PRIVATE INSTITUTIONS USED IN C.I.A. EFFORT TO CONTROL BEHAVIOR

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"-- n;T7.r 1l'PEriitED 2 August 1Q77
I PRIVATE INSTITUTIONS
USED IV C.I.A. EFFORT
TOCONTROLBEHAVIOR
dew. 'information' _About Funding
and flp rations. Disclosed by
ocuments and.-,interviews
(This, ar~tcle= was the=work of cut
investigative reporting:r team consist-
ing of -John M- Crewdson, Nicholas M.
sp4nlal to The New York Tlmee.
WASHINGTON Aug...1 ,- Several-
prominent medical research institutions
and Government hospitals in the United
States and Canada were. involved. in -a
seecret, 25-year, S25-million effort by the
Central Intelligence Agency to learn how
to control the human mind.
The existenceof:the.agency's investiga-
{tionseinto behavior-?arid'thought control
was- previously -known., But through ac-
cess tv 2,000 C.I:A.' documents and wide-
r~iiging. interviews, 'a 'group of New York
Times reporters has .developed new infor-
~mation?'about' the.;'-cost of the program,
the range 'of, its penetration -into presti-
g ous' research centers;', the identities' of.
some institutions;: the. secret funding con-.
duitsof the agency`, and'. the concerns.'.
faboutthe? program expressed by some;
('sci'entists ti w
The ,original res'e'arc'h'-.w'a's' spurred by
the ? conviction-later' proved unfounded
:a --that:- the :Russians and Chinese had de-
veloped brainwashing ~i and mind-control.
devices. But the C.I.A: quickly. turned to,
seeking an offensive use for behavior con-
trol .-,It sought to; crack the mental de-
fenses of enemy agents-to be able to
program them and.its:own operatives to
Horrock, Boyce Reitsberger, Jo Thomas.,
and Joseph B. Treaster. :It was writte?%
by Mr.'. Porrock }
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t h e e Federal penitentiary in Atlanta - and
the Bordentown Reformatory in New Jer-l
say between 1955 and 1964. He was paid
525,000 a year through the Geschikter
Foundation, he said in a telephoned inter
view
STAT
emerged of the extent to which the agen-
carry-out any mission even against theirI ed to the .construction of. a'.$3 million
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covered records indicate that. the! C.LA
university". - a: forensic, medicine depart-~
ment so the project "and allied agency
need's could thus be served with complete
control, legal performance.- and appropri-
ate cover." A spokesman for Georgetown I
said i that the university was reviewing expected to disclose ,that the C.LA. paid
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Adm. Stansfield Turner, the Director
of Central Intelligence, announced two
weeks ago that seven cases of records
containing some 5,000 pages of docu-
meets pertaining to these projects, had
been discovered in the agency's archives.
Ile said they had been overlooked it
newly discovered records before a joint