European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 4, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Ore work a new York times reporting Toon Ennitt Fino John to for on humans had been set at the not Sterg trials for nazi War it was adopted by the government in it said that tried Cal Experiment should be Tor Good of Mankind and that a person must give full and informed consent before being used the Cias merest in behavioural control was organized in iw9 under the code name one Cia dated described Artichoke As the evaluation any method by Gucfa to pm lira Tram against his will and everal prominent medical re search institutions and govern ment hospitals in the United states and were into a million Effort by the Central intelligence Agency to learn How to control he human the existence of the Agency invest la Lions into behaviour and thought control was previously but through Access to Cia documents obtained under the of information act and wide ranging a group of new times reporters has developed new info Mallon about the Cost of the the Range of its penetration into prestigious re search the identities of some inst the secret funding conduits by the Agency and the concerns about the pro Gram expressed by some Hie Cia channelled funds through three private medical research one of the Geschickter foundation for medical research in is still the society for the investigation of human ecology was disbanded in a third named in one report was the Josiah Macy found also still but John director of the said there was no indication it had been a con Duit for Cia the Cia also paid for under the Tulsa of contracts issued by other government agencies and had Access to ill tons of dollars in behavioural control experiments conducted by the armed by the Early 1360s the Cia had grown uncomfortable about the a 1357 report by the Agency inspector Genera noted the Cia chemical division had added difficulty in obtaining expert serv ices and facilities to conduct tests and sex some of the activities Are considered Lobo professionally unethical and in some instances Border on the Ille the report the Agency officials were also worried that the reputations of the scientists it contracted with were in the Agency appears never to have found the secret of mind and the documents now Public indicate that it had Little Success with interrogations using drugs and what emerged from extensive inter views with present and former intelligence medical researchers and others was the fact that despite professional mis Givings an the part of some medical re the Cia was Able to assemble an extensive network of nongovernmental scientists and facilities apparently with out the knowledge of the institutions where the facilities were among the specific disclosures produced by the nets York from the documents and the interviews were the Fol lowing Carl a pharmacologist now associated with a private treatment Center in new conducted Ltd experiments or the Cia on prisoners at the Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta and the Bordentown reformatory in new Jersey Between 1965 and he was paid a year through the Ges Chuder be said in a Tele phoned the Geschickter foundation contributed to the construction of a million build ing at Georgetown University medical school in newly Dis covered records indicate that the Cia wanted to establish at an appropriate University forensic Medicine depart ment so the rated and Allied Agency needs could thus be served with Legal and a spokesman for Georgetown said that the Una venue was reviewing its records on the construction but Fiat there Wasno Indica Tion the Money had come from the Ewen the Allan me mortal Institute of psychiatry at Mcalli University in conducted Sev eral on behaviour control including the of isolation and sensory deprivation on human for the Cia Between us and the work was paid for by the society for the investigation of human Canter on died in an associate in the research said in an interview that he was unaware that the research had been paid for by Tynecia the human ecology on behalf of the underwrote experiments using tranquil Lizars and alcohol on mental patients and staff members of the Butler memorial Hospital in provi the although largely con trolled by the was set up under the direction of Harold a prominent psychiatrist and leading authority on and gave the appearance of being associated with the Cornell University medical Center the society also asked Wolff and an associate to col Lect the information about brainwash ing in a Cia Manfield approached Robert chairman of the Tulane University department of psychiatry and a Blo psychiatrist who had explored what is described As the pleasure Center of the human Gunn asked Heath if he would be interested in exploring the pain Center of the Heath he said in a recent inter calling the request these Are Only a few of what some Cia officials privately said were dozens of research projects found in Agency the Cia was wound Down in further curtailed in 1967 and finally halted in its last phases were conducted in coordination with the office of research and develop ment at Edgewood Arsenal in ii was a program to acquire and Evalu Tate compounds believed to have effects on the behaviour of humans and Cia re say that it was discontinued before tests were mate on although two Senate committees investigated the Cias drug la uts and in so Many records Nave been destroyed and so Many deletions had been made in the records the senators received that Only a fragmentary picture emerged of the extent to which the Agency was engaged to behaviour control adm Stansfield the director of Central announced two weeks ago that seven cases of records containing some pages of documents pertaining u these projects had been discovered in the Agency he said they had been overlooked in 1375 and several Cia memorandums contained comments that show that officials were worried about the ethics and the legality of the experiments they were at the the International Standard the memo asked whether it were ble to get control fan individual u the Point where he will do our bidding against Kab will and even against such Funa menial Law of nature As in the beginning project Bluebird Arti choke was directed by the Cias office of scientific which had Access to All secret and Public scientific research in this Field being done by the military serv Cia was aim Able re search through military vat 11 the Agency tested min altering t ust Public health service through the office of and the project ostensibly was seeking a substitute for codeine As a Mil mannered pain trill m t Harris who conducted the re search Between 18b and kept up a the documents in which he reported on Ltd and event other drags that the Agency wanted the Docu ments Isbell was an eager on one occasion wrote i will write you a Quick letter at soon As i can get the stuff into a Man or he also arranged to Purchase drugs for the Cia from concerns that they were snipping the drugs to a Isbell made a Brief appearance before the Senate health subcommittee in 197b and conceded thai he had been in Contact with the but he was never asked to explain Why he continued to test Ltd for a decade in a program that was ostensibly to develop a Mike several inde pendent researchers said that Ltd would never have been considered for this Pur lab Eli declined to Grant an interview to the neut York the Cia kept Ubell apprised of the work of Harold a prominent new York Abramson sent a Little noted Telegram to the Senate health subcommittee in 1975 in which be reported that he did work on Ltd with the Cia at new Yorks mount Sinai this research was supported by Tho Geschickter foundation at its inception and later by the Macy he Abramson name first emerged publicly when it was disclosed that he had treated Fratrik an army biochemist who committed suicide after being Given Ltd in a Cia Experiment in another researcher whose work was coordinated with libels was who said he was approached in Wasj by Sidney a pharmacologist at and another flashed Ihler badges they were employees of the com Pfeiffer Pfeiffer estimated that he had administered Ltd to some i prisoners at the Atlanta prison and the Borden own re he said that All the subjects bad Given Pfeiffer that under wartime conditions administering Ltd to unwitting subjects might be the entry into Ibe held behaviour control was widespread and in varying for Louis Jolyon chief of psychiatry at the University of and director of toe euro psychiatric was asked by Gottlieb to make a study of coital a at that but the Agency role or not so Clear to in the of approached Harold a prank Kwa Trust at Cornell medical and asked Wolff pare a report on brainwashing based classified information and examinations victims of soviet and chinese Wolff had been a close Friend of Allen t then director fit eur Wolff and Lawrence his Farmed a research corporation called the society for gallon of human ecology to fund lha brainwashing but in 1956 the Cia wanted to support other research through ankle said in an and assigned an be Rector and with the exception of because of Friendship for Wekla said jifi7 we set it up As a Way of providing funds Tor our research we didst Navalany in Tention of its being used to support others he Hinkle said that absolutely no human expert Enuton done on a project at new York Hospital or Cor Nell medical Center and none was done by anybody connected with Hinkle said that the human duty mechanism we set up to provide our research with funds was being used in ways Hal didst seem consonant with the role of a medical among the projects funded by the Socie of at Roo for con Jyi ten it he Fri Toi a nov 1 fears a new York times n the summer of u May be difficult for americans to Rompre Hend the Frame of mind of the men f who nearly 30 Yean earlier the Central intelligence Agency Effort to manipulate human some of the former High ranking Cia men recall the had poked into vacant eyes of Joseph Cardinal to at his treason trial in Budapest in and had been they had been convinced that his Fesson bad been wrung from him while he was either under the influence of some min bending drug or tlu4 he in a Post hypnotic the sight touched off memories of earlier Ahour in the soviet the Cia leaders were certain the munits had embarked on Campaign to control mens minds and they were mined to find a the Nett with wild evolved into project then became with Eadi code name they ened their until there remained virtually no Avenue of human behaviour control they were not subsequent developments teamed to confirm their tears the Airest Tai Germany of two soviet agents armed with identical plastic cylinders containing hypodermic said to cause a victim to become amenable to the will of Bis the startling confessions of downed Aro Eriv can airmen to false charges of carrying out germ warfare against North 4 a Short time in High level military study group determined that events bad not been what seemed neither the russians nor anyone else had devised a of turning men into robots and there was Little if to National the intelligence Community ration Page the stars and stripes a
