3 AREA COLLEGES USED BY CIA IN BEHAVIOR TESTING

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WASHINGTON POST 18 August 1977
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By Bill Richards and John Jacobs
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The Central Intelligence Agency
used the University of Maryland
and George Washington University
for some of its top secret 1MKUL-
TRA experiments in behavior con-
trol in the 1950s and lO60s, the
agency has informed both univer-
sities.
The CIA also officially ? informed
Georgetown University that it had
sheltered some of the IMIKULTRA ex-
periments. Georgetown's part in the
project had been previously reported
but not officially confirmed.
The three local universities were
among 80 private and public institu-
tions told in the past few days they
had played parts-some wittingly,
some not-:in the lIKULTIIA tests.
In a related development, the CIA
yesterday made publi^ under the
Freedom of Information Act an addi-
tional 1,760 pages of documents per-
taining to MKULTRA behavior con-
trol experiments.
These documents show that many
high-ranking agency officials knew
and approved at least the Georgetown
part of- the mind control program, in-
cluding then-CIA Director Alien
Dulles and senior aides Richard M.
Bissell Jr., C. P. Cabell, Lyman Kirk-
patrick. Lawrence Houston and Rich-
ard Helms. Helms later became CIA
director.
The documents show that among
things tested at Georgetown were sub-
stances to promote "illogical thinking
and impulsiveness to the point where
The agency Was also interested in say one
"a knockout pill which can surrepti- research
tiously be administered in drinks, and clien
food, cigarettes, as an aerosol," to pro- rogation
vide a "maximum of amnesia,". and a It has
substance, also to be administered the CIA
surreptitiously, that, would make it toward a
"impossible for a man to perform any cal wing
physical activity whatsoever." use for
The documents also referred to was funn
tests of a "knockout" drug on term!- Fund fo,
naily ill cancer patients at George- front na.
town. . chick-ter,
The documents say" tee university tholobist
administration was to be "totally un-: taught at
witting" of CIA sponsorship of the as= A'Goa
sorted mind control experiments. terday ti
A CIA spokesman said yesterday, found n
that the agency had located all but six the CIA
of the 80 institutions and companies': ducted ti
involved in ZIKULTRA. "Tile ?otlicrs' has beer
no longer exist," said the spokesman,; chickter,
who declined, to give the names of any! tact him
of the institutions or firms involved. poenaed .
None of the three Washington-area Senate subcommittee investigating
universities notified could themselves the lIfiL'LTR l program.
supply details of the types of i\IKUL- _ A long description of the lroposed
TRA experiments in, which they were Georgetown facility suggested that
'involved. However, spokesme:f for alli "human' patients - and volunteers"
three said they.would take advantage would be available for experimental
of a CIA offer to supply additional de- purposes. It said the agency could
tails on request. "recruit new scientific personnel" at
In its letter to University of Mary- the medical center, because agents
land President Wilton H.- Elkins,' working under cover there vioulcl - b4'
which arrived ' last Friday, the CIA: in daily contact with "the' graduate
said: "While we recognize this may be' school." The identity of the school
unwelcome. news .we believe we have, was censored in the documents.
an obligation to advise you of this fact - To further its interest in producing
may participation] so to stress throw, h chemical means, the
may initiate such uch action as you deem m CIA also proposed studying chemical
necessary to protect the interests of agents on "advanced cancer patients:":our uhiversity-s ? -' ? .
' - These means included a "K" or"knock-
-'Tn the letters of notificati on,~~t.he;
C:IA 'noted that in some cases the! out drug, which one memo-writer de-
\crarLTRA institutton~ were aware of - scribed as a "good Mickey Finn."
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the recipient would be discredited in : bad been while the experiments were to understand "toxic delirium, uremic
public," and substances to iot ,taking place.' coma and cerebral toxicity from poi-
and prevent`'the intoxicating effect of soning?" Toward that end, chemical
alcohol:' ~v.. Elkins, w1o has headed Maryland ~
Another reference in the documents since 1954, declined to comment yes-. compounds were administered to c n-
terday on whether- he 'knew of the-, ear patients and to at least four cliabe
is to "substances which will produce ;ZIKULTRA experiments. Lloyd H-` El-1 tic patients, with plans for more tests
pure' euphoria with no subsequent let- aiott, who' has headed G'eorge Wash-1 to "study the -effect on mental func-
down;' a type of permanent high, r anaton since .1965, ?? could not be 1
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