CIA REVELATIONS: BEHAVIOR CONTROL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000100100019-3
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• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Sequence Number: 19
• Content Type: REPORT

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July 20, 1977 7:00 PM Washington, D.C.
CIA Revelations: Behavior Control
FRANK REYNOLDS: There were new revelations today about
cloak-and-dagger spy operations by our side. The CIA Director,
Admiral Stansfield Turner, met with the Senate Intelligence Committee.
in a closed session to provide more information-about MK-Ultra. MK-
Ultra is a CIA program started nearly 25 years ago to control
human behavior through the use of drugs, electric shock, psycho-
surgery, and other rather sophisticated techniques.
The CIA now says it has discovered documents relating to the
program that apparently were not filed in the right place. Acting
under the Freedom of Information Act a former State Department
official, John Marx, has obtained a number of other documents on
MK-Ultra. He made them public today.
Bill Downs has that story.
BILL DOWNS: John Marksays the latest CIA documents show
'that in the 1950s the CIA secretly contracted with an unidentified
professor of neurology to go to an unnamed state prison.for an
experiment on an unrevealed number of convicts. The agency had
learned that the Russians were testing a drug called Bobolocapnine [?].-
MK-Ultra wanted to know if the drug actually could
induce loss of willpower and memory. Another documented case
involves two suspected Russian CIA agents which the agency feared
might have been compromised. Both agents were drugged, then
hypnotized. They relived past incidents in their lives, the
documents report. Interrogations were very successful.
Among the MK-Ultra documents produced today was a 1949
letter outlining ways of killing a person without leaving evidence
of murder. Try smothering with a pillow or stangling with a thick
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