CIA FUNDED 1956 RESEARCH FOR HYPERTENSION REMEDY

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
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Approved For Release 2006/12/19. CIA-RlP88-{&I R000300
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WASHINGTON POST
By Bill Richards
and John Jacobs
Washington Post statf writers
The Central Intelligence Agency se Specifically, they noted the experi- An October, 1975, report on involve- '
cretly spent nearly $3,900 in 1956 on { ment dealt with "the effect on blood ment in LSD testing by the Alcohol,!
d de 'va? D 1h e and 'Mental Health Ad-I'
us
ject MK-ULTRA. Harvard, have said they were also stated that the CIA would ? 1?rovide
"I took a dim view of the whole part of the program and have re money to continue these'studi l "
Geschikter operation then," said quested additional information from. +.'
Krantz, who is retired, "`and I take an the CIA
even dimmer view now." i - Documents obtained by The Wash-
Krantz, who lives near.Baltimore, ington Post reveal that senior diree-
said he met with Charles F. Geschik- tors of the National Institute of Men
ter, founder of the fund, during dis- tel 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, ICY.
Georgetown University and also ad- ' It has been reported that drug ad--I
ministered the fund with money from diets at the Addiction Research Cen-l
private philanthropic sources and ter in T."exington were given drugs as
from the CIA. ? ~ ` -- t rewards for taking part in CIA experi-
Geschikter has been unavailable foi' ments. The CIA supplied $300,000,
comment since information about MK- through the Office of Naval Research
ULTRA was made'publice by the CIA... between 1954 and 1962 to pay for the
earlier this month experiments. - .. `
s
lan
the university s pharmaco goy epa i~iary
ment who got the money, said he was among those which were part of MK- The report said that L. Ilarris Is-i
never told the funds came from the ULTRA to receive documents from bell, then director of the center, was
CIA. A research colleague at the the CIA.A university spokesman said approached by Sidney Gottlieb, the
school suggested he apply for the ; CIA man in charge of MK-ULTRA,.
funds, Krantz said, and- he received yesterday that he was told by CL%. of-
the money from the Geschikter Fund ficials that the dog experiment was
who told him that his. research for Medical Research, a frequent co- the only part of the program con- LSD "was important to national inter:.
vert conduit for money used in the ducted there. ests." The report goes on to say that
CIA's mind control experiments dur- Several other schools, including "without specifying a precise interest
ing the 1950s and 1960s known as Pro- Georgetown George Washington and on the part of the CIA, Mr. Gottlieb
Mary!and 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
l d t-
The documents on the hypertension
experiment-. were 'turned over to Uni-
versity. of ,Maryland officials yester
day. ne. school' was one.of about 80
notified jn the past week by the CIA
that theywere part of 1VMK-ULTRA ei-
ther with or without their, knowledge:''~!
The hypertension experiment at
Maryland was. among "special studies. i
embracing :-pharmacological testing
and evaluation of drugs of interest to
TSD [the CIA's technical services
division],". according to the docu-
ments.;
vessels of the ca npno.ic aci r%,
documents said- The frag ministration, tivhicb includes N V,111,
" th
e
slues, mentary records released to . the uni said knowledge of the source of funds
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senior sta
varsity give no indication of what use was limited to
ce agency mac':e of the the Addiction Research Center and
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information. "was probably discussed with the
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the first institution NI\IH scientific. directors.
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