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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHEN THE DELUGE of stories revealing the involvement of various American universities in the Central Intelligence Agency's controversial MK-ULTRA mind control program of the 1950s first began to pour onto the pages of the nation's papers, administrators from institutions like Stanford and MIT felt obligated to promptly release a full accounting of their universities' participation in the projects. Harvard apparently feels otherwise. Nearly two months have lapsed since Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, pledged a comprehensive report for public scrutiny on the extent of Harvard's involvement in the MK-ULTRA program. But aside...
...administration, the University has taken on a cynical perspective that does not square with the spirit of openness and cooperation that prompted President Bok's decision to prepare and release specific guidelines last May regulating the relationship of Harvard faculty members with the CIA. The gravity of the MK-ULTRA issue warrants a thorough airing-out in the immediate future, given the commendable examples set by other universities in this area and the uncertainty aroused by Steiner's delays about Harvard's precise role in the CIA's mind control program...
...that the CIA's interest in what happens to a human mind at Harvard has not been solely confined to the goings-on in a lecture hall. University officials disclosed last week that CIA fiscal records show Harvard involvement in two research projects conducted under the CIA's controversial MK-ULTRA human behavior control program of the 1950s. Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, refused to release any preliminary details about the two research projects linked to Harvard, but he has promised to prepare a comprehensive statement on the issue for the public later this month...
...pondering the question of how to handle the revelation of Harvard's participation in the MK-ULTRA, Steiner should heed the example of Stanford University, whose administrators made an extensive disclosure of that institution's connections with the MK-ULTRA program last week...
...major step last spring in clarifying its relationship with the CIA when it became the first American University to issue specific guidelines regulating its faculty members' dealings with the intelligence agency, and Harvard must follow up on this measure by revealing the entire story of its participation in the MK-ULTRA projects as soon as possible...