DIALOGUE SOUGHT WITH PROFESSOR IN CIA PROBE

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WASHINGTON POST
27 August 1977
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With Pro 9essFr ' I
In CIA. Probe
By John Jacobs
Washhtaton Post Star rwriter
Georgetown University said yester
day "it seems promising" that univer
sity lawyers can meet next week with
--E.-3ant l -F. Geschickter, a George-
town professor emeritus, who helped
the- CIA with -its MK-ULTRA mind
control experiments.
,.The 76-year-old pathologist and can-
cer'researcher established the Ges
chiekter Fund for Medical Research,
through which the CIA funneled
money to fund MK-ULTRA projects'',
in.the 19,50s and 1960's. He has been
unavailable for comment since his
name surfaced a month ago in connec-
tion with the CIA. A Senate subcom
mittee has subpoenaed him to testify,.
Sept "9. r.r-r r.,
The university, which last week re-
ceived official notification that it was
' 'rt of the CIA program, is investigat-
ing the matter. It has received 70
pages of CIA documents, which an of-
ficial said confirm press' reports that
the CIA funneled $375,000 through. the
Geschickter Fund toward construction
of a new medical wing at the hospital.
The agency wanted to use o.c-si.tth of
the space there for experiments in
chemical and biological warfare.
In another development, Chancellor
Maurice Mitchell- of Denver Univer-
sity confirmed that his university was
notified by the CIA that it was one of
the 86 institutions CIA Director Stan-
field Turner said were used, know-
ingly or not, in MK-ULTRA.
Other universities that have pub-
Iicly acknowledged similar letters
from the CIA in the last few weeks
include the Univ415? y of-:Maryland,
C eo tiVasigton University, Har-
yard, Stanford, Columbia, Princeton,
.Ohio~Sta.te and "fhc University of
Pennsylvania. GW has received - docu-
ments from the CIA about its role but
has refused to release them.
Dr. Wilbur C.'.Iiller, now president
of Drake University in Ohio, taught in
the psychology department. at Denver
in, 1954. He said a Dr. L. T. Miller.
headed the department then and died
in the late '50s. Wilbur Miller said he
didn't know of any CIA-related; re
search there, `"out I vaguely. remem-
ber something about hypnosis." MK-
ULTRA was interested in hypnosis'
and LSD for offensive purposes and
for protecting CIA agents from brain-
washing and interrogation by_hostile
governments:
Other documents the CIA made
public Thursday describe a 1960MK-
tILTRA project to study voting rec-
ords, of. registered voters in a
re-
";friendly foreign nation." The
search proposal, which was approved
with a budget of $7,490, expected to
4tudy 25;000 voters, who were eligible
if they were male homeo;.ner_,
feast 30 Years old.. .
The principal 'researcher, whose
:.ame is deleted in the documents. and
'vho apparently did not know the re
search was sponsored by.the..CIA,
wondered where some of the prom-
ised research material would come
from.
`Slitchell said he doesn't know what
the CIA's involvement was at Denver,
but whatever did happen was before
.his time.
"I'm perfectly happy to deal with
this openly," Mitchell said. "It's about
time some of this crap got aired."
A March 8, 1954, document released
by the CIA several weeks ago- was ad-
dressed to a Dr. Miller from a person
whose name was deleted. It said: "I
will do my best to answer any other
questions about the transfer of the
project to Denver University." What-
ever the project, it had a budget of at
Least $7,200 for a 10-month period.
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