STANSFIELD TURNER REVEALS MIND EXPERIMENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000100110080-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 20, 2007
• Sequence Number: 80
• Publication Date: August 3, 1977
• Content Type: REPORT

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RA0i0 TV REPORTS, 1NU.
4435 `A".SCONSiN AVENUE,
ABC Evening News
August 3, 1977 7:00 PM
STATION
WJLA TV
ABC Network
Washington, D.C.
Stansfield Turner Reveals Mind Experiments
BARBARA WALTERS: The Chief of the CIA told the Senate
today that 80 institutions such as colleges, prisons, and hospitals,
were used in top-secret mind control research in the Cold War years..
He gave details of some frightening experiments, as Bill Downs
reports.
BILL DOWNS: More than 5,000 well-laundered and sometimes
lurid documents were released today by the CIA as Agency Director
Stansfield Turner outlined parts of the CIA's 144 human behavior
control projects before a joint Senate committee. They included
experiments secretly involving hospitals testing drugs on terminal
cancer patients and enlisting prisons to experiment on criminal
sexual psychopaths.
STAT
Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy said that prostitutes
were employed to entice unwitting victims to so-called CIA safe houses
in New York and San Francisco to test LSD and knockout drops. Disa-.
vowing the past, Admiral Turner had strong ideas about the CIA's
future.
ADMIRAL STANSFIELD TURNER: It is totally abhorrent to me
to think of using a human being as a guinea pig, and in. any way
jeopardizing his life and his health, but I can assure you that this
is totally beyond the pale of my contemplation of activities for the
CIA or any other of our intelligence agencies should undertake.
DOI4NS: Turner's testimony today revealed that the CIA
secretly funneled money through scores of research foundations,
colleges, hospitals, and clinics including a $375,000 grant through
the Geschickter research fund here in Washington. For that story
here is Margaret Osmer at Washington's Georgetown University.
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