EXTENT OF UNIVERSITY WORK FOR C.I.A. IS HARD TO PIN DOWN

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THE NEW YORK TIMES,..SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1977
;Extent of University Work-for C.I.A.
. By ,JO THOMAS
Special to The New York Times I..
WASHINGTON, Oct. 8-Despite three ?days of Congressional hearings, no one Zvet knows the degree to which some of the nation's most prominent universities
were. compromised in the Central Intelli-
'gence Agency's secret mind-control re-
search in the 1950's and 1960's.
Adm. Stansfield Turner, the Director
of Central Intelligence, said in Congres-
sional testimony last August that the
C.LA-. covertly sponsored research at SO
institutions,. Including 44 -colleges 'and 't f 1953 t 1963 Ti,,,
re
v
e
?
Is;,H..axd to Pin Down
Sense of Iniury f
".1 feel that I've been done an 'injury.
personally, by the C.I.A.," said Dr. Antho-
ny 'J. Wiener, who in 1937 -received a.
$12,000 grant from the Society for the
!'Investigation of Human Ecology. At. that
{ tme Dr. Wiener was a guest at the Mas-,
sachusetts Institute of Technolo7y's Cen-
un
ese
es,? -in
ter for International Studies;- wi
search was part of the project code ?I-ierman Kahn he later wrote tb
trol human behavior through such means' "I would not have lent myself'
as hypnosis, drugs and brainwashing. I kind of deception, and I don't thir.
The Senate Health Subcommittee,; should have practiced any sort of
to he aca s
When he first heard about the ?s
1 ' ic
reaction, quietly invited the presidents, Dr. Wiener said, he was looks
,of 20 institutions to testify at its hearings' money with which to continue a
r Sept. 20 and 21. Only one president ac- of the social role of Soviet scii
cepted; he was not scheduled to.testify Twenty years later he learned tt
because all the others declined, explain- C.I.A. hoped to find out "what i
ing that they had previous engagements.- can be developed in spotting and
The list of the SO institutions given ing such persons as potential agi
cruits from his study. . "
!to Senate investigators is still classified,
"They made no attempt to poi
but each of those institutions has been in that direction," Dr. Wiener said
I notified separately by the.C.I.A. that in I never gave them any material for
some way, knowingly or unknowingly. Eying potential defectors. That was
it played host to C.I.A. research. and 26 interest at all."
colleges and universities have acknowl- 7 Projects at Stanford
edged this publicly. "We've been made guinea pigs,
Research Varied said Robert Freelen, director of g
rent relations at Stanford, which 1
Inquiries at these institutions disclosed tingly lent its name to seven C.Y.
that C.I.A. research on campus varied search projects. These ranged from
from innocuous sociological surveys to vey of the literature on human
tests aimed at finding better ways to ad- groups to a project that simply chai
minister drugs to unsuspecting subjects. money to a psychiatrist, a . mewl
.The attitudes of current administrators the Stanford clinic-il faculty, who ii
paid for such enterprises as a stirs
likewise ran the gamut from outrage to the ways in which criminals gave
indifference.' :' z to the unsuspecting
The passage of'time, more than 20 years T'he Stanford projectswere fin'
during the project and the fragmentary payments made directly to clinical f Utiu' cf I
nature of the records the C.I.A. has made ' members, thus bypassing the univ .~?? (,.-
available to universities have combined, Mr. Freelen said he was not sur
in most cases to make a reconstruction the university could guard again., / c. 1 vr,csv'^~
.in the future. '"Obviously there's`,d
of what happened difficult or impossible
.
At many universities, money o for these oo n the how sources i of funds and f funds' and their you oredibedibil-
-
projects- was channeled through founda- Ity," he said. "It they lie and you believe,
tions so that neither the university nor I don't know how' that problem gets-
the professor doing the research knew solved."
the true sponsor or purpose of the work. Stanford has been making public every
Sociological, cultural and anthropological piece of information it can gather about
studies were financed through the Society . its past involvement with the C.I.A.'s
for the Investigation of Human Ecology, mind control research. It, was the first
based at Cornell University. Biochemical institution with any `major, involvement'
and medical research was often financed in the program- to do so, although the:
through the Geschickter Fund for Medical University of Denver which hosted a
Research Inc., headed by. Dr. Charles Ges- 'small experiment An. hypnosis, tracked.,
chickter.. a Georgetown University pa-; down those details with vigor and made,
hotogist. ,; _ ; ;
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