DIALOGUE SOUGHT WITH PROFESSOR IN CIA PROBE

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WASHINGTON POST
27 August 1977
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In CIA Probe
By John Jacobs
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Georgetown University said yester=
day "it seems promising" that univer-
sity lawyers can meet next week with
,,-~--B 4osep,h-F. Geschickter, a George-
town professor emeritus, who helped
the- CIA with its MK-ULTRA mind'
control experiments.
,.Tlte 76-year-old pathologist and can-
cer researcher established the Ges-'
cliickter Fund for Medical Research,
through which the CIA funneled
money to fund'MK-ULTBA'projects!
in' 'the 1950s and 1060's. He has been
unavailable for comment since his
name surfaced a month ago in ennPec-
tion with the CL'. A Senate subcom-
inittee has subpoenaed, him to testify
Sept 9.
The university, which last week re-
ceived official notification that it was
"'rt of the CIA program, is investigat-
ing the matter. It has received 70
pages of CIA documents, which an of-
ficial said confirm press' reports that
the CIA funneled $375,000 through. ti a .,
Geschiekter Fund toward construction
of a new medical wing at the hospital.
The agency wanted to use onc-s?::tl, of
the space there for experiments in
chemical and biological warfare.
In another development, Chancellor
Maurice Mitchell of Denver Univer-
sity confirmed that his. university was
notified by the CIA that it was one of
the 86 institutions CIA Director Stan.-
--field Turner said were used, know-
ingly or .riot, in MMIK-ULTRA.
Other universities that have pub-
licly acknowledged similar letters
from the CIA in the last few weeks
include the Univ~ situ.:ilIaryland,
GeoMa, W ington University, Har-
tard, Stanford, Columbia, Princeton,
.Ohio State and ?- University of
Penns3?ivania. G\V has receiv`ecUdocu-
ments from the CIA about its role but
has refused to release them.
` Dr. Wilbur C. Miller, now. president
of Drake University-in Ohio, taught in
the psychology department at Denver
in, 1954. He said a Dr. L. T. Miller
headed the department then and
in the late '50s. Wilbur Miller said he
didn't know of any CIA-related ; re-
search there, "but I vaguely. remeni-
ber something about hypnosis." MK-
ULTRA was interested in hypnosis'
and LSD for offensive purnoses and
for protecting CIA agents from brain-
washing and interrogation by, hostile
governments: ' :; , 1;?..
Other documents the 'CIA made
public Thursday describe a 1960 ME-
YTLTIRA project to study voting rec-
ords of, registered, .voters in a
";friendly 'foreign nation". The `re
search proposal, which was approved
with a budget of $7,490, expected to
gtudy 25,'000 voters, who were eligible
if they were male honicovrners,
least 30 years old.;
The principal 'researcher, whose
name is deleted in the documents, and
?}vho apparently did not know the re-
search was sponsored by. the CIA,
wondered where some of the prom-
ised research material would come
from.
'Mitchell said he doesn't know what
the CIA's involvement was at Denver,
but 'whatever did happen was before
Ills time.
"I'm perfectly happy to deal with
this openly," Mitchell said. "It's about
time some of this crap got aired."
A March 8, 1954, document released
by the CIA several weeks ago was ad-
dressed to a Dr. Miller from a person
whose name was deleted. It said: "I
will do my best to answer any other
questions about the transfer of the
project to Denver University." What-
ever the project, it had a budget of at
],east $7,2G0 for a 10-month period.
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