JOE HARSCH COLUMN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01554R003300280027-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 5, 2005
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: March 13, 1979
• Content Type: MF

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Tape 9
Side A, 0-1/2
1.3 MAR 1979
MEMORANDUM FOR:
FROM:
SUBJECT: C??
On March 9th, Joe Harsch had a column about "paper tigers." In it he
had the following: "Moscow could not deter China, China could not intimidate
Vietnam, Vietnam could not dominate Southeast Asia--and the United States is
not the only power which can no longer have its way anytime, anywhere."
It seems to me that might be very appropriate for our speech/article
in the section about the limits on power. He went on to elaborate that "great
powers seldom move suddenly or decisively like that anymore"--"like that" being
Soviet suppression of revolts in Berlin and Hungary; CIA restoration of the
Shah in 1953;nthe Cuban missile crisis.
Further,"There has grown up since Vietnam too much of an easy assumption
that the United States no longer had the will or ability to influence events
in the power world. The reverse of that claim was that Moscow had become a
new super power able to go from success to success. The fact is we are
experiencing the decline of all superpowers. It is not that the United States
is less powerful; in absolute terms its military strength is almost exactly
what it has been for over a decade--neither up nor down--but because there
is so much new power in the world and because the alignments of countries
have become so much more flexible with the decline of ideology--the United
States, the Soviet Union, and China are all newly restricted in their range
and options."
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CIA'i'eportedly tested drug
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Philadelphia iAP)-The Central Intel- ies to counteract Soviet efforts to develop
ligence:Agency secretly tested a mind- an undetectable drug that could incapaci-
control drug lh 1971 on 20 persons, Includ- tate a victim's mind.
irg five. Inmates at Philadelphia's Holmes- The program was part of a larger drug
burg Prison, the Philadelphia Inquirer re? project whose code name was OFTEN, Ac-
ported yesterday cording to the CIA documents.
Accordiiij. to a 1973 CIA memo ob- The 20 paid volunteers, 15 from the ?
tained under 'the Freedom of Information military services and the 5 prisoners,
Act by an organization affiliated with the were not coerced into participating in the
Church of .,scientology, the drug, identified project, a CIA memo said. The drug pro-
only as a _glycolate dubbed EA (Experii- duced "delirium and other psychotic be-
mental Agent) 3167, produced prolonged havior lasting from three or four days
psychotic effects - with subsequent amnesia," a memo said.
The CIA'g director. Adm. Stansfield Some symptoms lasted as long as six
Turner. tesithed before a Senate subcom- weeks. . .
rritttee last.. year that most of the CIA's But a report on the experiment said,
mind-control programs ended In- the "The results are Inconclusive. Apparently,
1960's. with the exception of a few 'scat. the drug is not reliable at the dosage Lev-.
tered prd}ects. " elstested
The te'st?5iere undertaken at the Edge- ,. : There was no indication in the memos
wood + fd> Arsenal Research Laborator what happened to the subjects.; .k-,
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And, "There are still countries possessing great military power but
times and places for using it grow fewer and narrower, and this applies to
Moscow just as much as the United States. Neither is in fact a paper tiger
but both must be newly circumspect about using their claws."
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Article appeared 3 March 1979
on page A-3
Judge I~definit~iy P bstpones
Trial of 3 -I Ex-Officials
By Kenneth Bredemeier
Washington Post Staff Writer
The conspiracy trial of three former
top FBI officials was postponed indef-
irately yesterday after- a -government-,
prosecutor-told a federai,.~judge that
he needs more time . to determine
whether to-turn over highly classified
documents for use: by?defense lawyers.
U.S. District Court. Judge. William
13. Bryant ordered the prosecutor-,..spe-
cial assistant U.S. attorney Barnet D.
Skolnik, to give him a report March
proving allegedly- illegal breakins of i
their homes.
The latest. delay results - ? from
Bryant's secret rulings last week re-
quiring the government. to turn. over
the classified documents-to- defense
attorneys. The documents,' which
could become public- at the trial,-in-
clude'some from the Central Intelli-
gences Agency,, the- super-secret^ Na-
tional Security Agency, aand, foreign:;
governments
In part,- Felt and Miller are claim.
inn that they approved the.breakias
on Gray's authority, but they also say;
15 on what progress he is making In the breakins may have been legal be?.
,deciding what to do i. about the- case, :, cause; of --alieged Weather Under,
which new has been delayed. several ground. contact. with. hostile govern.
times ments,.such. as Cuba and North Viet
The trial of L. Patrick Gray III, for nazm Gray is claiming. that he did not.,
mer acting director of the FBI, W. authorize the breakins.
Mark Felt, the FBI's former number Skol-nik told Bryant that the. prose-.
"two, man and Edward S. Miller, for .. cutors "intent to explore all kinds of
,mer bead of the FBI's Intelligence di- options" to give the defendants a fair`.
;vision, was scheduled to start Monday. a trial. He also said that Gray likely
They are charged with conspiring to -will have to be tried separately from
violate the civil rights of friends and Felt and Miller, but that the govern j
relatives-of the terrorist Weather Ln- ment has not fully decided whether
derground in the early 1970s by ap- that is necessary.
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