CIA CHIEF ADMITS MIND CONTROL TESTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000100110073-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 20, 2007
• Sequence Number: 73
• Publication Date: August 4, 1977
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ARTICLE iPPEAI RE-D
O Pr-.GE, 1
CHICAGO TRIBU:i
It August 1977
WASHINGTON [API-CIA Director Stansfiieeld Turner testified. Wednesday that
newly discovered documents disclosed: that the -Central Intelligence Agency spon-
sored 149 projects involving dr gs,,hy"pnosis, shock harassment, and even magicians.
as it experimented with controlling the human wind. -
Turner told a joint. hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee and the Health-
Subcommittee-that. the* project, known
ultimately as:'-MK ULTRA . took- place
front, l2 taFZS years;ago__ ? . -
I assuri%you-that the CLA is is no R
?vay.engaged lit eitherwitting or unwit-
ting testing of drtigs todayhe said.
:.Turner .told the-'committee the-docu=
ments,. hitherto unreported. to Congress,
were found in -seven.boxes along with
financial records :in '-a records: center
:near Washington."
THE DOCUMENTS,'is--tha- fora-'of j
fiscal records, do- not include status ref
'ports- or progress-analyses- of the vari-
,ousparts of the project.
But Turner said the agency is ?`now in I
possession of the names: of Ias nongow'
eminent- -researchers and assistants
who are identified in the recovered ma-
terial dealing with the 1.9 subprojects." .
"The names of 84 institutions where
work was done or with which these peo-
ple affiliated are also mentioned," he
continued. - -
"The institutions include 4 colleges or
universities; 15 research foundations or i
chemical and pharmaceutical companies
and the Iike, 12 hospitals or clinics
and -3 penal institutions.,,
TURty R DID lOTname any of the.
individuals or institutions
"Most of the people and i stitutians
involved are not aware of agency-spon-
sorship,"`he said.- "We should certainly -
assume :that the researchers and institu.
tiors which- cooperated with CIA on-"a--' '
witt?^g basis acted in grod f: :;h and in
the- belief that they were aiding their
government in a legitimate and proper
.purpose.
believe we all have s moral
obliga-tion to these researchers and institutions
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