C.I.A. DATA SHOW 14-YEAR PROJECT ON CONTROLLING HUMAN BEHAVIOR

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WASHINGTON, July 20-The Central
Intelligence Agency conducted a 14-year
program to find ways to "control human
behavior" through the use of chemical;
biological and radiological material, ac-
cording to agency documents made public
today by John.Marks, a freelance. journal lst. ,t-r _e . e r?-s`+tc]r~ ~?y!'- ._y "~h1'-.ma ~a
Mr:,,Marks; alq= a to of:.xh .Center
Studies;- as . at
foi:Nationat~Setu;it}F serte~":.
a. news' conference that Adm.: Stanfield
Turner, Director; of 'Central ..Intelligence,
in.a letter to'.the.Senate Select Committee
on Intelligencelastw~eek, "seriously dis
torted" what tbe C;LjA.. research. program- -
involved
Mr' Marks said"that, based on 'docu-
ri ents about*the program he had received
under the Freedom of information Act,
he had concluded:, that Admiral. Turner
"seems to be practicing what used to be
called 'a : modified limited hangout .,-
when he called the agency's activity :"a
program of experimentation with drugs..,
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.'To be sure:~jdrugs.. Were part '.of _it;
he said, "but sa were such other tech-
niques as electric shock, radiation, ultra-
sonics, psychosurgery, psychology and in-
,capacitating agents, all of which 'were
referred to ia-':documents I have_'re-
ceived.,'
The documenti made public today and
the - disclosure?'br the C.I.A.- - last" week
that-it had-fglmd another cache o?_-previ-
ously undiscove{ed records ; suggest
broader experimentation on ?,unwitting
humans.by Lfie-inteiligence agency of its
tpaid: researcherithan had beenvpublirly~
known before.'-Mr-`'=Marks said. he had
. inn. C I A 'Inrnu.
meats, many ,f which. were never curu-u
over to the.Senati intelligence committee
for its 1975-46ve5tigation of agency ac-
C.I.A.. spokesniest declined comment- oar
{ Mr. Marks's: charges: However;' Admiral
Turner told newsmen -after "leaving: a
meeting. with,, senators that the. agency
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21 JULY 1977
was moving swiftly to - review' the docu-
ments it had found. ' ' .11 1" Mr. Marks distributed 20 documents
that described among others, the follow
ing incidents:. .
9In 1956, the C.I.A. 'ontracted with.
a private physician to test :'"bulbocap-
nine," a drug that can-.cause stupor or
induce a catatonic state; onmonkeys- an
"convicts incarcerated. at" an an. unnamed:
state penitentiary. The agency wanted to
know if -the- drug caused the loss of
speech in man," "loss of sensitivity. to
pain-loss of memory; loss of -will
powetr' .''. ^ >.:.
qA letter: from an unnamed C.I.A. offiw -
cial in 1949 discussed ways of killing peo--
ple without leaving a trace. "I believe
that there are two chemical substances
which would be most useful in that they
would leave no characteristic pathologi-
cal findings, and the quantities needed
could. be easily transported .to places
whee they were-to be used," the letter
said. The letter also suggested exposure
of an individual to X-rays, 'subjecting~a
person to a cold environment in wh%h-
he would freeze to death, or, if these
methods were too difficult, two methods
needing no soecial equipment. would be
to "smother the victim with, a-pillow or
to strangle him with a' wide piece of
cloth, such as a bath toweL"
Aware of Questionable Nature
9In.19521two Russian agents who were
"suspected,of being doubled" were inter
rogated using "narcohypnotic" methods.:
:.Under medical cover, the documents said
the two men were -given sodium pentothat
and a stimulant. One-interrogation pro-
duced a- "remarkable"=:regression, the
papers-'said, during -which the subject
actually relived certain past activities o
his life, some dating back 15 years while,
in addition, the subject. totally accepted
Mr. [name" deleted] as an old and trust
and beloved personal friend whom _ th`
STAT
subject- had known in years past in. Geor--
gia,U.S.S.R.'_ ?.''
summary of 'a: ,1953 meeting reported
a suggestion that :tae C.T.A. work; with
i scientists of an unidentified foreign. gov-
ernment,since "that country, allowed ex-
periments with anthrax," a disease con-.
tracted from infected cattle and shee!o
and the United States did not. _' ^ "
The documents given to Mr. Marks were
heavily.. edited,, apparently for security
reasons,.-but they showed that even while
the CJ-A:' was operating this program it
was conscious of its questionable nature.
one 1950 memorandum, on finding psy-
chiatrists to 'conduct experiments,noted
that one applicant's "ethics might be such,
that he might not care to cooperate in,
certain more revolutionary phases of our(
project." But, it said another candidate's
"ethics are such that he would be com
pletely cooperative in any phase of our
.program, regardless of how revolutionary
it.may be." ... ,. `.... s : :_ .:..: , .
A 1963 inspector.-general's report that
apparently_ resulted in_a-program being
discontinued noted "the- concepts- in-
volved in manipulating humar. behavior
are found by, many people both within
and outside the agency to be distasteful
and unethical-", .. _~
According to Mr. Marks's -documents
and an earlier~*Senate investigation, :the
'C.I.A. conducted secret medical experi-
ments from. 1949 through 1963 under the
code names Bluebird, Artichoke MK Ultra
and MK Delta. The C.I.A. inspector gener-
at report' in 1963 described the program
as the "research and .development of
chemical, biological and-radiological ma-
terials capable of employment in clandes=
tine. operations to control human' behav=
5,000 New Documents
Last' weeks Admiral Turner announced
that the , agency ' had discovered some
5,000 documents pertaining- to the pro-1 ?
matters' or disclose.- matters that= could
cret goverment,documents; provided they:
dyinng:` the documents later this week.
I public heaingo the intelligence corlunit-'
-vToday, Admiral Tdrier gave_the' meet-
tars r -and .' m edical -23 tlttrtlong - that' per,
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