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domation, the contribution was then matched by federal funds. The institution was not made aware of the true source of the gift. This project was approved ‘by the then DCI, and concurred im by CIA's top management at the time, ineluding the then General Counsel who wrote an opinion supporting the legality of the comtribution. The recently discovered documents give a greater insight into the scope of the unwitting drug testing but contribute little more than that. We now have collaborating information that some of the unwitting drug testing was carried on in safehouses in ‘San Francisco and New York City, and we have identified that three individuals were involved in this undertaking as opposed to the previously reported one person. We also know now that some unwitting testing took place on criminal. sexual psychopaths confined at a State hospital and that, additionallly, research was done on a knock-out or "K™ drug in parallel with research to develop pain killers for cancer patients. These, then are the principal findings identified to date in our review of the recovered material. As noted earlier, we believe the detail on the ; identities of researchers. and institutions involved in CIA's sponsorship of drugs and behavioral modification is a mew element and one which poses a comsiderable problem. Most of the people and institutions involved are not aware of Agency sponsorsnip. We should certainly assume that the researchers and institutions which cooperated ‘with CIA on a witting basis acted in good faith and in the belief that they were aiding their- government in a legitimate and proper purpose. I believe we all have a moral obligation to these researchers | andi institutions to protect them from any unjustified embarrassment or damage to their reputations which revelation of their-identities might bring. In addition, I have a legal obligation under the Privacy Act not to publicly disclose the names of the individual researchers without their consent. This is especially true, of course, for those researchers and inStitutions which were unwitting participants in ClA-sponsored activities . , Nevertheless, recognizing the right and the need of both the Senate Select Commiétee on Intelligence and the Senate Subcommittee on Health to investigate the circumstances of these activities in whatever detail they consider necesssary, I am providing your Committee with all of the names on a classified basis. I hope that this will facilitate your investigation while protecting the individuals andi institutions involved. Let me emphasize that the MKULTRA events are 12 to 25 years in the past. I assure you that the CIA is in no way engaged in either witting or unwitting testing of drugs today.