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OPENING STATEMENT BY SENATOR DANIEL K. INOUYE ON INTELLIGENCE HEARINGS ON PROJECT MKULTRA

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OPENING STATEMENT BY SENATOR DANIEL K. INOUYE ON INTELLIGENCE HEARINGS ON PROJECT MKULTRA

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Approved For-elease 2005/06/30 : CIA-RDP79M00983AO01500060004-3 OPENING STATEME F BY SENATOR DANIEL K. INOUYE, CHAIRMAN E OP ~bLECT CONhiIT1~ d . NI EI.L I GI:NC,L i r =~ S HEARINGS ON PROJECT MKULTRA I`- J 3.202 DIRKSLN BLDG. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1977 The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is meeting today and is joi ed. by the Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research chaired by Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts and Senator Richard Schweiker of Pennsylvania. Senator Hathaway and. Senator Chafee are members of both Comm.ttees. We are to hear testimony from the Director of Central Intelligence, Admiral Stansfield.. Turner, and from other Agency witnesses on issues concerning new documents supplied to the Committee in the last week an drug testing conducted. by the Central Inteliigenc~. Agency. It should be made clear from the outset that in general, we are focusin on events that happened over 12 or as long as 25 year ago. It should be emphasized that the programs that are of greatest concern have stopped and that we are reviewing these past events in order to better understand what statutes and other guidelines might be necessary to prevent the recurrence of such a.buses in the future. We also need to know and understand what is now being done by the CIA in the field of behavioral research to be certain that no current abuses are occurring. I want to commend Admiral Turner for his full cooperation with this Coiini.ttee and with the Subcommit-L'ee on Health in recognizing that this issue needed our attention. The CIA has assisted our Conu-nittees and staffs in their investigative efforts and in arriving at remedies which will serve the best interests of our country. The reappearance of reports of the abuses of the Drug Testing; Program and reports of other previously unknown drug programs and projects for behr v .oral. control underline the nucess:Lt:y for effective oversight procedures both in the : r :uti at~qy elf ~.k a 190M cIA p 99"AJ4 ,o0~9  Approved For Release 2005/06/30 : CIA-RDP79M00983AO01500060004-3 been working very closely with President Carter, Vice President Monda.le, and Admiral Turner and his associates in developing basic concepts for statutory guidelines which will govern all activities of the intelligence agencies of the United States. In fact, it is my expectation that the President will soon announce his decisions on how he has decided the intelligence agencies of the United States shall be organized. This Committee will be working closely with the President and Admiral Turner in placing this new structure under the law and to develop effective oversight procedures. It is clear that effective oversight requires that information must be full and forthcoming. Full and timely information is obviously necessary if the Committee and the public is t9 be confident that any transgressions can be dealt with quickly and forcefully. one purpose of this hearing is to give the Committee and the public an under standing of what new information has been discovered that acids to the knowledge already available from previous Church or Kennedy inquiries, and to hear the reasons idly these documents were not available to the Church and Kennedy Committees It is also the purpose of this hearing to address the issues raised by any additional illegal or improper activities that have emerged from the files and. to develop remedies to prevent such improper activities from occurring again. Finally, there is an obligation on the part of both this Committee and the CIA to make every effort to help those individuals.or institutions that may have been harmed by any of these improper or illegal activities. I am sure that Admiral Turner will work with this Committee to see that this will be done. Approved For Release 2005/06/30 : CIA-RDP79M00983AO01500060004-3

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