CIA CHIEF MUM ABOUT TIES TO BROWN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000100190013-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 10, 2010
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: January 5, 1979
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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5 January 1979
Replies to query
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By TONY LIOCE
Journal-Bulletin Staff Writer
Central Intelligence Agency director Stans-
field Turner refuses to affirm-or deny that any
relationship has existed between the. agency
and individuals- associated: with Brown
University.
Information about possible ties between
Brown and the CIA was requested by-Brown
ly used to channel millions of dollars into
mind control research, including LSD testing
on human subjects."
Confronted with the New. Times article,
Keeney admitted he had worked for CIA
while he was president of Brown but refused
to characterize the nature of the work he did
for the agency.
ru'ILA KEENLY admitted to the cone .
those involved decided to disclose their rela-
tionships with the CIA. The director said he
was unable to offer an answer that would be
"satisfactory" to Swearer but he defended his
position:
"If I assured you, on the one hand, that
there are no current relationships between the
CIA and any member of the Brown communi-
ty I should have to add that the same might
after former Brown president-Barnaby C. tion, Swearer wrote to-Turner, noting that the ."'"
Keeney admitted,he worked with the CIA disclosure heightened concern on the campus "On the other hand, even if I were to advise
during his term of office. - .-, about the extent of CIA activities at the uni- you that there have been such relationships, I
In a three-page letter to Swearer last month versity. Swearer said there was a compelling.. simply could not reveal what they are or who
and released without comment by Swearer to-- need to clarify the situatiorr. - has been involved.
day,,Turner said: Turner said such a disclosure would violate .. "Furthermore," Turner added, "if my an-
"Insofar as past or present individual ?rela- the rights 'of- individuals, and, would deprive-- - swer became generally known.,it could have
tionships with the Brown community are con- the government of securing again their valu- the potential' effect of inspiring unfair suspi-
cerned, I must adhere to the position of nei- able services and otherwise unavailable cions, recriminations and even possible 'witch
ther affirming nor denying their existence.' expertise. = hunts' such as your school would certainly not
Turner added, however, that a review ',off. Turner said the agency would not object if, wish to experience."
several thousand internal documents "showed _
no indication that "MKULTRA-related re-,
search was ever conducted either at Brown or
by any individual affiliated with the universi-
ty "
Project MKULTRA 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.
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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
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