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...intelligence gathering under cover of overseas research. It would neither cause foreign countries to release secrets to American professors which they had not revealed before nor grant them any wider freedom of travel or access. Needless to say, strange research projects sustained by the CIA--such as MK ULTRA--discredit the agency and faculty concerned as do attempts by academics to spy on radical groups on campus. Congress must insist these activities cease immediately...
...Mind Stealers and splash that title in big, bold black letters across a bright red dust jacket. But Chavkin did intend his book to be a warning. He makes that clear at the end of his first chapter when he notes that the year the CIA started its massive MK-ULTRA program to develop mind-control techniques--1953--was the same year the U.S. signed the Nuremberg Code, prohibiting experimentation on humans unless the subjects are fully aware of the nature of the experiment and freely give consent. Through the MK-ULTRA program the CIA spent more than $25 million...
...hide than Orne may also ask to remain unidentified, but the University should pursue a strict policy of disclosing all information it receives from the CIA. And the first step in accordance with this policy should be the release of documents relating to Harvard's involvement in the CIA MK-ULTRA projects. Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, said in October that he would release these documents. Now that Orne has been identified as one of the researchers who received CIA funds, the University no longer has an argument for withholding the documents...
...hypnosis project, unlike other MK-ULTRA projects that have involved tests of hallucinogenic drugs on unwitting subjects, apparently did not deceive or harm the research subjects, predominantly students from Boston-area colleges. Orne said he never conducted a classified research project...
Daniel Steiner '54. general counsel to the University, began a study of Orne's work in October, after receiving the CIA documents indicating Harvard's involvement in the MK-ULTRA project. His statement on the project, released in late January, did not name Orne, who had asked to remain unidentified for fear of sensationalist publicity...