THE CIA AND MEN'S MINDS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01350R000200420005-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 20, 2004
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• Publication Date: February 25, 1979
• Content Type: NSPR

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Article appeared 25 February 1979
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THE ' SEARCH FOR THE
"MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE":
The CIA and Mind Control, by
John Marks. Times Books, P.M.
A few years ago James J. Angle-
ton, one-time counterintelligence
chief for the CIA, told me over din-
ner that the agency had been in-
volved in a bizarre' effort to mas-?:
ter human mind control. . .
The implications of what he
said, and the revelations that fol-
lowed, were.staggerng. Frank C...
Olson, a top Army employee, com-a
mitted suicide after a.dose:o( un?:i
tested LSD was slipped Into his cof-'
-fee by the man who ran the pro-
'&rx'am, Sidney Gottlieb.-
';eighty-six universities took part
in; what was called MKULTRA,
Yid one of those schools was our
It is all told with chilling detail in
. dhn At arks'superb new book.
previously co-
who had
marks
.
,
authored with Victor Marchetti
"The CIA and the Cult of Intelli
gence,'' had the forebearance to
wage a long Freedom of Informa-
tion Act fight to gain access to theri
few thousand pages-of surviving]
records..that. detailed this worst;
? yet of CIA horror tales.
:The professor at Delaware who
did the CIA's bidding over a 10-.
.year period is James A. Moore. '
Moore is a quiet but determined
chemistry professor who feels no-.I
regret for.. creating compounds it
that he turned directly over,to the
same' people vih o, fed'; Olson his
deadly doseof LSD.
The book, which should be read
nyone ,with' a child in the?
by anyone, with'
.University of Delaware or with an
interest in how power can corrupt,
takes but an evening to. }go
through. - ... :..
It details the CIA's use of "safe"`
houses," or CIA rented buildings
in major U.S. cities where the
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compounds Moore and his co:
leagues developed were tested on
unwitting prostitutes as well as
average people. This allowed the
CIA to determine how such drugs.
affected sexual performance.--
On another front the agency' funded' bizarre* psychiatric 're--
search that led to mental disabil--? -
ities instead of relief for dozens of.:y
people. :
If the bookfalls short on any-.?,
thing, it is in the details of who and
how the local university and other
universities allowed themselves to
be `.used :for' one ~of :the"most per
verse government-activities-since'
Hitler's doctors performed their'
' "controlled", experiments on
desirables", in the German death
camps during World War II
The book: tells . us that. forrner:
CIA Director Richard Helms step-:
ped up;this program and ordered
its, records destroyed.. Had it not
been for a mistake, the six boxe? =
of,records which revealed the hor-;;
rors 'of MKULTRA would have
been unknown to us.
':,-,This, book should be required
reading, for anyone . with any
doubts about the power held by the
elite,."old boy, network" of the CIA.
its underlying lesson is that people
who,assumethey have the wisdom
:to take; control of other people's
' Jives and do so in the name of na-
tional security must be stopped.
My.'friends at the CIA tell me
John Marks is hated for bringing
the story of MKULTRA out in the
jcbpen:ll#,that is. so, he should wear
their fnger as a badge of honor for
exposing these 'acts.
Sidney.: Gottlieb's agreeing, to
`testify.t the United States Senate
about 11'6,details of MKULTRA
;.'only withhcriminal immunity is all
the proof done creeds to know that
the CIA,is still immune to justice.
Joe Trento
T..Toet,rrertv,:-a News-Journal
investigative reporter, has dug
,deeply into CIA excesses.
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