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United States Senate · 3 August 1977
The joint hearing before the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research at which the Director of Central Intelligence answered for MKULTRA. Its appendices reprint the Church Committee's account of the programme and CIA memoranda of the Agency's own.
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Yes, and this hearing is where the government answered for it. The Agency ran safehouses in New York and San Francisco where drugs were given to people who did not know they were being tested. Its own words are "covert and realistic field trials" on "unwitting subjects". Director Stansfield Turner answered for the programme before two Senate committees on 3 August 1977.
The hearing puts the question directly to a witness. On source page 61 Senator Kennedy asks the CIA psychologist John Gittinger whether the women who supplied him informants at the safehouse were prostitutes, and Gittinger answers "Yes, sir." On source page 66 Senator Schweiker asks whether they slipped customers drugs for observation; Gittinger answers "Not to my direct knowledge." Both exchanges are on this page.
It is the name the journalist John Marks gave the safehouse programme in 1979. The Agency's own files call it MKULTRA Subprojects 3, 16 and 42. The words do reach the record: on source page 52 Senator Kennedy reads from a voucher signed by the CIA's principal agent in San Francisco and puts them to Admiral Turner, who draws no conclusion from them.
Senator Kennedy reads the fittings into the record on source page 52: two-way mirrors installed in the bedroom, red bedroom curtains, French can-can dancers, three framed Toulouse-Lautrec posters with black silk mats, floral pictures, drapery and recording equipment — paid out of vouchers running around $100 with the payees' names blacked out.
Yes. All 171 printed pages of the Senate committee print of 3 August 1977, taken from the Select Committee on Intelligence's own copy rather than a mirror, free to read here and free to download. Its appendices reprint the Church Committee's account of the programme and CIA memoranda of the Agency's own.
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CIA records of the MKUltra safe-house programme in which drugs were administered to unwitting subjects.
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