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Date sent: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 08:30:03 -0700 (MST)
From: BARR DOUG
To: raven1@netaccess.on.ca
Subject: Re: Request for backup information
about the 1977 hearings by Congress
on the "MK" series of covert test
programmes.
The following are excerpts from the Congressional record
titled HUMAN DRUG TESTING BY THE CIA, 1977, Subcommittee on
Health and Scientific Research of the Committee on Human
Resources. This Committee met on September 20, 1977. This
information was found on Microfiche CIS785411-19, with the
call #KF49.C6. IT IS AN OFFICIAL US DOCUMENT.
Opening Statement by Chairman: Today the Health and
Scientific Research Subcommittee resumes it's inquiry into
the biologic and behavioral activities off the Central
Intellegence 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 differnt values and realities. But it is
important for us to fully understand these events
today--because they raise fundamental quesitons about what
kind of society we are and what we want to become.
.....
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 Institute of Health, and the Internal Revenue
Service, were used to further the programs and mission of
the Central Intellegence 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.
...
on to page 158
I. CODEWORD PROJECTS IDENTIFIED BY THE CENTRAL
INTELLEGENCE AGENCY
In testimony on August 3, 1977, before a joint session of
the Senate Select Committee on Intellegence and the Senate
Committe on Health and Scientific Research, the Director of
Central Intelligence reported that the Central Intellegence
Agency has located a number of boxes of documents,
consisting largly of financial records, relating to
experiments using human subjects in which drugs were tested
for mind-control and behavior modification purposes. The
Director testified that it appeared that three of the
projects described by these documents--projects designated
MKSEARCH, MKOFTEN and MKCHICKWIT--were Department of
Defense programs with which the CIA had had some contact.
The Director also described three other projects --
designated MKULTRA< MKDELTA and MKNAOMI -- which were
primarily CIA progects but which might have had some
Department of Defense involvement. It appears from the
available documents that these projects cover subjects
matters as follows:
MKDELTA: This was apparently the first project established
by the CIA in October, 1952, for the use of biochemicals in
clandestine operations. It may never have been implemented
operationally.
MKULTRA: This was a successor project to MKDELTA
established in April, 1953, and terminating some time int
the late 1960's probably after 1966. This progam considered
various means of controlling human behavior. Drugs were
only one aspect of this activity.
MKNAOMI: This project began in the 1950's and was
terminated at least with respect biological projects, in
1969. This may have been a successor to MKDELTA. Its
purpose was to stockpile severly incapacitating and lethal
materials, and to defvelop gadgetry for the dissemination
of these materials.
MKSEARCH: This was apparently a successor project to
MKULTRA, which began in 1965 and was terminated in 1973.
The objective of the project was to develop a capability to
manipulate human behavior in a predictable manner through
the use of drugs.
MKCHICKWIT: This was apparantly a part of the MKSEARCH
program. ITs objective was to identify new drug
developments in Europe and Asia and to obtain information
and samples.
MKOFTEN: This was also apparently a part of the MKSEARCH
project. Its objective was to test the behavioral and
toxicological effects of certain drugs on animals and
humans.
II. ARMY PROGRAMS
It appears from the available documents that the Army was
involved in one aspect of the CIA project designated as
MKCHICKWIT and two aspects of a counterpart project
designated MKOFTEN. The document search is described in
section A below, and eachof the Army programs is describe
in section B below.
...
(The report continues for over 100 pages, you will have to
look it up yourself but it does feature original testimony
by the people involved as well as revealing original
documents. It is these documents that were the source of
Marks book "In Search of the Manchurian Candidate")
CONTRARY TO WHAT MANY PEOPLE CONCLUDED, THIS TYPE OF
RESEARCH DID NOT STOP IN THE 1970'S NOR HAS IT STOPPED
TODAY. FOR AN UPDATE ON WHAT IS HAPPENING TODAY READ
CONSTANTINE'S "PSYCHIC DICTATORSHIP OF THE USA".
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