THE DECLASSIFIED
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Destruction of Records on Drugs and Toxins

1975-10-20 · 4 source pages

A 1975 CIA Inspector General review traced the destruction of MKULTRA drug records and distinguished documented losses from missing files whose fate remained unexplained.

Original source record

Destruction of Records on Drugs and Toxins — opening source page

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Commentary by The Declassified Collection, separate from the original source.

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no drug-related files

October 1975: a later Inspector General reporting on what had become of the records this volume's first document inspected.

destroyed on instruction

On Gottlieb's instruction, dated 31 January 1973. The next leaf notes the destruction notices say 30 January.

Helms’s instruction

The Inspector General attributes the Helms order to statements by OTS officers. Those statements belong to the memorandum's Tab A, which is not attached to this released copy. The paragraph separately identifies Gottlieb's instruction as the action by which the records were destroyed.

Source PDF page 2 · 2 notes

Job No. 68-746

The records-centre job number under which the MKULTRA drug files were destroyed.

Dr. Sayre Stevens

Cited for the statement that files on other aspects of MKULTRA were not destroyed. Three such files were identified.