CIA FUNDED 1956 RESEARCH FOR HYPERTENSION REMEDY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000300030002-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
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cretly spent nearly $3,900 in 1956 on
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
funds, Krantz said, and, he received
the money from the Geschikter Fund
for Medical Research, a frequent co-
vert conduit for money used in the
ment dealt with "the effect on blood meat in LSD testing by the Alcohol,.
vessels of the camphoric acid deriva- Drug Abuse and Mental Health Ad-
tives, the documents said. The frag? ruristration, which includes i?IMIIZ,
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 rnernh rs 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. HarrisIs-l
Luc -.a.- .....,,.....,,, .-r?-__________ _-
yesterday that he was told by CLL. of- CIA man in charge o
ficials that the dog experiment was who told him that his. research ;witl'i-
the only part of the program con- LSD "was important to national intq-.
ducted there. ests" The report goes on to say-that
Several other schools, Including' "without specifying a precise interest
in,y the 1950s and 1960s known as Pro-
Georgetown, George Washington and on the part of the CIA, Mr. Gottlieb
ject MK-ULTRA. Harvard, have said they. were also, stated that the CIS would i~rovide?
- .
"I took a. dim view of the whole part of the program and have re- c
Geschikter operation then," said quested additional information from money to continue these studies:'
Krantz, who is retired, "and I take an the CIA-
even dimmer view now." 'Documents obtained by The Wash-
Krantz,. who lives near. Baltimore,ington Post reveal that senior direc-
said he met with Charles F. Geschik- tors of the National Institute of Men-
ter, founder of the fund, during dis-? tal Health "probably" knew that the
cussions on.the project and found him CIA funneled money to the institute
"a superficial scientist:'. Geschikter to administer LSD' and other drugs'
ran, a cancer research program at to federal prisoners at Lexington, Ky.
Georgetown University and also ad- It has been reported that. drug ad
ministered the fund with money from': diets at the Addiction Research Ceii-:I
private philanthropic sources and', 'terin Lexington were given' drugs as
from the CIA. { rewards for taking part in CIA expert-
Geschikter has been unavailable for:' ments. The CIA supplied $300,000
comment 'since information about MK- through the office of Naval Research
ULTRA' was' i' ade'piiblic- by the CIA; between 1954 and 1962 to pay for the
The documents on the hypertension
experiment-.were `turned over to Uni-
r-
versity: of ;Maryland officials yeste804'.
day. The, school was one, of. about 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
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WASHINGTON
V
POST
By Bill Richards
and John Jacobs
Washington Post Staff writers
The Central Intelligence Agency se- I Specifically, they noted the expert- An October, 1975, report on involv&S
CIA's mind control experiments dur-
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