C.I.A. RESEARCH: IT'S A BONK ON THE HEAD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000400410016-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 1, 2004
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: June 12, 1979
• Content Type: NSPR

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THE SEATTLE TIMES
:l2 June 1979
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n this batch, there was nothing further about' the Tanga:nyi-
the gallbladder or. the; witch doctor.
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kern Crocodile P
But there was Document No. 21. Steve-Koiachik read aloud
from it:
" 'Feasibility of any impact system designed-to bring
about unconsciousness with low, .lethality risk. -Considering
differences in range, angle of impact, position of head at
impact, area of impact, etc.'
"See," 'Kozachik was saying yesterday morning, "here
the C.I.A. was trying to figure out the best -way to Bonk
somebody on the head."
The rest of the Central Intelligence Agency documents,
sitting on his desk on the 21st floor of the Smith Tower, were
not so laughable.! One always has the problem of being
amazed, ands thus a little amused, at the Keystone-cops
tactics of the 'government -one that only a decade ago was
planning to extract the 'poisonous viscera of a crocodile's.
bladder and, after, proper. cooking.under. a witch doctor's
recipe, develop.. as lethal concoction that would likely. be
untraceable in the body tissues of its intended victim. (The
Tanganyikan Crocodile Plan was reported here in February.)
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Kozachik's Citizens: Commission on Human Rights), contain
new pieces to-the deadly-serious puzzle of government. mind
control.
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And through sometimes brutal experimentation and
search by means of C.I.A.-sponsored pogroms against the
mind and sometimes.life-itself, "The Company's" own docu-
ments show there is still much to be amazed about, but little
to laugh at --- partibularly when you. read the words of
Richard Helms.
Now a former director, of the C.I.A.,` Helms was a
deputy director fdr'plans in 1963 when he wrote this "Eyes-
Only" memorandum on the testing of psychochemicals
(mind-controling drugs): t' ; b
"Most- of our difficulty stems from the fact- that, in our
opinion, the individuals to be subjected to testing must be
unwitting.... Any testing program' which, does not attempt
to approximate this real situation will be 'pro forma' at best
and result in a false sense of accomplishment and readi-
ness...
"In sum, if'welare to continue to maintain a. capability
for influencing- human behavior, we are virtually ,obliged toy
test on unwitting humans.
Helms propos twthi11 ftVamip2b6o'I ictl
departments, prisons or prison hospitals, or from foreign lands....
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But, he said, securi ~`$eases,
and too much would have to be told to too many about the
secret experiments.
However, he said, the Bureau of Narcotics had been
successfully bringing the C.I.A. unwitting victims --apparent
drug users -- for the past eight years, and Helms urged
continuing this association.
i A .So what you have," Kozachik said yesterday morning.
"are people being brought in for experiments they
knew nothing about. Guinea pigs. But. that almost makes it
sound nice.
just>. ired altering drugs in
`"The C.I.A. wasn't using m
these programs. These documents and other- research show .
they..used. `black psychiatry,' the whole gamut of electro-
shock, hypnosis, narco-hypnosis and brutalizing, sometimes-
fatal, methods."
_ nen r...tt.. rid ~ttan'7ntQ FEfY
develop an amnesia-producing. drug. in it, a doctor writes:
"This is, therefore, a unique opportunity to carry on a sterile..
research program without arousing suspicion."
With the.close collaboration of the psychiatric profes-
sion;. C.I:A ',development of brainwashing and mind-control
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a
warfare. is outlined in. a- later document; A spec
group, it states, "will consider other. special or unorthodox
methods such as brain.damage, sensory stimulation, hypnos
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on
is, so=called 'black, psychiatry,' 'Pavlovian . condit
'brain washing,' or`any other methods having pertinence for
such procedures as interrogation, subversion or seduction."
If done in the name of national security, testing was,
peeling Americans; at times, even on some of the. C.I.A.'s }
own agents. One document shows an interest in the infamous i
"icepick method" which, in latter days, was widely ' used
around here at Western State Hospital at Steilacoom.
Reads C.I.A. document No. 7, from the C.I.A.'s chemcial
branch, research and development:
Using electroshock to produce anesthesia, a Wash- _
ington surgeon has many times.successfuliy performed "an l
st over the eyes with
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operation, involving piercing
a fine surgical 'icepick'.and destroying certain frontal brain
tissue; with nervous . confusional and amnesia effects. This-.
operation leaves no marks on the. skin:' The icepick is '
TroughOut the documents; tne,t'reeaom of uttusit~atty".< ,
were obtained: is- constantly thwarted
hich the
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by the censor's black pencil The deletions have only made
Kozachik more curious.
"In this paper here,',', he said,: it. appears they are r
talking about testing L.S.D.'s effects Con the human mind to 1
create predictable: amnesia. This one line says;: 'There Js .a
?
person available to make clinical test on (deleted).?:
"I counted the spaces in the deletion. The- words'mental
patients' fit perfectly... it makes it `all --that much '-more
interesting since the paragraph ends: 'Dr. (blank) would also
perform toxicity tests on animals as a parallel.. work.'
"My conclusion is-,that they seemed to hold mental
patients and animals in much the same, regard when it came
to testing them with acid."
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