SCU PROFESSOR'S BOOK DETAILS CIA ATTEMPTS AT MIND CONTROL

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By Dale Rodebaugh ?
Staff Writer
SANTA CLARA-For the
last 30 years the United States
government has carried out the
most extensive mind-control
research and experimentation'
in history, according to a Uni-
versity of Santa Clara law pro-
fessor who has co-authored a
book on the topic.
Examination of 20,000 pages
of CIA and Army documents
shows that the CIA probed ev-
erything from the psychologi-
cal impact of circumcision to
the practices of Haitian witch
doctors, Alan SchefIin said in
an interview.
"The Mind Manipulators" is
not' a, sensationalized novel
written hurriedly to exploit
Watergate and other recent
revelations about the intellig-
ence community, Scheflin said.
It is the result of five years
of research and hundreds ofin-
terviews s and contains more
than 1,800 footnotes, said Sche-
flip, who teaches legal ethics
and law and psychiatry. His coo Alan Scheflin .
author is Edward Opton, a San .5 years of research
Francisco attorney.
The CIA isn't alone in mind-
control research; it is practiced,
to a lesser degree by other gov- -: The CIA has far exceeded its
pitals, universities, the military
and prisons, Scheflin said.
"Behavior modification and
mind control is the ? leading
school of psychology today," he
said.
since and including Harry Trutt
man authorized violations of..
that charter," Scheflin said..
-"It's not a pretty picture.
What we have -is the CIA
okayed by the president to' in-
'
'
security
all
"No other country has can-, tervene for our
ducted experiments in these over the world., We can't' take
fields with the zeal and longev over the world, but if its lead-,
ity of the CIA. Its experiments ers can be manipulated to'
can be traced to its predeces- think a certain way, to our ad-
sor, the Office of Strategic vantage." . .
Services organized during Sen. Frank Church's commit-'
World War IL" tee that' investigated the'CIA
characterized it as a rogue ele-?
phant, Scheflin said. "But we;
are trying to show that the.
agency was very much in con-
~-T doing.'?
Experiments were rearried
citizens, Scheflin said.
7"In addition, the agency was`
unsupervised, with not even..
Congress knowing what was
going on.' Its budget was hid-
den, corning* from many
sources, and no one knew how
the money. was spent. Because
of this secrecy, the agency
could synthesize the knowledge.
of the best -minds in the nation:
without scientists knowing it.
"The CIA also earned its own
money by acting as a runner of,
opium for the tribesmen of
Southeast Asia whose political
and military sunnort it need-'
Soviet experiments are noth-
ling compared to those of the
!CIA, Scheflin said, because the%
Russian hierarchy has ruled
out areas of research not com-
patible with its political doc-
trine.
The CIA concentrated its ex-
periments in drugs and hypno-
sis, Scheflin said. He said hel
compiled a list of 130 drugs, in-1
eluding heroin, used by the
agency. .
"One organization funneled;
money to a federal drug reha
bilitation and research agency,
in Kentucky that offered drugs
to inmates. The director of than
institution defended the prac-,
tice before Congress," he said.
The CIA was looking for a
precise mind-control agent in
an attempt to get 'Manchurian
Candidates,' Scheflin said. "But
I don't think it can be done.;
There is no known drug to turn
people into robots.
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