WHEN THE CIA FLEW HIGH ON LSD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01350R000200420006-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 20, 2004
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: February 22, 1979
• Content Type: NSPR

ARTICLE For Release 2QQ4/ Iti3p( A-RDP88-
pN PAGE 22 February 1979
THE: SEARCH . FOR- THE 'MANCHURIAN CANDI-
HERE- is a. horror story to
unfix your hair. It's the do?
cumented history of the
dangerous , even murder-
ous - experiments in mind
control carried out by--the
CIA during the-20-year pe-
riod when' it::was- account,
able only to itself-
In those-years_of- shame
the CIA;,employed:'drugs,
hypnosisf.' psycho-surgery:
and sadism politely cal
led behavior modification;:
--- in a fruitless search: for i
device that: would turn a
man into a puppet. A Man-,
'
churian:: candidate, -,.if you..,,
will, programmed to. do pa.'.:
triotic "d4rty work," inelud-
ing assassination.
How - did:- the author, a
former State Dept, official,.;,'
learn`"so:much about this
most sinister activity in all
,'
U.S5. history? -
"This...--book has grown::;
out of the :16,000 pages of'..-
documents that the CIA re=
leased to. me under- thee:
Freedom of -" Information
Act,"John. Marks writes.
The. agency's favorite .?
drugwas the hallucinogen,
LSD. It... arrived on.. these '
shores in:1947 andfor'years -
the CIA controlled the sup'
ply. When CIA ,ernpioye_
balked at being guinea,
pigs, the agency recruit
college students, prisoner
and drug'addicts.
With a rationale evoking'
Nazi experiments- on help..
less humans, the CIA tried
out psychic drugs on
mates of the famed . drug
treatment center - (and
prison) at' Lexington, ?: Ky..
There a doctor once. kept
seven men on LSD for.- 77
'days straight! Reward to
prisoners who cooperated
? was the drug o1` their choi?
`ee. Pure heroin, in the vein.
'if they so indicated. All
this, mind you, at a govern.
ment facility set up.to reha-.
bilitate addicts.
- LSD became an ' agency
obsession. An unscrupulous
researcher could run dan-.
gerous. experiments uncen-
cored. by. colleagues who
would not know what he
was ;up to -- "and he could
take pride in helping his'
country," 'Marks wryly
notes.
Prostitutes -were also
recruited by the CIA in the
hope that techniques of
sexual, entrapment might
become part of every
agent's manual. A magi-
cian named John Mulhol,
land was. hired to teach'
agents how to slip 'dru s`
Castro lived to tell us all
Innocent men and women, ;
died in.. consequence:-- of
some experiments,-,.-Others
went mad. But. ahe CIA
tnever.found the-drug.that-
:must not be overlooked,;
directly to.the drug culture
of the .1960s; a national ma
1aise that lingers on,:
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