SENATORS WOULD FORCE FOUR CIA MIND-CONTROLLERS TO TESTIFY

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WASHINGTON POST
Senators J
U, J.- ou
E?. :;i:' :;:chard. and John .Jacobs its biological warfare center at Fort
.. - ..,..;con Pc!; s:art Center- Detrick, Md.
Four =or!ner members of a secret That information is believed (on-
ubnoena,~d csterday to testify pub tained in files on three other CIA
scly about drug tests and other hu- projects known as MK-SEARCH, IK-
an -find-control experiments con- CHICKI%'ICK and i1IK-OFT: X. Files
ueted in the 1 ?3;;s and 1963s. on all three have been promised to
E .e cu,bpoer.ns were issued b~ Scn. the subcommittee by Turner.
' card Al. Kenneci s Subcommittee Among the MK-ULTHA documents
_.t: 112alth and Scientific Research af- still not released is a list of stocic-
cr One of the four. Walter P. Paster- plied "exotic Pathogens," according
-ia:_ did not show up at a closed sub- to one source.
onimittee session. The CIA also has cira~:?.l up a clas-
The .subpoenas are for Sept. 9. sified list of 86 institutions which it
Kennedy (D-:Mass.) and Richard S. said were used during the behavioral
-4chwei er (1t-Fa.) indicated after the experimentation in 11K-ULTRA. One
session that Pasternak, a former CIA of those, according to knowledgeable
=?rnplor ee. had gone into hiding alter sources, is the Smithsonian Institu-'
noti:ving investigators 24 hours ear- tion. What part it played could not
_ier that he would appear. be learned.
Pasternak has been linked to one "-r., +c,,. ,,,.,.+ ar ,------,__,__ .,
rr :le more bizarre projects in it'IK?
LTRA. the code name for the intel-
Smithsonian was not a knowing par-
iger_ce a'-,'enc_?'s mind control experi- ticipant in any project of the CIA," a
::erts? Smithsonian spokesman said yester-.
Senate investigators have receipts day
awned by the former CIA employee Amon," the thousands of pages of
o S2.OM in 5100 bills that were dis-
rbuted to persons involved in "Oper- documents which have been made'
-tion Midnight Climax." That project available by the CIA on MK-ULTRA
nvolved alleged prostitutes and are descriptions of:a number of odd
rugs given to unwitting persons lur- experiments. In one, CIA researchers
-cl into a "safehouse" operated by the isolated and 'collected "sizable
-I.4 in San Francisco.
Pasternak has also provided the
ubcommittee with a somewhat un-
:ear account of the activities of the
ociety for the Investigation of Hu-.-tan Ecology, a CIA-funded-research
amounts" of tick venom, which can
cause muscle paralysis. One agency
memo suggested using the insect
venom as a knockout agent to induce
what the memo .writer .'called
"involuntary sleep." ? .
coup that conducted human behavior Another memo described a chemical
:,:periments. under Investigation, known as LSE, as,
in addition to Pasternak, the sen- producing the effect of "a reversible
*ors subpoenaed Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, chemical lobotomy." A 1953 report.
a retired CIA 'official who ran l1K- said 429 experiments were carried out
at the University of California in San- uleino uy UOtUtet
'described consultant Geschickter as
to Barbara, and Dr. Charles Gesehick-, having supplied misleading informa-
ter, a former CIA consultant and pro-i tion to the Internal Revenue Service.
lessor emeritus at Georgetown Uni-
versity. Geschickter was paid by 1IX-ULTRA
Details of MK-ULTRA have' hePn ' but, according to the memo, had to re. i
leased nearly 8,000 pages of recently
discovered documents relating to the
experiments. In San Francisco yester-
day, CIA Director Stansfield Turner
.called the drug and brothel activities
-`abhorrent"? and said the number of
such CIA operations now is "zero."
Knowledgeable sources Indicated
yesterday that the CIA also may have
taken an active part in germ warfare
experiments run by the Army from
..Approved
.forming consultation, a. with an
`anonymous person,' since'the Agency
..contributions had been so designated
on the books of the Fund."
11"
The "Fund" was Geschickter's pri-
vate fund, through which the CIA
passed $375,000 to -a building expan-
sion project at Georgetown University
for work it wanted to do there In
-"biological and -:chemical ..warfare."
?Geschickter could not be reached for
6 August 1977
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