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
Zxtent-of University Work for.C.I....
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By JO THOMAS
Special to The Sew York Times
WASHINGTON, Oct. 8--Despite three
ays of Congressional hearings, no one
et knows the degree to which some of
_le nation's most prominent universities
.ere.compromised in the Central Intelli-
-ence ,Agency's secret mind-control re-
earch in the 1950's and 1960's. .
Adm. Stansfield Turner, the Director
!I Central Intelligence, said in Congres-
Tonal . testimony last August that the
:.I.A. covertly sponsored research at SO
-istitutiions. including 44 ? colleges 'and
niversities,."from 1953 to 1963. The re-
earch. was . part of the project , code-.
amed MK-ULTRA, which sought to con-
ot human behavior through such means
s hypnosis, drugs and brainwashing.
The Senate Health Subcommittee,
which wanted to hear the academicians)
naction, quietly invited the presidentsi
#' 20'institutions to testify at its hearings':
-ept: 20 and 21. Only one president ac-
opted; be was not, scheduled to.testify
cause all the others declined, explain-'
ig?that they had previous engagements.'
The list of the 80 institutions given
a Senate, investigators Is still .classified,
tit each of those institutions has been
iotified separately by the.C.I.A. that in
Drtie.way, knowingly or unknowingly.
played host to C.I.A. research, and 26
Dileges and universities have acknowl-
lged this publicly. ---
? 'Research VaHed
Inquiries at these institutions disclosed
-tat C.I.A. research on campus varied
-am innocuous sociological surveys to
:sts aimed at finding better. ways to ad.
sinister drugs to unsuspecting subjects.
the attitudes of current administrators
itewise ran the gamut from outrage to
itdifference.' : _ ,..,... ; s
The passage of time, more than 20 years
some cases; the C.I.A.'s secretiveness
wring the project and the fragmentary
ature of the records the C.I.A. has made
. ailable to universities have combined,
most.cases, to make a reconstruction
what happened difficult or impossible.
At many universities, money for these
rojects? was channeled through founda ,
ens so that neither the university nor
e professor doing the research knew
we true sponsor or purpose of the work.
aciological, cultural and anthropological
-tidies were financed through the Society
r the Investigation. of Human Ecology,
ised at Cornell Unversity. Biochemical
od medical research was often financed
rough the Geschickter Fund for Medical
search Inc., headed by. Dr. Charles Ges-
:ickter,. ,a ,-Georgetown University? -pa-
alagist .
;az'd to Pin Down
Sense of injury
"'d 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 .
$12,000 grant from the Society for the
Investigation of Human Ecology. At..;hat .
t'me Dr. Wiener was a guest at the Mas-
sachusetts Institute of Technolo?y's Cen-
ter for International Studies; -wi
Herman Kahn, he later wrote tb
"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 sell
Twenty years later he learned tl:
C.I.A. hoped to find out "what 4
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
Eying potential defectors. That was
interest at all."
. .
7 Projects at Stanford
"We've been made guinea pigs,
said Robert Freelen, director of g
went relations at Stanford, which i
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 chai
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
to the unsuspecting.. ...
The Stanford _pEojects were fin
`either' through foundations' or tl
payments made directly to clinical
members, thus bypassing the uni
Mr. Freelen said he was not su
the university could guard again
in the future. ? 'Obviously there's",
to how much investigation you cait-do
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 do so, although- the:
University of Denver which hosted a
small experiment ? In-. hypnosis, tracked.,
down those details with vigor and made i
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