CIA FINANCED 'U' WORK ON BEHAVIOR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000201140121-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 30, 2010
• Sequence Number: 121
• Publication Date: August 19, 1977
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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MINTI"APOLIS TRIBUNE
19 AUGUST 1977
By Eric Pianiin
Staff Correspondent
-ngton, D.C.
STAT-entral Intelligence. Agency
(CIA) secretly financed experi-
rnents in behavior controls-at the
University of Minnesota sometime
during the 1950s and 1960s, the
agency confirmed this week.
?he university was notified by let-
er Wednesday that it had been
inc of 80 private and public insti-
tutions.. throughout the country it`(the agency) is able and legally
that knowingly or;' unwittingly free to do so."
sanctioned experimants that were
part of the - CIA's top-secret Magrath, who was reached in
MKULTRA mind-control research.. Winnipeg, Manitoba, where he is
on vacation, said he will request
Dr. C. Peter Magrath, president of that the CIA furnish him details of
the University of Minnesota con- the experimentation when he re-
firmed Thursday that his office turns to Minnesota. He said the
had received a form letter from letter gave no clue as to the activi-
the CIA, informing the university ties at the university that were
that the experimentation had tak-, financed by the CIA.
en place and offering. to provide
detailed information to the extent.: '1 am not in, favor of. -: in fact,
I'm 'flat out opposed --..to secret'
research at universities," he said.
"It's my knowledge that the. uni
-It's
policy, at. least since' the
late 1960s, early: 1970s and certain
ly since I've been at-the university,
for thepast: three years; does not.
condone secret research.
"It's entirely possible that within
the atmosphere of the Cold War
that existed in the '50s and '60s
that there -might have been one o
two scientists at the university in
volved in something," he said.
"But I'm only speculating."
A spokesman for the CIA yester-
day refused to discuss CIA activi-
ties at the University of Minnesota
or to name the person or persons
who conducted CIA-financed re-:
"The letter. itself does not really
give the university or institution
addressed any Idea of the extent of
the involvement or the character
of the. Involvement," the' spokes.
Involvement. If. the university has
an idea of who the researcher was
it does not come from the agency.'
University officials were reluctant
to speculate on who the CIA-fi-
nanced researcher. ; might have
been.
The only controversial mind-con-
trol experiments conducted in re-
cent memory at the university
were done during the 1960s by Dr.
Amedeo Marrazzi, using small dos-
es of the hallucinogenic drug LSD..
Marrazzi, 72, a- -researcher - and
professor of pharmacology at the
university between 1964 and 1969,
conducted LSD experiments In-
volving. 30 student volunteers and
12 patients at the.. university hospi-!
tal's psychiatric ward. The expert-f
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