ADDICTS PAID OFF WITH NARCOTICS IN CIA-FUNDED TEST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000400070026-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 27, 2004
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: November 8, 1975
• Content Type: NSPR

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Associated Press "I UNDERSTAND NOW
Drug addicts undergoing why the percentage cure'at
rehabilitation were given
doses of narcotics as a re-
ward for participating in a
CIA-funded drug experi-
ment, a Senate subcommit-
tee has been told..
The subcommittee,
headed by Sen._ Ed:r_:d M.
Kennedy, yesterday also
heard sworn testimony that
appeared to confirm news
reports of a 1972 scheme in-
volving convicted Water-
gate burglars E. Howard
Hunt and G. Gorden =...cdy
been too high, Sen. Richard
S. Schweiker, R-Pa., com-
mented.
According to both Isbell
and Duckett, the program
was designed to find a syn-
thetic- substitute for co-
deine.
.Duckett's testimony also
revealed that the CIA's pro-
gram of administering
drugs, to unsuspecting
human guinea pigs contin-
ued for 10 years after the
drug to be used against an
unidentified individual.
Gunn said Hunt told him no
details of why he wanted
the - drug except that "I
:bought he wanted to make
somebody behave peculiar- s
ly." I
However, Gunn's testi-
mony conformed with
previous news reports of a
scheme by Hunt, a former
CIA agent then working for
the White House plumbers
unit, to drug Anderson in an
effort to publicly embarrass
him. In a recent interview {{
with Time magazine, Hunt
confirmed that he had been
told to drug Anderson but
denied he had been ordered
to kill him, as has also been
reported.
GUNN, WHO RETIRED
from the CIA in 1971, said
they spoke of the difficulties,
of administering a drug in
pill form and talked about
hallucinogenic drugs which
could be absorbed through
the skin. But,. Gunn said, "I
did not provide it-and I did
not have anything. more to
do with it."
His only other contact
with Hunt was a phone call I
in which Hunt said he need-
ed
"surgical assistance and a tetanus shot for some-
Gunn said he inform-
ed Hunt he was retired and
recommended he try the .
Georgetown University
Hospital.
According to Duckett's
testimony, the CIA began
experimenting with LSD in
the late 1940s. By 1953, he
said, "more than 30 differ-
ent universities were in-
volved in this program."
in a short-lived plot to drug -late director Allen Dulles
syndicated Jack stated that the directors of
Anderson. the program had exercised
The addicts Mee re- "bad judgment."
warded with drums mouse Dulles wrote a letter in
there was "no autncr=ty to 1953, apparently as a result
pay them money;" acrd- of the LSD experiment
ing to Dr. Harris Isbell, which lead to the death of
who headed the CIA-iuaded Army biochemist Frank
tests at the Nationalnsti- Olsen, advising three em-
tute of Mental Health's ployes that "the adminis-
Addiction Research Center tration of LSD to an unwit-
in Lexington, Ky. - ting subject in the case with
CARL DUCKETI; head which you are familiar is an
of the CIA's office of indication of bad judg-
science and technology, ment."
confirmed that the CIA had In the same letter, Dulles
funded the Lexington ex- ordered the creation of a
periments from 19533 to 1961 review panel to investigate
From -1951 to 1953, the the drug experiments being
project was funded by the conducted by the agency's
Office of Naval Research, Technical Services Divi-
according to Isbell. - - sion. However, Duckett said
Edward M. Flowers, a that there was no evidence
reformed drug addict who a review had been conduct-
had been confined at the ed and that the program
center from 1953 to 1955, was not halted until 1963
said inmates were offered a when the agency's inspec-
choice of drugs or reduced tor general discovered it.
sentences as a reward for
taking part in the experi- "I CAN NOT GIVE you
rents. Since the inmates any satisfactory answer
were all drug addicts, why" the testing of unwit-
Flowers said, "the majority ting subjects continued for
chose narcotics." so long, Duckett said.
James Henderson Childs. Dr. Edward M. Gunn, a
a former addict now living former member of the
in a Veterans Administra- CIA's office of medical
lion hospital, saiyj,16e. p d
cowed doses of r~ikjjkii t1SS
for his participation in ex-
periments at Lexington in
erv e tes CIA- . 70026-6
met with Hunt and Liddy. protect the nature-of our_ t
and was asked whether he; Foreign intelligence con-
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