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

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000400460012-8
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• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
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DRUGS.ITESTED BY W.A.
ON MENTAL PATIENTS
Documents Disclose Use in '58 of
LSD in Canadian Hospital
By Nicmt.eas 1M.1iORROCK
. Spedal to The -Now York Ttmes
WASHINGTON. Aug. 2-Mental pa-
tients at a, Canadian hospital were given
powerfuf:tranquilizers and LSD in a 1958
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-
searchers~ Band ' intelligence officers has i
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 Freedom 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 information : disclosed the following:
The C.I.A. arranged for 12 volunteers
to, be: hypnotized, iiv :'a, 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..: -
-91n. 1954;,the..C.I:A; hoped to use its
"basicdata"'ohi "LSD' and related materi-
als" to-:'devises 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 discovered documents pertaining
;to,.its,,,behav,,ip;.,,control.:programs. Thee)
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