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MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

SUBJECT: MKULTRA - Comments of Chief. TSD, on Draft Report of Inspection

1. I called\_ to acknowledge receipt of Dr. Gottlieb's comments on John Vance's draft report of inspection of MKULTRA, TSD, I said I felt this reply was very helpful in explaining the TSD position on the most critical points on our IG recommendations,.

testing on unwitting subjects,

|I reminded /that his rebuttal dealt with only three of the ten specific recommendations we had made in our IG report. He replied that the balance of these recommendations really all related to tightening up the administration of the charter and that he personally welcomed the opportunity to have this spelled out in greater detail. I said I felt that our recommendations went quite beyond the field of administration and cited in particular the problem-of,

--I said this was much more than an administration problem, and that we would like to know what solution he and Dr. Gottlieb proposed to improve

tended to dismiss this problem partially on the grounds that it was a function a personal relationship between him and who ever might be the DD/R at any given time, and partially because he dida't thirk there wa's any dogmatic or systematic solution. .

2. I told that we would prefer not to submit our MKULTRA paper to the DD/P without some morc explicit statement from him on the problem of

/and that we also felt Dr. Gottlieb's three page indorsement failed to comment on our detailed proposals for tightening up the administration of MKULTRA activities. Mr.

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Jappreciated this but felt that they had registered their views on the most important points at issue, and they urged us at this stage to go ahead and submit our report with the Gottlieb indorsement as it now stands to DD/P.

3. Recommendation: I think we have little to gain by massaging this report any further and recommend that we submit it to the DD/P with a request for his specific comments on our recommendations. I recommend that we redraft the last recommendation on the audit function in accordance with the proposal of: 1

W7Aplelle E. J. Applewhite

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