EXTENT OF UNIVERSITY WORK FOR C.I.A. IS HARD TO PIN DOWN

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 25, 2010
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• Publication Date: October 9, 1977
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THE NEW YORK TIMES,?SUNDAY OCTOBER 9. 1977
pa-gist.
Sense of Iniury
''d feel that I've been done an injury,
,personally, by the C.I.A.," said Dr. Antho-
ny -J. Wiener, who in 1937 received a-
$12,000 grant from the Society for the
Invest gation of Human Ecology. At ;hat
t'me Dr. Wiener was a guest at the alas-
sachusetts Institute of Technolo?y's Cen-
ter for International Studies; wi
-Herman Kahn, he later wrote th
"The Year 2000." - - .
"I would not have lent myself' -
kind of deception, and I don't thir
should have practiced any sort of
tion on me," Dr. Wiener said.
When he first heard about the s
Dr. Wiener said, he was looki:
money with which to continue a
of the social role of Soviet scii
Twenty years later he learned tl'
C.I.A. hoped to find out "what
can be developed in spotting and
ing such persons as potential agt
cruits" from his study. -
"They made no attempt to poi
in that direction," Dr. Wiener said
I never gave them any material for
fying potential defectors. That was
interest at all."
7 Projects at Stanford
"We've been made guinea pigs,
said Robert Freelen, director of g
ment relations at Stanford, which ,
.tingly lent its name to seven C.I.
search projects. These ranged from
vey of the literature on human
groups to a project that simply chaff
money to a psychiatrist, a . meml
,the Stanford clinical faculty, who ii
paid for such enterprises as a stir,
the ways in which criminals gave
to the unsuspecting.. -_
The Stanford -projects were fin
'either through foundations or ti
payments made directly to clinical I
members, thus bypassing the univ
Mr. Freelen said he was not sur
the university could guard again:
.in the future,"Obviously there's'.E
to how much investigation you ca
on the sources of funds and their credibil-
ity," he said. "If they lie and you believe,
I don't know how that problem- gets
solved." - .: . , - L
Stanford has been making public every
piece of information it can gather about
its past involvement with the C.I.A.'s
mind control research.. It,was the first=
institution with any major. involvement'-
in the program: to do so, although' the
University of Denver; which hosted a
small experiment -in, hypnosis. tracked
down those details with vigor and made!
them public several weeks ago. ~.~
University Work=for C.I.44.. -
'Extentof*
By 30 THOMAS
' special T W Thr New York Times
-Despite d to Pin
WASHINGTON, Oct. 8pite three
(fdays of Congressional hearings, no one
yet knows the degree to which some of
the nation's most prominent universities
were. compromised in the Central Intelli-
gence Agency's secret mind-control re-
search in the 1950's and 1960's. ?
Adm. Stansfield Turner, the Director it
of Central Intelligence, said in Congres-
sional 'testimony last August that the
C.I.A. covertly sponsored research at 80
institutions. including 44 ? colleges and
universities,. from 1953 to 1963. The re-
search, was part of the project code-.
named MK-ULTRA, which sought to con-
trol human behavior through such means
as hypnosis, drugs and brainwashing.
The .. Senate Health Subcommittee,
which Wanted to hear the academicians';
reaction, quietly invited the presidents:
,of 20'institutions to testify at its hearings!
J Sept' 20 and 21. Only one president ac-
I cepted; he was not scheduled to. testify
jbecause all the others declined, explain-
ing that they had previous engagements.
The list of the 80 institutions given
to Senate investigators is still classified,
but each of those institutions has been
notified separately by the-C.I.A. that in
some way, knowingly or unknowingly.
it played host to C.I.A. research, and 26
colleges and universities have acknowl-
edged this publicly. ' -- - ' -
Research Vaiied
Inquiries at these institutions disclosed
that C.I.A. research on campus varied
from innocuous sociological surveys to
tests aimed at finding better ways to ad-
minister drugs to unsuspecting subjects.
;The attitudes of current administrators
likewise ran the gamut from outrage to
indifference.' 7 -+
The passage of time, more than 20 years
'in some cases; the C.I.A.'s secretiveness
during the project and the fragmentary
nature of the records the C.I.A. has made
available to universities have combined,
in most-cases, to make a reconstruction
of what happened difficult or impossible.
At many universities, money for these
projects- was channeled through founda-
tions so that neither the university nor
the professor doing the research knew
the true sponsor or purpose of the work.
Sociological, cultural and anthropological
studies were financed through the Society
for the Investigation of Human Ecology,
based at Cornell University. Biochemical
and medical research was often financed
through the Geschickter Fund for Medical
Research Inc., headed by. Dr. Charles Ges-
chickter.. a ..Georgetown
University:-
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