MKUltra Subproject 80

Project MKULTRA Subproject 80 paid for a laboratory service that the CIA could call on when it needed sensitive work done. The surviving cover sheet says the subproject was initiated on 10 January 1958 and was set to expire on 9 January 1962. Funds for the current year were listed as $5,000. The cover sheet describes the work as providing services of a very sensitive nature on request, conducting extraction and identification techniques for drugs, toxics, and biological entities from human tissues. The researcher also acted as a consultant on medico-legal problems related to detection of these materials. The status line calls it a continuing program with no long-range studies.

The rest of the file is financial paperwork. Memos to the Comptroller and Finance Division obligate MKULTRA funds to cover the subproject's expenses. One memo dated 4 May 1962 obligates $3,120.00 and charges it to allotment 2125-1390-3902. An earlier memo dated 10 January 1958 obligates $5,166.72 and charges it to allotment 8-2502-10-001. A March 1958 memo covers Invoice No. 1 with cashier's checks totaling $5,166.72 against fiscal year 1958.

Names are blacked out throughout. The signature blocks identify only the Chief of TSD/Biological Branch, the Chief of TSS/Chemical Division, and a Research Director. This is what the surviving paperwork shows. It records the money and the type of work but not the people or the outside institution.