A CIA NOTEBOOK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-01208R000100170049-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 2, 2011
• Sequence Number: 49
• Publication Date: June 11, 1975
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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STAT
In the CIA's Operation
CI:AOS files -the infor-
mation compiled over seven
)'ears on American dissi-
dents -was one on Grove
Press, Inc., according to
the Rockefeller commis-
sion. The company first
came to CIA attention when
it published a book by Kim
Philby, the British counter-~
spy. But the simple act of
listing Grove Press in the
files apparently made any
infcrmation cn the compa-
ny of interest to the CIA.
Accordingly, CIIA05 ana-
lysts spent some of their
time clipping reviews of a
movie produced by Grove
Press - "I Am Curious,
Yeilow."
CIA experimentation
v; ith the drug LSD led to the
death ct a government em-
ploye who became an
umvittin~ guinea pig, ac-
cording to the Rockefeller
commission report on CI.A
activities. Fearful that
Russian and North Korean
Communists were dcvelop-
inr r.~ethods of behavior
moc?'.iricstion that could be
used clandestinely against
Americans, the CIA in the
late 1390s began testing
LSD, among other drugs.
:~
In ]9~3, an employe of the
Department of the Army
assigned to the drug project
was given LSD without his
knowledge. He developed
"serious side effects" and'
was taken to a New York
hospital for psychiatric
treatment. But within
several days he jumped
from his tenth floor window
and died. The CIA's genera!
counsel ruled that the death
had occurred in the line of
duty, so that his family
could receive survivors'
benefits. "Reprimands
were issued" by the CIA
director to the t~vo CIA em-
ployes who had given the
LSD, the report says. LSD
experimentation was not
ended until 1967.
. ~ .
When President Ford ap-
pointed Ronald Reagan to
the commission to investi-
gate CIA activities, i[ was
seen as a clever way of
defusing criticism from a
potential critic of the
commission's work and
rival for Ford's o?.vn job. So
it is perhaps noteworthy
that in the brief biographies
of the commission mem-
bers that appear at the
beginning of the commis-
sion report, Reagan is de-
scribed this :.ay: "Ronald
Reagan, political commen-
tator, former President of
the Screen Actors' G::iid
and former Governor of
California.
Part of the reason for the
creation of Operation
Chaos, according to the
Rockefeller Commission,
was that the FBI under
Director J. Edgar Hoover
was not prop;ding the W site
House with the kind of
intelligence it wanted on
dissidents i:t the United
States. I?oa?:er appears
throughout to report as
stumbling biccl?:. ratty. Gen.
John Mitchel!, far example,
asked for CIA help in get-
ting some material from'
the FBI because Mitchell
"was experencing some
difficulty in c~tairing coop-
eration w?it~:in his own de-
partment." I;a 190 Iioa:er
broke cIf all but format,
written coraact with tyre
CIA because, the report
says, he was angry with
Director Ric: a:d Helms for
refusing to o:~cr a CIA efi-
cer to tell mover which
FBI agent hid given him
information about Hoover's
agency. _
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