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Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, began a study of Orne's work in October after receiving CIA documents indicating Harvard's involvement in two MK-ULTRA projects. (Steiner said on Tuesday that the University has no record of the second project mentioned in the CIA document...
Orne said last night that he was the "unidentified investigator" mentioned in a University statement on Tuesday outlining Harvard's involvement in CIA MK-ULTRA behavior mind-control experiments...
Nonetheless, the Freedom of Information Act has achieved worthwhile results. The CIA, for example, was forced to reveal its top-secret MK-Ultra program of drug experimentation on humans. Ralph Nader used the act to pry out documents for his successful campaign against carcinogenic Red Dye No. 2. The Washington Post and Wall Street Journal have pressed with some success to get the investigative records of the SEC concerning almost 400 U.S. firms that have paid bribes at home or abroad. The very existence of the law causes bureaucrats to hesitate before launching actions they would not want to explain...
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...