PRIVATE INSTITUTIONS USED IN C.I.A. EFFORT TO CONTROL BEHAVIOR

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
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'PRIVATE 1NSTITUTIONS'
USED lil C.I.N. EFFORT
TOCONTROLBEHAVIOR
25 YEAR$25 MILLION~PRGGRAI
Ne~'i; Information "::About ;Funding
investigative 'repoiting tearrt consist=1
ing of John M Crewdson, Nicholas M.
Florrocla, Boyce Rerisberger; Jo Thomas
and Joseph B. TreasterIt was written
by Mr. horroch)
special to The Na7 York Tlmea.
WASHINGTON, Aug.: ?`1 Several
prominent medical research. institutions
a:nd Government hospitals in the United
. States and Canada were. involved in -a
secret, 25-year, S25-million effort by the
CentralIntelligence`-Agency to learn how.
to control 'the hunmanmind.
i The existence-of; the:agency's investiga-
itions-into behavior--arid: thought control
was- previously known. But through ac-
cess `to 2,000 C.I.A`documents and wide,
ranging interviews;:' a group of New York
Times reporters has'developed new infer
mation!?about the;'- cost of the program,.
'tile. rainge' of its penetration into presti-'
gious research centers;'; the identities of.
some-institutions, the' secret funding con-
duits.:of the agencyy`, and the concerns'
about- the program expressed by some
scrantists .~,
The- original research .was spurred by
the? conviction--later:proved unfounded.
=that.:the Russians and Chinese had de-
veloped ' brainwashing .-end mind-control;
devices. But the G.I.A. quickly- turned to;
seeking an offensive use for behavior con-
trol-'It sought to -crack the mental de
fenses of enemy agents--to be able to
prom am them and.itsown operatives to
carryout any mission:-even against their
will and "against such-fundamental laws
newly discovered records before a joint.
hearing of the Senate Select Committee
on Intelligence and the Senate.Subcom-
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the Federal penitentiary in Atlanta- and
the Bordentown Reforn story in New Jer- i
sey between 1955 and 1954. He was paid
525,040 a year through the Geschikter
Foundation, he;said. in a telephoned inter-.
'9The Geschikter Foundatioii'contribut'
ed t'o the construction of a'.$3 million
building at Georgetown University Medi
received that onlya fragmentary picture
emerged of the e,ctent to which the agen--
r was engaged 'in behavior. ,control re-1i
Adm. Stansfield Turner, tine Diire,tor
oi: Central Intelligence, anncaunced two
weeks ago that seven cases of records
containing some 5,000 pages of docu-
meets pertaining to these projects . hard
of nature as self-preservation. cal School iii Washington; D.C. I~iewly dis
covered records indicate.,that the- C.l_A.
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wanted to "establish at an appropriate
university". k forensic,'medicine depart-
rent so the project.;"and allied agency
needs could thus be served with complete.
control, legal performance; and appropri
ate. cover." A spokesman for Georgetown
said that , the university was reviewing i