DIALOGUE SOUGHT WITH PROFESSOR IN CIA PROBE

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WAS-11INGTON POST
27 August 1977
.ogee Sozt
will, Profess-r
lit CIA Probe
By John Jacobs
wa3b niton Past Staff Wr:See
Georgetown University said ester-;'.1
day "it seems promising" that univer-
sity lawyers can meet next week with
-~ -Joseph 1'. Geschickter, a George- ;
town professor emeritus, who helped;
the-CIA with its MK-ULTRA mind
control experiments. . ,
,.The 76-year-old pathologist and can-i
cer researcher established the Ges
cbdckter Fund for Medical Research,
through which the CIA funneled
money to fund ' M -ULTRA ? projects;
in'-the 1950s and 1960's. He has been
unavailable for comment since his
name surfaced a month ago in conree-
tion, with the CIA. A Senate subcom
mittee has. subpoenaed him to testify
Sept. 9 a : :r
The university, which last week re-'
ceived official notification that it was
n-irt of the CIA program, is investigat-
ing the matter. It has received 70
pages of CIA documents, which an of-
ficial said confirm press reports that
the CIA funneled $375,000 through, the
Geschickter Fund toward construction
of a new medical wing at the hospital.
The agency wanted to use ono-s;,:tit c f
the space there for experiments in
chemical and biological warfare.
In another development, Chancellor
itlaurice Mitchell of Denver Univer-
sity confirmed that his university was
notified by the CIA that it was one of
the 86 institutions CIA Director Stanr-
field Turner said were used, know-
ingly or not, in MIK-ULTRA.
Other universities that have pub-
licly acknowledged similar letters
from the CIA in the last few weeks
include the Univ si .f_.:Maryland,
~,eoegc 16'as i gton University, Har-
vard, Stanford, Columbia, Princeton,
.Ohio State ande -University of
I'ennsj?lvania. GW has receivoc docu- ;
nients from the CIA about its role but
has refused to release them.
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Dr. Wilbur C. Miller, now president
of Drake University 'in Ohio, taught in
the psychology department. at Denver in, 1954. He -said a Dr. L. T. Miller.
headed the department then and died
In the late 150s. Wilbur Miller said he
didn't know of any CIA-related; re-
search there, "but I vaguely . remem-
ber something about hypnosis.".III-.
ULTRA was interested in hypnosis'
and LSD for offensive purposes and
for protecting CIA agents from brain-
washing and interrogation by hostile
governments:
Other documents the CIA made
public Thursday describe a 1960 MK-
T]LTRA project to study voting rec-
ords . of.. registered :, .voters -in a
`;frientlly foreign nation".,,The re
search proposal, which was approved
with a budget of $7,490, expected to
Study 25,000 voters, who were eligible
if they were male homeo:rner ,
least 30 years old..
The principal 'researcher whose
name is deleted in the documents, and
--vho apparently did not know the re-
search was sponsored. by. the. .CIA,
wondered where some of the prom-
research material would come
ised
from.
'Mitchell said he doesn't know what
the CIA's involvement was at Deity er,
but'whatever did happen was before
.his time...
"Pm perfectly happy to deal with
this openly," Mitchell said. "It's about
time some of this crap got aired."
A March 8, 1954, document released
by the CIA several weeks ago' was ad-
dressed to a Dr. Miller from a person
whose name was deleted. It said: "I
will do my best to answer any other
questions about the transfer of the
project to Denver University." What-
ever the project, it had a budget of at
least $7,209 for a 10-month period. .