TURNER DETAILS CIA PROJECTS ON MIND CONTROL

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 20, 2007
• Sequence Number: 78
• Publication Date: August 3, 1977
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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THE WASHINGTON STAR (RED LINE)
3 AUGUST 1977
"I BELIEVE THAT we all have a
moral obligation to these researchers
and institutions to protect them from' any unjustified embarrassment or
danrage to their reputations which
revelation of their identities might
bring.
Turner said the most significant
new discoveries were those of the
names of researchers and institu-
tions who participated in MK-UL'T'RA
and, secondly, a possibly improper r
contribution by CIA to a private insti-
tution
n M roil Contrail
By Jeremiah O'Leary
WasingtonStar Staff Writer
CIA Director Stansfield Turner ac-
knowledged today that his agency's:
secret mind-control, projects were'
carried out at 80 universities, hospi-
tals, foundations. and prisons. He
-gave the Senate the names of nearly--
200 researchers who worked on 149 of
the projects-
Turner testified' before a joint ses
sion of the Senate Select Committee
on Intelligence and.a health subcom-
Excerpts from documents on IA
mind control efforts. Page AIL
mittee headed by -Sen. Edward M:
Kennedy, D-Mass:, --about the con-
tents of seven- recently discovered
boxes of documents related to the se
cret project MK-ULTRA..
This was _an_ umbrella code name:
given to --:number of sensitive ex-
periments with drugs, hypnotism and
other behavioral modification tech-
niques in the period between 1953 and
1964.
KENNEDY SAID the` newly- di
covered.. material reveals a more-
extensive series of experiments than
had been previously known'as well as
new instances-of unethical- behavior.
Kennedy said there were 86 universi-
ties on institutions involved= in the
projects that until very recently were
not known to Senate probers. He re-.
called that-the records of most of the
CIA's. experiments.with drugs and
mind-control agents :were ordered de-
stroyed in 1973 by formerCIA-Direc---
`for Richard Helms."
\ But Turner said that new informa-'
tlan was recently discovered among
CIS 1Zn -icial .records and that they
escaped befng`-destroyed because
they were filed under budgetary in :stead of oroiect titles... -. ? -.
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Turner said the new material was
turned over to the Senate committee,
including all the names and institu-
tions involved, on a classified basis.
..most of the people and institu-
tions involved are not aware of
agency sponsorship," Turner testi-
fied. 'We should certainly assume
that the researchers and institutions
which cooperated with CIA on a wit-
ting basis acted in good- faith and in
the belief that they were aiding their
government in a legitimate and
proper purpose.
"We are now in possession of the
names of 185 non-government re-
searchers -and assistants who - are
Identified in the recovered material
with the 149 subprojects,"
Turner decla l
red. "The names of 80,
institutiohs where work was done or'
with which these people were affili-
ated`are also mentioned. The institu-;
tions include 44 colleges or universi-
ties; 15 research foundations - or,
chemical and pharmaceutical
companies, 12 hospitals or clinics in
additon to those associated with
universities and three penal institu
tions."
-THE ' IDENTITIES ' of - some ,of :
these people and institutions were
known previously to current CIA offi-7,
cials and congressional probers but
informed sources said the numbers.
of.the newly identified participants'
to far beyond previous knowledge.
Turner said one project involved a
contribution of $375,000 to'a building
fund of a private medical institution
which he did not name, The cuntribn-
tion was previously reported, but
Turner ? said the newly discovered
material makes it clear for the first.
time that this contribution Was made
through an intermediary which made,
it appear to be a private -donation'
The institution was not told of the
true source of the gift.
Turner said the newly discovered
documents give a greater insight into'
the scope of the drug .testing -"but.t
contribute little mnrp than that " 14P1
said CIA now has uncovered informa4
Lion that some of the drug testing on
people unaware of what was happen
ing was carried on in safe houses in;
San Francisco and New York City,..
"WE RAVE IDENTIFIED-- that
three individuals were;involved in`
this undertaking as opposed to the'
previously reported one person," :
Turner said. "We also know now that
some-unwitting testing took place on
criminal sexual psychopaths con.
fined at a state hospital and that-:
additionally, research was done on a:
knock-out or 'K' drug in parallel with
research to develop pain-killers for
Turner said there had been no a - .
tempt to conceal 'the' newly discov-
ered material in earlier searches and
said the agency discovered these par-
ticular documents in 1973 when it was
in the process of attempting' to- de-
stroy them. - .
He pointed out that the recovered
documents are finance folders-arid
that the bulk of the material consists"
of approvals for advance of funds;
vouchers and accountings. Most of
these documents, he said,- were not
very informative as to the nature of
the activities being undertaken and
in general do not include status re-
ports or other documents regarding
operational considerations. -
HE SAID THE newly. recovered- j
documents fall into three categories. -
? First, there, are 149 MK-ULTRA
subprojects, many of. which appear.
to have some connection with _ rc- -
drug- acquisition .and .'testing or. 1
administering drugs surreptitiously. -
-? Second, there are two boxes of mis.
cellaneous MK-ULTRA papers in-
cluding audit reports and financial
statements from. "cut-out" (inter-'
mediary) funding mechanisms used
-to conceal CIA's sponsorship of re-
4, There are 33 additional subprojects
concerning certain intelligence ac-
tivities which have nothing to do with
drugs, toxins or. other related mat-
ters. -
Turner grouped the activities in
the 149 subprojects as follows:
? Research into the effects of bchav=
ioral drugs and alcohol: 17 projects
probably not involving human test-
ing; 14 projects definitely involving
tests - on human volunteers; 19
projects probably Including tests on
human volunteers and perhaps tests
on unwitting subjects as well; and six
projects involving tests on unwitting
--
? There were eight subprojects of re-
search on hypnosis; ineludingtwti tit=''
volving hypnosis and: drugs: in combi
nation: -
There- -were seven projects for
STAT
cancer patients."
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