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

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?'FIE lb'EW PORK 7?IMES,?SUI~DAY OCTOBER 9, 1977
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WASfiINGTOIV, Oci. S-Despite three 1.1'iJ fi?~_i "( ..~~//
days of Congressional hearings
no one ~
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,
ivet knows the degree to which some of ! STAT STAT
Elbe nation's most prominent universities
were compromised in the Central Intelli- ,Sense of Iniury
~genee .Agency's secret mind-control re-
~search in the 1930's and 1960'x..?
Adm. Stansfield Turner, the 1)irectar
of Central Intelligence, said in Congres-
sional ? testimony last August that the
~C.LA: covertly sponsored research at SO
institutions, including 44 ?colleges and
(universities,. from 1953 to 1963. The re-
~Im?es;igation of Human Ecology. At.;ha
t~me Dr. Wiener was a guest at the P.tas
sachusetts Institute of Technoloryy's Cen
search. was. part of the , project code-. ter for International Studies; ?wi
? -Herman Kahn, he later }wrote th. O
named MK,ULTFtA, which sought to con- '?The Year ?000."
trot human behavior through such means : "I would pat ha~?e lent myself
as hypnasis, drugs and brainwashing. C kind of deception, and I don't thir.
The 'Senate Health Subcommittee
should have
ractic
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p
e
a
y sort o
which .wanted to hear the academicians'; lion on rne,"' Dr. Wiener said.
reaction, quietly invited the presidents 1,Vhen ha first heard .about thus
of 20 institutions to testify at its hearings'., Dr. Wiener said, he was looki~
Sept: 20 and 21. Only one president ac-~ money with which..to continue a
cepted; lie was not scheduled to.testif of the social role of Soviet sell
y. Twenty years later he learned tF.
because all the others declined, explain-` C.LA. hoped tv find out "what i '
ing that they hacl previous engagements. can be developed in spotting and
- The .list of the SO institutions given ing such persons as potential agf
to Senate investigators is still .classified, cruits'? from his study.. _
-but each of those institutions has been ?'They made no attempt to poi
notified separately by the_C.I.A. that in in that direction," Dr. 'Wiener said
I never gave them any material for
some .tvay, knowingly or unknowingly, ~ Eying potential defectors. That was
it played host to C.LA, research, and 26 interest at all.?'
~opeges and universities have acknowl- ~ 7 Projects at Stanford
edged this publicly. -- ' ?'We've been made guinea pigs,
?.?. Research Vaeie$. said Robert Freelen, director of g
Inquiries aE these institutions disclosed ment relations at Stanford, which ~
.tingly lent its name to seven C.I.
=hat C.LA. research on campus varied search projects. These ranged from
'rom innocuous sociolaaical surveys to vey of the literature on human
_ests aimed at finding better ways to ad- groups to a project that simply chat
x~inister drugs to unsuspecting subjects. ,money to a psychiatrist, a ,meritt
~'he attitudes of current administrators the Stanford clinical faculty, who i~
~kewise ran the amut from outra^e fo Paid for such enterprises as a sun
g o the wags in which criminals gave
~difrerence.' :~ ~ .:-~; ~~-i > to the unsuspecting.. ._ . .
The passage of time, more Chan 20 years The Stanford _projects?were fin
n some cases; the C.LA.?s secretiveness ~ ~~ ~ :~ ?'
wring the project and the fragmentary '~either? through foundations or t}
ature of the records the C.LA. has made payments made directly to clinical f
.members, thus bypassing the only
-vailable to universities .have combined, Mr. Freelen said he Svgs not sur
n most cases, to make a reconstruction the university could guard again:
f what happened difficult or impossible. in the future. ~ "Obviously there's
',a
,
At many universities, money for these to how much investigation you caix~do
rojects~ was channeled throw h founda- ~ ~ on the sources, of funds and their credi6ii-
g ity, ' he said. If they lie and you believe,
ons so that neither the university nor I don't know how' that problem. gets
oe professor doing the research knew solved." ? ~ ? ~ .. t
ae true sponsor or purpose of the work. Stanford has been making pujilic every
~ciolagical, cultural acid anthropological piece of information it can gather about
udies were financed through the Society ets past involvement with the C.LA: s
?r the Investigation of Human Ecology, mind control research, It, was the first;
used at Cornell Unwersity. Biochemical institution with any major, involvement
zd medical research tvas often financed in the program' to dv so, although' the
_rough the Geschickter Fund for Medical University of Denver;- which hosted a
search Inc.? headed by Dr, Charles Ges- small experimenk ?in, hypnosis, tracked.'
;ickter, ..a .Georgetown University: ?pa- down. those details with vigor and made i
otoaist
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