THE GREAT MIND-CONTROL CAMPAIGN PROFESSOR TRACES EFFORTS BY CIA

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01350R000200030021-8
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 26, 2004
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: January 25, 1977
• Content Type: NSPR

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.nea.pig for the CIA's experiments in
ry;';according~to Alan Scheflin
s staggering Scheflin; a?professor of law at the.`
University.of Santa Clara,. .:has spent
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t e~last ourfyearswritmg-a book, "The GIA would:sendagents out fo `;carry?,messages;or to- kill but
'....'"The. Mind:: Manipulators Hei will bars.-too pick up unwitting ;people at:? remember killing. Hypnotically pro-:
-speak on'.'The CIAA;?and-Mind.Manip- random,'.'. he said,'They. were grammed- couriers'may have-been -I
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which was::changed to Project Blue- remote=control assasinations:Sche ::xshghtest doubt that such things are bird for no-reason that Schefltn as flin said;:`-:the.-CIA ,w?as-:considering still:: going on.-",.- replied Scheflin.
%:.found. ^e `programming people hypnotically to just don't know tlte!intensity- of
ulation," tomorrow at 12:30 p.rn.. in : .invited,.to go with; the agents to a .,_:.used in Vietnam, he said
classroom 3 at the University of Ha- party, or to. have afew drinks. Then
4 Little ,is-known or ever will be
,waii School of Law. they were given doses of ISII and .known about the CIA's mind control
The CIA got interested in. mind their reactions filmed
experiments. Schefiin believes. An
control An 1949, two years `after it "But they didn't follow these'peo inspector ? general's report, in 1963 .
was founded, and had _ "multilevel pie when .they left, so ,who knows -said knowledge about them was dif
research`.' under way by the early what'happened to them: It was a di ficult to -acquire because only two
1950s, Scheflin said in an interview. rect assault.: on people 's ; minds and."., persons in the CIA knew the whole
"Every ronreivable method was bodies. Not only,: was it- andstory'.R?
considered, with special emphasis oh' immoral; it was unscientific.' ,:
drug's. Drawing on all branches of ? Scheflin said he has records of the 'Then about 10 or 'so years ago.
science they looked into the use of CIA's seeking to control all produc Richard Helms (CIA director at the
hypnosis-,% psychosurgery, ultra son- tion and importation of LSD and of time) ordered thousands of pages
ics,,radiation, behavior modification. agents' buying $250,000 worth of the "about- mind control destroyed."
:. electric stimulation of the brain and -synthetic drug at a time when scien Scheflin said. But a box of docu-
'even good old fashioned torture.',', hey ;tists'still had high hopes for LSD as meets was misfiled and escaped
saidn a? breakthrough in the treatment of incineration
The- CIA had no-trouble..r finding mental illness, .. z '
corn anies and .universities `.: up. to , -:'The CIA said? to hell withr cui ing Schein;; who beban researchir._
P --,. mind-control' techniques when he -be-
.'.50'of.them-=-to participate in their people If this. stuff- will. unlock the came interested in political trials
'research Scheflin said And. the sub- inner reaches of the mind.. we want sand prisons, got much of this maters
jeeLs ot.ClA .experiments were often it: a x .at a+ t , : i~t L t'al: from people who had to al access
`unknowing American citizens The CIA had many. different goals' to it such as Olsen's lawyer.
The best-known case was `that their`experiments;; Scheflin said
'Trrank-Olsen the Ai my.:iviljan -For example. LSD might! be used to "But 'we have only scratched the
For 'example
scientist who plunged from' a hotel confuse enemy intelligence opera surface. he said.
window to his 'death a week. after; he .lions if it were put in the. water of. a - _Scheflin ,said, he knows. of investiga
as secretly given LSD in 'an after buildipg where spies gathered. The aeons .under way to determine the ;
dinner cocktail by the CIA. in 1953 CIA was also. searching for an ;truth of.reports ofa.Navy school for" 'But'-Scheflin says, he has ,more "infallible .truth .machine'' that.,. assassins in San Diego that is train-;
information.' about. CIA- experiments would be more reliable in interroga-t x-ing people. who have already killed
in mind manipulation that went tions than the lie detector. z, .,,-. , to form voI'untary assassination r
under 'such,"`code names, as bIK'- Long before the book and the squads;
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