REVEAL SECRET MIND TESTS BY CIA AT QUEENS COLLEGE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000400270007-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 26, 2004
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: October 6, 1977
• Content Type: NSPR

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the. Central Intelligence-. Agency conducted top-secret'e.Kperiment~ ~ =;-1
=. Queens College was -.on of 80 colleges and.' stitiitions irn:.t bfich
-fy. the type of experiments performed
or who, - performed'.- them,- an official
Found Some Documents - %
"-'However, the CIA refused to identi-
.cd attitude, personality and behavior,"
an official at the college said. .The .
names of some of the other colleges and .
institutions where the ..CIA's "MK-..
ULTRA" secret experiments were con-
ducted have been disclosed previously.
The- college said it first became,
aware through a newspaper article that.
it may have been involved in such `ei-
periments. After writing to the agency
-requesting information, it was, officially
The experiments ih. "mass- conver-
sion" were designed to- study "changes
"mind control". -between 1953 and 1964 it was disclosed yesterday.
In an earlier- letter to Joseph- Nfur-
phy,; who left the - Queens presidency
last January- and who was not with the.,
college when the ,: experiments : }vere-
done, the intelligence agency said:,".`The.,:
'CIA -recently has located several - thou-
as-part of Project 98, SIT- ULTRA."
,-;The letter, went. on toassert. that-in
some cases "individuals and institutions
were--aware of CIA sponsorship, but in
uals -or institutions. or both were not
informed that 'research was connected
(with the CIA) in'any way." - _
Asked whether he intended to inves'
should become a police state:'.:;
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