TURNER CITES 149 DRUG-TEST PROJECTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000300020008-2
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• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 1, 2004
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: August 4, 1977
• Content Type: NSPR

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By John Jacobs
waihtngton Post Staff Writer
CIA Director Stansfield Turner yes-
terday testified that the CIA has con-
ducted 149 projects involving drug
testing, behavior modification and se-
cret administration of mind-altering
drugs at 80 American and Canadian
universities,- hospitals, research foun-
dations and prisons.
Turner requested the hearing be-
fore a joint session of the Senate In-
telligence Committee and a Senate
Human Resources subcommittee to
testify about 8,000 pages of newly dis-
covered CIA documents concerning
Project MKULTRA, the agency's su-
per-secret drug testing program.
Such tests have been stopped,
Turner testified. He said he found it
"totally abhorrent to me to thinly that
human beings were being used as
guinea pigs." ?
Turner's report went bed: and any-
thing the government has revealed be-
fore about the scope of the NIKUL-
TR A program, which was most acti
between 193 and 1964, when it was
phased out. He said the 80 institutions
at which the tests were performed in-
cluded "44 c. lleges or universities, 15
research foundations or chemical or
pharmaceutical companies and the
like, 12 hospitals or clinics and three
penal institutions
But he did not make'public the
names of the institutions or the 185
nougovernn.ent researchers who :c ere
involved in the projects, althoin the
.names were turned over to the sena-
tors on a classified basis. He said most
researchers did not know their act.ivi.
ties were supported by the CIA. .
Of the 149 projects Turner listed, he
said 17 "probably" did not involve hu-
man testing, 14 "definitely" used hu-
man volunteers, _19 "probably" used
volunteers and perhaps unwitting sub-
jects, and at least six used unwitting
subjects. Other projects involved re-
Search in hypnosis, studies of human
behavior, research in "drugs, toxins
and biologicals in human tissue," stud-
ies of human behavior, and the effects
of electroshock, "harassment techni-
ques for offensive use," and gas-pro-
pelled sprays and aerosols.
"Let me emphasize that the MK-
LTRA events are 12 to 13 years in
Uthe past." Turner said .."I assure you
that the CIA is in no way engaged in
either witting or unwitting testing of
drugs today.,,
Turner also described "additional'
details" on the previously reported op.,
eration of two CIA "safehouses" one
In San Francisco and one in' New
,York City, in which CIA agents con-
'ducted LSD experiments on people
who-did not know they were being
given the hallucinogenic drug,- -
Staff aides to Sen. Edward M. Ken-
nedy (D-Mass.), chairman of the
health subcommittee' of the Human
Resources -'Committee, -suspect that
the CIA used the safehouses to bring
in prostitutes to give the drugs to un-
suspecting persons they picked up in
bars...
The safehouse in San 'Francisco "vas
directed by Morgan Hall,, an agent
who died two years ago. Kennedy
read from a document In which Hall had described "the.:-project as ..,
:-"operation Midnight Cflmax." i :.: A{x
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