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, .. -- • I I 2.7 August i975 I SUBJECT: Termination o! Unwitting Testing With Behavioral ' Drugs 1. With the destruction of the MKULTRA !iles in early 1973., it is believed that there are no definitive records in CIA that would record the termination o! the program !or testing behavioral.drllgs on unwitting per sons. 2. In a mem.orandum !or the Deputy 'Director o! Central Intelligence dated 17 December 1963, Subject: Testing of Psycho chemicals and Related Materials, the Deputy Director ·Io1· Plcu1s recommended. the continuation of the un·witting testing pro"gram. .. ·with the Bureau o.f Na!'coii.cs. The Acting Director of Centrai. ; Intelligence in his reply dated 2.4 December ~963 stated that a!tcr · discussion the Directo:x: recomm~nded that the· matter be consit1el"e<1 in depth after the Iirst of the }·ear and that in the m.ea:ntilnc "please continue tlie· freeze on unwitting testing." ~ 3~ Th~re is no r~cord, to our knowledge, tl"Jat this Ireezo was ever lifted. In June 1964 the Acting Director o!. Central lntellig~nce, in approdng .~onti."1.'!,lation of the general research · .proje~t,: s_ta.ted that 11unwitt:ing testing will be subject o! a ·sepc:.r~te decision.·11 ·.E.-Qsting records, however, do not indicate whether a ·on decision t:,nwitting testing v.ras later made. The consensus )s. that the freeze was ne.ver ll!t...:d. · ~· As the actual testing was conducted by personllel ir.~. the: ·r Bureau o£ Narcotics there may be some better record ill its successor organizations. • T .. - ~ -: ,-.. ! ' .. .. The image displays a graphic banner with the title "THE BLACK VAULT" in large, stylized white lettering at the top. To the left, a portion of a vault door is visible, depicted in shades of gray and blue, featuring intricate mechanical details like gears, a dial, and locking mechanisms. The right side of the banner contains text on a black background, stating that the document was obtained from "The Black Vault," an online database of declassified government documents, specifically mentioning the "MKULTRA/Mind Control Collection" housed by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Below this text, a yellow hyperlink to "http://mkultra.theblackvault.com" is prominently displayed. There are no photographs of people, locations, equipment, handwritten annotations, signatures, official stamps, forms, diagrams, tables, redactions, or visual evidence of experimental procedures visible on this page, other than the conceptual representation of a vault. This declassified document page is primarily text-based, featuring typed paragraphs organizing information. Handwritten annotations are visible in the top right corner with "409" and at the bottom with a signature and darkened, obscured content. Official stamps are present at the bottom, including a "SECRET" stamp and a partially visible form with handwritten numbers and codes. There are no photographs, diagrams, or visual evidence of experimental procedures.