DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY
OFFIC E OF THE CHI";!' OF NAVAL OPERATIONS
2 000 NAV V pENTAGON
WASH I NGTON. I;U : , 2 0350- 2000
Mr. John Greenewald Jr.
Dear Mr . Greenewald :
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July 2 , 2001
This refers t o your Freedom of Information Ac t (FO I A) request of
June 20, 2001 , in which you seek all documents pertaining to
Project Chatter . Your request was received by this office on June 27, 2001, and assigned case number 200101174 .
In an effort to assist you , I have referred your request to the Chief , Bureau o f Medicine and Surgery (Code DOL ) , 2300 E Street
NW , Washington, DC 20372 - 5300 f o r action and direct response to
you .
Sincerely, - . - '/ ' Ai n~J j )1 . ./llt wI.
DORIS M. LAMA
Head, DON PA / FOIA Policy Branch
By direction of the
Chief of Naval Operations
(202) 685 -65 45
DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY
BUREAU OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY
2300 E STREET NW
WAStiINGTON DC 203n·S3OQ
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SUBJECT : FOIA - PROJECT CHATTER
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I am r es ponding t o you r Freedom of Information Ac t ( FOJ A)
request of June 20 , 20 0 1 seeki ng al l documen t s pertain ing to t he
C. S . Navy ' s dru g t esting pro gram Project Chatte r. The Chief ot
Naval Operations f orwarded y o ur request to this Bur eau o n Ju ly
2 , 200 1 f or review and d irect re sponse to you. I re ceived y o u r
r e quest o n J uly 5, 2001 .
Ou r r e search found initial information perta ining to
Pro je c t Chatter at ht t p://www.radix.net/-jcturne r/Chur ch -
l/h t ml . html . Project Chatter was a U.S . Navy p r og ram be ~n in
t he fa ll o f 1 947 f ocusing o n t he i dentifica t i o n and t est ing of
dr ugs in interrogat ions and the recruitment of agents. The
re s earch included labora tory experiments on both an imal a nd
human subj ect s . The program ended sho rtly after the Korean War
in 1953 . The book Ac id Dreams - The CIA, LSD, and the Sixties
Reb e llion , by Ma rtin A. Lee a nd Br uce Shla i n i de nt i f ied Proje c t
Cha tte r a s a program under t he dire c ti o n of Docto r Charles
Savage of the Nava l Medical Rese arch Instit ut e , Bethesda ,
Ma ry land, f r om 194 7 to 1 953 . An excerpt f r om t his b o o k c a n b e
viewed at http: //www.e rowid, org/ljbrary / b ooks_ o oline /acid_
dreams/ acid dreamsl .shtml . A Septembe r 9 , 1 95 1 research r eport
by Lieu t enan t Ch arl es Sa vage , Medical Corps, U.S . Na vy, is
p rovi ded as enclosure (1).
All f ees associated with t he processing o f this r e q uest
have be e n wa i ved.
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July 31 , 2 0 0 1
If I can be o f f u r ther a ssi stanc e , you may reac h me by
Ema il at jlroper@us . med .navy .mil o r by tel ephone at (202) 762 -
30 87 .
Enc los ure:
Sinc erely ,
J . L. ROPER
Lieut e na nt
Judge Advoc a te Gen e r a l' s Corps
United States Naval Reserve
Fr eedom of In f ormation Ac t /
Pr i vacy Act Of f i cer
By d i rection of t he Chief,
Bureau o f Me d i cine and Su r ge ry
1 . Lysergic Acid Diethyl Ami de (L 5D- 25) : A Cl in ical -
Psychological Study by LT Charles Savage , Me, us!':
LYSERGIC ACID DIETHYL AMIDE (LSD-25)
A CLINICAL-PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDY
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CHARLES SAVAGE
Lieutenant, MO, USN
HIS'IARCH UPORT
Project HM 001.066.06.02
NAVAL MXDIC'L RIS:lARCH IlJS'l'ITU'tE
NATIOIIAL l/AVAL MliDlCAL CBNTlIR
:BITHJ!SDA. I MA.RYLUD
9 Sept~mbl"!r 1951