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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY WASHINGTON. D.C. 20505 Dear Sir: The purpose of this letter is to bring to your attention a matter of _ importance to you and your university. =. The Central Intelligence Agency recently has located several thousand : hitherto undiscovered documents relating to activities funded by the CIA asa part of Project MKULTRA in the 1950s and 1960s. That Project, which is more . fully: described in the enclosed copy of a statement presented by the Directer of _ Central Intelligence at a joint public hearing on 2 August before the Senate . Select Committee on Intelligence and the Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research of the Senate Committee on Human Resources, involved the initiation and sponsorship by the Agency of research and development designed to identify . materials and methods useful in altering human behavior patterns. See also the Final Report of the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence (the "Church Committee"), Book I, Foreign and Military Intelligence, pages 385 to 422, Sen. Rep. No. 94-755, April 26, 1976. Although the more highly publicized portion of this activity concerned the testing of the effects of various types of drugs on humans, most of the research did not involve such testing but rather only far less controversial investigations into aspects of human behavior and its determinants. As explained in the Director's statement, untii ‘hese documents were found it was believed that virtually all Project MKULTRA records were destroyed - by the Agency in 1973. These newly—discovered documents consist largely of financial records, however, and add only fragmentary substantive information concerning the nature and extent of MKULTRA activities. What the documents do contribute is information regarding the identities of researchers and institutions involved in these activities and the funding mechanisms used to conceai CIA interest. In some cases these individuals and institutions apparently were aware of CIA sponsorship but in many other cases it appears the individuals or institutions, or both, were not informed that the research was connected in any way with CIA. YOTION eo %. 2 %, % $