Commission on CIA Activities within the United States · June 1975

Domestic Activities of the Directorate of Science and Technology

The chapter in which a presidential commission publicly acknowledged that the CIA had tested drugs on people who did not know they were being tested, and that a man had died in 1953 after being given LSD without his knowledge.

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Document: Domestic Activities of the Directorate of Science and Technology
Agency: Commission on CIA Activities within the United States
Date: June 1975
Pages: 7 in the source
Treatment: Level 1 — LISTED. Page images and metadata only. There is no transcription and no text layer of ours behind these scans.
Provenance: Chapter 16 of the Report to the President by the Commission on CIA Activities within the United States, June 1975, as digitised and posted by the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum, a NARA presidential library.
Condition: The chapter as a single official object: 7 pages carrying printed pages 226 to 231 plus the chapter opener. We publish the object the government publishes; the title and contents sheets are separate files on the same host and are not merged into this one.
Rights: GREEN — 17 U.S.C. §105. The report of a commission appointed by the President and staffed by federal officers, published by the Government Printing Office. No third-party figure, photograph or credited illustration on any page of the chapter.
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