LETTER TO THE EDITOR FROM STANSFIELD TURNER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00933R000400010015-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 1, 2001
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: August 24, 1977
• Content Type: LETTER

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The Editor
The New York Times
229 West 43rd Street
New York, N.Y. 10036
Dear Sir:
In Sunday's (21 August) issue of The Week in Review, you
had an item on the recent documents which the CIA volunteered
to the Congress on drug experimentation in the 1950s and early
1960s. Your final comment in this item averred that "the
Agency documents were heavily censored before they were released
I take strong exception to that statement. There were
only two types of deletions made from these documents. The
names of the individuals involved were the first, and such
deletion is required by law--the Privacy Act of 1974. The names
of institutions were the second. Since many of the institutions
involved were unwitting of their participation and many others
participated only in perfectly proper experimentation, it
seemed advisable to me not to risk damaging the reputations of
these institutions by publishing their names. Instead, I have
notified each institution and left it to their individual
judgment as to whether to make public its participation. I have
also provided the names of the institutions to the appropriate
committees of Congress.
I write because the CIA's effort in this instance has been STATINTL
as forthcoming with the public and the Congress as is legal and
humane. I am distressed and disappointed by your erroneous
characterization of this as censorship.
STANSFIELD TURTT
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