CIA FUNDED 1956 RESEARCH FOR HYPERTENSION REMEDY

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000300020005-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
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WASHINGTON POST
By Bill Richards
and John Jacobs
Washington Post Stott Writers
The Central Intelligence Agency se- Specifically, they noted the experi? An October, 1975, report on involve
cretly spent nearly 53,900 in 1956 on ment dealt with "the effect-on-blood ment in LSD testing by the Alcohol,,
dog 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
tires, the documents said. The frog niirustration, which includes I dill,
mentary records released to. the uni- said knowledge of the source of funds
versity give no indication of what use was limited to senior' staff me-embers at
the intelligence agency made of the the Addiction Research Center and,
information. "was probably discussed with the
Maryland is the first institution NIMH scientific directors."
among those which were part of MK- The report said that Dr. IiarrisIs-;
ULTRA to receive documents from bell, then director of the center, was
CIA. A research colleague at the' the CIA. 'A university spokesman said approached by Sidney Gottlieb, the
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 with.
4' t ? - 1 i t
t t
for Medical Research, a frequent co-.
vert conduit for money used in the
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
ran a cancer research program at
Georgetown University and also ad-
ministered the land with money from
private philanthropic sources and
from the CIA.
Geschikter has 'been unavailable fort'
comrrient 'since information about MK- .
ULTRA was made" ,public- by the CIA
earlier this month ''The documents on the hypertension
experim ent-were `turned over to Uni-
versity: of',Maryland .officials yester-
day. The.,school was one of about 80 notified in the past week -by the CIA
that they'were part of 1VIK-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
o na long
the only part of the program con- : LSD was importan
ducted there ests." The report goes on to say' that
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 stated that the CIA would . provide
part of the program and have re-.
quested additional information from money to continuethese;studies.
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'
to federal prisoners at Lexington, Ky..
It has been reported that drug ad-
dicts at the Addiction Research en-1
ter in Lexington were given drugs as
rewardsfor taking part in CIA experi-
ments. The CIA supplied $300,000
through the Office of Naval Research
between 1954 and 1962 to pay for the
experiments. `.:..
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