WASHINGTON POST ARTICLE BY JACK ANDERSON 'CIA MAY HAVE INSPIRED CINQUE'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R000600040015-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 18, 2004
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• Publication Date: October 5, 1978
• Content Type: NSPR

WASHINGTON POST DATE CC-,7/ PAGE 2 C 9
THE WASHINGTON POST Thursday, October 5, 1978
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vict who served time in a California pri-
son with the heiress' captor, Donald
(Cinque) DeFreeze, the violent "field
marshal" of the Symbionese Liberation
Army.
Admittedly, the convict, Clifford Jef-
ferson, can hardly be considered a reli-
able witness. He's serving life for mur-
der and for assaulting a fellow inmate.
He is known as "Death Row- Jeff." On
the other hand, it's not clear what he
would gain by fabricating a story.
Here is Jefferson's strange tale, con-
tained in an affidavit for Hearst's first
defense attorney, Vincent Hallinan:
In 1971 and 1972, Jefferson was con-
fined with DeFreeze at a facility in Va-
caville, Calif. "In the early part of 1971,
DeFreeze stated to me that the CIA was
conducting tests to try out certain
drugs on inmates, and he had been in
on it," states, Jefferson's sworn testi=
mony. He continued:
"These tests were on the third floor
of the facility in B3: I went there and
met two CIA men who were giving
these tests. They gave me.drugs, includ-
ing mescaline, Quaalude and Artane.
These drugs first made me terribly
frightened, then other-, drugs were
given to calm me down...
"DeFreeze stated that he had gone
through the same tests and .also knew
of stress tests that were given to prison.
ers, in which they were kept in solitary,
harassed and annoyed until they would
do anything asked of them to get out;
then they were given these drugs and
would become like robots.
"He [DeFreeze] said that when he got
and other drugs, and the person would
become a robot and do anything he was
asked to do-including killing others.
"He thought a good one to kidnap
would be one of the Kennedys. Then
the revolutionary group would get
great publicity and could get the per-
son to get them money."
DeFreeze left the Vacaville facility in
late 1972. He and his cohorts kidnaped
Hearst in 1974, and according to testi-
mony at her trial, kept her bound and
blindfolded in a closet for 54 days.
Jefferson, of course, has no way of
knowing whether this treatment was
used. in tandem with LSD or other
drugs, as Hallinan suspects, to trans-
form the daughter of a millionaire into
"Tana;" the machine-gun-toting; bank-
robbing revolutionary.
DeFreeze was killed in 1974 in a
shootout with police in Los Angeles.
But CIA files confirm that the agency
did conduct drug experiments on Va-
caville inmates as part ' of what was
known as the MK-Ultra program.
This was designed to study the ef-
fects of stress and drugs on prisoners of
war, to determine the point at which
they would crack and become robot-
like slaves, doing and saying anything
they were ordered to.
Casting doubt on Jefferson's credibil-
ity, Vacaville Superintendent T. Law-
rence Clanon told our associate Gary
Cohn there is no evidence the CIA con-
ducted any experiments at Vacaville
after 1968-two years before DeFreeze
entered the prison.
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CIA May Have Inspired Cim ue
Did the Central Intelligence Agency out, he would get a revolutionary group Furthermore, he said, DeFreeze
unwittingly inspire the kidnaping of to kidnap some rich person. They could not have known of the CIA's in-
Patricia Hearst? This bizarre possibility would hold that person tied up in a volvement in the Vacaville experiments
is raised in a sworn statement by a con- dark place, keep him frightened and in until 'August 1976, when it was dis-
closed. Thus, DeFreeze, could' not have,
told anyone that the CIA was conduc-
ting the tests, as Jefferson's affidavit
says.
On the other hand, Clanon acknowl-
edged that DeFreeze had volunteered
for medical research in July 1970,
shortly after he entered Vacaville. And
a source familiar with the CIA's experi-
ments at Vacaville said it is uncertain
when the, agency ended its testing
there.
In their, affidavits to the federal
judge who presided at the Hearst trial,
Hearst's lawyers described the
symptoms they observed when they
first interviewed her as consistent with
those of a person having a nervous
breakdown or under the influence of
"drugs. .
Another affidavit, by a college friend of
the heiress, described similar symptoms
of emotional disorder that he and his wife
observed during a jail visit '
A wild story; certainly, and perhaps
nothing more than the product of an im-
aginative convict's mind. But stranger sto-
ries about the CIA, initially scoffed at as
the ravings of science-fiction or spy-novel
buffs, have turned out to be true.
Watch .on Waste-In addition to.
their, own monthly telephone bills, tax-
payers also pick up the tab for the fed-
eral government's phone calls. In Wash-
ington, D.C., alone, phone calls by fed-
eral employes add up to $7 million a
month. Simple arithmetic reveals that
Washington's bureaucrats chat on the
phone to the tune of $84 million a year.