dChan - Q Origins Project Archive

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"In August 1977, the Director of Central Intelligence testified before a joint session of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research that the CIA had located boxes of financial records relating to three programs, MKSEARCH, MKOFTEN, and MKCHICKWIT, which appeared to be Department of Defense programs. The Secretary of Defense directed the General Counsel to search DoD records and determine the extent of military participation.

The search covered Army, Navy, and Air Force records from 1950 to 1977. It found that the Army participated in three programs between 1969 and 1973, the Navy in five programs between 1947 and 1973, and the Air Force in none. In four of the eight programs identified, DoD's role was limited to channeling CIA funds to outside contractors to conceal agency sponsorship. The document is the most complete government account of the MKOFTEN and MKCHICKWIT programs that exists in the public record. The substantive operational files were destroyed in 1973."