LENGTHY MIND-CONTROL R[ ] BY CIA IS DETAILED

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000400460013-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
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• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: August 3, 1977
• Content Type: NSPR

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WASHINGTON POST
3 AUGUST..1977
By George Lardner Jr.
and -John Jacobs
washinSton Post staff Writers .. . , i
he Central Intelligence Agency #or
_y years conducted a top-secret
iiavior control" program that in-
3ed:. experiments invoh iii
_eration of sex patterns" and
crediting by aberrant behavior."
he research was carried out at
1-known medical research centers
l hospitals in both the United
_tes and Canada With the help of
A money funneled through private
indations.
Nccording to one former CIA offi.
the pragrain was considered so
litive that it could not even be in-
d in a secret 1968 study " by,-the
itself of the agency;s 'relation
F, with the academic community.
niddenly this subject of dope and
-s popped up," Victor Marchetti,
former CIA official turned CIA
:, recalled of the study for which
-as staff officer. ""Everyone just
of froze."'
mate committees have previously
-vered various aspects of ' the
s drug testing and behavior're-
rh. but details are coming to light
e result of newly discovered doe-
nts cited in a ' July 16.` announce-'I
= by CIA Director Stansfield
_er. . ";
^re than 400 heavily.: sanitized
s were,made public yesterday in
inse to Freedom of information
-enuests. Turner is scheduled to
3 about the program today at a
hearing of the Senate Intelli-
Committee and the Senate sub-
1ittee oc health. Three former
officials with knowledge of the be-
y research also will be called.
- mind-control efforts "', first
d in 1949 under the name of Pro.
Bluebird as a defensive reaction
411 -lie ,
e
to the ."bizarre copduct of [Joszef]
Cardinal Mindszenty" at his trial in
Budapest wh:m he confessed to trea-
son.
Within a few years, the records indi-
cate. the CIA began contemplating
methods of behavior control for offen-
sive purposes.
A 'June 9, 1953, CIA memo for the
record about a proposed manual on
LSD research suggested organizing
the &ta gathered at that point into
,.operationally- pertinent material
along the following lines:
? "Disturbance of memory."
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? "Discrediting by aberrant behave
ior."
?. "Alteration of sex patterns."
? . "Eliciting of information."
? "Suggestibility-" .. . . '
? "Creation of dependence."
Some of the research was done un-
der the auspices of the Society for the-.
Investigation of Human Ecology, a-
CIA-supported operation that was dis-
banded in 1965. According to a report
iir yesterday's editions of The New
York Times, other.conduits included
the Office of Naval Research and the
Geschickter Fund for Medical Re-
search, a still extant foundation that
once contributed $370,000 toward con-
struction. of a .V $3 million --building at
.
Georgetown Hospitai.here.
Military contracts arranged by 'the
Office of Naval Research -reportedly
enabled the CIA' to test LSD 'and-
other drugs on. prisoners at the U.S. .-..Public
ublic Health. :Service Hospital in
' r' Lexington;,. Ky., purportedly as part ,
- of a 'project aimed: at finding a sub- l
? stitute for,;,codeine as a mild pain'
killer.'.'
4 Much of this research was said to
-, have been `conducted by?'Dr. .ljarris
Isbell, now retired and livin,g in East-I
:i land, Tex. He refuses t.o comment.
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society s one-time executive director
and treasurer, James F. ilionroe, re-
called yesterday. "We provided the
funds to keep his .work going. He
was using drugs and a total [psychol-
ogicalj bombardment of the individ-
uat-trying to .break through in com-
mttnication." This involved "24-hour
-conversations" ' with patients by r
teams under Cameron's direction who i
focused, on' one individual.
"They had . some-'rattier remarkable
successesMonroe, 'a former Air j
Force - colonel.-and expert -in brain-
washiri?`.said. "They Introduced me
to one man'who' had been completely
catatonic until he was.'brought into
the program. By the time I-saw him -y
he. could converse, he was a human
being again.'.
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