CIA GAVE MIND TESTS AT COLUMBIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000200170007-1
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 12, 2004
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: August 25, 1977
• Content Type: NSPR

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Columbia University, was one
of the 80 colleges and institutions
..where the Central Intelligence
Agency conducted top secret "Hind .
control" behavioral experiments .
between 1.953 and 1954,.it was dis-
closed yesterday.
The experiments were "designed to'
identify materials and methods useful
in altering human behavior patterns,." a
university spokesman said. The : 80
schools where the CIA's MI{-ULTRA
I top-secret experiment were reportedly
performed also included Ohio State-
University, Georgetown, George Wash-
ington University and the University of
Pennsylvania. .
? Columbia and the other institutions
that participated in the research 'pro-
-grain - which involved studies of
!'! chemical and biological materials
were notified officially last week by the
CIA "that some portion of the research
appears - to have been performed" by
university staff, a Columbia-spokesml
said. - . - ., .
However, the CIA refused to identi-
fy the type of experiments, performed
or who performed them, .1
Initiated and Sponsored by CIA
-These projects; the spokesman point-
ed out, were initiated and sponsored by
the CIA. The university had no prior
knowledge that the CIA was sponsoring
such "mind-control" tests, he said.
The university-will launch an Inves
tigation? into which faculty members
participated in these experiments; the
spokesman said; There has been: no for-
mal request by the university for the
CIA to apologize for using its facilities.
- The letter to the universities was
accompanied by a copy of CIA Director'
Adm.- Stansfield Turner's recent testi-:
mony before a Senate. committee, in.
which he said that the agency had fi-
nanced 189 nongovernmental research=
ers and 149. experiments, Including the
use of the hallucinogenic drug LSD.
It was reported earlier that the CIA,
in behavioral control experiments,
spent $25 million over a 25 year period.
Dr. Harold Abramso i reportedly con-
ducted tests of LSD for the CIA at
Mount Sinai Hospital, which were sup-
ported by the Geschikter- Foundation
and later. by the Macy Foundation.
Abramson admitted his participation
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Senate Health subcommittee. It had
been disclosed, earlier that Abramson
had treated Frank Olson, an- Army hio-