European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 22, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday september 22,1977 the stars and stripes Page 7 for Many last breath will be smoke Tali ref in a to hav crips of atari a he amorian Villana of sort Funne Anri corp. Trio Amorina Pon my inter to Niico of inner on or re Lic no  third in a 10-Day series of stories by staff writer Bob Hoyer the infernal Weed really is infer Nal. The smoker dying of lung cancer sub mits to its addictive spell As he lights up a final cigarette. The smoker spitting up phlegm in the doctor s office insists the ecstasy of smok ing is simply too much to give up even if it Means getting Well. No one knows better than physicians the awesome hold of the cigarette Over its Vic Tims. No one knows better than physicians the lethal potential of prolonged heavy smok ing. An overwhelming amount of respectable medical opinion links smoking to a Long list of diseases. What smoking actually does doctors say is diminish the Way the body can handle the insults it encounters thus pre paring it for the diseases that All too often afflict the heavy smoker. Or. Alton Ochsner former president of the american cancer society and the american College of surgeons and fore most authority on smoking says that smoking serves As a precipitating Factor for disease in the susceptible person. Dozens of studies conducted throughout the world have produced disturbingly Simi Lar results. They conclude that smoking and cigarette smoking in particular is a major health Hazard. Furthermore they say that smoking is the most preventable cause of death in the United states. While the majority of the literature on smoking deals with hazards to the smoker research now shows that nonsmokers can suffer from smoke breathed second hand. These studies indicate that smoke from the burning end of a cigarette contains More nicotine Carbon monoxide and ammonia than smoke breathed by the smoker and that smoke breathed involuntarily by a pregnant Mother can affect the fetus. The indictments against smoking read like a Catalon of degenerative illness. One noted authority referring to Lue Way smoking gradually addicts and grinds Down its victims refers to it As suicide in slow motion. The american cancer society the american heart association and the american lung association identify the diseases most commonly associated wit smoking. Smoking is a major causative agent in cardiovascular diseases diseases of the heart and blood vessels which claim More than a million lives a year and account for More than half of the nation s deaths. Smoking is strongly linked to pulmonary disease lung cancer and emphysema in particular which together kill More than 100,000 americans a year. Smoking is a Factor in cancer of the Larynx Mouth and bladder and in ulcers of the stomach and duodenum. Smoking adversely affects blood circulation and inhibits the ability of the cilia tiny hairline feelers to screen pollutants from the respiratory system. Smoking is considered harmful for Prog Nant women and is sometimes blamed for premature child birth and for babies of below Normal weight. While pointing to smoking As the major cause of lung cancer Ochsner is convinced that the most devastating effects of smok ing Are the Way it attacks the cardiovascular system. The heart association reports the risk of heart attack and stroke increase in direct relation to the number of cigarettes smoked. The pack a Day smoker has nearly twice the risk of heart attack and nearly seven times the risk of stroke As the nonsmoker. Maj. Wayne d. Weaver cardiologist at the army s 2nd general Hospital in lands Tull Germany says that hardening of the arteries leading to the legs a disease attributed to smoking now is showing up in an increasing number of younger patients. If these patients quit smoking Mieir conditions May substantially  Weaver said. But if they continue to smoke their conditions will Worsen two thirds of Weaver s patients continue to smoke after they have been referred to him. Some of those who quit before continued on Page 8, col. 1 Defeated by the weather panel told of Cia attempt to test Ltd Spray Washington not a former Cia employee told a Senate subcommittee tues Day that he and another Cia employee were sent to san Francisco in 1959 to lure unsuspecting people to a party at which they would Spray the air with lsd-25 As part of the Agency s secret drug testing program. The test part of a much larger drug testing program known As my Ultra was abandoned because the weather Defeated us David Rhodes told the Senate subcommittee on health and scientific research. He said the Cia s Safe House in suburban Mill Valley was not air conditioned it was too hot to close the windows and the aerosol device they planned to use to Spray the drug was not working properly. Rhodes two former Cia employees two former Bureau of narcotics agents and Charles Geschickter head of a foundation that channelled Cia medical research funds to universities for nine or 10 years were questioned tuesday in the first of two Days of hearings into Cia test ing of drugs on Peoples. Sidney Gottlieb former chief of the Cha s technical service division with administrative responsibility for my Ultra was scheduled to testify tuesday but at the last minute was rescheduled to appear wednesday. Geschickter and some of the other wit Nesses contended that there were errors in some of the Cia documents describing their work and Robert Lashbrook who served As Gottlieb s Deputy at the Cia testified that these documents were originally intended to be obscure or misleading de spite their top secret status. Lashbrook described them As  Rhodes testimony tuesday provided the first look the Public has had at an Ltd test inside a Cia Safe House although the Experiment he described was carried out Only on one of his colleagues and ultimately failed. The Cia carried out other drug tests in both California and new York City from 1953 to 1966 in such Safe houses mainly apartments and hotel rooms. These were secretly rented for the Agency by George White an official of the old Federal Bureau of narcotics since supplanted by the drug enforcement administration. Rhodes a psychologist employed by the Cia from 1957 to 1961, said he went to Cali fornia in 1959 with Walter p. Pasternak to test a particular device to see if Ltd could be Given in Small quantities via an  Pasternak a former Cia employee was also an official with the society for the investigation of human ecology a foundation set up to serve As a conduit for Cia Money by John Gittinger also a Cia employee. Rhodes said that for a week he and Pas Ternak went to bars to drink and meet people to establish a relationship so we could subsequently invite them to a  by the end of the week he said we lined up people we thought we could  Gittinger had brought the aerosol device to san Francisco Rhodes said but there was an unexpected problem the Lack of air conditioning and the weather. Or. Gittinger tried it out on himself in the  Rhodes said explaining that the room provided the enclosed space such a test required. Apparently he did t get enough so he Felt it would t be useful said Rhodes. At that Point he said we decided to scratch  Gittinger interviewed by Telephone tuesday characterized the Ltd aerosol test As As an utterly stupid exercise and said it was absolutely the Only instance in which he Nad participated in a drug Experiment in the Safe houses. After tuesday s testimony. Rhodes told reporters he had taken Ltd himself eight to 10 times. It s great he said. All my trips were Good. We would t have dreamed of giving somebody something we had t  Rhodes told subcommittee members he made one other trip to san Francisco for the my Ultra program to attend a nation Al meeting of the lesbian organization. Daughters of Zilitis. He said later he inter viewed 40 to 30 lesbians As part of a test of the accuracy of Gittinger s methods of predicting behaviour. Another witness tuesday. Philip Gold Man a former Cia employee said he was real life subpoena actor Telly Savalas to s Kojak i served a subpoena by Jack Mendorff in Miami to testify in the to insanity murder trial of Ronald Zamora 15, who is accused of murdering an 83-year-old woman. Zamora s lawyer won court permission to plead that the youth committed the june slaying under the influence of to intoxication to violence turning the youth into a killer. A the person who put together Thi aerosol device and tripping mechanism Tor the Ltd Spray test. Goldman said White who had arranged Lor the Safe houses tested 30 such gadgets for him. One of these was a launching device for a Glass ampule which would break and act As a stink bomb. It was intended he said. To break up demonstrations in overseas countries where they had communists haranguing the people and was deemed Superior to stink bombs that operatives threw out of windows. One of these he said once hit the window and bounced Back into the hotel room. Other devices tested by White. Goldman said included a Glass ampule which could be crushed underfoot to release a powder which would cause violent and continuous sneezing and was to be used in Trade fairs in the exhibit areas of unfriendly coun tries. White also tested a swizzle stick with a coating designed to dissolve in water a hypodermic syringe to inject drugs through the corks of wine bottles and a thin Glass fiber which when placed under a Rug and stepped on. Would become a stink bomb. Subcommittee members had been anxious to interview Geschickter because documents released by the Cia seemed to indicate he had tested new drugs on Termi Nal cancer patients and had. In Exchange reimbursed the Hospital with Cia Money for their care. Geschickter called those documents absolutely incorrect and insisted that these drugs were tested Only on animals and not on human beings. Asked about an arrangement for the Cia to pay for a new Wing at Georgetown University Hospital in Exchange for one sixth of the space As a Hospital Safe House for sensitive research Geschickter said he knew nothing of this neither did George  can t do that in a University Hospi Tal he insisted adding that if he had made such an arrangement 1 would t be Here today. I d be running out of the coun  did say his foundation the Geschickter fund for medical research inc., gave $375,000 of Cia Money to the Georgetown building fund but that he never used any of the Hospital s new build Ings. Geschickter said he had been involved with the Cia from 1953 until 1972 and that the Geschickter fund received a total of $655,500 from the Cia. He said the Cia supported his research into anticancer drugs and that Allen Dulles former Cia director had once told him thank god there s something decent coming out of our bag of dirty