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The Director of Ceniral Intelligence Washington, D.C.20305 - 2 AUG 1977 Honorable Daniel K. Inouye, Chairman Select Commitee on Intelligence United States Senate Washington, D. C. 20510 Dear Mr. Chairman: In my letter to you of 15 July 1977, I reported our recent discovery of seven boxes of documents related to Project MKULTRA, a closely held CIA project conducted from 1953-1964. As you may recall, MKULTRA was an “umbrella project" under which certain sensitive subprojects were funded, involving among other things research on drugs and behavioral modification. - During the Rockefeller Commission and Church Committee investigations in 1975, the eryptonym became publicly known when details of the drug-related death of Dr. Frank Olson were publicized. In 1953 Dr. Olson, a civilian employee of the Army at Fort Detrick, leaped to his death from a hotel room window in New York City about a week after having unwittingly consumed LSD administered to him es an experiment at a meeting of LSD researchers called by CIA. , : , Most of what was known about the Agency's involvement with behavioral drugs during the investigations in 1975 was contained in a report on Project MKULTRA prepared by the Inspector General's office in 1963. Asa result of that report's recommendations, unwitting testing of drugs on U.S. citizens was subsequently discontinued. The MKULTRA-related report was made available to the Church Committee investigators and to the staff of Senator Kennedy's Subcommittee on Health. Until the recent discovery, it was believed that all of the MKULTRA files dealing with behavioral modification had been destroyed in 1973 on the orders of the then retiring Chief of the Office of Technical Service, with the authorization of the then DCI, as has been previously reported. Almost all of the people who had had any connection