CIA PHONE LISTING HAS A CURIOUS RING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000400460005-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 26, 2004
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: August 27, 1977
• Content Type: NSPR

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By Michael "Unger'
The listing in the current Manhattan tele-
phone book seems innocuous enough: "Society
for the Investigation of-Human Ecology Inc.
59 Austin St.,. Forest. Bills, BO 8-4500."
,Th:;,society, .--knowledgeable congressional..
sources now say,: was one of the Central Intellia`
gene :Agency's, major "fronts.'. that funneled mil-:.
lions of dollars to university scientists for mind-
u
control experiments, some on unknowing sub
jects, "during the.1950s and 1960s. Operating out of apartment 207 in a four-sto
iy walkup near the West Side Tennis. Club, the
society-was one of two or three top CIA conduits
directing behavior-control and brainwashing re-
search ".using LSD ` and - other .drugs under the -
code name MK-ULTRA, the sources said ..Th~I
' mind-control experiments and. the CIA cover,
agencies that ran them are now the subject of a.
congressional investigation,' as well as.the con-,
cern.of a number of the nation's most prestigious.
universities such as Harvard, Columbia, Prince
ton, MIT,. Stanford, Ohio State,,-Pennsylvania;'`
Penn ; State, . Maryland-L- Georgetown, George
Washington and Rutgers,_ where the CIA-,has,
said some of -the- research 'w'as conducted
The society . with :the.: benevolent-sounding`
Heine- supposedly was-disbanded-yin -1965, the.,
? source3-said, after changing its name to the Hu-
=man EcologyFund and moving first to Manhat 4
tars and .then to-W7 hington +"` r 4 = t r' .