RUTGERS STANDS PAT ON CIA TEST DATA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000400330004-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 26, 2004
• Sequence Number: 4
• Content Type: NSPR

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By JOHN 0. MEMBRI\O -taged within this setting," ..by''the CIA since-a cover-
NawJ&m.r ram ss-rrcv the memo stated." organization Was used. '. "
, SV.&SIHIN"ETON Rut-: "'.;_The ;'research-. had- a The name of the cover
gers University apparently.:`- budget of'.about $5.000, ac-- -organization has- been de-
will not press the Central:.;cording to .the financial leted-from: the -memoran-
Intelligence Agency for.. a dum further accounting of ,its The.-program was con- The-; -CIA.- documents
clandestine "behavior" re- ducted under Richard Ste- sent .to.Bloustein have also
search " that was carried.: = phensort. a - sociology been censored to. remove
out at the school in 1957 .' ;..:` professor. at Douglass Col'.... names of =- individuals,
4= After receiving formal . lege. He said he had no `:organizations and schools
confirmation of the study..., knowledge. that - the.-.re that have;not.been named
along" - with, .. supporting ti { search.was being funded publicly by the agency..;,;! documents, from the. CI - - -- -- -
this week, a Rutgers
;spokesman said, "Rutgers"
does not intend to pursue
the-matter any further at
this time."
The CIA program at the*
.
university;;: code named
MK-Ultra; came to light
last month after Rutgers
-revealed it had received a
letter from the CIA disclos-
' ing that it. was one of
scores of schools.. around
..the-country that were used
for-,behavior modification "
:repearch_in the 1954s'and
' i.?-_The CIA subsequently
,,sent" financial records and
-memoranham to Rutgers.
t:at.the request of universi:-
~.ty President, Edward J:
Bloustein..: ia' :as ,rx
.The prcdram. at Rut
gers la tr+l ahout'.a year,.
tarting hi March 195?~'
'i`ermed.,,nwi Project69;,'
. research entailed
,`intensive :ludy` designed
fo throw' n 3 much light as
ssible on ,. he sociology of
'ttg.CommiuiI:st system in.
ihe; throes J. revolution," : ?
according to A CIA memo=
? slated Marri? 119,1957.
`;The s!iAy will involve.,
theintervle of Hungarian
-refugees with the specific
:aim of 'collecting back
ground information on- the
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on the grbups within Hun-!
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