CIA CHIEF MUM ABOUT TIES TO BROWN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000100160077-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 14, 2007
• Sequence Number: 77
• Publication Date: January 5, 1979
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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PROVIDENCE BULLETIN (R.I.)
5 January 1979
w,eplies to query
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tie
By TONY LIOCE ly used to channel millions of dollars into
Jou,i?awetin surf Writer - mind control research, including LSD testing
Cen:rai Intelligence Agency director Stans- on human subjects."
field Turner refuses to affirm-or deny that any Confronted with the New. Times article,
re?. tiorship has existed between the agency Keeney admitted he had worked for CIA
and. individuals. associated. with Brown while he was president of Brown but refused
day,, Turner said: - Turner said such a disclosure would violate.: "Furthermore," Turner added, "if my an
In a three-page letter to Swearer last month versity. Swearer said there was a compelling simply could not reveal what they are or wh
during his term of office. 'about the extent of CIA activities at the uni- you that there have been such relationships,
after former - Brown president-Barnaby C: .._ tion, Swearer wrote to Turner, noting that the not be true- to the future. ..
to characterize the nature of the work he did
for the agency. .
tu ~rt~rv
tionships with the CIA. The director said h
was unable to offer an answer that would b
position:
"If I 'assured you, on the one hand, tha
there are no cur ent relationships between th
CIA and any member of the Brown communi
president Howard R. Swearer-'in November AFTER KEENEY admitted to the connec- ty, I should have to add that the same migh
University. - .
Information about possible ties between.
Brown and the CIA was requested byBrown.-
cerned. I must adhere to the position of nei-
ther affirming nor denying their existence."
Turner added, however, that a, review.?p 1..
several thousand internal documents "showed
no indication that "iMKULTRA-related re-;
search was ever conducted either at Brown or
by any individual affiliated with the universi-
ty.
Project INMKULTRA was conducted in the
1950's and 1960's and involved research into
methods of altering human behavior patterns.
According to earlier reports Keeney had
served as chairman of the "Human Ecology
Fund," which was part of MKULTRA..
tionships with the Brown community are con? the government of securing again their valu= ' the potential effect of. inspiring unfair suspi
NEWS OF the Keeney-CIA connection first-
was reported in October by. New Times maga-
zine, which described the' Human Ecology
Fund as "one of several dummy foundations
which, over a 20-year period, the (CIA) secret
able services and otherwise _ unavailable dons, recriminations and even possible 'witc
expertise. . hunts' such as your school would certainly no
Turner said the agency would not object if. -wish to experience." .
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