CIA FUNDED 1956 RESEARCH FOR HYPERTENSION REMEDY

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
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WASHINGTON POST
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By Bill Richards
and John Jacobs
Washington Post Staff Writer8
The Central Intelligence Agency se- Specifically, they noted the experi- An October, 1975, report on involve
cretly spent nearly $3,900 in 1956 on ment dealt with "the effect on blood meat in LSD testing by the Alcohol,
don research at the University of Maryland to develop a drug to allevi-
ate human hypertension, according to
documents released to the school yes-
terday by the agency.
Dr. John Krantz, a former head of
the university's pharmacology depart-
ment who got the money, said he was
never told the funds came from the
at the
CIA, A research colleague a e
y spo
e
vers
. the CIA. A un
school suggested he apply for the - CIA man in charge of MK-ULTRA,:
funds, Krantz said, and, he received yesterday that he was told by CIA of-
the money from the Geschikter Fund ficials that the dog experiment was who told him that his, research 'Witli-
for Medical Research, a frequent co- the only part of the program con- LSD "was important to national inter.
vert conduit for money used in the ducted there. ests." The report goes on to say- that
CIA's mind control experiments dur-
ing the 1950s and 1960s known as Pro-
ject MK-ULTRA.
"I took a. dim view of the whole
Geschikter operation then," said
Krantz, who is retired, "and I take an
even dimmer view now."
Krantz, who lives near, Baltimore,
said he met with Charles F. Geschik
ter, founder of the fund, during dis
cussions on.the project and found him
"a superficial scientist."- Geschikter
rang a cancer research program at to federal prisoners at Lexington, Ky.
Georgetown University and also ad-.- ' It has the reported that drug ad-j
ministered the fund with money from diets at the Addiction Research Cen-.,
private philanthropic sources and ter in Lexington Were given" drugs as
from the CIA. -- ?-I rewards 'for taking part in CIA experi-
Geschikter has' been unavailable for.' ments. The CIA supplied $300,000
comment 'since information about MK- - through the Office of Naval Research
ULTRA was made public: by the CIA,; between 1954 and 1962 to pay for the
earlier this month experiments. ? _
The documents-on the hypertension
experiment; were' turned over to Uni
versity of - Maryland . officials yester-
day. The. school'vras 'gna.of about 80
notified in the, past week by the CIA
that they"were part of MK-ULTRA ei-
ther With or without their knowledge.'
The hypertension experiment 'at
Maryland was. among. "special studies
embracing pharmacological testing
and evaluation of drugs of interest to
TSD [the CIA's technical services
division] ?
, according to the docu
ments.,.. ss ,?~; .t.
tives," the documents said. The frog' ministration, which includes icIM1if,
mentary records released to. the uni- said knowledge of the source of funds
varsity give no indication of what use was limited to senior staff menibers at
the intelligence agency made of the the Addiction Research Center aner
information. was probably discussed with the
Maryland is the first institution NIZIH scientific. directors."
among those which were part of MK- The report said that Dr. Harris Is
ULTRA to receive . documents from bell, then director of the center, was
sman said approached by Sidney cxotttleo, the
k
it
i
Several other schools, including "without specifying a precise interest
Georgetown, George Washington and on the part of the CIA, Mr. Gottlieb
Harvard, have said they. were also que esteed d additional information from stated that the CL would provide
qu the program and have re- money to continue these`studies.'A
?_ ., "s;r
the CIA,
Documents obtained by The Wash-
ington Post reveal that senior direc-
tors of the National Institute of Men
tal Health "probably" knew that the
CIA funneled money to the institute
to administer LSD and other drugs
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