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

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000400330002-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 18, 2006
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• Publication Date: October 9, 1977
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved For Release 2006/12/19: CIA-RDP88-01315
By JO THOMAS
Special to The New York Times
WASHINGTON, Oct. 8-Despite three I
ays of Congressional hearings, no one!
et knows the degree to which some of
he nation's most prominent universities
:ere. compromised in the Central Intelli-
-ence Agency's secret mind-control re-
earth in the 1950's and 1960's. --
Adm. Stansfield Turner, the Director
_ ' Central Intelligence, said in Cohgres-
Tonal ' testimony last August that the
_.LA:. covertly sponsored research at 80
nstitutions,. including 44 -colleges 'and
niversities,. from 1953 to 1963. The re-
earol} was. part of the :-project . code-.'
amed MK-ULTRA, which sought to con-
rol human behavior through such means
s hypnosis', drugs and brainwashing. I!
The Senate Health Subcommittee,
^hich ,wanted to hear the academicians'1
?action, quietly invited the presidents)
if 20'institutions to testify at its hearings!
ept' 20 and 21. Only one president ac
spted; he was not scheduled to. testify
ncause all the others declined, explain-`
mg .that they had previous engagements..
The list of the 80 institutions given
a Senate, investigators is still classified,
at 'each of those institutions has been
:)tified separately by the-C.I.A. that in
:);ne..way, knowingly or unknowingly.
played host to C.I.A. research, and 26
DIleges and universities have acknowl-
3ged this publicly. ' - - ' - ? ._
-,:..Research Varied;
Inquiries at these institutions disclosed
iiat C.I.A. resew rch on campus varied
om innocuous sociological surveys to
sts aimed at finding better ways to ad-
mister drugs to unsuspecting subjects.
-re attitudes of current administrators
iewise ran the gamut from outrage to
difference. '' .. ...: ?-; ; +
The passage of Mime, 'more than 20 yearn
some cases: the C.I.A.'s secretiveness
-ring 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
-ojects? was channeled through founda-
ans so that neither the university nor
e professor doing the research knew
e true sponsor or purpose of the work.
-ciological, cultural and anthropological
-idies were financed through the Society
r the Investigation of Human Ecology,
wed at Cornell University. Biochemical
-d medical research was often financed
rough the Geschickter Fund for Medical
search Inc., headed by. Dr. Charles Ges-
ickter.. a ,-Georgetown University. -pa-]
tme Dr. Wiener was a guest at the Mas-
sachusetts Institute of Technolo7y's Cen-
jExtent of UniversityWork-for CIA.;
THE NEW YORK TIMES,..SUIVDAY, OCTOBER 9.1977
Is;;Hard to Pin D
Sense of Injury
Investigation of Human Ecology. At, that
I nv 'J. Wiener, who in 1957 received a
own
ter for International Studies, wi
-Herman Kahn, he later wrote .th
"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 ess
Dr. Wiener said, he was lookii
money with which-.to continue a
of the social role of Soviet scit
Twenty 'years later he learned tl'
.C.I.A. hoped to find out "what a
can be developed in spotting and
ing such persons as potential ag(
cruits" from his study.. . -
"They made no attempt to poi
in that direction," Dr. Wiener said
I never gave them any material for
fying potential defectors. That was
interest at all." . .
1.
to how much investigation you'caiti-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-
. 1 . ,. .
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.-
members, thus bypassing the univ
Mr. Freelen said he was not sur
the university could guard again:
payments made directly to clinical f
the ways in which criminals gave
to the unsuspecting.- ..... _.z .
The Stanford
.projects, were fin
7 Projects at Stanford
"We've been made guinea pigs,
said Robert Freelen, director of g
meat 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, mein)
the Stanford clinical faculty, who ii
paid for such enterprises as a sun
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