CIA PAID 'U' FOR HYPNOTIC TESTIC

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000201140120-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 30, 2010
• Sequence Number: 120
• Publication Date: September 15, 1977
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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MINNEAPOLIS TRIBUNE
15 September 1977
',Staff Correspondent
The Universit
y
=a^ =eearch that was secretly
financed by the CIA--during.. the
1950x. Involved experiments in
:hypnotis
a
m
ccordi to C
-,ngIA docu_
menu.
Universityof Minnesota ` President
C. Peter
Magrath thi
,s ""week re-.
ceived:about: 60 pages--of corre
'
sponden
'
_
ce
and-ei
rcepts, released
by. the CIA; detailin
a
g rese
rch co
n-
memberQ in one r _ two-, faculty,,,,
,
,
-,
-- - ?
y members as. sociated with *the: research.-.were=
deleted from the docuinents;`and
universit
o
;.
y
fficials were- uncertain
Wednesday as. to who might leave:
The;: documents :;which='Magrath l
plane to publicly relea
se today d
e
scribe,- about. 10 ;different-
exper
rtients,- Including one that ~ deter
? mined- how'
n ~.,~,...< .
E ety-and stress '""? ", anxt=
.
I non sty I and his susceptibility to hypno
o .physical objects. One experi-
ment examined the relationship
,between an
individual's rso I
or to recall complex arrangements
"Al
individual's ability to learn and re
-L -
Other experiments reportedly'
ly_ official _who had reviewed the
`.documents.-
"There's not that Much that's reap
ly'sexy In this, '. said one universi-
`East montli,? the CIA=informed the
university-that it was among about
80
private ad pbli i
nucnstitutions
n
r
k
-
t
that
now-
tingly' or unwittingly had conduct..
ed research during the 1950s and
1960s financed by the CIA's secret
,MK-ULTRA , behavioral research
;Much of the MK-ULTRA research!
-involved the controversial use- of
hallucinogenic drugs, such- as LSD)
which prompted some to speculate
that CIA funds might have beer
used for some of the LSD researc
and
-
-~ .
1969. -
-Anthony Potami,. director of the
.university office _offTesearclr--ad-
.ministration, said--Yesterday he-has.
nothing on file: tomindicate _who_
Might have received. the CIt>r
funds- 'Its t
=
ough to
go bk th
acat
-far.: to any records; Potamt said-
'The university just-"didn't -main,:;
IT listings then -like we have
today Most of the old files were-
!.
O
d
SSe
r
;
,The university, which now has a-
policy? forbidding 'its facult
t
y
o
conduct classified research; recent
_ ----o.-.y .. 16tw+,,,. LIr. 7
Glen Brudvig, head? of the medical
~..-., n_ :Lt- ... -- ---
assstance ur a biomedical research
Under the;. co- ntract,::.the_ CIA - will i
pay the university about $2,000 for--
vice contract with the CIA.;
Thief researcher involved.' W- --. ~,
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