DRUGS TESTED BY C.I.A. ON MENTAL PATIENTS

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 13, 2004
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: August 3, 1977
• Content Type: NSPR

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DRUGS:TESTEDBYC,tA. i
OTC MENTAL PATIENTS!
Documents Disclose Use in '58 of
LSDzin `Canadian Hospital
By NICHOLAS M. HORROCK
? Spti&I to The New York Times
WASHINGTON. Aug. 2--Mental pa-
tients at a. Canadian hospital were given
powerful_tzanquilizers and LSD in a 1958
experiment supported by a foundation
that, secretly dispensed money for the
Central Intelligence Agency, medical fi-
nancing records disclosed today.
The disclosure' becamE one more ele-
ment. in a growing picture of the C.I.A.'s
25-year attempt to learn how to control
the human mind.
A survey of 2,000 C.I.A.. documents and
interviews ;with scientists, medical:.re
searchers and.,intelligence officers has
shown in detail how. the agency used pri-
vate medical rese'arch'foundations as con-
duits for a $25. million program designed
to develop drugs or techniques that could
control human behavior:
5,000 More Documents
Under the Freedom of Information Act,
The Newyork Timer obtained today 415
additional pagers of,C.I.A..documents per-
taining to drug experimentation and
behavior, control research. The new pool
of information.: disclosed the following.
SThe C.L& arranged for 12 volunteers
to be: hypaotize?3-,-in ::a, hotel room to
"demonstrate" to `covert-operations ex-
perts how' gnosis-could- help' espionage
agents. remember. details that their con-
scious minds;rmig}ft have discarded.
-Vn. 1954;: theFC.I.A. hoped to use. its
"basic data'chi "LSD and related materi-
als to-'devise operational techniques to
disturb the. memory, to discredit people
through aberrant behavior,' to alter sex
patterns, to elicit information and to
create emotional dependence.'
The C.I.A. employed a. magician to
help explain what one former C.I.A. offi-
cial said.were.?matters "theycouldn'tex-
.plain.,, -... k . .
The C.LA., is~'expectted- tot maker public
over, the next. two weeks some 5,000
newly discovered documents pertaining)
Eo its,?hehavioc.~control.programs. The)
documents however,, have been heavily
edited and do not contain the names of medical peoeseple ch 'orlthe institute institutions at whor. icdh'r it
was performed. ? ,....,.
Adm. Stansfield? Turner, the 'Director
of Central Intelligence, will appear before
a joint meetin got the Senate Select Com-
mittee - on Intelligence and the Senate
Health ' subcommittee tomorrow to give
information about the agency's behavior
control research:
He is expected to disclose that the
C.I.A. paid for a knockout drug to be:
tested on terminal cancer patients and'
to report on an "improper" payment for;
research.
The Times obtained a 1959' financial4
report of the Society for the Investigation;
of Human Ecology Inc., which indicates?
that the society paid Dr. D. Ewen Camer-r"
on $18,405 in 1958 to conduct studies
that included testing three highly poten
drugs on the patients of the Allan Memo-
rial Institute of Psychiatry at McGill Urti-
. yersity in Montreal,'
h s Drugs That Were Used
The drugs were thorazine,. LSD, and ser-
nyl.::,Thorazine . is still. -marketed, as a
powerful tranquilizer, but sernyl has been
withdrawn from .the market for human
consumption- and is used. only as, am ini-
mobilizing, agent. for primates
The society was' set up.in 1955, accord-
.In, to 'a. former director,': to provide' a
.vehicle for the C.I.A. to finance a study
on -brainwashing During ; the` next 10
years it supported a wide range of ined&
cal research. programs and psychological.
'studies around the United States.and; in
Canada.
One former- - official, James ,'
said in an interview that onlyIaboutMomoe25
to 30 percent of the society's $1 millions
to $1.5 million annual budget came fram
the C.I.A. But, Dr.. Lawrence B. Hinkle,
a former director, said that he. believed
most- of the support had' been from the
agency.
The C.I.A. used both the society and,
the, Geschikter Foundation. for Medical
Research, , based - here,- ? to supply money,
to, private. universities and medical Ye.
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