BOOK DISPUTES CIA CHIEF ON MIND-CONTROL EFFORTS

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• Publication Date: January 29, 1979
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Approved For Release 2004/10/13 : CIA-RDP88-01350
THE WASHINGTON POST
Article appeared 29 January 1979
on page A-2
Work Went On Into 197?s, Author says
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Despite assurances last year. from'
Central InteI igence:..Director' Stans??
field Turner that- the: CIA's . nand-co
trol program was phased out aver a
decade .ago,, the . intelligence . agency
has come up with new. documents in-
dicating that the work-went-on
into
the. 19703, according to a-new book. ,
John Marks,: the anther of the book,
said the CIA mind-control researchers
did apparently` drop their mneh publi?
cized %I1K-ULTRA drug testing pro,
gram. But they replaced it, according
to Marks, with another,. supersecret,
behavioral-control project- under the.
agency's Office of- Research;,, and. De..
velopment_ ~.. -
The?ORD program, used.& cover. or.
ganization set up in the 1960s outside.
Boston headed: by. Dr. Edwin. Land,
the founder of Polaroid, who.. acted as:
a "figurehead,? said.:,Marks;.in his
book. The project investigated-,such
research as genetic-, engineering, de-:
velopment of dew., strains of-.bacteria,
and rmr4d-controL-'
The book. identifies the Massach
setts proprietary organization kneaded
by Land as the Scientific Engineering--
Institute. The CIA-funded institute
was originally -set up as a radar, and
technical research company -,in' the
1950s and shifted.over to mind-control
experiments In the. 1960s,,.according to
the book:.. Land. coulctaot:?bersreiched
for comment yeaterday ___A .;; .: , ?
In, teadmany-fast year before a.SeII?
:.ate conunittee,.Turner indicated that
most of the CIA's mind-control work
ended in the 1960s with the exception
of a few scattered, programs, Accord-
ing to Marks? however, the ORD pro-
gram was a full-scale one, and just as
secret as the:.e3rlier MK-ULTRA pro.
jest. , .
A CIA spokesman said yesterdays
that the intelligence agency. had not,,
.reviewed Marks'. ? book.. andti would,
make no comment until it did.'
In his book, Marks said. he. learned
of the program-last year.-when the:.:
STAT
CIA: notified him that it had iota
130': boxes of material. 'on_k: the.projert
after'he. filed a Freedom'of In.oima',
tion Act request::
:?.1Vlarks, a former. State Department
intelligence officer and frequent CIA
critic, is the author- of.,'-`The. Search;
>for:'-the 'Manchurian"' Candidate
which is scheduled to be released next;
month. The book-is based: on about
I6,OOO pages of information on the l
'UK-ULTRA and other mind-control
.experiments that :were released; in
1977-and 1915.
,'- In.
a-researching the 'material, marks
said he found that CIA mind-control
researchers trained secret "' police in 1
Uruguay. - and South Korea, and!
funded an extensive progr,'am of 'LSD }
and shock-treatment research' at" Me-
Gill University in Canada..-,:-s, According to the book,- Dr: D. Ewen
Cameron, at the Allen Memorial Insti
tute at`,McGill, ran the experiments.
which were paid for by the CIA. Cam
eron, who died in 1967,,,received the
.inoney through the Society for the In-
estigation of, Human. Ecology; an-
other CIA front. It is unknown if
Cameron was aware that. the money,
came from the CIA.
Marks said the .experiments' at-? M
Gill- included _ giving unknowing, sub.
:jests with mental 'problems massive
doses of LSD and-subjecting them to
long-term shock treatment: in an ef-
fort to "depattern7'"them- and plant,
.new:-behavior methods iit.their minds
'About. half of the subjects were, Iefts
with long-term- : amnesia from 'the;
treatment, which had -little beneficial`
effect, Marks said.
In addition, the. CIA, under, its lII-.
SEARCH project,' funded a Baltimore-
biological laboratory run by. ? an ex-
CIA agent to insure that the- agency.,'
had a "quick delivery"' germ warfare,
capability? the Marks 'book reports,'
The project was kept ? secret- even.
,from,, the Army, which- had its: own
.germ-warfare center at Fort-Detrick.
where 'the CIA. was also doing re-,
search. I
~,?- ? frequeatMfie of CU',
:A.ecording ,.tci the bcsok, the CL4's
far-reaching"drug-research' program,
which eventually involved W universi;
ties and other instttutions, was set' oft
in part because of a mathematical er::
Ir, 1951; the author _ says; word 1
r
eached the CIA that the Soviets had
....-.-L.-__~. run .... _ ..
from the Swiss Sandoz,compang_
from the Soviets' bought only 50 'doses
of' the.hallucinogen.: But: Marks said
CIA officials were ,so alarmed at the
;potential of the purchase! they stepped
up their own fledgling drug program
and rushed two agents to Switzerland
with 5240,000 in a black bag to buy, loo }
illi
m
on LSD doses for themselves, ?
The deal-, fell ~ through, - the ` book
says, because startled Sandoz ' officials i
admitted they. didn't have,, enough)
LSD to meet the CIA request, ; r .,- .i
Marks, along with ? -former = CI,A,
agent Victor klarchetti, wrote ; "T b
CIA and... the, Cult. of 'Inte[ligence,';l
which was:.heavily, censored, by-tha-~
agency, before publication.
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