CIA REPORTEDLY TESTED DRUG ON PENNSYLVANIA INMATES IN ' 71

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000400410018-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 1, 2004
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: March 5, 1979
• Content Type: NSPR

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Philadelphia (AP)-The Central Intel-!.. ies to counteract Soviet efforts to develop I
ligence:Jtgency secretly tested a mind-. an undetectable drug that could incapaci. 4
control drug In 1971 on 20 persons, includ tale a victim's mind.
trig five Inlriates at Philadelphia's Holmes- The program was part of a larger drug
burg Prison; the Philadelphia Inquirer re project whose code name was OFTEN, ac?
ported Ybiteiday cording to the CIA documents..
According,.to a 1973 CIA memo ob- The 20 paid volunteers, 15 from' the
tained under the Freedom of Information military services and the ? 5 prisoners,
'Act by anorgan ization affiliated with the were not coerced into participating in the
Church of?~cientology, the drug. identified project, a CIA memo said. The drug pro.
only as aJglycolate dubbed EA (Expert'. : duced "delirium and other psychotic, be-
mental Agent) 3167, produced prolonged havior lasting from' three or four days
psychotic effects with subsequent amnesia," a memo said.
The CIA's director. Adm. Stansfieid Some symptoms lasted as .long as six(
Turner. testified before a Senate subcom- ? weeks.
tritttee last..year that most of the CIA's But a report on the experiment said,
mind-control programs . ended In- the ? . "The results are Inconclusive. Apparently,!
1960's. with the exception of a few'scat-";t the drug is not reliable at the dosage Iev-)
--,J project els tested
ter
i Ile tests :vere undertaken at the Edge- There was no.indication in the memos
wood i Nitf i -Arsenal Research laaboratorY ;what happened to the subjects-f
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