LETTER TO MR. LEROY HAYMAN FROM JOSEPH C. GOODWIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000300010018-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 15, 2004
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: June 1, 1970
• Content Type: LETTER

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Mr. Leroy Hayman
Schdlastic Magazines, Inc.
50 West 44th street
New York, New York 10036'r
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Thank you for your letter of 25 May. I regret that we cannot be
of assistance. As a "silent service" of government,: we do not issue
Press releases and bulletins.'`.:
However,' I am "Closing 'A*me
material which,,ho, lly, will give
you a clearer understanding of our functions and rreapa,neibilitios.
Agency is epprecieted.
Enclosures
Sincerely.
8e Goodwin
Assistant to the Director
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united Press International MK-Ultra ran into the 1960s, spur-
The Central Intelligence Agency red initially by Korean War-era fears
)shook the theoiy that "nice" people that the Soviets and Chinese had a
:cannot be made immoral under hyp- big lead in "brainwashing" techniques
-nosis by getting one woman to act out that might enable them to induce con-
-a cold-blooded -murder In 1951, accord- .fessions from any captured enemy
LIng to declassified intelligence docu-
ments. and turn Western spies Into helpless,
The Cold War-era mind control ex obedient double-agents.'
Nanes of subjects :perlment climaxed when the hypno-
tized woman, described as' peaceable In the released documents, but alll
and terrified of guns, fired a pistol were" described as young, well-edu-
,point blank at a sleeping colleague-. cated, highly motivated women who'
snot' knowing the gun had been un- 'worked for the CIA and apparently,
'loaded. volunteered for.the experiments.
:.'t'he documents'also described other The slmulated murder 'was de'-
'experiments in hypnosis_always in- scribed in a report dated Feb. 10, 1954,
-volving female subjects for reasons concerning a male hypnotist and a
:not stated-in which women were per- - woman "who had expressed a fear of
suaded to simulate immoral, abnormal, firearms in any fashion.",
or disloyal behavior. It said she was put in a trance and
One report concluded: told to awaken another woman who
"If it can be shown in- a series of had been put into a deep sleep. '
tests that our subjects will do things When she could not awaken her Col.
!hat they normally would. not' do in league, the report said, she was or-
their everyday activities, It seems logi- dered to "pick up a pistol nearby and
Kcal that individuals elsewhere can be fire it at Miss (blank)" and assured
also controlled thusly." that "her rage would be so great that
The once-secret documents . were she would not hestitate to 'kill"'
;obatined. by the weekly Washington 'It said the -woman "carried out
newsletter Science Trends under'the these suggestions to the letter, includ-
:F'reedom of Information Act, and - lug fixing the (unloaded) gun at Miss
made available to United Press Inter- (blank), then proceeding to fall into a
.national., .,. , ..deep sleep" as ordered.
They described CIA-sponsored hyp- When awakened,'-,' neither -? the
nosis experiments carried out from - "murderer" nor her "victim" had any.
?1951 to 1954, ? when the. agency _ was -recollection of what had happened,
starting up its _ ultra-secret- "Project the document said. Itadded:.