MORE EXTENSIVE CIA DRUG EXPERIMENTS TOLD

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000100100034-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
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CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
SUN-TIMES
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WASHINGTON - The Central Intelligence other documents, has uncovered certain pa-..
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41 0 ency's program of drugging U.S. citizens : pers which bear on this matter."
without their knowledge in the 1950s and 1960s Turner stressed the CIA had not attempted
By Patrick Oster CIA previously told Congress-that most of t:^.-`
Sun-Times Bureau MK-ULTRA files had been destroyed, "our
continuing search for drug-related, as well as
on unwitting citizens, including drug, addicts.
was even more extensive than has been pre- -
viously disclosed, a White House official an-
nounced Friday.
The new information, based on a recent
search. of CIA financial records, indicates the
following -activities were undertaken- as part
of the drug program, known under the code
name "MK-ULTRA":
m Possible other cases involving drug testing
tered to patients suffering from the advanced continued over 10 years ago and do not take.
stages of cancer. Research on this drug was:. .-place today." - - . -
performed In conjunction with work on devel- Powell added that there Is no specific infor-
opment of pain killers for such patients. - mation he knows, of or could release that -
s A possible improper payment to a private would further shed light on who the victims
institution. or the perpetrators of the proram were.
? Research on surreptitious methods of ad- In the- final report of the Church committee....:
ministering drugs.. it Was disclosed during that the MK-ULTRA..
As far as it. is known, no deaths were In- -program first became known to those outside`,
volved in this newly disclosed CIA activity,. the. program during a 1963 investigation by.
said.White House press secretary Jody Pow- the CIA inspector general. :
All who made the data nublic.
to conceal anything when asked for informa-
tion on he program in 1975 by a Senate com-
mittee chaired by Frank Church (D-Ida.)
then investigating agency abuses.
Turner- said the new information made
known to him Tuesday was found in "retired
archives" files only "by using extraordinary
and extensive-research efforts."
The drug-related activities described in this
newly located material began almost 25 years
W Tests involving a knockout drug admlnis- ago, he, said. I assure you they were dis
Previously; It had been disclosed that Dr. r... .5=learned_then_tbat- the.nrogram_.was:_:
Frank'Olson, *a civilian biochemist for. the- the: brainchild of former CIA Director Rich-
Army, committed suicide by jumping out of a- and C. Helms, who at the time was the CIA's'
New York? hotel window in _1953 while under- assistant deputy director for plans. The pro-
the Influence of a drug secretly administered gram proposal was approved. in 1953 and it-
to him: by a- CIA official as- part- of the MK '- was an active project until its discovery by
ULTRA program.. Olson: was fed LSD in a the inspector general 10 years later. Aftei
glass of Colntreau shortly before his death. .that, its budget was decreased markedlyand
The-new'-'data were contained in a letter the program was put under tighter controls.
from, CIA Director Stansfield.Turner to Sen. -, It was reportedly phased out about 1967. Allen
Daniel: X.:.. Inouye (D-Hawaii), `chairman. of V Dulles was CIA director between 1953 and
the- Senate..-. Intelligence.` committee whichI ' 1961. John McCone held the post between 1961
-.
monitors-:the' agency's activities.'. and 1966.
A committee spokesman . said it-, probablyI , According to the final report, the program
will. hold hearings on 'the `disclosures next: was designed to give the CIA "comprehensive
week,-with'=T3irner expected to be there.
of the new; information Thursday m- keepingg
people know of any CIA:abuses _ of- citizens'
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