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29 ~ o v e m e r 1963 ·

MEMORANDUM FOR THE .RECORD

SUBJECT : MKULTRA PROGRAM

1. A meeting was held in General Ca;.ter 's office on 29 Nove=nber. ·

1963 to discuss the subject program. Those present, in addition to

General .Carter , were Messrs . Helms, i r k p a t r i c k ~ "lGottlieb,.

and Earman. The main thrust of the discussitJn was the testing o£

certain drugf: on unwitting U. S. citizens. Dr. Gottlieb gave a brief

history of the MKULTRA program which was not in any wa /. a t variance .

with the IG report of August 1963 on this subject. ·

2. Messrs . Gottlieb and · c· Jargued for t ~ e ~ o n t i n ~ : ; ~ o n c

unwitting testing, u ~ i n g as the principal point that controlled test ing

can..not be depended upon for accurate resul ts. General Carter , Mr.

Kirkpatrick, and I do not disagree with this point. We also accept the

n e e s ~ i t y for having a "stable of drugs" on the shelf and the r e q u i r e m n ~or continued research and development of drugs--not only for possible

oper ational use but also to give CIA insight on the state o{ the a r t b . this.field and in part icular to alert us to what the opposition is or might be '



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to m e since the same dangers exist in the U. ·s. and f rom what we ·

were able to find out during our survey, the acUities we have £or

uncontrolled testing leave much to be desired--1 made a point o£ thia.)

5 . After further discussion, i t was ~ g r e e d :

a . That the char ter o£ MKULTRA would be revisedalong the l ines recommended n the IG survey.

b . The procedu:t'es for testi;ng drugs are to be. reviewed ·

and,new alternative proposals submitted.

·c . U .i t is concluded by th DD/P that unwitting test ing

on American cit izens must be continued to opera

t ionally prove out these drugs, i t may becomenecessary to place this problem before tho Director

f o ~ a decision. ·. ...

6. I made the point t.hat the IG survey had found other problenua

. with the MKULTRA program in addition to the unwitting testirig, but

stated if the charter is rewrit ten along the l ines recommended, I

believe these problems would be corrected. . .

· 7 •. NOTE:· The IG Survey of MKUL'rRA was handed to

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DIRECTOR• PBI (l00- 4653.3) 7/31/67• 0 _ • • • . .

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ReBulet to xew York. deted 8/12/66. ent i t led•coMMUNIST P ~ USA• COUW'l'ERIXTELLIGENCB PROGRAM; INTERNALSECURITY • C<{{ LA COSA JiOSTRA ) • ; eaS Bulet to Wev York , dated3/7/67. captioned i s above. .

In a ~ v e • r e r e r e n o e d l e t t e r . dated 8/12/66, the ·Bure«U atPted tha t i t vould be interested in developing along-range prcgrsm to diarupt the communiat Per tJ• USA• b7

ae t t ing i t against La coae Wostra (LCB)•

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issue o f The New York TiMes contained a lengthy ar t ic ler e l ~ t i n g to the depth on 7/13/67 o f THOMAS GAITANO LUCHESE• z ·a1eo mown as •THREE FINGER BRO'Iilf • a l eade r o f a LCN .family_ o·in Jrew York. ' lhis e.l 'tiole oonteined a l a rge amount o f biograph- ::I1ce1 deta on LUCHESE which included aome genera l informat ion ~pertaining to g ~ n g l e n d act ivi ty in wev York.

por the 1'urther 1n.foraatlon of the Bureau, t h e

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•oountr7 18 ~ g b but the pres1 . doea not ~ o i n t out tha*.La cose w o s t ~ a oontribute1 greatl7 towsrd1 aaking l t

. . bigb. Por ·instance, La cosa Joatra auppliea narcotiol ·vhiob •hook• v io t i u vbo mu1.t e ~ e n t u a l l J 1teel money to.keep buying tho narootioa • . · . _._ _ _ . _. ,.·. . . ·: ':: . : . ... .

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•r read t the ' high orime ra te or oppre•sed peoplelr e t I osnnot name • Jfegro or ?uerto Rioen gangster who••oriM1nal 1tature 11 o n e t e n t h t h ~ t o t Thom81 Luohese.. .

"Your paper, vhioh I have road tor Jeara has alwayaohampioned the oauae t the working a ~ d tba oppressed classes.La coss Jfostra is a oapital ia t enemy t these ole•s••• De

not fa i l to keep the people informed or the vays or thiaootapua.

axeep up the good work."

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"some weeks ago I reed in ~ e w York newspapers oft h ~ death c f Thomes 'Tbree.Finger Brown' Luoheee, e leaderof a La coae Noetre family in New York. A few weeks af terLuchese•a death, an a r t i c le appeared in •The NeW York Times'

concerning Mafia tcandidatea• jockeying for the Job a

Luchese ' l auoceseor. - - - Juet l ike thato It wee ae if

the pres ident of General Motors he.d cUed and a aucoeseorwee baing sought, At l eas t the •Times' had the good Judge-

. ment t t put the a r t i c le in i t a l lueiness aection, .·

"But, the m o r ~ · tha t you think about i t , .news ooti

oerning the La cess Noatrs or the Mafia, or whatever theyce l l themselves, should probably be in the business sec t ion

of n e w s ~ e n e r s because La case Noatra i s e big, thr ivingbusiness in this country,

"The tentacles of La coea ]Iastra ere entongled in

gambling, narcotics , pol i t i c s , loan-sharking, t rucking,private garbage disposal , labor unions, the garment indust ry ,ree l es ta te , and t rucking, among other things. And, I guesstha t you could •rrenge a murder-for-hire •oontract• wi th

them, i fyou had the money.

Many of tbose involved in La cosa Rostra have



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.. Editor or The Worker a1 providing direct favorable p u l l ~· c i t y for the Communilt party, USA, with r e a ~ c ~ to i t s

opnoaition to LCR because the views expressed are those of a ..reader or "The worker • In the above l e t te r to the Editorof The worker , praise is given to The Worker ao as toenhance the_publioation of thia l e ~ t a r

I f Bureau p e r m i a ~ i o n 11 granted to submit theabove l e t t e r to "The worker , t wil l be updated, and senton oommeroiel stat ionery. The return address of 60lA sur fAVenue, Brooklyn, Hew York 11224 wil l appear on the envelope.' 'he name I• COHEN is a f io t i t ioua one .but there ere 11everalpeople with the eurnmno COREN ~ o s i d i n g at thl 60lA Surf AVenue

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1 December 1953·

l'v Er,IORAi\"TIUI\1 FOR: Inspector General

SUBJECT: Usc of LSD

1 Pursuant to your reCJuest, · Dr. \Villis Gibbons, Chief , TSS,

was contncted on the evenin,1 of -30 November 1953 conce-rnin;; points

herein::tfter noted.

2. Dr. Gibbons hns iz-:1pounclcd all LSD mater ia l -in CIA IIcn.d

·quar te rs in a sofe adjacent to his desk. , No one c:lse has t he combi

nation to this safe; the mater ia l was so impoundc.:l on 29 Novcn1ber

1953.

3. Dr. Gibbons stated tbnt he is s t o p p n ~ nny LSD tes ts which

may h<we been instituted o · contempbtcd u t ~ e r Cl i \ u s p i c e A

cable will be sent to the field on 1 December 1953 to this effect.



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Tests Contradict

U.S• Story of

Man s SuicideJibmily Says Man Killed :

· fter CI Experiment · · ·

By Brian Mooar. ~ C . O D P o a t : t a l l W r l t . r

Preliminary r e s u l t ~ of a forensicexamination appear to contradict·



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B8 fmsD.lY,]ULl' 12,1994 ••· THE W.lSUING1'0N POST

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~ M a n s Family Has Always Had Questions: OLSON,:hoiii.Bl family to the Whitt: House in 1975 to;::_ ~ personally

apologize for the CIA'sj}ued parents and assassiaate<l Loui- .- use of Olson in an experiment with-).iana Sen. Huey P; Loog. .out his permission. Also, the govern-

: The CIA has denied aJ Y foul play ment pajd the family $750,000 tojn Olson's death, which occurRd .settle their claim that the CIA was"With a CIA agent present in the responsible for what -was then be

~ o o m . t the time, the ageat told po-- ·Jieved.to be his suicide.:lioe he awalr;ened to a loud nolse aod The family has fought over the

~ i s c o v e r e d the hotel window years to obtain CIA documents de-~ h e d and l s o n ~ on the aide- taili.Dg the events leading to Olson's;:;ovalkbelow. - . . death, but Olson's son, Eric, a Fred·• ·CIA spokesman David Christian erick psychologist, said the docu: aid.yesterday he .was unaware of ments were heavily censored and of.

~ t a r r s s team's filldlnga and could teb contradictory . -

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~ i n v e s t i g t e d tboro118hlr ad DO . eon's body and X·rayed the remainseVidence of homicide eve.r.bad been t r clues t his death.

· . 'cliscovered. _ · ·"TTaere are 50 many fractures in: · The family's suspiclou were the skuD tbat it was not poss1'b e tltat:aroused in 1975, w ~ tbe·CIA re-: ~ r e c e i v e d this typeof njuryUrply:J.eased fi_les ~ r ~ i n i n g Olson's · ' from a1ling out of a Viindow," Sbirrs

~ e a t h to a _panel inveatigatlng aUeg- said. "it womd not be possibJe ualease<UY improper and-Uepl.ClA.activt- he were on -a tramPoline. You don't;. sin the United States. · bowlce around like that; when you: The family learned tllatOlson was bi,t pavement, you bit paYement."an unkDowing pirtidpmt m CIA Also, Starts Said his team foundl>rogram alled.MK--ULTRA.--. ae- 110 evidence of ·the glass arts de- aetprogram to study the possible scribed in the original New York au·.-.uses of LSD llld other druis -ar-in- topsy report. He said Olson's body:telliBence or militarY purposes. • - was preserved well enough for 8UCh: . -tf111e -daya before Olson's death on . cuts to_ ave.been vi-aibl.e. If Olson:Nov. 28, ~ 9 5 3 . a CIA acientist smaShed through the hotel window~ into Olson's ·after-din· to lrls his body would have

· .imerdriDk'at aaecret a c l e n been cut, pathologists aaid.·=tffic retreat, and the normallY cheer- Starrs said_ his examioation

.· :M Olson beeame depressed and _howed that Olson landed on his- beha'fiagemtk:ally. - feet, shattering both legs and caut-

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him dead within minutes, The type

of injuries Olson received in hls tallseem inconsistent with the skullfractures, Starrs said.

Starn; said he wou1d conduct ur·ther tests on Olson's skull to deter·mine exactly how the damage was

caused._Starrs and his team are awaiting

results of toxicoJogical .studies thatcould show whether drugs or toxinswere p r e s e n t ~ the s c i e n ~ t s bodyat the lime ofdeath.· Starn traveled to Manhattan yes-terday with five members of his i:eeearch team to question a key witness and re-create the scene wherethe scientist plunged from a 13thfloor window .of tbe Hotel Statler,now the Hotel Pennsylvania,

Relying upon the recollections ofArmond Pastore, night manager ofthe Hotel Statler on the morning of

Nov. 28, 1953, Startsetched a c:ha1k ·bcidy outline on the sidewalk of Sev-- -enth Avenue facing Madison SquareGarden and Penn Station. The .lunch· time spectacle broaght foot

traffice on the Manhattan sidewalkto aatandstill as more than 100 NewYorkers gawked at the acientificteam taking measurements of a vol·unteet sprawled on the sidewalk.

Asked whether he belie.ed Olsonjwnped ·_from the window, Pastoresaid, "No. I think be bad a lot of :belp... -

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