[HARVARD UNIVERSITY SAYS IT CONDUCTED TWO HUMAN BEHAVIOR RESEARCH PROJECTS]

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 17, 2004
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: September 27, 1977
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CAMBRIDGEt MASS. (RP) -- HARVARD UIIVERSIT SAYS IT CONDUCTED TWO
HUMAN BEHR'IIOR RESEARCH PROJECTS FOR THE CIA BUT DENIES. PARTICIPATING
IN CIA-SPONSORED TESTING OF LSD AND OTHER DRUGS ON HUMANS.
HONDA'"'S ANNOUNCEMENT.- WAS HARVARD'S FIRST DISCLOSURE ON ITS
INV'OLV'EMENT. IT GAVE. NO DETAILS OF THE WORK DONE FOR TH46 CIAY BUT
SAID A FULL STATEMENT ON THE PROJECTS IS BEING PREPARED.
THE HARVARD ANNOUNCEMENT OF INVOLVEMENT IN THE CIA' S MK-ULTRA
HUMAN BEHAVIOR PROJECT FOLLOWS SIMILAR REPORTS BY THE MASSACHUSETTS
INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND CALIFORNIA'S -STANFORD UNIVERSITY:
DUTLIWING TiiEIR INVOLVEMENT IN CIA-FUNDED PROJECTS.
THE BOSTON GLOBE CLAIMS THE NEW DISCLOSURES POINT UP FNCONPLETE
RECORD-KEEPING ON THE EXPERIMENTS BY BOTH THE CIA AND THE
INSTITUTIONS INVOLVED.
THE GLOBE SAYS MIT WAS II VOLVED IN AT LEAST THREE OF THE 135
NK-ULTRA PROJECTS CARRIED ON NRTIONWIDEf ALTHOUGH THE INSTITUTION AND
THE CIA Ci IEND ONLY ONE SUCH PROJECT TOOK PLACE THERE.
EDWARD SCHEINi AN KIT PROFESSORS SAID TWO WEEKS AGO THAT HE .
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TOOK' CIA MONEY FOR BRAINWASHING RESEARCH. THE,-STUDIES RESULTED IN A
BOO: ENTITLED "COERCIVE PERSUASION."
AN MIT SPOKESMAN SAID MONDAY THAT THE CIA HAD NOT NOTIFIED THE
SC-HTITIL OF SCHEIN'.S RESEARCH.
THE UNIVERSITY HAD PREVIOUSLY DISCLOSED ONLY A STUDY OF SOVIET
SCIENTISTS IBS POSSIBLE DEFECTORS.
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