MEMOS SHOW HUMANS USED IN CIA DRUG TEST

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 14, 2007
• Sequence Number: 78
• Publication Date: January 5, 1979
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THE WASHINGTON POST
5 January 1979
Memos Show
Humans Use&
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By Bill Richards
CIA documents released this *week
contradict testimony -given. a Senate
committee by : intelligence director
Stansfield Turner and another intelli--
gence agency official that no- human
subjects were involved in-the final se=ries of the-agency's. massive drug test-
in
g proerin?..
Turners and Edward Gordo,p who:
was described by the Caatrai_.,Intelli
gence Agency. director as an '"expert'",
on" Project:OFMN, the last known `
CIA drug testing program, testified in
September 1977-at the Senate-subcom-
mittee - onn -health-, and scientific re-.-:.
search that no "humans were drugged
.as part of the project
Or TEN was the last yin a - se; ies of
drug testing and mind control experi-.
meats on :which.-thei-=CIA spent 'mil-?':
lions.:,. of dollars:.:'-The experiments;-
kept secretfora quarter-century after:..
they" began-in ,,1949,"- ultimately in.::
volved ;-range --of: sites stretching.:
from Sag. Francfsco. whorehouses ;to'..
prestigious U.S. universities..:..;. :?rr
According-to. the latest.-documents,;
released under a Freedom of Informs=
tion.Act.request filed.; before Turner's.
Senate testimony on, Project' OFTEN,"
the finai?program-ran"from~ 1987 into.
1973 It was finally disbanded after
newspaper reports of covert-drug and
chemical jtesting. _on' hu inns; by: the
CIA and;the military: a . - ;. c~
- The Oi~I: project: was: 'originally .
designed B'inelude'; drum-;testing "on.:
human subjects. But Turner and Gor,
don toldSen: Edward -M. Kennedy'(D-
Mass., 'chairman` in the' Senate sub-'
commit. ' ithatthere was no evidence i.
in. the: -agency's? files--to indicate: any;:
humans were actually used,in-experi'..-.
meats beforetprojeas?-terms
The documents state, however, that
the CIA allocated- $37,000 in 1971- to,.=
test a- glycolate, class -of chemical on.-:-
humans at, the: Army's *Edgewood . Ar:"
senal;Research Laboratory..
One. report, compiled in 1975 under
the heading, "Influencing Human Be-
havior," notes that 20 persons were
tested with the drug-five prisoners
from.., Holmesburg.". State Prison - in:
Holmesburg, Pa., 'and` 18, Army volun..-
teers:.i.. f.~. .t.. ~' , ,, .?. ...
The report does.not gap ywhattlie-
test results were except that side ef?
_;
fects, were., evident up to six. weeks
;.later. The report notes that. the CIA:
spent. money.` .for ' medical. folio w-up-
,-testing. Of the research subjects.
A'CIA spokesman noted yesterday.'
that-.whip several memos-and reports
mention the testingone-1973 memo.
state.-'that an'=unnamed, doctor at
Edgewood=told-a?CIAinterviewer that:
year that no human - subjects ? were
used in the tests.' -
The spokesman..noted that the pro-
gram was set uP to. include human
drug testing. "Maybe it did happen,"
he said, "but it's all academic now." -
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