DIALOGUE SOUGHT WITH PROFESSOR IN CIA PROBE

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WASHINGTON POST
27 August 1977
Ditilogue Sought
Wi ti.
lli P .O S9 r
ht CIA Probe
By John Jacobs
washingtan Post Sta. Wr!ter
Georgetown University said yester
day "it seems promising" that univer-
sity lawyers can meet next week with
oseplr-F. Geschicktcr, a George-
town professor emeritus, who helped
the--CIA with its MK-ULTRA. mind
control experiments.
,.The 76-year-old pathologist and can-}
cer'researcher established the Ges-'
chickter Fund for Medical Research,
through which the'
he CIA funneled
money to fund 1VI:K-1TLTR A projects
in-the 1950s and 1960's. He has been
unavailable for comment since his
name surfaced a month ago in conrec-
tion. with the CIA. A Senate subcom
irdttee has. subpoenaed him to testify.
Sept 9. The university, which last week re-'
ceived official notification that it was'
~nrt of the CIA program, is investigat-
ing the matter. It has received 70
rages of CIA documents, which an of-
ficial said confirm press reports that
the CIA funneled $375,000 through the ,
Geschickter Fund toward construction
of a new medical wing at the hospital.
The agency wanted to use one-s?_tl~ Cf
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 Stan!:-
field Turner said were used, know-
ingly or not, in --IIK-ULTRA.
Other universities that have pub-
licly acknowledged similar letters
from the CIA in the last few weeks
include the University of :Maryland,
Georg Nas.I1ifon University, Har-
vard, Stanford, Columbia, Princeton,
Ohio State and The--University of
I'entisy1va'nia. GW has receivecT docu- ;
ments from the CIA about its role but
has refused to release them.
' Dr. Wilbur C.NIiller, 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 '5Os. Wilbur Miller said he
didn't know ,of any CIA-related; re-
search there, "but I vaguely remem-
ber something about hypnosis." MK-.
ULTRA was interested in hypnosis
and LSD for offensive purroses and!
for protecting CIA agents from brain-
washing and interrogation by hostile 1
governments:
Other documents the CIA made ;
public Thursday describe a 1960 ,MIK- '
XILTRA project to study voting rec-
ords. of. registered voters 'in a
search proposal, which was approeed
with a budget of $7,490, expected to
4tudy 25,000 voters, who were eligible
if they were male honieo; ners,
),east 30 years old.:
The principal ' researcher, whose
r'.ame is deleted in the documents. and ?
.Nvho 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
Ills time.
"i'm 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
questions about the transfer of the
project to Denver University." What-
ever the project, it had a budget of at
Least $7,203 for a 10-month period.
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