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Lexington, Atlanta and the people who could not say no.
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Lexington and the penitentiary memo.
At Lexington, prisoners “who, after taking a brief physical examination and signing a general consent form, were administered hallucinogenic drugs”, according to the Church Committee. Addicts were rewarded with drugs. [1] In 1977 Senator Huddleston asked Turner about Dr. Harris Isbell, who ran the Lexington work, and his correspondence with someone at the CIA. [2]
The Subproject 47 memo of June 1956 planned studies of LSD and other drugs on volunteers at a penitentiary. [3]
What we can’t tell you. The Lexington research was also scientific work published in journals; not every study there was a CIA project.
The committee’s 1976 account of BLUEBIRD, ARTICHOKE, MKULTRA, MKDELTA, MKNAOMI, MKSEARCH, the Olson case, the 1973 destruction and the Army’s overseas LSD interrogations. Written before the 1977 discovery of the financial files.
173-page official scan. Prepared statements, questions and answers are distinguished; Appendix A reprints the relevant Church Committee investigation. Printed page numbers differ from PDF page indices.
Contemporary federal record. It documents the author’s statements and institutional actions; objectives and reported results must still be evaluated separately.
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At Lexington, addicts were paid in the drug of their addiction.
Who says it: The 1977 hearing.
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