DRUGS TESTED BY C.I.A. ON MENTAL PATIENTS

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THE NE+d YORK TINTS
3 August 1 977'
DRIIGSTESTED BY CJJ1AI
ON MENTAL PATIENTS
Documents Disclose Use in '58 of
LSD in Canadian Hospita'
3peclal to The New York TIM"
WASHINGTON, Aug.. 2-Mental pa-
tients at a, Canadian hospital were given
powerful:tranquilizers and LSD in a 19381
experiment. supported by a foundation
that- secretly dispensed money for the
Central Intelligence Agency, medical fi-
nancing records disclosed today.
The disclosure 'becam?, one more ele-
ment. in a growing picture of the -C.I.A.'s
25-year attempt -to learn how to control
the human mind.
A survey of 2,000 C.I.A. documents and
interviews ;with, scientists, medical;=re-
sea.rchersr and , intelligence officers has
shown in detail; how. the agency used pri-
vate medical research'foundations as con-
duits for a $25, million program designed
to develop drugs or techniques that could
control human behavior'
5,000 More Documents
Under the'F'reedom of Information Act,
The New.York Times obtained today 415
additional pages of'C.I.A. documents per-
taining to drug ;experimentation and
behavior:, control research. The new pool
of informatior:. disclosed the following:
cThe C.I.A. arranged for 12 volunteers
to be: hypnotized. __in hotel room to
"demonstrate" to 'covert-operations ex-
perts how -hypnosis-could- help' espionage
agents. .remember.-details that their con-
scious minds -might have discarded.
hIn. I954;:.the. C.I:A.'hoped to use its,
"basic'datee`6i "LSD and related materi-
als" to.'devise? operational techniques to
disturb the. memory, to discredit people
through aberrant behavior,' to alter sex
patterns, to elicit information and to
create emotional dependence.'
'The C.I.A. employed a magician to
help explain what one former C.I.A. offi-
cial said. were- matters "they couldn't; ex-
.plain."
The C.I.A. is-.expected- to, make-public
over. the next. two weeks some 5,000
newly discpvered documents pertaining l
,to.,its,,.behavio~.e.controL;.programs. Thel
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documents,;: hawevei;. haves lieerr heavily
edited and do not contain the names of
people involved in the. medical -or.drug
research or the institutions at which' it
was performed.,,., t. .,; ,. ~.
Adm, StansfieId Turner, the. Director
of Central Intelligence,. will appear before
a joint meetin gof the Senate Select Com-
mittee - on Intelligence and the Senate
Health subcommittee tomorrow t&-give
information about the agency's behavior
control research: ? .
He is expected to disclose that the
C.I.A. paid for a knockout drug to be
tested on terminal- cancer patients and'
to report on an "improper" payment for
research.
The -Times obtained -a 1959 financial!
report of the Society for the Investigation'
of Human Ecology Inc., which indicates
that the society paid Dr. D. Ewen Carver
on $18,405 in 1958 to conduct studiesz
that included testing three highly patent'
drugs on the patients of the Allan Memo-
rial Institute of Psychiatry at McGill Uni-
versity in Montreal.'
Drugs That Were Used
The drugs were thorazine,, LSD.and ser-
nyl.Thorazine . is still .marketed. as a
powerful tranquilizer, but sernyl has been
withdrawn from the market for human
consumption and is used only as all, im-
mobilizing agent for primates..
The society was set up in 1955,: accord-
.ing to' a former' director, -to provide a
vehicle for.the C.I.A. to finance a study
on - brainwashing-: During the': next It
years it supported a wide ranger of medi-
cal research. programs and. psychological)
studies 'around the United States and.. in'?
,Canada. ~
One- former"--'official, James 'L Monroe;
said in an interview that only about! 25
to 30 percent of the.society's $1 million
to $1.5 million-annual budget came from
the C.I.A. But' Dr.. Lawrence B, Ilinkle,
a former director, said that he believed
most of the support had, been from the,
4gency. ,.. .:: g .'-..''~
The C.I.A. used both the society andt
the Geschikter Foundation, for Medical!
Research,: based here,-'to supply money?
to, private- universities and medical re-
search facilities... {
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