STATEMENT OF DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BEFORE SUBCOMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH 21 SEPTEMBER 1977

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
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• Publication Date: September 21, 1977
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DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
BEFORE
SUBCC MITTEE ON HEALTH AID SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
SENATE COMMITTEE-ON HUMAN RESOURCES
21 September 1977
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Statement Before Senate Human Resources Subcommittee on Health
and Scientific Research Regarding S. 1893 - 21 September 1977
Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee:
I am here this morning at your request to report on our.
continued efforts to locate documents dealing with CIA's
research into behavioral modification and drug experimentation
involving humans. As you recall from my, testimony on
3 August 1977, MKULTRA was an umbrella project under which a-
broad spectrum of sensitive activities was financed, some of
which had nothing to do with behavioral modification or drugs.
Others, however, dealt with research into behavioral riodifi-
cation -- primarily by means of drugs and hypnosis - involving
tests on human volunteers and, in some cases, on unwitting
subjects.
During my previous testimony, I undertook to furnish you
with available information on peopl a associated with the safe-
houses in San Francisco and New York City in which unwitting
testing occurred. In addition, I was also to furnish all
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available information on Projects MKSEARCH and OFTEN/CHICKWIT.
Information regarding the identities of people associated with
the New York and San Francisco safehouses was forwarded to you
on 13 September. -
After the 3 August hearing, my Staff assembled the few
documents then available on MKSEARCH, the follow-on project
under which the non-terminated portion of MKULTRA activities
was funded. The same officer who had been responsible for
discovering the seven boxes-of MKULTRA material which gave.
us our first detailed insight into the 149 MKULTRA sub-
projects reasoned that the mechanics of funding and record
keeping should have been similar for both programs. He had
already ascertained that there were no MKSEARCH files among
the budget and fiscal holdings of the Office of Technical
Service (OTS) at the Agency's retired records center.where
he had located the MKULTRA documents. Therefore, he per-
sonally searched OTS budget and fiscal holdings at OTS
headquarters and, on 15 August, discovered the MKSEARCH
financial folders. A report on this discovery, including
a summary listing of 12 research grants was sent to your
Staff on 1 September.
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As with the MKULTRA material which I discussed on 3 August,
it is important to remember that the MKSEARCH material discovered
on 15 August consists of financial papers. As such they contain
almost nothing about the substance of the projects with which
they deal -- consisting for the most part of accountings, vouchers,
and the like. .Thus, our understanding-of the activities funded
under MKSEARCH remains fragmented and incomplete.
MKSEARCH appears to have been used to fund only a portion
of the external researchers formerly funded under MKULTRA..
Other former MKULTRA research activities were continued under
the 12 grants I have already mentioned.- Our records do not
show that any of these activities involved testing on unwitting
subjects. It is true, however, that-the MKSEARCH records avail-
able as a result of the 15 August discovery indicate that the
projects in New York and San Francisco were terminated on 30 June
1965. under MKSEARCH, while the lease on the New York apartment
did not expire until 30 April 1956, with expenses being paid to
Concerning my commitment to furnish material on the projects
known as OFTEN/CHIT these projects involve the Department
of Defense as well as CIA. These were the programs I had in mind
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in responding to a question from the Chair on 3 August. On
page 33, line 17 of the transcript of the 3.August hearing
before this Subcommittee, I stated "these programs are the
code names for the CIA participation in what was basically a
Department of Defense program." As published in the joint
hearings of this Subcommittee and the-Subcommittee on Admini-
strative Practice and Procedure in connection with S. 2515
during the 94th Congress, 1st Session (on pages 916 and 917),
CHICKWIT was concerned with-acquiring information on new drug
developments in Europe and the Orient and with acquiring samples
and was conducted by the Department of Defense for CIA and
with CIA funding. OFTEN was the code name for a CIA program
to have selected compounds tested on animals. Subsequently,
arrangements were made to provide funds to support research on
compounds of interest to CIA; this as part of ongoing activities
According
by the Army at the Edgewood Arsenal Research Laboratory.
to our records, CIA's interest was limited to one compound under
this arrangement. We, therefore, conducted a joint review of the
OFTEN/CHICKt4IT material with DoD representatives starting on 18 August
This material had previously been reviewed by the Rockefeller Commission,
the Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with
ResPect to Intelligence Activities, and the Subcommittee on Health
of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Documents culled
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from the bulk of information on OFTEN/CHICKWIT were made
available to your Staff for review on 29-30 August. Copies
of documents selected by your investigators were. forwarded to
you on a classified basis on 10 September. If desired, I would
be happy to comment on any of these materials or to table them
for discussion before the Committee. However, in view of
their classified nature, I respectfully request that such a
discussion continue in an executive session of the Committee.-
Mr. Chairman, I regret that the impression has been
generated that CIA has withheld information concerning
research into behavioral modification and drug testing. We
are only here today because we volunteered information on
these matters to you as it was discovered. We will continue
to do so. I give no guarantee that this is the last of the
material on this subject that will be discovered, but I do
guarantee that this Subcommittee-will receive anything else
within its purview that is found. Over the last seven weeks,
we have provided your investigators with nearly eight linear
feet of documents and, as you know, there is more classified
material awaiting review by your Staff at CIA headquarters'.
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I am sure that both of our Staffs are laboring under the
large volume of papers. I am pleased that the material
already furnished has been treated with the discretion
required by its classification.