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
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WASHINGTO,I, Oct. 8-Despite three ~ ?;, .
-days of Congressional hearings, no one
wet 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 I,I
C.I.A. covertly sponsored research at 80
institutions. including 44 ? colleges 'and universities,. from 1953 to 1963. The re-
search was part of the; project .code-.
named M.K-ULTRA, which sought to con-
trol human behavior through such means:
as hypnosis, drugs and brainwashing.
The ' Senate Health Subcommittee,
which .wanted to hear the academiicians'i
reaction, quietly invited the presidents]
of 20'institutions to testify at its hearings'
Sept: 20 and 21. Only one president ac-
he was not scheduled to.testify
cepted;
because all the others declined, explain
ing that they had previous engagements.
The list of the 80 institutions given
to Senate investigators is still classified,
but each of those institutions has been
notified separately by the.C.LA. that in
some way, knowingly or unknowingly.
it played host to C.I.A. research, and 26
colleges and universities have acknowl-
edged this publicly.
? ?:~.'Research Varied,
Inquiries at these institutions disclosed
that C.I.A. research on campus varied
from innocuous sociological surveys to'
tests aimed at finding better ways to ad-
minister drugs to unsuspecting subjects.
The attitudes of current administrators
likewise ran the gamut from outrage to
indifference: .,
The passage of time, more than 20 years
in some cases; the C.I.A.'s secretiveness
during the .project and the fragmentary
nature of the records the C.I.A. has made
-available to universities have combined,
in most ? cases, to make a reconstruction
of what happened difficult or Impossible.
At many universities, money for these
projects- was channeled through founda-
tions so that neither the university nor
the professor doing the research knew
the true sponsor or purpose of the work.
Sociological, cultural and anthropological
studies were financed through the Society
for the Investigation of Human Ecology,
based at Cornell University. Biochemical
and medical research was often financed
through the Geschickter Fund for Medical
'Research Inc.. headed by Dr. Charles Ges-
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Sense of Injury
".?i 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-
1$12 000 grant from the Society- for the
Investigation of Human Ecology. At.that I
t'me Dr. Wiener was a guest at the Mas- I
sachusetts Institute of Technoloa'.y's Cen-
ter for International Studies;-w!
-Herman Kahn, he later wrote th.
"The Year 2000."
"I would not have lent myself'
kind of deception, and I don't thir
should have practiced any sort of
tion on me," Dr. Wiener said.
When he first heard about the s
Dr. Wiener said, he was lookii
money with which..to continue a
of the social role of Soviet scii
Twenty 'years later he learned tE-.
C.I.A. hoped to find out "what
can be. developed in spotting and
ing such persons as potential age
cruits" from his study. . .
"They made no attempt to poi
in that direction," Dr. Wiener said
I never gave them any material for
fying potential defectors. That was
interest at all
7 Projects at Stanford ?
"We've been made guinea pigs,
said Robert Freelen, director of g
tingly lent its name to seven C.I.
search projects. These ranged from
vey of the literature on human
groups to a project that simply chaff
money to a psychiatrist, a . meml
,the Stanford clinical faculty, who ii
paid for such enterprises as a sure
the ways in which criminals gave
x
to the unsuspecting.. ... _~ .; .
The Stanford _projects were fin,
'either' through foundations' or tl
members, thus bypassing the univ A-c
Mr. Freelen said he was not sur v
the university could guard again:
on the sources of funds and their credibil-
ity," he said. "If they lie and you believe.
I don't know how, that problem.- gets
solved.., :. .*,.
Stanford has been making public every
piece of information it can gather about
its past involvement with the C.I.A.'s
mind control research.. It, was the first
institution with any 'major. Involvement.:
in the program: to da so, although' the:
University of Denver;" which. hosted a:
,small experiment ?in hypnosis. tracked.