Helms didn’t want the public to know about the mind-melting work of MKULTRA, ever. Someone whose name is whited out wrote, in a CREST database document from January 17, 1975, “Over my stated objections the MKULTRA files were destroyed by order of the DCI (Mr. Helms) shortly before his departure from office.”

Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Sec…, loc. 815