CIA REFUSES TO REMOVE CLOAK ON BROWN 'LINKS'

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CIA-RDP90-00806R000100190014-5
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December 22, 2016
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August 24, 2010
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January 6, 1979
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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/08/24: CIA-RDP90-00806R000100190014-5 PROVIDENCE JOURNAL 6 January 1979 I, & e fu S, t 4o r e-M., ~Fi)ak on'Bar.oWn-, 'Unks' I 7ou J.auu suit writer man Ecology Fund as "one of several Central. Intelligence. Agency Director dummy foundations which, over a 20- Stansfield Turner refuses to affirm or year period, the (CIA) secretly used to deny that any relationship has existed be. channel millions of dollars into mind con- tween the agency and individuals associ-, trol research, including LSD testing on ated with Brown University. human subjects." Information..?.:about passible: ties be-, Confronted with the New Times arti-- tween Brown-and the CIA was requested _ cle, Keeney admitted he had worked for by Brown President Howard R. Swearer: CIA while h ei was president of Brown but in November after former Brown Presi refused to characterize the nature of the dent Barnaby C. Keeney, admitted he work he did for the agency. worked with the CIA during his term of orrice After Keeney admitted to the connec- Li a three-page letter to Swearer last tion, Swearer wrote to Turner, noting month and released without comment by . that the disclosure heightened concern on Swearer-yesterday. Turner said: the campus about the extent of CIA ac- "Insofar as- past or present individual.. tivities at the university. Swearer said relationships with the Brown community ; there was a compelling need to clarify the are concerned, I must adhere to-the posi- situation. tion of neither ? affirming nor denying their existence" t Turner said such a disclosure would Turner added; however, that a review violate the rights-' of individuals and of several thousand internal documents would deprive the government of secur "showed no.indicabon.that iINU ULTRA. ing again their valuable services and otli related research was ever conducted ei- erwise unavailable expertise. = Project MKULTRA was conducted in the 1950s and 1960s and involved re- search 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 biKULTRA. , Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/08/24: CIA-RDP90-00806R000100190014-5