SECRET FUNDING OVER, CIA DIRECTOR SAYS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000100120075-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 20, 2007
• Sequence Number: 75
• Publication Date: November 15, 1977
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Approved For Release 2007/08/20: CIA-RDP99-00498R000100120075-9
CHICAGO (AP)-CIA Director
Stanfield Turner said Monday
that his agency no longer uses
secret front organizations to fund
human behavior research-like
two projects funded at the Univer-
sity-and promised that the CIA
will become increasingly open with
the public.
"I believe the intelligence com-
munity must be more open with the
American public," said Turner, 54,
at a news conference, which he
said was part of a _CT A effort to
eliminate unnecessary subterfuge.
Asked about the CIA's use of
front organizations to finance
research into human behavior,
Turner said he "absolutely" op-
poses the use of such tactics.
The behavior research on
.unknowing human subjects for-
merly authorized by the CIA "is
abhorrent to me," said Turner, ad
ding that human behavior, tests in-
volvinr,drUgs `and other sub-
stances; now. go. through the U.S.
Department of Health, Education
and Welfare.
He said that most such covert
research into human behavior en- .
ded in 1972 and the bulk of it was
"very good research, very well-.
motivatd and humanely done."
University' President John E.
Corbally recently criticized the
CIA for using subterfuge to
disguise the funding of the two MK-
ULTRA research projects. He said
the projects were not controversial
and the University would have ac-
cepted them directly from the CIA.
Turner said the CIA generates
many unclassified reports on mat-
ters such.as the Soviet economy,
world energy and the world steel
market that will be shared with the
public.
"When we can we'll. publish
what we can: We'll tell you about
the process of intelligence. A large
part of it is, not clandestine spying
operations. It is what you would
term at any university simply_nor-
malresearch.
"It's not necessary to dip to a
level of ineffectiveness that will en-
dangerthe country," Turner said,
proposing "a - balance between
more oversight (by Congress) and
the preservation of secrecy. It will
take several years to work out
these procedures," he said. . --
He said oversight by House and
Senate committees has worked.
well so far, although the agency
has to guard against such dangers
as information leaks and against
becoming too timid to be effective.
On another issue, Turner said
that microwave bombardment of
the U.S. embassy in Moscow cans
not be stopped because "they can
beam-from all kinds of directions
at us." Stopping the longtime
Soviet practice "has to be done by
persuasion rather than by brute
force."
Asked about-.,.Soviet-=usejo_:
radiation in this coufitry, Turner
said-the-Soviet-embassy intercepts
microwave transmissions
although there is no evidence that
they use radiation in any other.
way.
He said such pirating of _in-.
formation sent by microwave is
common worldwide and - affects
commercial microwaves as well,
including telephone conversations
-that are relayed by microwave
links.
By intercepting microwaves
"hijackers, gangsters, foreign in-
telligence operators and *industrial
.,Turner said
spies" can all use private in-
formation for their own purposes,
Approved For Release 2007/08/20: CIA-RDP99-00498R000100120075-9
STAT