DID CIA TRY TO CONTROL HUMAN BEHAVIOR?

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WASHINIGTO`i STAR (GREEn LINE)
20 JULY 1977
. By WI11Iam Delaney
Washington Star Staff writer
Saying CIA Director Stansfield
Turner "seriously distorted" the na-
ture of a long-defunct secret project
by recently describing it as a study of
the effect of drugs, former State De-
partment intelligence analyst John
Marks today made public CIA docu-
ments that indicate the 1953 project's
aim was to ."control human behav
lating human -behavior are found oy
many people both within and without
t+he agency to be distasteful and
unethical." the agency's inspector..
general noted in a- memo in 1963, a
year before Turner says the project
was discontinued... -
..That document is one of several
that author Marks today released as
,
?"highlights" of some 1,000 pages of persons leaving the agency. An ex::
materials he and his attorneys ob- CIA man awaiting surgery in Dallas-:
tained from the CIA in what he de- alerted Washington that he might=
scribed as a two-year-long "pitched spill secrets when anesthetized wit
Freedom of Information battle.". sodium pentothal; an agent dis-
Other documents, with names of patched to the operating room swore-
N
INSTITUTIONS are named,
virtually all deleted, indicate that: - i - then listened as the unconscious pa-,". though Marks quotes one document
? In the -early 1950s, when the safe- tient talked "extensively" about'as recommending that the CIA cov-
guarding of atomic defense secrets. ` "internal problems" of the agency. ertly endow a department of forensic
and the "brainwashing" of GIs in 3 A `.`I}ear Bill" letter from a name medicine at "an appropriate univer-
North Korean prisons were key deleted person in 1949 discusses vari- 1 -sity, preferably- in ,the Washington
topics of concern, the- agency wasy-pus, chemical and physical ways to urea.".
One document repasts the CIA's
conducting drug tests on unspecified cause death and confound the physi-.- -1952 use of drugs and hypnosis in the.
subjects to determine' the effect of..: clan performing an autopsy. '
varying amounts and types of drugs r IN A. LETTER last week to the
-- including mescaline and mari- `Senate Intelligence Committee, CIA
Juana -- on an individual's ability.to Director Turner disclosed the recent
retain top-secret information. 'A
memo refers to this as "ego control discovery' of "fairly volumnious"
and volitional suppression."
? A proposal for such testing--sug-
gests that all persons directly 'in-
.volved, including the testers, be kept
in the dark as to the nature of the
gs being used. Reference is made
to further testing -"under 'field'
conditions. -i.e., prisoners of war, if
.possible, federal prisoners, if possi-
ble,_ security officers, etc., under
threat conditions beyond the scope of.
civilian experimentation."
? A summary--of a 1953 meeting on
Project Artichoke, which apparently
was authorized by CIA Director Allen
scientists of the "(deleted) govern-
ment," since that country allowed
experiments with anthrax (a disease
contracted from infected cattle and
sheep) 'and other "activities which
were not permitted by the United
States government."
? Cryptic - Artichoke-papers refer-
ences are made to -one device called
a "hypospray" ("does not appear to
be useful") and to another called the
"Sidetone Delay machine."
? One Artichoke participant spoke of
the "fine cooperation" of the Agricul-
ture Department in importing experi-
mental botanicals and, along with the
Food and Drug Administration, in
MK-ULTRA archives which agency i
officials had earlier told the commit-
tee they felt had been destroyed.
He said they revealed more exten I
sive - drug-testing on unsuspecting
Americans than had previously been
thought, and he volunteered to testify
"at the earliest opportunity" about I
'-'this unfortunate series of events."
Marks, co-author of."The CIA and
the Cult of Intelligence," said today
the CIA had known of those docu-
ments at least since February and
had promised to give him "these
newly found 5,000 pages by July 31."
Accusing Turner of "what used to
be called a modified limited hang- '?
preparing lab space for the project mi . i out" by mentioning it only as a pro'
1953. ~ gram of experimentation with the ef-
? Artichoke people spoke of the great. fect of drugs, Marks contend the
need for "controlled amnesias" ii:- documents-show it to have been "a
especially for- .I program to manipulate people's
CIA operations work
.,
minds.
He (Turner) "neglected to say that
MK-ULTRA research was carried on
at many American universities and I
that prisoners in-American jails were. 1
used as human guinea pigs.",
interrogation of two suspected Soviet
agents, who were then--induced with
amnesia. -
"This research project is a poten-
tial threat to our most basic free
doms. if it gives the government or
anyone else the ability to manipulate I
human behavior," declared Marks in
a . statement. -"These techniques do
not just smack of 1984; they open up
the prospect of totalitarian control."
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