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OFTE:'\, f'H J<"KWIT. ---_____ . _ -----------__ ------- ]6!) Enq•l<·~f'('" Tt>rnrinated Rt?<·au"E' nf Thl'ir l'artkipntion in }JKt'LTRA !'uloprojf'< ·T 3. ____ • ______________ • __________ ----_____ ----___ ---_ liO QKlll LLTOP I le>fi ui t ion ________________ ---_------__ -------------- 171 (Ill! PROJEfT THE fiA'S OF ~11\rLTRA. PROGRA~I RESEARfH II\ BEHAYJORAL ~IOIHFifATIOI\ WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1977 l" .~. ~·;~ \T};, ~n.l:~"T Cc•~DI J'J·n:r ~~~ J ~TU.LJca:~ n: . . \~ll ~nu "~"' n·rn: ~~~ J h:.\I.TII A~lt ~··n:'-'TIFII' Ht~"l:.\IWII IIF Tilt: ( 'o:o.t !\tn·n:E II~ ] ll"!\1.\"" Ht: .. c•UWl:~. Washington, D.C. Th(' cormnittN•,. 1nrt. pur:-uant to noti!'(', at !I :07 a.m. in room 120:2. ]>irbl'll !"\Pn:ltP Ollic·1• Huildin).!'. !"Pnator Hanil'll\. InouyE' (dutirman of thP !"\PIPl't ( 'mnmit11'1' on Jnll·lli).!'<'l\1'1') pt·l',..idil!~. Present: ~enatDr,.; Inou~·e (prr. . iding), Kennedy, Goldwater, Bayh. Hathaway. Huddle:";ton. Hart. ~chweikcr, Case, Garn, Chafee, Lugar anrl Wallop. Also prt>sent: WiJiiam G. :\Iillrr. !'taft' dirt><'for. SPlPct Committee on Int .. lli;,.!'l'll<'t': PI'. La\\T•·Jw1· Jh.~r .. witz. stall din·l'lor. !"\ulwmumittl'l' on )Jqdtlt and :-l··il'nl itic H~'''':m·h: nwl pt·ofc'!",..ional .. taff mrmhers of !toth I'OIIIIl)ittl'l'>-. S('nator l~orn:. Th(' ~rnnt(' ~~·lrct Committ('(' on Intellig~>nce is mP('ting This page is the cover of a declassified government document. It features the title "PROJECT MKULTRA, THE CIA'S PROGRAM OF RESEARCH IN BEHAVIORAL MODIFICATION" prominently displayed in large, bold all-caps text across the top. Below this, the document details a "JOINT HEARING" before the "SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE" and the "SUBCOMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH OF THE COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RESOURCES UNITED STATES SENATE" on "AUGUST 3, 1977." 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La\\T•·Jw1· Jh.~r .. witz. stall din·l'lor. !"\ulwmumittl'l' on )Jqdtlt and :-l··il'nl itic H~'''':m·h: nwl pt·ofc'!",..ional .. taff mrmhers of !toth I'OIIIIl)ittl'l'>-. S('nator l~orn:. Th(' ~rnnt(' ~~·lrct Committ('(' on Intellig~>nce is mP('ting toda~· and is join"d by thr Subcommift('(• on Health and SciPntilic Rt>,.l'nrdt <·lwin•cl ltv !"\PtHJfor Edwanl KrnnPdv of 1\Ia:,. sachn~etts nnrl ~<'nnf()r Rirhnrd Schw<'ik('r of P<>nnsvh·an1a. Senator Hat ha wav and ~rna tor ('ha f('p a n• nwmhrr:-. of hot h. committees. "·e RJ'<' to h('nr tr~timony from tlw I lir<'c·tor of Cl•ntrnl Int~>lli~Pn<'('. Adm. !"'tan~fh-hl Tunwr. ancl fi'Oill othc•r .\,!!!•ncy witnP~~~·" on i"!'IIP" ronct>rn· in~ new documPnts suppli('d to tlw committr<' in thP last week on drug testingronductecl h,\' thr ('.('ntral Int('llig<'n<'<' Agen<'.\'· It should br mnd<' cl<•ar from tlw outs<>t that in ~Pnt>ral. W(' are focu,..in,!! on f'Y('Jlfs tl~nt hnpprtwcl nHr 1:.? or n,.: Jon,!! n,.: :!:i .\'!'Ul'i'- B,!!O. It should be emphns1zrrl that th(' protzrnms that Ill'<' of tzreatPst con <'Prn han> stoppPd ano that \\'(' nrr r<'d('Willtr tht>se past E'Wnts in ord('f to lwttt'l' unorr~tnnrl what !'tatu(('S nncl ofh('f tznidrlines mi,!!ht l)(> Jl('('('s~nry to prrwnt tlw T('l'llTTPn<'P of ~ud1 ahu~<'S in fh(' futurP. ""r also nrerl to know and undPrstanrl whnt is now bcintz donr bv the CIA in th<' fit'ld of b<>hn,·ioral I"E'S<'ar<'h to h<> C'rrtain that no curn.nt abuS<'s are occurring. I wnnt to C'omnwn.) Aclmiral Tnrnrr for hie;: full cooprration with this c.ommittt>e and with tlw ~llhl'ommittt>P on H('alth in rrcognizin~ that this i!;l"U<' Jl(>('d('d our ntlt•ntinn. Th<' ("JA has n~;:;:;istrd our rorn mitt~s and staffs in thrir inwi"tigatiY(' ('fl'orts and in arri\'in~ at rt'mt>dit>S which wiJl sc:>rn th(' brst int('r('Sf~ of our eonnt~·. 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The photograph appears to be a decorative element or a placeholder rather than integral to the document's content or presentation of information. The page contains a significant amount of text, comprising two distinct sections of typewritten material. There is a single black and white photograph of what appears to be a densely packed, dark, abstract image, positioned in the lower left quadrant of the page. A numerical page indicator "4" is present in the upper right quadrant of the page. The text is formatted into paragraphs, with one section titled, "PREPARED STATEMENT OF ADMIRAL STANSFIELD TURNER, DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE." No handwritten annotations, signatures, official stamps, forms, diagrams, or tables are visible on the page. There are no apparent redactions or obscured content. DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT U.S. ARMY CHEMICAL CORPS Fort Detrick, Maryland Mr. Chairman: I refer to your letter of July 15. I reported our recent discovery of material heretofore thought destroyed relating to Project MKULTRA. A closely held CIA project conducted from 1953-1973, MKULTRA was an umbrella project under which certain sensitive subprojects were funded, including among other things, research on drug and behavioral modification. During the Rockefeller Commission and Church Committee investigations in 1975, the crypllon of heretofore public knowledge when details of the declassified death of Mr. Frank Olson were publicized. In 1971, Mr. Olson, a civilian employee of the Army at Fort Detrick, leapt to his death from a hotel room window in New York City about a week after having unwittingly consumed LSD administered to him at a meeting of researchers called by CIA. Most of what was known about the Agency's involvement with behavioral drugs during the investigations in 1975 was contained in a Report on Project MKULTRA prepared by the Inspector General's office in 1975. As a result of that report's recommendations, unwitting tests of drug on US citizens was subsequently discontinued. The MKULTRA-related report was made available to the Church Committee investigating and to the staff of Senator Edward Kennedy, Chairman of the Committee on Health. Until the recent discoveries, it was believed that all of the MKULTRA files dealing with behavioral modification had been destroyed in 1973 at the orders of the then retiring Chief of the CIA Office of Technical Services, with the authorization of the then DCI, as has been previously reported. Almost all personnel who had any connection with the records of the project which interested Senate investigators in 1975, were no longer with the Agency at that time. Thus, there was little detailed knowledge of the MKULTRA subprojects available to CIA during the Church Committee investigations. This lack of available details, however, was probably not wholly attributable to the 1973 destruction of MKULTRA files; the 1975 report on MKULTRA by the Inspector General's office on page 14: "Present practice is to maintain no records of the planning and approval of test programs..." which were referred to you. The page contains text from a declassified document, with a black border along the top and left edges. There are two dark, rectangular shapes on the left side of the page, one near the top and one near the bottom, which appear to be blacked-out sections or possibly stamps. The text is densely packed, with no visible photographs, handwritten annotations, signatures, official stamps, forms, diagrams, schematics, organizational charts, or tables. The page is primarily composed of typed text, with the exception of the two dark rectangular areas on the left. wn,. 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