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AGENCY POLICY REGARDING MKULTRA-RELATED INQUIRIES AS TO INSTITUTIONAL INVOLVEMENT

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AGENCY POLICY REGARDING MKULTRA-RELATED INQUIRIES AS TO INSTITUTIONAL INVOLVEMENT

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Approved For Release 2004/08/19 : CIA-RDP81 M00980R000100020040-5 Office of General Counsel I-OLC x18.19t01 l 23 May 1978 NOTE TO: Acting Legislative Counsel FROM: Anthony A A. Lapham, General Counsel SUBJECT: Agency Policy Regarding MKULTRA- Related Inquiries as to Institutional Involvement REF: Your note to me of 22 May Lyle: While I am not insensitive to the "human factors" here, I continue to fail to see how we can depart from Agency policy in this regard without abandoning it altogether. Surely in this case Senator Gravel's office will be able to satisfy the constituent's con- cern about unwitting drug testing with the infor- mation already available to it, since she indicates she is only interested in the period between 1971 and 1973 and your letter states these activities were terminated in 1964. The Victorian Hotel inquiry, dealing as it does with use of properties as Agency safehouses, raises considerations beyond those connected with Approved For Release 2004/08/19 : CIA-RDP81 M00980R000100020040-5  Approved For Release 2004/08/19 : CIA-RDP81 M00980R000100020040-5 MKULTRA. While these drug testing programs may be rationalized away as activities in which CIA no longer has an interest, the use of safehouses remains an indispensable part of Agency operations which could be seriously limited by a policy other than non- comment. An on . Laphain Approved For Release 2004/08/19 : CIA-RDP81,M00980R000100020040-5

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