' • ' _• ·' • So- 7 · • 1 J Z - 7 ' J f 2 0 OCT 1975 i Inspector General Destruction of Records on Drugs and Toxins SU8JECT •- Action Requested l None This emorandum fs for your 1nyonnation • Padcm ound · At your request looked i t the destruct1o · of Age ecord related to drugs and toxins He limited our fnvest1gat1on to avoid inter-·fering w1th other ongoing 1nvtst1gations ·of this matter 1nc1ud1no that of the Fal · He held discussions ''1th several people in the D0 S T ea rds Center and Archives pnd reviewed a number of OTS files our findings and conclusions follow Sunvnary conclusions • J •• 3 MKULTAA Records This was an umbrella project for funding sensitive TSO activities including research into methods r r controlling human havior · •- No dr119-related MKULTRA files 'lete rne up during our invest1gat1on · - -- A nlll'lber of documents concerning the destructfon of - - · MKULTAA drug records are attached at Tab A In genern l they show that the teeords were destroyed on the fnstruction of Dr · Sidney Gottlieb then Chief TSO on 31 January 1973 • Ooth Branch files and records retrieved from Archives were de$troyed · · - J b also con Jins statct11ents by Messrs · · - - - · · ·· ·· ··· lof OTS · These statements 1ndtcate that the destruction of t fKULTM drug files wa or dcrcd by Mr Ho1ms • · L - ' · f f 1 -ME•10AANOtn4 FOR Director of Ccntr l Inwlligence • FROM J· J - I I r 'I • 7 ·--· _ Tnb IJ contains a 2 February 1973 MOH by • · · ' I for1ncr chief of Archiv cs _nnct Records Center The destruction notices attached to MOR sho that the records bearing Job No 6 l-746 Ml UL' n rimd Job No 68-256 other files possibly d aling with druys as well as 'lith 81·1 CW detection •1ere destroyed on 30 January 1973 rather than the more comnonly accepted Jr January 1973 date meritfoned fn most· of the Tab A documents · · _ He identified three Ml ULTM files 'lhich it turhed • out deal with · · · · - Inspects of the project According to Dr Sayre ·stevens nci t'fles related to those · aspects of MKULTRA have been destroyed · - - However some MKULTRA material ·is menti ned on a 11st of i terns retired to Archives by OTS on l l March 1974 There 1s no record of destruction of this material but a careful search has failed to turn ft up The box containing this material • as recalled from ·Archives by OTS on 8 January 1975 and returned to Archives ·sometime thereafter probably 'iithin thirty d s OTS advises tt at the MKULTRA crypt in this · st nce 'las not r laJ d to dr g_a 9 tivity u to ·• · • _ ·· · -· _ · _ • · ---- - _· The fact remafns ·· _ · however that the material 1s missing w1th no satisfactory · explanation · ·•• •1e rev1 wed an Ar h1ves file contnining the' minutes of the CIA Research Board from 1953-1 62 The mjnutes mention several briefings of the Board by Dr Gottlieb and others on at least· ome aspects of the drug and toxin progrcms Copies of these documents are'attached at Tab C · ·4 MKHAOMI Records This was a TSO project nt Camp Detrick which maintained an R D competence to provide a minimal support capab lity in defensf ve and offe_ri ive B1 CH - There' are t o existing f KNAOMI files These files c ntain CIA documents covering the perfod 5 Moy 1952 to 18 F'c bruary 1970 and reports originated at Camp Detrick ·durin_g the period 1960 to 1969 · · · • · 'These files· do not present a detailed account of MKtlAOMI actfvfty over they ears From his investigation of the project Or Stevens has concludC d that gnps fn tho files arc the resu1t of a conscious policy on the part of those involved to keep very little paper on the project from its inception in 1952 to its demise in 1970 People fonnerly connected with the project interviewed by Dr Steven asserted that the practice of keeping little or no record of the activity was s tandard MKHAOMI procedure -- - - 2 I • · • l • 1 I • Ir - ·nr Stevens a1so lcanic cf thot tho l rmy has no records on HJ MI or on the Special Operations Oivis1on Fort Dctr1ek Ho s1nmises these rocords ero des troycd when thi-Btl CH mater1 a1s were destroyed at tho f'l cs1dent•s order • · ·_ - - There 1s one fi nal· considerat1on eonnected •wfth tne possible destruction of roeords rclntcd - -O f I OMl · Approxi111atoly one safe drnwer full of or Gottl 10b' s porsonal f11 cs were destroyed by his secretary at his 'ordcr in June 1913 shortly before Dr Gottlieb' s retirement ···The sccrotary wa new t-0 OT5' at the t1me and h d been working for Or Gottl 1eb for only six weeks • She knew little about O 'S activities ' ceyptst or projects ' She rem embers· destro ving some' technical · journals papers wr tten by Dr Gottlieb scme files dealing with sensitive personnel matters and some SECRET SENSITIVE papers about Which she recalls nothing Given the sensitivity of MKNAOMl s0111e MK NAOMI papers could -hove bel ll included among those destroyed 1n Jurie ·l973 However we have no evidence this 'IU the case · · ·· · • - ln genera1 • we concur in Dr Stevens' belief that no papers were rem ved frQ II the two extant Ml NAQMI files HKHAOMI recotds-keep1ng prtx edures appear to account at least partially for the lack of a fCOnt1nuous debl11ed r_ecord··of MKNAOMl ac ivity over tho years SOl ' 19 papers relating to MKNAOiU may have been destroyed in June l973 or at s001e other time but this cannot be demonstrated wtth the ·1nfonnation n0trava1 lnble to U$ • t r' J 5 ind O her Dru g Related J•later-f al ' · - · involved CIA· contractors t6$t1n9 drugs on hll Wl volunteers rde • '••- l - --······· -• -9n 24 june 1975 on Mr Duckctt' s ·-··· - l of his o ffiec exunined OTS holdings at Records Center · tn search of•mater1a1 which might have some bearing on the drug rehted 1nvesttgation · Six boxes of ater1al of possible inter-est were returned to the Office of the DD StcT or review Subsequently• they were returned to Records Center Later these were rC called by OTS with an additional four boxes of ·fncs from Records Center ·· · · ---- We rcvie three f1l¢ f the Sc boxes in ·Ju1y 1975 Jhese tiere files on Proj ct• TWhich involved the testing f drugs on human volunteers- by· var1ous institutional contractors I of CIA A COPY of the 31 July 1975 MOR covering our review is attached at Tab D · 3 ·•• ' · ' - J OTS JIHO rcv1ow«ul lhc ten boxes 9f Qrs _ files r calll-d frori tfocords Center In addition to the matcria1 described above these boxes contain a considerable • omount of moter1al dealing w1th •an1111al screening tests of various c001pounds but they contain no ma teria1 dea 1i ng tn th tests Jnyql_ ng h mnns or identified ns connectc - l with Project NY ULTRA ·- · • _j4e lloranduu1 c vering_ 1s rovi9w 1s attnched at Tab IL - Three boxes of OTS material formerly stored fn Records the 1mc of · _ _ 1l«lR at Tab 8 c0111111erits on the destruction of thiS'lnatcria1 S0111e of the records in these three boxes dealt· t11th environmental Jempl1ng for QW_an -C ·I r ayiufacturing activity · · ·· · · J At least ono fi1o listed as Project·ARTiCHOKE· · '951 1954 must have dealt wit drug• · connected activities OTS has attempted to 1dent1fy the octiv1t1es covered by the balance bf ·the missing material • w1th little success to date A to October 1975 nemorandin descr bing the 01S efforts in this connectjon ·is attached at Tab F• Center 1ere destroyed by OTS in January ·1973 ai the dostructf on of MKULTR records • • • • t • u J • -·- On 3 October 1975 the Df rector of Medical Services · forwarded to us C Jpies of unaddre ssed undat-ed and unslgned · doc1111ents dealing '1th LSD-25 See Tab ·G These documents were unearthed by OMS from· the Archives files of 1ts Operations Division They were found· in a folder labeled TSl file 1956- 1960 h · · ·-· t- • • • - •• • 6 We believe it l 1kely that a thor-ough search of Agency records •• pirt1cularly D00 operatfonal ' rccords -- would continue to produce aijditional · · _ ·-pieces of the drug activity puzzle Me believe 1t unl1ke1y that such a search • · woµld' produce ·aJ V major fntact repository of infonut1on on this subject Recognfz1ng that s h a search would heavily bul dcn ·people already overtaxed with 1nvest1pative activities we are 1nc11ned to doubt that the r turn - would justify the investment · - • ' '• · Donald F Chaiaber1afn • Inspector Genera1 4 • o · t• - ·- - r1 I I
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