CIA CONDUCTED MIND-CONTROL TESTS UP TO '72, NEW DATA SHOW

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000300390010-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 29, 2004
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: September 2, 1977
• Content Type: NSPR

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WASHINGTON POST
2 SEPTEMBE-i 977
C 1.4 Y- o U L-
By Bill Richards ? weeks-ago by CIA researchers during earlier mind-control operation code
anfi John Jacobs "a routine review'of Inactive records." named IIK-ULTRA which. began in
Waahinstoa Poet staff writers ' The boxes contain records of U.S. 1950 and tapered off in the mid-1960s.
'documents which show that its chemi Services in 1943, the -CIA spokesman volved in chemical and biological ex-
cal and biological mind-control experi- said. The OSS was the CIA's predeces- periments. The experimentation was
ments on human subjects were con sor, 'farmed out to various private re-
ducted as late as mid-1972. They also contained detailed opera- searchers who were under, instruc-
tions files on chemical and biological tions to explain to subjects what they
CIA Director Stansfield Turner has . ?
maintained that the only sketchy fi. experimentation run from 1949? until were, receiving, the CIA spokesman
the mid-1950s under the CIA's code said. -The ? spokesman called , 1LK
nancial records left in the CIA's. files-. names. Bluebird and;; Artichoke, Sub- SEARCH a "sanitized" version of the
on its mind-control .projects showed:' jects of the experiments included CIA earlier MK ULTRA operation-
human experimentation was discontin personnel who were' aware of the ex- Turner Publicly deplored the hu-
ued in 1964.
periments and -foreigners who may man experimentation aspects of 11K.
The newly discovered files-14 fold- not have been, according to the CIA. ULTRA- last month.' Full records on
ers with about 700' pages of financial The CIA spokesman said he was not .. the CIA mind-control. Programswere
records--indicate that human subjects aware if the Bluebird/Artichoke docu- destroyed by Gottlieb just before he
were .experimented on - with their ments, which- are' : still classified, retired in 1973, according to secret
knowledge under the CIA's Project showed any experimentation on pris- testimony by Gottlieb to the Senate ,
// MR-SEARCH until the project -was oners of war captured in Korea. North Intelligence Committee last year. Dur
l halted by CIA Technical Services Di- Korean officials accused the United ing that testimony Gottlieb -insisted
rector Sidney Gottlieb-. on July 10,', States in 1951 of conducting bacterio- he had forgotten most of the details
1972.' logical experimentation on captured of the programs.
had been located aniot o budget mate- Hied the charges. - looked during previous searches-de-
of - addition't- detailed '? intelligence cribed by the CIA. as "skimpy." The. CIA as "thorough"-because of the..
"
files- were stumbled.,-. upon
several project was the CIA's successor to an . agency's poor filing system._
'he system was screwed up;' the''
CIA spokesman said. `" We:,didn't find
.the old files because all early records
Were.. compartmentalized , and we.
looked in the wrong compartment.." _
He said It was. possible' that. 'adds
tiona records , on the, agency's- drug
and mind-control'`experiments;.`may,
still be discovered- `
In a'~'related deveIopnaent, Johns
Hopkins University said~`yesterday
,,that it' 'was among 86 private ,insti_tit
tions involved in lt?IK=ULTIi An iii
named: chemistry professor was ? paid-
from 1964 to1966 by the CIA to del
velop allergins for the agency under a
project titled "harassment" by the in.
telligence agency,: .- , ,~;-;~
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