Mk ultra the cia and radiation

The Government Psychiatric Torture Site MK-Ultra The CIA and Radiation Page sur Interim Report of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments Appendix pp E- to Courtesy of PinkNoise History and Organization of the Central Intelligence Agency The Central Intelligence Agency CIA was created in by the National Security Act which also established the Department of Defense DOD and the National Security Council NSC CIA was modeled largely after the O ?ce of Strategic Services which served as the principal U S intelligence organization during World War II The newly created agency was authorized to engage in foreign intelligence collection i e espionage analysis and covert actions it was however prohibited from engaging in domestic police or internal security functions Nonetheless CIA engaged in a program of domestic human experimentation from the s into the s CIA components most likely to have been associated with any experiment are the O ?ce of Scienti ?c Intelligence OSI in the Directorate of Intelligence the O ?ce of Security the Technical Services Division TSD in the then-Directorate of Plans DDP now Directorate of Operations and at least from the O ?ce of Research and Development ORD in the Directorate of Science and Technology Beginning in the late s OSI analyzed and disseminated foreign scienti ?c and medical intelligence concerning the development and testing of atomic weapons and interacted with DOD and the Atomic Energy Commission AEC on these issues TSD ran Project MKULTRA discussed below Human experimentation was done prior to MKULTRA by OSI and the O ?ce of Security and after MKULTRA by ORD Experiments To date CIA has found no records or other information indicating that it conducted or sponsored human radiation experiments Records Search In response to the January presidential directive CIA conducted an agency-wide search for information about human radiation experiments that it may have conducted At the Committee's initial meeting in April CIA stated that the search encompassed an electronic review of approximately million documents a manual review of documents and nearly interviews CIA also stated that it had found no documents relating to experiments conducted by other agencies The Committee however has since found records indicating that CIA o ?cers did participate in DOD groups in which human radiation experiments including those involving the placement of troops at atmospheric weapons tests were discussed and planned As discussed below CIA is continuing to search for documents relating to these and other activities Beginning in the early s CIA engaged in an extensive program of human experimentation using drugs psychological and other means in search of techniques to control human behavior CIA has so far found no evidence that radiation experiments on humans were part of this program CIA documents and a CIA Inspector General IG report however state quite clearly that MKULTRA was a program concerned with research and development of chemical biological and radiological materials capable of employment in clandestine operations to control human behavior emphasis added The IG report states that additional avenues to the control

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