SCIENTOLOGISTS SUSPECT MISTREATMENT PATIENT, INMATE STUDY IS STARTED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000400410014-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 1, 2004
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: July 27, 1979
• Content Type: NSPR

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By GEORGE REDE:. Robert Sharpley, executive secretary One undated do :ument quoted 'a psy-
Capltal Journal Reporter to the Human Research Review Board chiatrist - whose name was blacken out
Representatives of a Seattle-based of the Washington Department of Social - as suggesting the use of radioactive
human rights group have arrived in-Ore- and Health Services, denied the accusa- ascorbic acid (vitamin C).
gon to kick off an investigation of whet`l- tion in a telephone interview Thursday.. The document noted that use of the
er prisoners and mental patients in state "We're still working on documentation ? contaminated drug could produce symp-
institutions in Salem have been mis- up t`lere," Kozachik said of the alleged toms characteristic of Addison's disease,
treated through the use of electroshock ? injections- "But by the nature of the ex- which is caused by failure of the adrenal
treatment, experimental. drugs or.psy- perlmentation, it implicates the CIA. glands, and could result in death if not
chosurgery. We've come down here to initiate a lmi- properly treated.
Kozachik and Finn said they believe
They say their',readi ng of Central. In- lar investigation."
telligence Agency documents and relit- Kozachik and Finn are members of : that if the CIA authorized that type of re-.
ed news reports and literature suggests the, s.sociation of Scientologists for Re-;_ search, it follows that the clinical testing
that the CIA nearly 30 years ago actively, form, a Seattle-ased-`.`umbrella agen- was carried out in various locations
encouraged research and development cy" that funds the activities of several- throughout the country and that prison
of various mind-control techniques - in- ! so al reform groups, including the Citi- ers and mental patients were the most
cluding those listed above. , - tens Commission for Human Rights. probable-victims of such experimenting..
They say that people in state instrtu The two men are members, of tl~eKozachik said he hopes an investiga-
tiaras would have been the most likely Church of Scientology, whose members, tion of state institutions in Oregon and in
other Northwest states, will "reflect this
victims of such research. have been accused. by -the U.S: Justice- CIA act}vi
Stephan Kozachik and Chris Finn;- Department of stealing thousands of ty.
members of the Citizens Commission for-' pages of documents from government Kozachik said he and Finn will begin .1
Human Rights, have in''estigated similar files. their Oregon investigation by requesting
matters in Washington state, and claim The president of the church, the Rev. state agencies to produce any documents
to have affidavits from three former in Martin Samuels, is a defendant in a $2 that they may have pertaining to the 1
mind-control techniques . described
mates at Oregon State Penitentiary that. million damage suit filed by a former
- electroshock treatment was used puniti-= church member-, who alleges misrepre above. .
vely "during the '50s and early '60s" on sentation of the benefits Scientologyr, Kozachik said they also hope to estab-
some prisoners placed in segregation.. ? I could offer her. The suit is being tried in, lish contacts with former inmates and
"There is absolutely no question it was ' Multnomah County- Circuit Court-in, mental patients to gain firsthand ac
for behavior modification,"said Koza counts of what has happened behind the
Portland.-
walls of state institutions.
ctttik, director of the commission. If you Koz ichik and Finn, formerly director
acted up, trey gave you some 'juice."' of the Committee to Re-Involve 'Fx-Of He said interested persons may tele
The two men did not have the affida- - phone him in Portland at 239-4992 or: I
fenders, also based in Seattle, recently.: write to him at 2121 Smith Tower Build
nits with them during an interview obtained 23 documents from the CIA
Wednesday. Kozachik said the docu~? under the:Freedom of Information Act:" ing, Seattle, Wash. 98104.
ments are in his Seattle office. ' The goal, he said,. is to pin down The documents, they say, suggest thaE.
names,datesandp}acesandG'tensuethe
Oregon prison officials Thursday de- the CIA actively encouraged research
Hied the chi ges.-They said shock treat and development of various mind-control - individuals directly responsible for auth-
ment has been used on just two inmates-. techniques, all aimed at aiding CIA- Dazing and carrying?out whatever. may
during, th e? past 12 years, and in- both., have ocurred;.::..-
agents during interrogations.
cases for therapeutic purposes_ A sampling of the heavily censored
Kozachik, 2$,. and Finn, 30,. also documents, most' of which are dated
-claimed they have evidence in the form -.-I from 190 to 1964, shows that the CIA was
of prisoners' medical records and "10 or interested in shock treatments what
12 affidavits" that an experimental.drug-, documents called pre-frontal lobotomies
with LSD-like qualities -was adminis-?-- _ and speech- and amnesia-inducing
teed by injection, as an alternative to drugs.
shock treatment, at Washington' State
Prison beginning in the 1950s and ending. .
= in 1963.??_
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