DIALOGUE SOUGHT WITH PROFESSOR IN CIA PROBE

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WASHINGTON POST
27 August 1977
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In CIA sobs
By John Jacobs
Wa3hili4ton Post Sta..i Writer
Georgetown University said yester-?
day "it seems promising" that univer-?
sity lawyers can meet next week with
,Fcrsepi--F. Geschickter, a George-
town professor emeritus, who helped
the-'CIA with its MK-ULTRA mind
control experiments.
,.Tbe 76-year-old pathologist and can-
cer 'researcher established the Ges
chickter Fund for Medical Researc':i,
through which the CIA funneled]
money to fund MK-ULTRA projects
in.the 1950s and 1960's. He has been
unavailable for comment since his
name surfaced a month ago in connec-
tion with the CI A.. A Senate subcom
rrdttee has subpoenaed him to testify,
Sept. 9 e'r a .
The university, which last week re-
ceived official notification that it was
r,nrt of the CIA program, is investigat-
ing the smatter. It has received 70
,'ages of CIA documents, which an of-
ficial said confirm press reports th-it
the CIA funneled $375,000 throughtt:e
Geschickter Fund toward construction
of a new metrical wing at the hospital.
The agency wanted to use onc?si~_t'h 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 Stanr-
field Turner said were used, know-
ingly or not, in MK-ULTRA.
Other universities that have pub-
licly acknowledged similar letters
from the CIA in the last few weeks
include the UIlt~'ertil V QLMarylard,
George 3yp5_1irgton University, Har-
vard, Stanford, Columbia, Princeton,
.Ohio State, and IF -University of
Pennsylvania. GW has receive(?clocu-
nients from the CIA about its role but
has refused to' release them.
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Dr. Wilbur C. Miller, 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, "but I vaguely. remenr
Tier something about hypnosis." MK-,
ULTRA was interested in hypnosis'
and LSD for offensive purnoses and
for protecting CIA agents from brain-
washing and intertogation by hostile
governments:
` Other documents the CIA made
public Thursday describe a 1960 \1K- `
XJLTRA project to study voting rec-
ords of registered voters 'in ai
';friendly 'foreign nation." ,,The re-
search proposal, which was approved
with a budget of $7,490, expected to
4tudy 25;000 voters, who were eligible
if they were male he::ieov, rer_,
least 30 Years old.:
The principal researcher, whose I
name is deleted in the documents. and ?
-yvho apparently did not know the re-
search was sponsored by. the. CIA,
wondered where some of the prom-
ised research material would come
from.
`'Mitchell said he doesn't know what
the CIA's involvement was at Denver,
but`whatever did happen was before
Ails time.
'Tm 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
giiestions about the transfer of the
project to Denver University." What-
ever the project, it had a budget of at
Icast $7,200 for a 10-month period.
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