HARVARD AIDED CIA PROJECTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000300090037-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 4, 2004
• Sequence Number: 37
• Publication Date: February 1, 1978
• Content Type: NSPR

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1 February 1978 -Y=-
.Harvard aided CIS projects
Harvard University yesterday con- tests on unwitting human subjects
firmed reports that it unknowingly and sometimes the administering of
participated. in two research projects LSD and other hallucinogetiics.
funded by the Central Intelligence Of, the two projects at Harvard,
Agency in the 1950s and 60s as part of Steiner said, one involved the use of
? the agency's controversial MK-UL- teaching machines in foreign Ian-',
TRA project. guage instruction - although he said
'Daniel Steiner, Harvard's general he could find no one now at the uni-
counsel, said in a prepared statement versity who remembered the work -
..that the projects involved "a total of and the second was similarly noncon-
about $78,000,". and neither involved troversial.
drugs or testing on human subjects. He said he would not reveal infor-
MK-ULTRA, a $25-million CIA oration about the second project be-
program that included research on cause the researcher's request for pri-'
human behavior and brainwashing vacy outweighed the "university's in..
techniques, came under fire last sum terest in full disclosure and the,
mer after disclosures that it included public's right to know."
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