TV: AN 11:30 P.M. LOOK AT MIND-CONTROL STUDIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01350R000200420013-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 20, 2004
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: January 30, 1979
• Content Type: NSPR

ARTICLE ? tbved For Release 2D94YtQi'i43T F-RDP88-01350R0
u' AACI - 1 30 JAMIAtY 1979
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BC NEWS documentaries'"' all these aspects and more;"getting ex..
these days are exhibiting pro.;.-,?,- ctusive interviews with former officials
nounced schizoid symptoms. and consultants to the.Central Intelli-.-,
Those tackling sensitive issues Bence Agency and other agencies. At
from fresh angles, both-*technical and the sametime, however, the program's'.t
interpretive, have been encouraging. methods provide both too much and too.
Two outstanding have. examples were little in the way of substantial content.: , ,,'
"
Youth Terror" and a portrait of the ?;, ,", While much of the material would'!
Palestinians. But those dabbling in in. seem to suggest a staggering ineptness
herently sensational subjects, such as-' in American efforts in these areas, the.
Control," falls somewhere in. the un- '!" for instance ,.of beorge White, a bizarre ,h
:easy middle. Scheduled-outside prime consultant to the C.I.A., who once'
-time, the 90-minute.: documentary wrote, "it was fun, fun, fun ... where
begins at 11:30 P.M. ,:.. else could a red-blooded American
The producer and writer is Paul Alt. .l. kill, cheat and rape with the sanction of
.Meyer, whose television record is ceK.;:. the all-highest? Well, ' yes. but. the---"
investigative reporting. And the stated -`scenario, were ',`considerably ' moray; John Gitten er retired chief s '
t-.__ proper in tone and behavior. ;, . -. .. ' - f '1.
? pbrpose of the program is certainl
y
pieces of stories involving the United 'Two devices are especially irritaf-
States Government in the last 30 years kIng Clips from the film "The Manchus rupted to show an experimental 'film's
In various experiments aimed at' per-. ;,.-'Tian Candidate are shamefully over+. i,conception of an LSD :'trip.'.': Nowof
'?
fectingmindcontroi. ,' used: A scene'in which a;:brainwasheds course, there is no such thing as a s+n `.
., Laurence. Harvey,' under orders from gle trip. Different people react diffex ;
-For the most part; the experiments t' the enemy;. shoots his?Armybuddy io. ently to hallucinogenic. drugs Some-t. t
involve drugs, most of them, such as ai the.face is.shown not once but twice.} trips, are pleasant, others terrifying.
LSD, hallucinogenic, Much of the story One explanation may be that the docu< , -'Mind Control`has already been covered in the mentary owes an obvious debt to "con? V .sists-on wasting onsiderabie time on!
general press. There are the distress- , ` sultans" John Marks, whose new book these tedious versions of a "simulated
ing tales of unwitting guinea pigs..:;; will be entitled The Search for the ' LSD experience. ? '_ _= i
There are the cases of covered-up sui ? Manchurian Candidate: The C.I.A. and .f.; In the end, piled atop a mound of in=
cides, most notably those of Frank -Mind-Control.!' + I" k triguingmaterial andominousdeclaraA
:Olson and Harald Blauer. Extensive In addition,{o this, evidently in an ef-, }Lions, an expert is brought ori. tb con-'
experiments were conducted on rely f{bt to getaway from.' talking heads,#. a elude that as far as the average humans
lively powerless types prostitutes, the, proceedings,are .-regularly inters mind is concerned,., predictable; abso.
Lute control Is not
possible.' The point
Is made clearly, but one can't help wont..
dering what viewers will 'remember
longer: the ' unsensational.; expert- or
those scenes of Laurence Harvey. blow
ing of f his friend's head= l t #?:: >=*: l`t t
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