NOTE TO ADM. STANSFIELD TURNER FROM DANTE B. FASCELL

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QCongreve' of the 31niteb'tate
30ou%e of 3R epretfentatibess
asbington, ;B.C.
March 2, 1978 19
Adm. Stansfield Turner
Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
The attached communication
is sent for your consideration.
Please investigate the statements
contained therein and forward me
the necessary_information for re-
ply, returning the enclosed corre-
spondence with your answer.
Yours truly,
DANTE B. FASCELL
904 Federal Building
Miami, Florida 33130
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C1A stud'
mak'e.person,
kill qa I,me show
which usually included interrogation experts, drug ex
WAJrirrvulOIN inc i.:lA stltO++'.Ei wklF?tkiE'i" a pVC??,'`l..i an evaluation of a hypothetical p oblem lit Ja.mr
son could be'induced secretly to coi.wnit an assassins .ary, 1954:
tion against his will, newly released government docu-
ments show.
The study was disclosed in a series of 1954 memos
made public under- a Freedom of Information Act re-
quest by The New York Times and others. The docu-
ments were prepared as part of Operation Artit:hodz,
one of four CIA programs to conduct mind-control ex-
periments between 1949 and 1974.
Documents do not indicate that the CIA tried to use
mind control in any actual assassination attempt. How-
ever, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence re-
ported in 1976 that the CIA plotted three assassinations
and became indirectly involved in several others...:,:
Several groups have scrutinized the Artichoke doc-
uments from the standpoint of whether they may pto?
vide any evidence in the inquiries into the assassination
for Artichoke, Sheffield Edwards, later was the CIA
man assigned to form the assassination team that tried
to kill Fidel Castro.
According to the documents, an "artichoke team,"
"Can an individual of (deleted nationality) descent
be made to perform an. act of attempted assassination
involuntarily under the influence of Artichoke?"
The memo, which like most documents released by
the agency has names of individuals, government agen-
cies or locations deleted, described the following
? `Probleni."
"As a 'trigger mechanism,' for a bigger project, it
was proposed that an individual, of (deleted) descent,
approximately 35 years old, well educated, proficient
.in English and well established socially and politically
in the (deleted) government be induced under Arti-
choke to perform an act, involuntarily, against a promi-
nent (deleted) politician or if necessary, against an
American official."
At another point: it noted "access to the subject
would be extremely limited, probably limited to a sin-
gle social meeting. Because the subject is a heavy
di i,iker, it was proposed that the individual could be
surreptitiously 0,, u,5 ged through the medium of an alco-
holic cocktail at, a social party, Artichoke applied, and
the subject induced to perform the act of attempting as-
sassination at some later date-
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