Two hundred pages of information MANY will say is BUNK, not to be trusted, and prolly made up. The attached document is part of the congressional record. EXCERPT BELOW
Today the Health and Scientific Research Subcommittee resumes its inquiry into the biological and behavioral research activities of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Department of Defense. The events we will hear about over the next 2 days occurred between 1952 and 1972. They had their origin in a different time which had different values and realities. But it is important for us to fully understand these events today because they raise fundamental questions about the kind of society we are and want to become.
We are a free people, living in an open society. But some of our most cherished freedoms have been threatened by these CIA activities. The question is not whether a free society can accommodate the need for covert intelligence activities. The question is how those activities can be made accountable; how they can be carried out without jeopardizing the very freedoms they are supposed to protect .
In the United States, the ends never have, and never will, justify the means. Freedom can be eroded by internal excesses as well as by external threats. The story we will hear in these next 2 days is of well motivated, patriotic Americans who, by their work, eroded the freedom of individuals and of institutions in the name of National security.
As a result, individual Americans from all social levels , high and low, were made the unwitting subjects of drug tests; scores of universities were used to further CIA research objectives without their knowledge, thus threatening in a fundamental way their traditional independence and integrity; other Government agencies, such as the Bureau of Narcotics, the National Institutes of Health, and the Internal Revenue Service, were used to further the programs and mission of the Central Intelligence Agency.
These projects were not the creation of low-level agency bureaucrats
working against the wishes or without the knowledge of the Agency's leadership. The collection of activities now known as
(1) 2 MK-ULTRA were approved, after personal review, including briefings
by the Director of the Agency, Mr. Dulles .
It is well known that another CIA Director, Mr. Helms, approved the destruction of the MK-ULTRA records in 1972. This has made the task of reconstructing those events very difficult-both for the CIA and for interested Senate committees. What is clear now, from the witnesses we have heard and will hear, and from the few records that have been found, is the following :
1. When MK-ULTRA was phased out, it was replaced by MKSEARCH. MK-SEARCH represented a continuation of a limited number of the ULTRA projects. It is now clear that the records of this project have also been destroyed. In fact, the records of all drug research projects available to the Director of the Technical Services Division of the CIA were destroyed at the same time.
2. Some operational activities utilizing the fruits of this research were carried out.
3. The bulk of the research effort led nowhere.
4. The Bureau of Narcotics was heavily involved in all the drug projects involving unwitting subjects.
5. The CIA had available certain documents pertaining to these activities in 1975, when this subcommittee's inquiry began, which they did not make available until 2 weeks ago; and that the Agency only discovered that some MK-SEARCH materials were available after the August 3 hearing. It is my hope that these next 2 days of hearings will close the book
on this chapter of the CIA's life.