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103APPENDIX BDOCUMENTS REFERRING TO DISCOVERY OF ADDI-TIONAL MKULTRA MATERIAL22 June 1977MEMIOR.ANDUN FOR:Deputy Director'of Central IntelligenceTHROUGH : Deputy Director for Science and TechnologySUBJECT: Request for Guidance on HandlingRecently Located MKULTRA Material1. (U/AIUO) This memorandum is to advise you thatadditional MKULTRA documents have been discovered and toobtain your approval for follow-on actions required.Paragraph 7 contains a recommended course of action.2. (U/AIUO) As a result of John Harks FOXA request(F-76-374), all of the MIKULTRA material in OTSpossession was reviewed for possible release to him.Following that review, the OTS material in the RetiredRecords Center was searched. It was during that lattersearch that the subproject files were located among the.retired records of the OTS Budget and Fiscal Section.These files were not discovered earlier as the earliersearches were limited to the examination of the-activeand retired records of those branches considered mo!tlikely to have generated or have had access tp NKULTRAdocuments. Those branches included: Chmistry,Biological, Behavioral Activities, and Contracts Management.Because Dr. Gottlieb retrieved and destroyed allthe MKULTRA documents he was able to locate, it is notsurprising that the earlier search for MIKULTRA documents,directed at areas where they were most likely to be found,was unsuccessful. The purpose of establishing the MKULTRAmechanism was to limit knowledge of the sensitive workbeing performed to those with an absolute nO'd to know.If those precepts had been followed, the recently found -B&F files should have contained only financial andadministrative documents. (In retrospect, I realize thatDqcfaxl d bydale-I"7-__ . 2 qL