete success, I
nonetheless feel a certain sense of relief from having the reasonable
assurance that the program apparently was much less extensive than originally
feared.
cc: The Honorable Peter Bensinger
STA
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