CIA REFUSES TO REMOVE CLOAK ON BROWN 'LINKS'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000100190014-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2010
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: January 6, 1979
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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PROVIDENCE JOURNAL
6 January 1979
I, & e fu S, t 4o r e-M.,
~Fi)ak on'Bar.oWn-, 'Unks' I
7ou J.auu suit writer man Ecology Fund as "one of several
Central. Intelligence. Agency Director dummy foundations which, over a 20-
Stansfield Turner refuses to affirm or year period, the (CIA) secretly used to
deny that any relationship has existed be. channel millions of dollars into mind con-
tween the agency and individuals associ-, trol research, including LSD testing on
ated with Brown University. human subjects."
Information..?.:about passible: ties be-, Confronted with the New Times arti--
tween Brown-and the CIA was requested _ cle, Keeney admitted he had worked for
by Brown President Howard R. Swearer: CIA while h ei
was president of Brown but
in November after former Brown Presi refused to characterize the nature of the
dent Barnaby C. Keeney, admitted he work he did for the agency.
worked with the CIA during his term of
orrice After Keeney admitted to the connec-
Li a three-page letter to Swearer last tion, Swearer wrote to Turner, noting
month and released without comment by . that the disclosure heightened concern on
Swearer-yesterday. Turner said: the campus about the extent of CIA ac-
"Insofar as- past or present individual.. tivities at the university. Swearer said
relationships with the Brown community ; there was a compelling need to clarify the
are concerned, I must adhere to-the posi- situation.
tion of neither ? affirming nor denying
their existence" t Turner said such a disclosure would
Turner added; however, that a review violate the rights-' of individuals and
of several thousand internal documents would deprive the government of secur
"showed no.indicabon.that iINU ULTRA. ing again their valuable services and otli
related research was ever conducted ei- erwise unavailable expertise. =
Project MKULTRA was conducted in
the 1950s and 1960s and involved re-
search into methods of altering human
behavior patterns.
According to earlier reports Keeney
had served as chairman of the "Human
Ecology Fund," which':: was ' part of
biKULTRA. ,
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