European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 26, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Big brother monday september 26,1977 the stars and stripes Page 7 papers show Cia had corps of researchers studying America s social drinking habits by Daniel f. Gilmore Washington up if you booked and bar hopped in the 1950s and 1960s even at elegant cocktail lounges big brother May have been there watching you. The Cia had a corps of researchers schooled in social drinking out on the booze beat across the country chatting with bar tenders and customers and dutifully re porting what makes men and women imbibe and Why some become inebriated. Financial vouchers show expenditures for travel entertainment pocket tape recorders two Way mirrors Polaroid cameras plus one fully equipped bar with Roulette pinball and fun machines. The bugged Bistro apparently was set up at a research Institute with a Large staff and used for supposedly informal cocktail parties that were actually taped and photo graphed Down to the last drop. 25-year project it was All part of a multimillion Dollar 25-year-Long research project which included experiments on sometimes willing but often unwitting americans and for Eigners. The Cia s sub project 63 of my Ultra As the Overall operation was code named for a time was. Purely alcoholic. It became so big it spawned sub projects and ran from 1956 Well into the 1960s. Some details were contained among 2, 532 pages of hitherto top secret Cia documents made available Friday. A feb. 17, 1960, memo apparently from a psychiatrist or psychologist working with Covert clearance for the Cia Dis closed that Pilot studies on the effects of alcohol on humans started in 1956, and More organized studies were carried out in 1958-59. The project moved along smartly with the object of developing a classification of Natu ral drinking situations bars and cafes in censored and Vicinity. Continuation of bartender inter views. Developing methods for study of bar and tavern a june 26, 1956, memo from the Cia s technical services division called for participation in and direction of Agency sponsored internal or external training exercises and courses in the general area of alcohol and social the bugged bar or ecology lab As it was sometimes called apparently Star wars receipts pass $100 million los Angeles a Domestic Thea ters film rentals from the science fiction feature Star wars have passed $100 Mil lion 20th Century Fox film corp. Has announced. Dennis c. Stanfill the company s chair Man and Alan Ladd jr., its president said that total Domestic Box office receipts from Star wars through sunday were$147,666,858. The share received by 20th Century for the film rentals was More than $100 Mil lion they said. Star wars now playing in 908 Thea ters was released 17 weeks ago. The film will be released overseas in 1978. U. Of mass unloads stocks involving South Africa Amherst mass. Up the univer sity of Massachusetts has decided to sell its stocks in corporations doing business in South Africa. The University s Board of trustees voted unanimously by voice vote to con duct an orderly divestiture of Stock in All companies participating in South Africa a spokesman said the sales would take place within a reasonable amount of the trustees vote followed several months of protests by students. Sprung from a 1958 memo calling for a comparison of alcohol effects on a Small Sample of subjects on whom repeated observations can be made during periods of naturally induced stress mood depression and this Homegrown pub left nothing to the imagination. It included a stationary bar and four stools chairs without arms chairs with arms Polaroid camera one Way screen four microphones ice crackers can openers stirrers ice bucket Roulette darts Jigsaw Puzzle Tambourine pinball machine fun Ballma an aug. 27, 1958, Cia memo called for a series of cocktail parties in our specially designed barroom with staff members available for Spur of the moment ses other investigators throughout the coun try it said should frequent a bar often enough to be Able to describe the general attitude of the place its cultural status and the reactions of regular Habi tues who regard the bar As a kind of the memo urged approaches to a subject after he began to Mellow gain rap port and enlist his cooperation in controlled drinking presumably by keeping him at it. Alcohol another report says is a social institution and should be studied in the same manner As the sociologist studies religion for example for some groups of people one could conceive of alcohol As a religion another As a drug another As a lubricant or adjutant to an accounting for an apparent six month period in 1968 shows payments of $30,475 to one group working on the alcohol project that included a psychiatrist three psychologists and a sociologist and Logi another memo refers to approximately 100 subjects studied in Field operations at neighbourhood bars. There s a suggestion in another paper that researchers take their work Home with them and study their friends and neighbors with the drinks apparently on the taxpayer. Field work it says should include observation of informal Home and private a companion project got moving in june 1961 to find an alcohol extender and study the extending available documents Don t specify what the Cia had in mind but there is previous evidence the Agency was optimistically looking for a cure for alcoholism methods to alleviate the horrors of hangovers and even a dream potion that would allow a Man presumably an agent to Knock off two or three dozen martinis. What did this painstaking and expensive study of America s drinking habits prove apparently very Little As did most of the Cia s other mind and behaviour control projects. A memo written in 1958, two years after the project got under Way states Dis Coura singly we Are less acquainted with the nature and conditions of alcohol reactions than we have been with getting the publicity rolling Mick Jagger Leader of the rolling stones Downs a drink As he sits with pop artist Andy Warhol at a new Yor nightspot. Their appearance is part of a promotion for the rolling stones new album love you a Crystal City s Bill still unpaid Gas cutoff Burns poor residents Crystal City Tex. Up a restaurant owner bought an electric stove and did a brisk business of hot Coffee and scrambled eggs. But a poor resident of the Mexico Chico District had to give up plans to bake a cake for her birthday. I did t think they were going to do it restaurant owner Eddie Treveno said sat urday a Day after the Lovaca gathering cd. Shut off Crystal City s Gas Supply for failure to pay $800,000 in overdue Bills. But Treveno was one of the Lucky ones. He went out and bought an electric stove for his popular Cross y restaurant. Busi Ness was better than Ever. Business is up about 40 per cent one of his workers said. Mainly because other restaurants were unprepared and we heard three or four of them had to close but Urbano Esquivel whose Winter Garden cleaners depends solely on Gas said he d have to close Down unless the Gas was turned Back on soon. I m mad at the administration and the Way they handled the whole thing he said. I had no quarrel with Lovaca i did t mind paying my Elsie sep Ulverde a resident of the Amin buys a Cabin Cruiser loaded with extras Nairobi up president Idi Amin of Uganda has purchased a Cabin Cruiser equipped with ground to air and anti tank missiles according to the voice of Uganda newspaper. The newspaper said Amin took the boat on a trial run on Lake Victoria and quoted Amin As saying the boat is equipped with special detection radar and telecommunications system. It also carries a missile which can Fly to any Altitude and hit its target at Day and at night. The boat can also fire an antitank Mexico Chico Barrio said she s going to have a hard awfully hard time without Gas. I m going to have my birthday soon and i Don t even have any Gas to bake a cake she said. Hot plates were a scarce commodity in the City s appliance stores. Poorer Resi dents gathered firewood. Well to do bought electric stoves. A spokesman for sen. Lloyd Bentsen d Tex., who met with City officials about the crisis said he is trying to find a Way for the City to get a loan to pay its overdue Bills. County judge Jose Angel Gutierrez predicted Lovaca would try to collect the $800,000 Bill and if successful Crystal City would go bankrupt. This just proves that corporations Are going to get Richer and Richer and the poor people Are just going to have to do with out he said. There Are a lot of folks who Are not going to be Able to eat because of
