CIA PROLONGED RESEARCH ON GERM WAR, GROUP SAYS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000201000015-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 23, 2010
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• Publication Date: March 11, 1980
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THE WASHINGTON POST
11 March 1980
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By George Lardner_Jr" According to a July 10, 1972. memo
The CIA funded a project aimed at however, CIA work-known as maintaining biological warfare "bar-., -SEARCH-was still being - carried on.
assment systems!' for nearl three "to maintain an operational support
y capability ii the coven-utilization of
years after President: t'ixolr re' 'chemical and. biological materials and
nounced the-use 'of such weapons,. ac: -.,.
o ? ..Church of Scientology techniques." .
cording to.-
i study.?of CIA. records ;~ a t I The: S .ieniolofists -said- the .Balti-
moie-based- project became Fart . of
The Scientologists, said'-',- the CI-1''.? MK-RESEARCH around 1963 in an of
spent more than $100.000thiough 1972 fort to single out some MK ULTRA
on a program established years earlier activities that. as another CIA memo
toy, develop ?,``operational;-'capability put- it. ?"can now be, carried under
(and ; lose?*investigative-work) in the some.o.ther administrative and fiscal
field of covert BW (biologicalwartare) - .';mechanism."
and CW (chemicaFwarfare) .Citina::one invoice from the early
In a report scheduled to bey made,- 1960s, the Scientologists said there
public today,-.the Scientologists traced was *evidence that'at least two disease.
signed to obtain specimens of;'various.
microogranisms and breed large quan
titles with a machine called a Biogen,
according to. the study. -
Using documents made public un-
der.the Freedom of Information. Act,
primarily CIA financial records, the
Scientologists said receipts for repairs
and replacement parts, indicated the
machine was `stzadily used for 13
known as - hIK-ULTRA 78, from, 1957
until it ended eight years ago. '
The program. involved the-use of a
Baltimore. laboratory that was as-
the history of the project,' 9riginally causing' agents, one that could touch
off undulant fever and another that
could bring on tularemia, were mass
produced in Biogen:,
According to the July 10, 1972. CIA
memo recommending termination of
all 'MK-SEARCH projects. the-
agency had received "no annroved
operational requests" for its biological
and chemical materials-or. techniques
for four years- but had not aban-
doned the funding needed "to main-
.: tain an operational capability.".
The CIA had no immediate com-
ment on the study. It is scheduled to
years and may, have produced hun- be submitted today of several congres-
dreds of p po ou nnds of carious biological ,'sional.committees. Church of Scientol-
agents of u roorganismss iol.- =ogy spokesman Brian Anderson main-
'-tained that ".Congress should demand
President.Nixon:-stated.. on-Nov: 25, ,'the"-: full. story. from- the
re/aFd-
1969, that the United States-was re- ing its chemical and biological tests,
pouncing use of any form of'biologi research and stockpiling" before any
cal weapons that kill or incapacitate: ;v further, debate. on the CIA's calls for
also .ordered .disposal. =of stQcks:ol- -,.an_exemption.from?theFreedom of In-
bacteriological.weapons: *ormation'Act.
STAT
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