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In a memo forwarding his report on TSD’s management of MKULTRA to the DCI, CIA Inspector General John Earman says that the program’s “structure and operational controls need strengthening”; that the ...

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The National Security Act Amendments of 1949 (Public Law 81-216, 63 Statute 578) establishes the Department of Defense as an Executive Department including the Department of the Army, the Department ...

Bureaucratic authority within the CIA for the ARTICHOKE program bounced around during the early 1950s from the Office of Security to the Office of Scientific Intelligence (OSI) before going back to ...

This supplemental agreement demarcated the “defense areas” in which the U.S. would be free to develop and operate military bases. The main areas were Narsarsuaq, which had been the site of a U.S. air ...

In 1975, NSC staffer Robert Johnson revealed to members of the Church committee that President Eisenhower ordered the assassination of Patrice Lumumba during an NSC meeting in early August 1960. Other ...

The CIA’s Technical Services Staff (TSS) requests authorization for a project at Georgetown University Hospital that would provide cover for research under the Agency’s “biological and chemical ...

Statement of Vincent L. Ruwet on Frank Olson death, December 1, 1953 Open PDF in new window ...

After returning from an overseas trip, the CIA’s Morse Allen summarizes his recommendations for the establishment of “security validation teams” in the U.S. and abroad that would combine the use drugs ...

Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library, White House Office Files, National Security Adviser, Saigon Embassy Files Kept by Ambassador Graham Martin: Copies Made for the NSC Staff 1963-1975 (hereafter GRFL ...

This memorandum outlines the original covert program for what evolved into the Bay of Pigs operation. Dated May 16, 1960, the plan was presented to and authorized by President Eisenhower the next day.