Lawrence E. Hinkle, Jr.: Testimony to the Cornell University Medical College Committee on Central Intelligence Agency Activities (Restricted-PHI), 1979 February 5

The Committee on Central Intelligence Agency Activities Records document the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) activities with Cornell University Medical College (CUMC) in the 1950s and CUMC’s subsequent investigation into those activities in the late 1970s. They include declassified documents requested from the CIA dating from their involvement with CUMC in the 1950s and reports from the CUMC Human Ecology Study Program in the late 1950s and early 1960s concerning their research. They also include materials dating from the Committee’s investigations in 1978 and 1979 such as transcriptions of testimonies from witnesses and participants taken by the Committee and its head, Walker F. Riker, Jr., MD; newspaper clippings relating to the public’s discovery of Project MKULTRA; internal reports and correspondence, including reports in which Riker documents his findings, and the reports submitted to Riker by participants such as Lawrence E. Hinkle, Jr., MD, created during the investigation into CUMC’s involvement with the CIA; official reports from the Human Ecology Study Program; a small amount of correspondence from the Society for the Study of Human Ecology; and correspondence with John Marks concerning the content of his soon-to-be-published book ‘The Search for the “Manchurian Candidate”’ (New York: Times Books, 1979).

With the exception of the Society for the Study of Human Ecology’s correspondence, internal documents produced by the Human Ecology Study Program are largely absent.