[Report #191] Dulles approved MKULTRA 'noting that security considerations precluded handling the project through usual contractual agreements'. Invoice documents and regular audit were waived too. The Senate's finding: the waivers 'had the paradoxical effect of providing less restrictive administrative controls and less effective internal review for controversial and highly sensitive projects than those governing normal Agency activities'. The head of the CIA's Audit Branch called the result 'gross administrative failures'.
[Report #191] Ten years before the destruction, the CIA's own auditor: 'Files are notably incomplete, poorly organized... A substantial portion of the MKULTRA record appears to rest in the memories of the principal officers and is therefore almost certain to be lost with their departures.'
[Report #191] DCI Stansfield Turner, 1977: 'the recovered folders are finance folders... the recovered material does not include status reports or other documents relating to operational considerations'. They survived because somebody filed them in the wrong place in 1970 — 'The reason for this departure from normal procedure is not known' — and the 1975 search never looked there.
[Report #191] Senator Kennedy, 1977: 'The Central Intelligence Agency drugged American citizens without their knowledge or consent... These individuals have a right to know who they are and how and when they were used. As of today, the Agency itself refuses to declassify the names.' The recovered folders contained 185 researchers and 80 institutions.
[Report #191] Government lawyers needed to prove he had learned the truth early enough for his claim to be time-barred. The treatment had damaged his memory. 'Well I couldn't tell you exactly. I wouldn't know just when it was. That's impossible for me to know. I don't know.' 'It was in the paper, the newspaper.' His family learned of it from an article about a journalist's book.
[Report #191] 'I tended to believe them.' Eighteen years on the sexual victimisation of children: 'I have no reason to deny their existence or nature.' His finding: 'in none of the cases of which I am aware has any evidence of a well-organized satanic cult been found.' And: 'A horror-filled yet inaccurate account of victimization is not only not a counterindication of abuse, but is in fact a corroborative indicator of extreme physical, psychological, and/or sexual abuse.'
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