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This undated CIA memorandum for the Deputy Director for Administration, catalogued with an estimated date of 1973, reviews the agency's past drug research under the OFTEN and CHICKWIT projects run by its Office of Research and Development. It concludes that no drug programs remain undiscovered and that the planned agency-funded human testing of the chemical EA 3167 at Edgewood Arsenal never took place before the program ended in January 1973. It finds that only Edgewood could identify test subjects or evaluate the chemical's long-term effects.
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ACTION REQUESTED: Notify June 1973 test subjects A. Findings -- No information on these tests was surfaced in any of our searches - Our first knowledge of the tests came on 15 September 1977 during a review and index of materials being prepared by the DOD for submission to the Senate Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research on 21 September 1977. - The Army IG document from which we gained our first knowledge of the Jan 73 test and which was quoted by DCI to Senator Kennedy says "In June 1973, two military volunteers were tested at EARL with EA 3167 but these tests were funded by the Army RDTE funds and were not connected in any way with the CIA project." B. Conclusion -- Notification of test subjects by CIA is not possible with information available to us; only Edgewood could identify.
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 7 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.