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SUBJECT: Termination of Unwitting Testing With Behavioral Drugs

1. With the destruction of the MKULTRA files in early 1973, it is believed that there are no definitive records in CLA that would record the termination of the program for testing behavioral drugs on unwitting persons.

2. In a memorandum for the Deputy Director of Central Intelligence dated 17 December 1963, Subject: Testing of Psychochemicals and Related Materials, the Deputy Directorfor Plans recorimended the continuation of the unwitting testing program with the Bureau of Narcotics. The Acting Director of Central. Intelligence in his reply dated 24 December 1963 stated that alter discussion the Director recommended that the matter be considexed in depth after the first of the year and that in the meantime "please continue the·freeze on unwitting testing."

3. There is no record, to our knowledge, that this freeze was ever lifted. In June 1964 the Acting Director of Central Intelligence, in approving continyation of the general research .project, stated that "unwittizg testing wili be subject of a separate decision.",Existing records, however, do not indicate whether a decisionon unwitting testing was later made. The consensus is. that the İreeze was never lifted..

4. As the actual testing was conducted by personnel in the Bureau of Narcotics there may be some better record in its successor organizations.

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