TRACING THE CIA'S UNIVERSITY CONNECTION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000300120001-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 15, 2004
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: September 18, 1977
• Content Type: NSPR

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Approved For Release 2004/10/13 :CIA-RDP88-01315800
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At ~Pennsglvania State University, ;~:
officials learned only` recentlq that
`:. experiments on a~icultttral' contatni:-
'nants~ performed there in the ~ 195r1s
'~ and ,'S9s~ were funded by the CIA,'~~
' `' A.t .the TJniversity of Pennsylvaisia,?
.- -officials ~? who ~ have been.. told: that
:.Penn:; did .same experiments for the .
. C11f., are hard at work trying to .find
~.. out exactly ~vhat'?thep were.' ~ :_-~ ? -
- ?All-this.cotnes in the wake of-the
f CIA's annatt'ncement last?:month that .
' 80 colleges and institutions had.been _
involved . in the ~ agency's Orwellian .
drug and behavior-control testing_pro=- .
- graroi, '~' ;` ,';
~" -,That~~anitouncemetit~ has'serit~-ii>?i-
~. versify research. directors? scurrying
>to thou files to look for-CIA connec-,,
'p'~ :Arid; in a` fashion remutiscerrt~.nP
- .` the Vietnam .war=inspired ilebates-of
' ? 'the Iate? 1960x, the anaouncemeztt:Fras
'~: focused attention on; the .issue. q~;,~nl=
``~~versitp_ :involvement? ?in ~ gcivernmerit
{K `: '.
r85earClt:'once ? agalrt... , ; ~ ~ ~~-?~ _~
" ,: ~ g'og : example; ~ although; Pemr his.,
nat'pet-,learned v~hat e:~periments?
: -?it was supposed to have clone fbi""tIis?~_
;: ~ CIA; :an.. Army 'Inspec:tor-.(rerzeral's-.
'?4'report'compiled last year rtrrd rriade~
' available , to; the-- Inquirer . by itcTe-~
'=~pendent~'iesearchers John Judge and?
r;Nlaye? Brussell; iixdicates ~~ that Penn .-
':' (and;-;:among. .~others~.'?)ilahnerria~ .
]M'edical` College in ~' 1Jlritadelpl~aY;
;participated ?ia,an'Ai-my drug.-and
c1>}errueal ?..testing prngraztx~ sirriil'ar_
. :: iti. some. ways ao.? the t;'I!l's. ?..:? ~,:_
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The CIA
clritg 'and'cli~?.rrricalrcpst-
Wing program; rrtany~: of ~iv}rose~pro,~:
'~ sets bvere Tamped: under the ?headitig
? MK i7LLTRA,~ was- carried'out'I~to?
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18 September 1977
.As part of ttrat program,. tiro CIA
sponsored tests ~in which T,SD':.arid
other mind-alkering drugs --were
administered to humans to test the
?.drugs' ability to disturb memory,
change sex habits and areatc.aber-
rant behavior. -:. :
Some of the LS?D tests reporte~Iy
were conducted an prisoners at -the
&rrdentown ? Reformatory in -;; iv'ew
Jersey. - ..,
Researchers involved say'that the
Army testing ~ aC Penn and Hahne-
airtatm .involved only .standard rtedi-
.cal' experiments.. Same of the Pena
tests.-were conducted on several
hundred ? inmate .volunteers-.`'at
Iiolmesburg Prison,. the- first .such:
prisoner experiments latowt~-.-ta
have been. performed uader~-the .
army's program, according ta.:.tlze ',
? Army report. ".. .. -
`.:The ? report does ~ ? saq . that,~. ort8
eKperimer~ in the project at.Holmes-
"burg ~rtvolved "high doses of ~: an -
` incapacitating agent." And it'`.says
some records indicate that ~ one-.-of
- the-project's purposes was. to allow
7riilitary investigators themselves. to
~. experiment? on inmates. --
'`-The Penn 'researcher"involved
?, vehemently denied-both statemenfs_
' The separate Army experimental
?contracis awarded to Penn rau frond
4951 to 1968, and the tests at Hahae-?
morn were conducted from- 1S51? to
.197D. There is nothing ta' ~ indicate
that any of the tests involved haIlt~-
cinobenic drugs such as LSD or any
experiments, in behavior control::-
' ~C3fficials say- there is no reason` to~
believe that airy, of the experiments .f
were 'related to the -QA,... - ~--,~ - ~ I
''-From the descriptions of :the ex
perimens, at;Pentt~ and. Haltnernanit,
most of which w.ere~ concerned. with
'testing possible? antidotes to ?cltemi-
cal warfare agents,; one official . at
`Penn.said, "These. studies ?,:'..:were.
:Basic science, and whether, the? A>inzp'
K*aitted - to' dog it~ or;~aot,, they- vnoul$
'.have been done?";,-~ ~ .~-~,R....;~.~
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~,. I'4octId they?da it agaia7
--.:,.;'.:~;~-.,
~;':?3,Tot referrir o ;to the work at- Fenn ~
?.and' -Hahnemann but.: speaking; . in
.general, Dr:. Robert. Coak~w president.
of the Medical College of PennsyI--
'vania, said, "]?rIy gucss? is that ex-
periments ? approved, in the past
wouldn't be?a~prored notv." '
But Dr. Albert Kligman, tlte~Penn
researcher . tvhti conducted the ex=~!
perimeritr involvipg the Holr~esburg'?
;inmates, said ha had had no second
thoughts. ?''~~. ? 6?. : - .
Said' Dr...~ ~I Q~tiian; "I'd da it ~ ~
again" ''? - ,',:-`
Dr. ICligntati; who ia~also t.~te~}re~td`?
of Philadelphia's Ivy Research ~bs;
which continued the Holrrtesburg tests
for several .yeai`s `al'ter` l~enn decided ..
~to~ discontinue ?them~- said.,the~ only-
thing that has changed about the ex-
periments ig..tlle pun~io?perceptian
of them '. ~ ,. ~? ~ ? ;a~~ ~~~ .
' "At the' `time,'j..rese~rc:h for na-~
floral defense was .'.`a very hanor~, -
able thing to do...,.' That was be~
fare CIA Became a dirty ~t?orcl." -
- A 1453 local news article .about j
some of ~ Dr: , Ktigman's upcoming
Army ,experiments at I-Iolmesburg,
including' one in tivhich prisoners .
were to have- limited arses of their
sZtin ex'nesed to ~ small at?iounts o~
~: radioactive isotopes, was: tvrittert in i
''a highly campliin2ntary tone: ?'? ~~~= 'j'
_?': `; "tiVhert Amerlcarl soldiers ~ ---~, and
cic?ilians ---.are better protected from
? the effects ~? of, cli2micai ` tivarfare,'.'
~~~ttte story read,?~"iE wilt bz thanks to
a Iltiiversity of'Penn'sylvania~doct~r'
,'~ncl several dozen inrrtate volunteers
oat Holmesburg Prison." --t =;'.~- ~:~-
.' ~ Tem years later, a naves article ?re~.
ported, that ~a Halmesburg .prisoner
was s~eIdt~; ~OO,G04 in`'asuit filed
against br: ?Cligntan and others. The
~prisoner~said iii the suit that he had;
been hospitalized .for a severe druv ~
reaction after taIdng Some ?pills slur-j
ing : an experimenE: ? 71te suit .:wds ~
:eventually settled out of court.`.:= ?.;
' I12 1975, 's Ior~; p.-:;?;, ea uLid ra}sed ~I
the`' ~assi5~'.ity~' that. ~? Dr. Kligniati:I
might trays expedmented tivith ha~1= `
lucinogeitic drug?,.including I.Sb,',;
?l)r. ICligntatt 'vehemently.-denies
fiver having dens so, saying.that the.
suspicion was.a product of the~.times..
? ? At Pet1n State, the. bulk of :the
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