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

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PRIVATE INSTITUTI.ONS.
USED IN CILA EFFORT
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WASHINGTON, ~ Aug.'. I ? --- - Several
prominent medical iesearch. institutions
and Government hospitals in the United
States and Canada were. involved in a.
secret, 25-year. $25-million effort by the
Central intelligence- Agency to learn how
to control the human mind.
The mdstence-of -the agency's investiga
itions Into behavior-arid' thought control
$ was- previously - known.- But through acr
cess 'to 2,000 C.L A.'documents and wide-
ranging interviews;,' 'group of New York
I Tunes reporters has developed new infer-'
,mation'about the;'-cost of the program,.
the raiige of'its penetration into presti-
giouivresearch centers, : the identities- of.
some imst:tutions,. the: secret funding con
duits of the agency' and the concerns
I scientISts
The' original research was spurred by
the- conviction_later proved unfounded
:---that: the Russians'-and Chinese had -de-
veloped brainwashing 'And mind-control
devices. But the C.I.A. 'quickly- turned to,
seeking an offensive use for behavior con-
trcl._.It sought to-crack _ the mental de-
fenses of enemy agents-to be able to
program them and.its,own operatives to
carry-out any.:mission:even against their
will and "against sueh-fundamental laws
of nature as self-preservation."
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the Federal penitentiary in Atlanta- and 1
the Bordentown Reformatory in New Jer-;
sey between 1955 and 1964. He was paid
$25,000 a year through the Geschikter
Foundation, he said in a telephoned inter
view,
,9The Geschikter Foundation contribut
ed to the construction of a `, $3 million
building at Georgetown University. Meidi
cal School iii Washington; D.C. Newly di
covered records indicate .that?. the' C.I.A
wanted to "establish at. an appropriate
university" -A forensic.' medicine depart-
ment so the oroiect."and allied agency
control,~legal performance. and appropri- on Intelligence and the Senate Subcom
" A spokesman for Georgetown I mittee on Health on Wednesday. He is
cover
at
.
e
said that the university was reviewing expected to disclose that the C.LA. paid
its records on the. construction but,thati for tests of a "knockout" drug art unit-:
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received that only..a fragmentary picture
emerged of the extent to which the agen-
c was engaged In behavior control rte-
Adm. Stansfieid Turner, the Director
of Central Intelligence. announced two
weeks ago that seven cases of records
containing some 5,000 pages of docu-
t
r
iac
meets pertaining to these projects.
been discovered in the agency's archi
newly discovered records betore- a jointt.