1954-02-10 · 4 source pages
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Commentary by The Declassified Collection, separate from the original source.
A handling restriction limiting readership. The slip tells Helms to have Gibbons, Drum and Gottlieb read the Director's letters and return them to Kirk, while making no personnel-file notation. Restricted circulation and formal discipline were separate matters.
The Church Committee quotes this sentence at Book I page 399, reproduced at Church Committee report: foreign and military intelligence — source PDF page 399, and notes that the Rockefeller Commission had described the letters as reprimands.
The postal zone number used on the Agency's letterhead before ZIP codes were introduced in 1963.
Director of Central Intelligence, 1953 to 1961. This letter is marked PERSONAL; the separate routing slip specifies hand delivery and return without a personnel-file notation (Memorandum, "Unwitting Application of LSD", with letters to Col. James H. Drum, 10 February 1954 — source PDF page 1).
Chief, Technical Operations, Technical Services Staff - the CIA unit in which Gottlieb served.
The letter criticises Gottlieb for recommending the unwitting application. The Church Committee identifies Lashbrook as the officer who put the drug into the liqueur (Church Committee report: foreign and military intelligence — source PDF page 396).