{
  "schema": "living-library-atlas-records-docket-v1",
  "status": "private, request-ready, not submitted",
  "as_of": "2026-10-18",
  "scope": "Archival records locating and decision-custody testing; references are historically bounded and do not imply a modern Epstein link.",
  "requests": [
    {
      "id": "RD-01",
      "custodian": "CIA / National Archives",
      "item": "1973 records-retirement jobs 68-746 and 68-255/256, signed destruction authorizations, box shelf lists, archivist protest dated February 2 1973",
      "anchor": "MK-017",
      "status": "request_draft_needed",
      "resolution": "Establish destruction chronology and chain of authority"
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-02",
      "custodian": "CIA OIG / NARA",
      "item": "1975 destruction inquiry original appendices Tabs A-F, Research Board records HO-22, HO-147 and associated loan/return ledger for January 8, 1975",
      "anchor": "MK-017",
      "status": "request_draft_needed",
      "resolution": "Resolve archival entries noted missing in 1975"
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-03",
      "custodian": "Department of Justice OLC and Criminal Division",
      "item": "Records of review and investigation recommended in John M. Harmon's 9 September 1977 MKULTRA memorandum, including final declination, referral, intake and correspondence",
      "anchor": "MK-016",
      "status": "request_draft_needed",
      "resolution": "Verify the disposition and basis of any prosecutorial decision"
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-04",
      "custodian": "CIA OTS / Senate Intelligence Committee historical holdings",
      "item": "12 separate research-grant files related to but not technically part of MKSEARCH discovered August 15 1977 and September 1 1977 grant summary with organization and amount; financial correspondence FY1966–1972",
      "anchor": "MK-004",
      "status": "request_draft_needed",
      "resolution": "Obtain separate inventories for August 15 MKSEARCH financial folders and twelve related-but-distinct grant files; reconstruct each grant, recipient, purpose and paid voucher without conflating record groups."
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-05",
      "custodian": "National Archives / CIA general counsel",
      "item": "John Marks v. CIA FOIA legal action folder indexed in the OGC/OLC 2025 retention release, complete entry and parent case documents",
      "anchor": "MK-022",
      "status": "request_draft_needed",
      "resolution": "Locate FOIA production correspondence and historical court-file provenance"
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-06",
      "custodian": "House Task Force on Declassification of Federal Secrets",
      "item": "Full June 30, 2026 MKULTRA hearing witness statements and documentary exhibits with declassification correspondence",
      "anchor": "MK-007",
      "status": "source_collection_partial",
      "resolution": "Test current claims against files and specific declassification requests"
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-07",
      "custodian": "U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Legal Counsel / Criminal Division",
      "item": "Complete John Gavin attachment referenced in January 5, 1978 John Harmon opinion on MKULTRA records destruction, 25 November 1977 request from Criminal Division, final disposition referral or declination with decision memorandum",
      "anchor": "MK-027",
      "status": "request_draft_needed",
      "resolution": "Identify whether and why any criminal file-destruction prosecution was declined or pursued, and any missing OLC attachment",
      "privacy": "official institutional records only"
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-08",
      "custodian": "CIA Office of General Counsel / Office of Inspector General / legacy HEW-HHS liaison",
      "item": "1978–1980 implementation records related to July 17, 1978 OLC memorandum to Anthony Lapham: institutional contact logs, notice protocols, aggregate count of test subjects identified and notified, final investigation and interagency coordination, with personally identifying subject details withheld",
      "anchor": "MK-028",
      "status": "request_draft_needed",
      "resolution": "Determine whether CIA carried out its described warning effort and the documented population reached, without collecting or publishing private identities",
      "privacy": "aggregate redacted data only"
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-09",
      "custodian": "CIA historical Office of Technical Service / Senate Intelligence Committee archival holdings",
      "item": "April 30, 1979 CIA follow-up to Sidney Gottlieb, any final report referenced as nearly complete, Gottlieb replies including documented telephone response, and subject harm/notification totals",
      "anchor": "MK-029",
      "status": "request_draft_needed",
      "resolution": "Resolve whether the 1979 subject identification inquiry produced a final report and what aggregate notice results were reported",
      "privacy": "exclude names or re-identification keys"
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-10",
      "custodian": "CIA Inspector General / John Marks archival collection",
      "item": "Full July/August 1963 Earman MKULTRA survey, November 1963 testing-freeze correspondence, 1975 Inspector General retrospective addendum and any Director-level decisions ending or resuming unwitting tests",
      "anchor": "MK-030",
      "status": "request_draft_needed",
      "resolution": "Test whether records substantiate actual resumption of testing rather than proposals or continued budget authority",
      "privacy": "historical management chain only"
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-11",
      "custodian": "Naval Research Laboratory / Office of Naval Research / National Archives",
      "item": "Project CHATTER records: 1947 inception orders, interrogation drug protocols, overseas experiment reports and 1953 closure documents, redacted subject-level records",
      "anchor": "MK-008",
      "status": "archival_request_preparation",
      "resolution": "Determine which Navy tests were carried out and distinguish Navy sponsorship from CIA BLUEBIRD/MKULTRA; retain subject confidentiality"
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-12",
      "custodian": "CIA Office of Security / National Archives",
      "item": "QKHILLTOP cryptonym assignment in 1954; Cornell Medical School Human Ecology research documents; first grant contracts and Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology incorporation/transfer correspondence",
      "anchor": "MK-032",
      "status": "archival_request_preparation",
      "resolution": "Document absorbed work and trace institutional and recipient knowledge before assigning a CIA-funded research node"
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-13",
      "custodian": "CIA Technical Services Division / Army Special Operations Division Fort Detrick / NARA",
      "item": "MKDELTA 1952 special-procedure authorizations, MKNAOMI CIA/Army 1952 cooperation agreement, 1967 program mission statement and 1969–1970 termination/inventory disposition",
      "anchor": "MK-009",
      "status": "archival_request_preparation",
      "resolution": "Resolve contested MKDELTA deployment versus authorization and account for MKNAOMI agent custody or destruction"
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-14",
      "custodian": "Department of Defense General Counsel / Edgewood Arsenal / CIA Office of Research and Development",
      "item": "OFTEN and CHICKWIT original authorization, acquisition sample ledger, animal and human protocol and June 1973 Edgewood testing sponsor/consent decision, plus original 20 September 1977 DoD memo FOIA 02-A-0846",
      "anchor": "MK-003",
      "status": "archival_request_preparation",
      "resolution": "Reconcile CIA and DoD testimony about which office financed and controlled June 1973 research"
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-15",
      "custodian": "CIA OTS financial holdings / congressional retired staff files",
      "item": "Original FY1966–1972 MKSEARCH funding instrument and 12 grant files, with any direct record linking CHICKWIT or OFTEN awards to specific subproject numbers",
      "anchor": "MK-004",
      "status": "archival_request_preparation",
      "resolution": "Test which awards continued MKULTRA work through MKSEARCH and which were separately administered; reconcile grant overlap before comparing OFTEN/CHICKWIT."
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-16",
      "custodian": "Weill Cornell Medical Center Archives / Cornell University Medical College Committee on CIA Activities (collection US-NNCORMA-RG02-SG002-001)",
      "item": "Archive access and reproduction review for historical open/unrestricted CIA FOIA records, Box 1 Folders 2–3, 1979 inquiry Box 1 Folder 11, and May–June 1960 Society for Investigation of Human Ecology correspondence, Box 2 Folder 5; request restricted PHI not be disclosed",
      "anchor": "MK-034",
      "status": "request_draft_not_submitted",
      "resolution": "Obtain authenticated permitted documents and compare original grant awareness and funding without publishing health or personally identifying data",
      "privacy": "Respect HIPAA, FERPA, archive access and restrictions; no PHI retrieval"
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-17",
      "custodian": "CIA OTS / Bureau of Narcotics successor archives / NARA",
      "item": "Subproject 14 Operation Black original 1953 transfer voucher ($4,000), $4,300 approximate allocation summary, White personnel loan memorandum and account closeout; separately Subproject 8 1953 Geschickter Foundation grant, $790 service fee and 1953–55 actual payment receipts",
      "anchor": "MK-024",
      "status": "request_draft_not_submitted",
      "resolution": "Establish paid versus budgeted amounts and distinguish a personnel-support transfer from proof of an unwitting drug test",
      "privacy": "Historical institutional fiscal documents; suppress any nonpublic experimental subjects"
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-18",
      "custodian": "CIA OTS fiscal records / NARA / Eli Lilly historical archives (access subject to archival restrictions)",
      "item": "Subproject 18 December 1953 LSD procurement authorization for $400,000, obligation register, C.V.S. Roosevelt travel vouchers and final $1,337.45 expense report, plus any original Eli Lilly agreement or written cover arrangement, with records proving recipient and payment dates",
      "anchor": "MK-024",
      "status": "request_draft_not_submitted",
      "resolution": "Reconstruct obligation-to-disbursement chain; determine what part was actually spent and avoid inferring institutional knowledge from cover description",
      "privacy": "Historical institutional records; avoid personal health records"
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-19",
      "custodian": "CIA Technical Services / Geschickter Foundation successor archival custodian / NARA",
      "item": "Subproject 21 1953 proposed $5,800 pharmacological screening budget, cancellation notice, refusal or policy correspondence, zero-disbursement ledger and any final voucher or closeout",
      "anchor": "MK-024",
      "status": "request_draft_not_submitted",
      "resolution": "Explain why a retrospective approximate total appears when CIA summary says no funds were ever expended; confirm scope of any cancellation",
      "privacy": "Do not request identities of experimental subjects"
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-20",
      "custodian": "CIA OTS/TSS Chemical Division and successor records / National Archives / congressional 1977 appendix provenance holdings",
      "item": "Original August 25 1955 Subproject 23 hospital-expense memorandum, unsigned and signed variants, contractor financial voucher, invoice and approved charge amount ($658.05 Senate transcription versus $652.05 alternate OCR), project-numbered 1954–1955 authorizations and de-identified notice/consent-policy audit records",
      "anchor": "MK-002",
      "status": "request_draft_not_submitted",
      "resolution": "Verify exact amount, recipient office, approvals, clinical ethics controls and whether a subject-notification review occurred without public identification of cancer patients",
      "privacy": "Request administrative and aggregate documents only; suppress patient names, diagnoses beyond what original released document already says, PHI and protected research subjects"
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-21",
      "custodian": "CIA Office of General Counsel / National Archives / relevant institutional historical grant files, subject to access rules",
      "item": "Subproject 35 Lawrence R. Houston Dec 21 1954 legal memo and Apr 8 1955 follow-up, FY1954–1957 matching-grant application, disguised payment instrument, municipal/federal matching award decision, hospital 80% overhead schedule, final financial ledger and contractual disclosure records",
      "anchor": "MK-002",
      "status": "request_draft_not_submitted",
      "resolution": "Determine whether potential additional government match and 80% hospital overhead avoidance were actually realized, who approved arrangements and what third parties knew",
      "privacy": "Institutional finance and legal files only; exclude patient records"
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-22",
      "custodian": "CIA Technical Services Staff/Division, Office of Security records and NARA; institutional university archives, as permitted",
      "item": "Subprojects 9, 26 and 28 authorization and protocol files, institutional research-ethics/volunteer consent forms in redacted aggregate form, payment vouchers, research reports, and 1970s subject notification consideration",
      "anchor": "MK-024",
      "status": "request_draft_not_submitted",
      "resolution": "Test the CIA retrospective volunteer characterization, establish which university offices authorized experiments and avoid counting linked-project subjects or payments twice",
      "privacy": "Do not seek or publicly disclose subject names, medical records, identifying diagnoses or personally identifying patient-level data."
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-23",
      "custodian": "CIA Technical Services Division archived accounts / NARA / successor institutional grant and foundation archives",
      "item": "Contract/award/closeout vouchers for linked subprojects 12 and 32, 20 and 31, 25 and 29, 27 and 33, and 13 and 30; records explaining whether reported approximate figures were separately paid or were renewals, adjustments or reused ledgers",
      "anchor": "MK-024",
      "status": "request_draft_not_submitted",
      "resolution": "Reconstruct obligations and disbursements without adding accounting corrections or continuation numbers as independent research awards",
      "privacy": "Institutional financial records only; redact or avoid private subjects."
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-24",
      "custodian": "Federal Bureau of Prisons / NARA / Department of Justice and relevant New Jersey corrections historical archive / institutional grant custodian",
      "item": "Subproject 47 authorization, 1955–1962 Atlanta Federal Penitentiary and New Jersey prison and reformatory experiment protocols, institutional approvals, aggregate informed-consent and refusal safeguards, compensation schedule including $2,900 Atlanta subset, CIA/Geschickter invoices and historical agency notification logs; exclude subject identity and individual records",
      "anchor": "MK-024",
      "status": "request_draft_not_submitted",
      "resolution": "Determine precisely which correctional authority approved participant recruitment, what ability to refuse was provided, and which compensation entries were actual payments rather than retrospective totals",
      "privacy": "De-identified aggregate and institutional records only; never disclose incarcerated participant names or clinical details"
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-25",
      "custodian": "CIA OTS/TSD, Office of Finance, NARA, Fort Detrick successor historical records",
      "item": "Subproject 50 original 1955 proposed imprest-fund transfer, Finance Division disapproval memo, accountancy standards, appeal decision if any, and links to 13/30 existing cash accounts; verify no actual ledger entries after refusal",
      "anchor": "MK-024",
      "status": "request_draft_not_submitted",
      "resolution": "Locate documentary oversight enforcement and establish whether failed cash request was reclassified under other subproject financing",
      "privacy": "Historical agency financing only"
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-26",
      "custodian": "Cornell Medical Center Archives / CIA TSD / Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology former fiscal records or archival successor",
      "item": "Subproject 48 original 1955 Cornell Medical School research proposal, funding agreements and gift receipts behind the over-$150,000 retrospective figure, institutional IRB/predecessor oversight correspondence, Society formation instruments and contemporaneous institutional awareness, with no disclosure of identified subjects",
      "anchor": "MK-024",
      "status": "request_draft_not_submitted",
      "resolution": "Reconcile QKHILLTOP, Subproject 48, Society cut-out formation dates, and any double-counted institutional grants against exact primary records",
      "privacy": "Respect medical and student privacy; request permitted historical aggregate institutional files"
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-27",
      "custodian": "CIA TSS/TSD historical accounting / successor Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology financial archive / NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell and NARA",
      "item": "Subproject 60 1956 foundation incorporation/charter, disguised grant funding-flow ledger, unrestricted-cover versus directed-research proposals and board approvals; Subprojects 61 and 65 Cornell awards, payees and related two-foundation transfer records; 1956–1960 $226,000 and 1957–1958 $75,000 figure source vouchers; match or exclude 1959 $59,240 proposal",
      "anchor": "MK-024",
      "status": "request_draft_not_submitted",
      "resolution": "Trace CIA→funding society→university disbursements without double-counting mixed-purpose grants and determine documented levels of institutional knowledge",
      "privacy": "Request historical corporate and institutional account records; no named subject or personal clinical details"
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-28",
      "custodian": "CIA OTS / NARA / archival fiscal custodian of Human Ecology Fund",
      "item": "Subprojects 8, 10, 63 and 66 original 1956–1961 authorizations, $5,600 and $75,000 retrospective amounts, 1958–59 $30,475 renewal, consultant transfer from 63 to 66, completed study protocols, institution-approved de-identified consent logs and later notification outcomes",
      "anchor": "MK-024",
      "status": "request_draft_not_submitted",
      "resolution": "Identify duplicate or transferred awards and investigate voluntariness/awareness of approximately 100 reported test participants without exposure of private identities",
      "privacy": "Only aggregate/deidentified records and official protocols; redact subject identities"
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-29",
      "custodian": "CIA TSS Chemical Division / NARA / NIH historical grant and internal-record custodians",
      "item": "Subproject 62 NIH anthropoid research grant agreement and travel/invoice ledgers for the $35,000 retrospective fund, electroshock equipment purchasing and named LSD-project expenditures, agency communications proving which office was aware of CIA source, and any proof for or against human experimentation within that specific instrument",
      "anchor": "MK-024",
      "status": "request_draft_not_submitted",
      "resolution": "Determine whether NIH records demonstrate informed agency participation and distinguish procurement from actual human exposure",
      "privacy": "Historical agency and financial records; no personally identifying patient-level records"
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-30",
      "custodian": "McGill University Archives / Allan Memorial Institute historical administrative records / CIA OTS fiscal holdings / successor institutional records, access-controlled",
      "item": "Subproject 68 original Society for Investigation of Human Ecology grant agreement, 1957–1960 cashier-check receipts, approved funding ledger behind the reported $60,000, historical institutional correspondence about sponsor identity and aggregate treatment/consent protocols, deidentified committee review and historical notice/remediation decisions; check August 1960 prospective USAF sponsorship correspondence",
      "anchor": "MK-024",
      "status": "request_draft_not_submitted",
      "resolution": "Determine grant route and official institutional knowledge, whether USAF consideration became an executed instrument, and whether consent or subsequent notification procedures were recorded.",
      "privacy": "Institutional and aggregate deidentified records only; protect patient identity, case narratives and confidential medical files."
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-31",
      "custodian": "CIA OTS / NARA / Stanford University institutional archives / Medical Sciences Research Foundation surviving fiscal custodians",
      "item": "Subprojects 57 and 70–72 (plus 73 when applicable): separate dated grant instruments, approved renewals, checks, closeouts and cross-reference ledgers; original animal-versus-human protocols and anonymized institutional ethics determinations for 1956–1961 Stanford research",
      "anchor": "MK-024",
      "status": "request_draft_not_submitted",
      "resolution": "Verify transfer 57→70, scope of 71/72 related contracts, avoid double-counting approximate budgets and determine documented human exposure or agency sponsor knowledge.",
      "privacy": "No patient or volunteer identifiers; historical institutional approvals and deidentified aggregate controls only."
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-32",
      "custodian": "CIA TSS/OTS historic grant ledgers, SIHE/Human Ecology Society successor archives, NARA",
      "item": "Subproject 74 master award list for the 25-plus cover grantees, downstream original checks and 1958–1962 grant contracts, signed accounting for separately indexed $15,000 grant and $111.23 write-off, plus identification of any overlap in $100,000 aggregate total",
      "anchor": "MK-024",
      "status": "request_draft_not_submitted",
      "resolution": "Reconcile individual subsidiary awards and documented write-off against the retrospective SIHE umbrella without double-counting; determine historical fiscal signatories",
      "privacy": "Institutional historical fiscal records only; do not expose private experimental subjects."
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-33",
      "custodian": "CIA OTS/NARA and relevant institutional psychiatric-research archives subject to privacy rules",
      "item": "Subproject 75 1960–1961 human psilocybin/LSD/mescaline protocol and de-identified recruitment and consent policies, dated paid vouchers and $2,756 publication-support charge within the $7,000 retrospective total",
      "anchor": "MK-024",
      "status": "request_draft_not_submitted",
      "resolution": "Establish actual clinical activities and informed consent policies, and distinguish publication expenditures from experimental costs",
      "privacy": "De-identified institutional oversight and aggregate records; no patient names or health files."
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-34",
      "custodian": "Educational Testing Service institutional historical archive, CIA TSS/OTS budget files, SIHE/Human Ecology fiscal archive",
      "item": "Subproject 77 original $110,000 multi-year grant contracts, research deliverables and payee reports, oversight and participant-notice records, and corporate board/administrative correspondence distinguishing aware researchers from broader ETS employees",
      "anchor": "MK-024",
      "status": "request_draft_not_submitted",
      "resolution": "Test which officials understood CIA sponsorship, which methods were performed, and reconstruct the complete funding period",
      "privacy": "Institutional and anonymized participant records only."
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-35",
      "custodian": "CIA OTS/TSS financing archives, National Archives, surviving historic H. J. Rand Foundation records if accessible",
      "item": "Subproject 79 signed cutout agreement, authorized recipients, 1957–1962 sterile-check and account ledgers, retained foundation board minutes and related grants into sensitive research",
      "anchor": "MK-024",
      "status": "request_draft_not_submitted",
      "resolution": "Recover downstream payees and distinguish knowingly involved intermediary personnel from unaware downstream grantees; reconstruct actual sums without guessing a grand total",
      "privacy": "Financial and governance records; avoid donor/subject information not necessary for public accountability."
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-36",
      "custodian": "Cornell University Medical Center Archives, Human Ecology Fund historical records, CIA TSS records",
      "item": "Subprojects 81 and 82 Hungarian-refugee research original award contracts and study protocols, date correction for 82, de-identified participant recruitment and consent policies, separate expense vouchers and related Subprojects 65/69 reconciliation",
      "anchor": "MK-024",
      "status": "request_draft_not_submitted",
      "resolution": "Test overlap of Hungarian-refugee research and whether people were independently informed of study purpose and true sponsor",
      "privacy": "Protect refugee identities and research participants; request only deidentified institutional records."
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-37",
      "custodian": "Harvard University Archives, Stanford University historical archives, CIA OTS and Medical Sciences Research Foundation historic fiscal files",
      "item": "Subproject 84 hypnosis motivation protocols and institutional awareness records, Stanford 85 blood-group agreement and 86 mini-polygraph grant and trial results, compare 86 miniature polygraph with 71's parallel study and establish whether any unwitting participant trials occurred",
      "anchor": "MK-024",
      "status": "request_draft_not_submitted",
      "resolution": "Distinguish proposals, research and operational use, including overlapping authorized funds and specific informed consent safeguards",
      "privacy": "Institutional grant and technical records only, no identifiable samples or patient records."
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-38",
      "custodian": "CIA OTS/Technical Services historical research files, Johns Hopkins historical research administration and NARA",
      "item": "Subproject 87 original 1959–1966 authorization and $20,700 award vouchers, documented experiments and deliverables, countermeasures or restrictions and any evidence of application or cancellation.",
      "anchor": "MK-024",
      "status": "request_draft_not_submitted",
      "resolution": "Determine whether offensive chemical-toxicants capability described in the CIA brief was actually developed or deployed and which agreements define Johns Hopkins awareness.",
      "privacy": "Institutional and financial records only, no individual research-participant identities."
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-39",
      "custodian": "CIA OTS grants records, University of Wisconsin historical research office, relevant ethics-oversight archives",
      "item": "Subproject 97 Human Ecology original funding agreements, University of Wisconsin psychotherapy research protocols for psychiatric and control cohorts, aggregate/anonymous consent and recruitment policies, deliverable reports and written institutional notice.",
      "anchor": "MK-024",
      "status": "request_draft_not_submitted",
      "resolution": "Separate therapist participation and consent from patient consent and actual sponsor knowledge while protecting treatment identities.",
      "privacy": "Exclude patient names, clinical dossiers or uniquely identifying diagnoses."
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-40",
      "custodian": "CIA OTS, University of Oklahoma historical faculty/award records, social-science research archives",
      "item": "Subproject 102 $5,750 Human Ecology youth-group study original grant, parental permission and minor assent procedures in anonymous aggregate, institutional approvals, recruitment materials, and research deliverables.",
      "anchor": "MK-024",
      "status": "request_draft_not_submitted",
      "resolution": "Test whether the adolescent-boys research had informed institutional and guardian consent and whether it involved research beyond observation.",
      "privacy": "No minor names, original participant identities, school identifiers or individual interviews."
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-41",
      "custodian": "CIA OTS; Children's International Summer Villages, Inc. historical institutional archive; SIHE successor finding aids",
      "item": "Subproject 103 original roughly $1,900 cash grant, SIHE correspondence and the appended institution's correction, original 1959 nonverbal communication research plan, anonymized parental/participant notice policies, CIA memoranda assessing teenagers for possible later intelligence use, and any record proving or excluding subsequent follow-up.",
      "anchor": "MK-024",
      "status": "request_draft_not_submitted",
      "resolution": "Establish CIA internal intentions against CISV denial of operational participation without incorrectly alleging actual recruitment, and determine formal notice or remedy decisions.",
      "privacy": "No identifiable child-participant files, correspondence, addresses or private family histories."
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-42",
      "custodian": "CIA OTS/TSD surviving fiscal holdings, NARA, Medical Sciences Research Foundation historical records",
      "item": "Subproject 93 1962 $15,080 authorization, original funded purpose and related contractor, and 94 animal stimulation research grants, subject-species protocols and dated completion reports.",
      "anchor": "MK-024",
      "status": "request_draft_not_submitted",
      "resolution": "Resolve 93 misattributed toxin claim and identify whether 94's proposed device was completed or deployed, with actual payees separated.",
      "privacy": "Historical grant and research-level aggregates only; no subject-level records."
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-43",
      "custodian": "CIA OTS; American Psychological Association historical institutional archives; SIHE successor fiscal records",
      "item": "Subproject 107 original $15,000 psychology travel grant documents, correspondence identifying institutional signatories, approved itineraries and closeout, along with clarification of CIA funding awareness.",
      "anchor": "MK-024",
      "status": "request_draft_not_submitted",
      "resolution": "Determine institutional sponsorship knowledge without implying APA leadership endorsed covert experimentation.",
      "privacy": "Exclude private attendees' personal information not necessary for institutional accountability."
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-44",
      "custodian": "CIA OTS/TSD and NARA, Department of Defense historical contractor finance archives under applicable access rules",
      "item": "Subprojects 109–110 original dated chemical grant contracts, authorization and receipts, biological production-capability status reports, historical safeguards, inspector or oversight documentation and any documented actual deployment determination.",
      "anchor": "MK-024",
      "status": "request_draft_not_submitted",
      "resolution": "Separate CIA description of service readiness from specific actions, reconcile $270,000 budget with receipts, and resolve 109's internally inconsistent source date.",
      "privacy": "Institutional operational accountability only; do not obtain or publish actionable biological-agent production procedures."
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-45",
      "custodian": "Veterans Affairs historical domiciliary archives / VA Office of Research Oversight / NARA / CIA General Counsel records",
      "item": "Subproject 125 original 1960–1963 research protocol, consent and withholding-of-information authorizations, original anonymous cohort sizes, publication citations, IRB-predecessor approvals and the later CIA review record underlying the decision not to act.",
      "anchor": "MK-024",
      "status": "request_draft_not_submitted",
      "resolution": "Reconcile the CIA-reported group unknowingly receiving active drugs with the agency's later retrospective assurance; document actual notification and any administrative remediation.",
      "privacy": "Request archival institutional funding, approval, and deidentified aggregate records only; do not seek or disclose individual participant records."
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-46",
      "custodian": "CIA OTS and fiscal archives / Human Ecology Fund / university records custodians",
      "item": "Subproject 124 original CO2 acid-base psychiatric protocols and authenticated volunteer agreements, award documents for linked 2/124/140, clinical safeguards and participant notification decisions.",
      "anchor": "MK-024",
      "status": "request_draft_not_submitted",
      "resolution": "Determine what physiological exposures happened under 124 and 140, distinguish investigator knowledge from participant consent, avoid shared authorization double-counting.",
      "privacy": "Request archival institutional funding, approval, and deidentified aggregate records only; do not seek or disclose individual participant records."
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-47",
      "custodian": "Cornell University archival grants / NIH historical awards / Society for Investigation of Human Ecology fiscal archive",
      "item": "Subproject 117 Cornell cross-cultural family/personality research signed awards, NIH co-sponsorship instrument, actual grant receipts, institutional officers' funding notices, and aggregate consent protocols.",
      "anchor": "MK-024",
      "status": "request_draft_not_submitted",
      "resolution": "Identify precise NIH versus CIA funding lines and whether the named institutions or researchers knew the underlying CIA sponsor.",
      "privacy": "Request archival institutional funding, approval, and deidentified aggregate records only; do not seek or disclose individual participant records."
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-48",
      "custodian": "CIA OTS and University of Florida / academic society archival records / USAF Office of Scientific Research historic grant records",
      "item": "Original 126, 129 and 130 authorizations, University of Florida disaster-study project date, 129's separate CIA $2,505 and USAF $27,500 instruments, and Columbia sponsorship/clinical research approval history.",
      "anchor": "MK-024",
      "status": "request_draft_not_submitted",
      "resolution": "Correct OCR chronology and prevent conflating separate grant programs while determining what recipient institutions actually authorized.",
      "privacy": "Request archival institutional funding, approval, and deidentified aggregate records only; do not seek or disclose individual participant records."
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-49",
      "custodian": "CIA OTS and National Archives / Technical Services Division Chemical Branch historical custody files",
      "item": "Subprojects 131–132 fiscal vouchers and dated authorizations for SIHE deep-cover agent payments and New York/Chicago facilities, original case histories or redacted project-closeout reports, intended versus actually delivered tests, and any documented subject-notification decision.",
      "anchor": "MK-024",
      "status": "request_draft_not_submitted",
      "resolution": "Distinguish Society research grants from its use as CIA staff cover and determine whether field testing involved volunteers or unwitting subjects without presuming continuity from George White.",
      "privacy": "Request archival institutional funding, approval, and deidentified aggregate records only; do not seek or disclose individual participant records."
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-50",
      "custodian": "CIA Technical Services accounting and NARA; Medical Sciences Research Foundation successor archival files",
      "item": "Subproject 135 original cancellation notice and signed $25,000 transfer to Subproject 91; original 91 funding ledger, obligations and closeout; reconcile against any Subproject 91 grants already recorded.",
      "anchor": "MK-024",
      "status": "request_draft_not_submitted",
      "resolution": "Establish whether 135 was cancelled before commencement and ensure an authorized transfer is not treated as a separate paid experiment or additional expenditure.",
      "privacy": "Historical fiscal and governance records only."
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-51",
      "custodian": "CIA fiscal offices, Geschickter Fund successor records, NARA",
      "item": "Original financial instruments for Subproject 141's unspecified $40,000 expense and 144/145's $26,000 and $15,500 entries, signed purposes, recipient identifiers if public historical institutions, payment receipts and interproject cross-ledger annotations.",
      "anchor": "MK-024",
      "status": "request_draft_not_submitted",
      "resolution": "Resolve unknown-purpose historical funding without manufacturing experimental subjects or adding overlapping accounts.",
      "privacy": "Institutional accounting and governance records only; protect subject data."
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-52",
      "custodian": "CIA Technical Services historical archives, NARA and declassified 1977 Senate investigative appendices",
      "item": "Original Subproject 149 1964–65 funding authorizations and archival duplicate note, item-level comparisons with Subprojects 3, 16 and 42, dated checks, equipment/venue continuity and formal termination records, limited to permitted historical files.",
      "anchor": "MK-024",
      "status": "request_draft_not_submitted",
      "resolution": "Determine whether 149 repeats or continues historical operational records; do not treat the archival note as proof of a distinct incident or payment.",
      "privacy": "No personal identities of testing subjects; use archival institutional and deidentified activity records."
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-53",
      "custodian": "CIA Technical Services historical chemical branch / Geschickter Fund successor archive / NARA",
      "item": "Subproject 140 original thyroid-cover research human-volunteer recruitment, original written protocol and informed consent/notice policies, documented clinical testing phases, $63,000 dated funding instruments and September 1965 termination and successor authorization; reconcile with Subprojects 2 and 124.",
      "anchor": "MK-024",
      "status": "request_draft_not_submitted",
      "resolution": "Test whether original clinical participants knew their exposures and funding conditions, and identify the actual approved successor without inventing additional trial cohorts.",
      "privacy": "Institutional protocols, aggregate consent policies and deidentified statistical records only; no clinical identities."
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-54",
      "custodian": "CIA OTS historical funding archives, University of Denver archival awards and Geschickter Fund successor records",
      "item": "Subprojects 49, 51, 52 and 53 dated hypnosis and chemical-study grants, botanical field-trip receipts, researcher contracts and original fiscal close-outs, compared against 5/25/29 and related plant-chemistry project records.",
      "anchor": "MK-024",
      "status": "request_draft_not_submitted",
      "resolution": "Reconcile the final four numbered initial source abstracts against signed grants and distinguish laboratory procurement or literature review from demonstrated human exposures.",
      "privacy": "Institutional historical records and deidentified participant-safeguard documentation."
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-55",
      "custodian": "CIA historical archives and National Archives",
      "item": "Original 1979 task-force project-classification tables, earlier project-account relationships and archival closeout ledgers.",
      "anchor": "MK-040",
      "status": "request_draft_not_submitted",
      "resolution": "Confirm which historical descriptions are administrative continuations instead of separate paid projects and verify agency case-review conclusions.",
      "privacy": "Seek historical institutional records and deidentified aggregate findings only."
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-56",
      "custodian": "CIA historical finance archives and relevant university grant records",
      "item": "Original Subproject 133 second-year financial agreement, approved research expenses, administrative fee and final payment vouchers.",
      "anchor": "MK-011",
      "status": "request_draft_not_submitted",
      "resolution": "Distinguish the $9,000 research budget from its $360 included administrative fee and determine actual payments.",
      "privacy": "Only institutional fiscal instruments, with private participant information excluded."
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-57",
      "custodian": "Department of Justice historical archives and CIA General Counsel records",
      "item": "Actual outcomes of the August 1977 review of possible MKULTRA prosecution, outreach to affected research participants, and government obligations.",
      "anchor": "MK-043",
      "status": "request_draft_not_submitted",
      "resolution": "Determine which legal and notification outcomes were formally reached, rather than treating an inquiry as a disposition.",
      "privacy": "Exclude personally identifiable participant records and seek aggregate or redacted decisions."
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-58",
      "custodian": "CIA Office of Finance, Technical Services file collections and National Archives",
      "item": "The original eight MKULTRA Office of Finance documents identified August 10 1978; category A/B/C marked copies; lettered or deFlorez research accounts; crossreference unnumbered archival folders later given arbitrary numbers approximately 150–160; original account descriptors, redaction review and actual book entries.",
      "anchor": "MK-044",
      "status": "request_draft_not_submitted",
      "resolution": "Establish which historical holdings lie outside the 149-number retrospective, without inventing new scientific subprojects or equating a folder identifier with a conducted experiment.",
      "privacy": "Historical indexing, fiscal and institutional oversight records only; no subject identities."
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-59",
      "custodian": "CIA Office of Finance, archival Subproject 133 collection 00017392, Rensselaer historical grant office",
      "item": "All 38 identified Subproject 133 original documents from 1961–1966, including 80-page CIA PDF original authorization, allotment 3125-1390-3902, budget, certified obligation schedules, invoice dates, payment and any return/refund; separate $9,000 work and $360 included intermediary fee in 1962 renewal.",
      "anchor": "MK-045",
      "status": "request_draft_not_submitted",
      "resolution": "Build verified documentary chain from proposal through authorization to final paid voucher; prevent converting a $9,360 proposed total into a paid amount without receipts.",
      "privacy": "Institutional financial approval and aggregate research descriptions only."
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-60",
      "custodian": "CIA Task Force MKULTRA notification files, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence retired correspondence, NARA",
      "item": "October 9 1979 unwitting-subject notification addendum original numbered file, July 1979 final report, October 22 1979 letters to Senators Bayh and Kennedy with dispatch evidence, anonymized counts for original 15 possible diary contacts, 12 reached/heirs and three unresolved, later government follow-up and redacted historical decision records.",
      "anchor": "MK-047",
      "status": "request_draft_not_submitted",
      "resolution": "Authenticate the 1979 diary-based outcomes and whether final notification correspondence was sent, while keeping this group separate from the nationwide population of MKULTRA experimental participants.",
      "privacy": "Aggregate counts, deidentified outcome summaries and institutional correspondence only; no individual subjects or heirs identified."
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-61",
      "custodian": "CIA Office of General Counsel, Department of Justice historical FOIA litigation and institutional notification archives",
      "item": "September 1977 institution-notice roster and letters underlying CIA counsel's assertion that every identifiable involved institution was notified; September 1979 MKULTRA information-release advice; original Sims FOIA production schedule and documented redactions under the 1985 Supreme Court decision.",
      "anchor": "MK-046",
      "status": "request_draft_not_submitted",
      "resolution": "Separate institutional notification, participant notification and lawful FOIA withholding; do not apply 1979 district ruling after the controlling 1985 Supreme Court decision.",
      "privacy": "Institution names where lawfully releasable, redaction criteria and aggregate notification status; exclude protected researcher and participant identities."
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-62",
      "custodian": "CIA OTS historic finance records / National Archives / Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology historical fiscal archive",
      "item": "Subproject 65 original 31-page financial collection 00017465: 1957 two cashier checks totaling $50,000, FY1958 supplemental $2,150 invoice, aggregate obligation $52,150, September 1958 downstream accounting of $2,100 payments and $50 balance, plus original Subproject 61 SIHE account cross-reference and bank-clearance evidence.",
      "anchor": "MK-050",
      "status": "request_draft_not_submitted",
      "resolution": "Determine exact dated account scopes, whether original checks cleared and if supplement and Society-level grant were already counted in other historic totals; do not sum fiscal stages as distinct expenditures.",
      "privacy": "Institutional historic financial approvals and aggregate deidentified research records only."
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-63",
      "custodian": "CIA historical FOIA records and National Archives case-retention schedule archive",
      "item": "Preserved case-processing and public release metadata for F-2026-00889, P-1999-02450 and P-2011-00673 including precise searches, response categories and the September 2005 records-retention entry; public/redacted copies of original 1999 and 2011 correspondence without personal identifiers.",
      "anchor": "EP-014",
      "status": "request_draft_not_submitted",
      "resolution": "Test administrative provenance and whether any later non-exempt responsive records were released, avoiding any inference that a Glomar response proves classified recruitment, and require removal of released private identifiers before any Atlas screenshot or link.",
      "privacy": "No personal identifiers, including SSNs, precise residences, identity proofs, signatures, contact details or third-party addresses; public-facing Atlas uses sanitized summary only."
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-64",
      "custodian": "CIA Office of Finance historic accounts / NARA / Society for Investigation of Human Ecology university-grant archives",
      "item": "June 28 1956 Subproject 48-to-65 $74,000 authorization transfer, original $240,479 and revised $166,479 Subproject 48 ledgers, FY1956 $76,056 proposal, 1957 $50,000 and 1958 $2,150 grant and payment vouchers, original bank clearances and related Subproject 61 accounting.",
      "anchor": "MK-050",
      "status": "request_draft_not_submitted",
      "resolution": "Reconcile transferred authority, proposed 1956 budgets and later FY1958 obligations without double-counting any internal allocations as distinct payments.",
      "privacy": "Institutional accounting records and redacted historical signoffs only; exclude names, medical records and other identifiers of individual refugees or experimental participants."
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-65",
      "custodian": "CIA MKULTRA Task Force 1979 retirement files / National Archives / National Security Archive provenance holders",
      "item": "Response, if any, to the original April 30 1979 CIA letter to Sidney Gottlieb; original attachments and 1979 final report reconciliation of unanswered questions about safehouse experiments, historical health follow-up and report delivery; March 9 1979 investigative work-plan completion reports.",
      "anchor": "MK-051",
      "status": "request_draft_not_submitted",
      "resolution": "Determine which of the agency's 1979 written questions were actually answered and separate contemporaneous experiments from later doubts about venue, brothel narrative and investigator interviews.",
      "privacy": "Request archival official communications and anonymized historical outcome data, not participant identities, dosage procedures or locations of private people."
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-66",
      "custodian": "CIA Office of General Counsel historical release-policy files / NARA retired agency correspondence",
      "item": "September 24 1979 release-policy memorandum attachments, counsel reply and any adoption notice distinguishing advance information provided to former employees and contractors from separate notification of people involved in unwitting experiments.",
      "anchor": "MK-049",
      "status": "request_draft_not_submitted",
      "resolution": "Verify whether staff release coordination was implemented; do not equate this policy proposal with survivor notice or an order to conceal clinical harms.",
      "privacy": "Institutional guidance with lawful redactions for private subjects and protected intelligence-source identities."
    },
    {
      "id": "RD-67",
      "custodian": "CIA Office of General Counsel historical institutional-response files; National Archives; Geschickter Fund and relevant redacted institutional historical collections",
      "item": "Retrieve original June 8 1953 and February 22 1954 research grant proposals, signed Subproject 7/27/33/40 approved allotments and service-fee correction vouchers, the 24 October 1978 MKULTRA retrospective memorandum first-party page images, September–December 1977 CIA institutional contact letters and responses, and anonymized participant consent/notification records.",
      "anchor": "MK-053",
      "status": "request_draft_not_submitted",
      "resolution": "Determine whether proposed unwitting dosing occurred; whether the Subproject 33 payment correction settled; and whether institutional replies led to independent investigation or actual individual notice. Treat all research-subject information in redacted aggregate form.",
      "privacy": "No identities or medical records of historical research subjects; request deidentified historic aggregate outcomes and archival institutional correspondence only."
    }
  ],
  "method": "Verify agency custody, retention schedule, prior releases and FOIA exemptions before sending. Preserve request and reply IDs. Do not infer culpability from a missing file or a refusal.",
  "last_substantive_pass": "R41",
  "next_scope": "Financial transfer 48→65, April 1979 CIA unanswered safehouse questions, 1979 staff security-release policy. Keep primary grant vouchers, independent consent and notification outcomes as explicit unresolved release restrictions."
}