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Commission on CIA Activities within the United States · June 1975
The chapter in which a presidential commission publicly acknowledged that the CIA had tested drugs on people who did not know they were being tested, and that a man had died in 1953 after being given LSD without his knowledge.
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That the CIA had studied behaviour-influencing drugs from the late 1940s and had tested them on people who did not know they were being tested — a programme run first on the West Coast and, from 1961, on the East Coast. It records that the Agency's own Inspector General questioned the propriety of that testing in 1963.
This is where the public first read it, on printed page 227, without his name. The chapter says LSD was given to "an employee of the Department of the Army without his knowledge" at a meeting with CIA personnel, that he was sent to New York with a CIA escort, and that "several days later, he jumped from a tenth floor window of his room and died as a result."
The commission does not say, and it says why: it could not learn the details of one reported hospitalisation "because of the destruction of the records and the unavailability of witnesses". What it establishes is that the testing happened, that it was reported inside the Agency in 1963, and that the record of it had already been destroyed by 1975.
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CIA records of the MKUltra safe-house programme in which drugs were administered to unwitting subjects.
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