MKULTRA-MKDELTA[12885159]

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Statement from IG Report of 26July 1963.

1. MKULTRA encompasses the R&D phase of a program concerned with "the research and development of chemical, biological, and radiological materials capable of employment in clandestine operations to control human behavior. The end products of such research are subject to very strict controls including a request for the personal approval of the DD/P for any operational use made of these end products."

2. MKULTRA is the R&D phase, MKDELTA denotes the DD/P system for'control of the operational employment of such materials.

3. "It is firm doctrine in TSD that testing of materials under accepted scientific procedures fails to disclose the full pattern of reactions and attributions that may occur in operational situations. TSD initiated a program for covert testing of materials on unwitting US citizens in 1953."

4. "The final step in the research and development sequence is the delivery of MKULTRA materials and the-MKDELTA control system governing their employment in clandestine operations."

5. "As of 1960 no effective knockout pill, truth serum, aphrodisiac, or recruitment pill was known to exist. MKDELTA was described as inherently a high-risk, low-yield field of operations.

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15SEP 1975

MEMORANDUM FOR:Director of Central Intelligence

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: MKULTRA/MKDELTA

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7. In a 1960 Gottlieb report (IG has no copy of this),'he observed that the Clandestine Services had encouraged TSD on various occasions to develop and maintain the operational capability in special drugs and chemicals, but that TSD had received. little or no guidance in directing the work and that the Clandestine Services had up.to that time shown little inclination to use the end products operationally.

8. Specific records are scarce, but below are listed summaries of actual uses: •

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Dameltchler Donald F. Chamberlain Inspector General

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