CIA FILES REVEAL SOME PAGES FROM '1984'

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000100110068-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 20, 2007
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• Publication Date: August 4, 1977
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WASHINGTON , -- CIA" 'Director Starsfield Turner testified yesterday?
that in. ? 'an attempt to , develop
.thought-control' techniques ? rem.inis
cent of - Orwdl'e . "1931," .. the CIA
sponsored 149,, projects '- involving
y pnosia, shock harassment
drugs, hypnosis-,*
and even magicians. - -''
Turner .told a joint hearing'of: thq
Senate Intelli;ence'Committee and a
health subcommittee that records of. J
the experiments, which he said,took
place 12 to 25 years ago, indicate that
155 noii-g;;; ern:r:ent researchers and'.
assistants took, part in the 'projects,
'and that 80 colleges and universities,
research - foundations,,, chemical. and
pharmaceutical companies, hospitals,
clinics. and prisons were involved.
Turner: gave no names of organiza-
-tions'or individuals involved.
The. CIA has released documents
.Tuesday 'showing that the agency
conducted a secret 25-year project in
;?thich' LSD and other mind-altering
drus'iere administered. to humans .
to test the ability of the drugs to dis-.
turb'rnemory, change sex habits and
create abern; t behavior. ' ?.
Tui er `testifiedr yesterday ;that {
some drug testing "vas performed on
three . unwitting individuals in- San
Francisco, Nely York 'and 'New 'Jer- -
?4 .1
"We also know that some unwitting
testing took place on crani'ial sexual
psychopaths confined at a ? state hos-
pital and that, additionally,- research.;
teas done on a knockout or 'K' drug . I
in paralled with research to develop.l
pain killers for cancer patients.". .J.1
.Turner said detaits.'of all these C&,I,.'
experiments `-rre contained in.seven
boxes ' of newly' discovered docu-
ments! He* told the congressmen; ?" I
assure you that the. CIA is in no way;
engaged in either--witting or unwit-
ino testing of drugs today.". -
In recent days, newspaper and to--1
evision'reports have described some
)! the intense, often bizarre attempts'':
)y the CIA to learn how to. control';
be human mind.
-
Those reports; many based on CIA.;
ocurnents obtained under the Free-.',
orn of. Information Act, have dis?; A;
THE' P ILA,, rte?^ 1A T':1: L t~ t
1, Au ;rust 1971'
closed that the 1949 decision to'exper- I
ii-rent was made because. CIA-offi-
.
cials feared that the Soviet--:Union
might have used mind-bending tech-
niques to elicit a treason confession
from Hungarian Archbishop Joseph
Cardinal' .NHnds z e n ty. .
The tests continued -at. least. until
'1973, even though it was known long
before then that the Soviets did not
have the- technique the CL3-worried
about. .
The agency spent about $25 million
,.on mind-control experiments, chan--
.:neling some of U the money through
three private- foundations,- and. never
developed the techniques it wanted..:
Experiments-included attempts to
induce amnesia, . headaches, -ear-
aches, twitches, jerks and staggers-,-
In addition, ,the agency conducted.
,studies to~see- whether all the. occu-.
'pants ot-a building could be,quicklya
,.incapacitated; :vy %a= . knockout:. drug;
>artd whether.: it' was possible to create
?e.food:that looked and tasted normal;
:but that:"would 'create. "confusion-anx-?.
Jety-feat'.'-when eaten.
According to one somewhat.eague-
`document obtained by the New York
Times, the CIA once employed a ma
gician to explain. what one former
CIA official. said--were matters "they-:
couldn't.. explain;.`. Turner;- *:asked'
about that yesterday, said, the. magi-
cian's-jobr.?%as to-figure out "how to_
slip the Mickey into the Finn" by dis-
tracting attention.
Turner said- he-found such-'mind-
control-, experiments "totally abho-,.1
rent,,"; and: there were indications ia=j
the documents,that :many CIA, era-!
ployes .gnestionied=-tlia ethics and Ie-
gality of the'experiments__ '. :.
In fact,'the-program was- consid--;
ered so sensitive that even some top'?
gvople, i1X Jhe; agency,were.-not ..told
about it, according_tp one forma'r CL
official..
r ` Ti a Times eporied-.that'prison~rs
at the Bordeatown Reform atory-br.1
New Jersey were used in LSD experi-
ments conducted, for;. the CIA from;
1962 to 19 4: - ; IL. -'' ..
Thirty-six inmates at the reforma-
tory were paid 5o cents daily to_take
LSD in a "research ? project"-- ap-
proved by"the state in .April._1?52,
state officials said."
But corf coons officials would not z
confirm that the CIA was involved in
financing the 35,O(YO research proj-
ect ? :. i 1: .....~
Turner said at yesterday's hearing
that some drag testing took piiace on
unwitting subjects-in "Safe-hoi:se3"
used by. undercover agents in San
Francisco -and. New York.
Sen. Edward: Kennedy- (D.,. ;vlas. )
said `docurents:. show - that,, the orv
such house in Sam Francisco had'two
way'niirrors-way and-was'. "elaborately.?dedi ated' ,.with. -red`
' - bedroor_i cur tatris :and pictures' of
French can-can dancers on the walls.
Kennedy said that the CLL.:agent-hi ~. 'charge. called the-San: Francisco.'og
eratiaq "midnight climax."
Turner said he did ,pot know:u'aat
was going 'bn :in the safe' house. But
John: Gittiuger, a retired-CIA psy-
chologist, testified yesterday that he'.
interviewed prostitutes there as part
_-vf his studies'of brainwashing; inter
rogation. techniques and sexual hab-
its _r -!
Another CIA emplove,Philip Gold-
man, testified that he .t-isited the San
rancisco -safe -house: to:. verify ex-
'-pense'vouchershard!?disburse funds..
- But Goldman said; "I can't-remem- -'
-, ber ? substantive parts of i the - pro-
;grain.
=:The Times reported -on one docu-.
-ment detailing how- a-Canadian doe-
tor at .McGill University in* Montreal -
4coixtuated -:several '. experiments for-
=the CIA between-1955 and'1960 on be-
havior - control, including the effects a
oilisolation and sensory,depriv$tion.;-
`. 'The doctor also administered-.pow' .'
erful.tranquilizers arid'ISD to'-Cana
dian -mental patients in a 1958 eaperi-
nient supported by a--foundation-that
:vas secretly used by the CIA: r--
- ,A. colleague said that the' doctor,
who died in .1967, was unaware that"
the money- came from the CIA, the
Times said... _ ' -
Some . informatiorr concerning CIA
drug programs was revealed during
Senate investigations, in- 1975 and
- But the newly released. information :.
provides far more detail of the activi-?"
ties than had previously been known.
'According to the''Times, - the-pro-?
grams = originally: called --project
Bluebird; then Project Artichoke,'and ?:
finally-....
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