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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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