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Subject: The Stansfield Turner Diaries
From: "Thomas Keske" <A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]<
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Date: Fri, 21 January 2000 10:45 PM EST
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THE STANSFIELD TURNER DIARIES
Key figures of recent history, who might shed light on
any possible connection between emerging diseases and
biological war experimentation, are disappearing.
Stansfield Turner, former CIA Director from 1977-1981, is
the second former Director to have an unfortunate accident
in recent years. This week, Turner was critically injured
and his wife killed, when his small tourist plane crashed in
Costa Rica..
This follows the death of former CIA Director William Colby, who
died in a canoe accident. Colby was without a life jacket,
although his wife says that he was afraid of drowning, and
never went without his jacket.
Like Colby, Stansfield Turner was not popular in the CIA,
by virtue of having a repuation for too much honesty.
Turner had dismissed some 600 CIA personnel, in reaction
to wide-spead scandals.
Like Colby, Turner had testified to Congress about CIA
abuses in the 1960's and 1970's, including unauthorized
biological warfare research and experimentation on unwitting
human guinea pigs.
When it is a former CIA Director involved in such an
accident, it may be quite natural, but it is also natural to imagine
that it might be something other than natural. In Turner's case, it's
interesting that he was in Costa Rica, a site of heavy CIA activity
in past years- a base for the contras, and also for their CIA-connected
drug smuggling.
Who knows the real circumstances? It is not the real
point. The point is that while the public sleeps, we are
continuing to lose some of our best chances at investigating
questions like the origins of AIDS.
If you want to see why that might be true, please consider
the information below.
Attached is a 1977 statement made by Turner to a Congressional
committee, referring to biowar, human guinea pigs, assassination,
and the surreptitious administration of drugs and toxins.
Another attachment quotes Turner's remarks about the CIA
being essentially a Republican organization, hostile to
Democratic presidents. This is both predictable and similar
to the strong Republican domination in the U.S. military.
Tom Keske
Boston, Mass.
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1977 SENATE HEARING ON CIA'S MK-ULTRA PROEJCT
Prepared Statement by CIA Director,
Admiral Stansfield Turner (excerpts)
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1977
U.S. SENATE, SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE,
AND SUBCOMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
OF THE COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RESOURCES
Washington, D.C.
<A HREF="http://www.druglibrary.org/sch...ry/e1950/mkultra/Hearing02.htm">http
://www.druglibrary.org/sch...ry/e1950/mkultra/Hearing02.htm</A>
Mr. Chairman: In my letter to you of July 15, 1977, I reported our
recent discovery of seven boxes of documents related to Project
MKULTRA, a closely held CIA project conducted from 1953-1964.
Until the recent discovery, it was believed that all of the MKULTRA
files dealing with behavioral modification had been destroyed in
1973 on the orders of the then retiring Chief of the Office of
Technical Service, with the authorization of the DCI, as has been
previously reported.
As you may recall, MKULTRA was an "umbrella project" under which
certain sensitive subprojects were funded, involving among other
things research on drugs and behavioral modification. During the
Rockefeller Commission and Church Committee investigations in 1975,
the cryptonym became publicly known when details of the drug-
related death of Dr. Frank Olsen were publicized. In 1953 Dr. Olsen,
a civilian employee of the Army at Fort Detrick, leaped to his
death from a hotel room window in New York City about a week after
having unwittingly consumed LSD administered to him as an
experiment at a meeting of LSD researchers called by CIA.
<< NOTE: Olsen was a biological warfare researcher -TK>>
First, there are 149 MKULTRA subprojects, many of which appear to
have some connection with research into behavioral modification,
drug acquisition and testing or administering drugs surreptitiously.
Second, there are two boxes of miscellaneous MKULTRA papers,
including audit reports and financial statements from "cut-out" (i.
e., intermediary) funding mechanisms used to conceal CIA's
sponsorship of various research projects.
1. Research into the effects of behavioral drugs and/or alcohol:
17 subprojects probably not involving human testing;
14 subprojects definitely involving tests on human volunteers;
19 subprojects probably including tests on human volunteers. While
not known, some of these subprojects may have included tests on
unwitting subjects as well;
6 subprojects involving tests on unwitting subjects.
2. Research on hypnosis: 8 subprojects, including 2 involving
hypnosis and drugs in combination.
3. Acquisition of chemicals or drugs: 7 subprojects.
4. Aspects of magicians' art useful in covert operations: e.g.,
surreptitious delivery of drug-related materials: 4 subprojects.
5. Studies of human behavior, sleep research, and behavioral
changes during psychotherapy: 9 subprojects.
6. Library searches and attendance at seminars and international
conferences on behavioral modification: 6 subprojects.
7. Motivational studies, studies of defectors, assessment, and
training techniques: 23 subprojects.
8. Polygraph research: 3 subprojects.
9. Funding mechanisms for MKULTRA external research activities: 3
subprojects.
10. Research on drugs, toxins, and biologicals in human tissue;
provision of exotic pathogens and the capability to incorporate
them in effective delivery systems: 6 subprojects.
11. Activities whose objectives cannot be determined from available
documentation: 3 subprojects.
12. Subprojects involving funding support for unspecified
activities connected with the Army's Special Operations Division at
Fr. Detrick, Md. This activity is outline in Book I of the Church
Committee Report, pp. 388-389. (See Appendix A, pp. 68-69.) Under
CIA's Project MKNAOMI, the Army Assisted CIA in developing, testing,
and maintaining biological agents and delivery systems for use
against humans as well as against animals and crops. The
objectives of these subprojects cannot be identified from the
recovered material beyond the fact that the money was to be used
where normal funding channels would require more written or oral
justification than appeared desirable for security reasons or where
operational considerations dictated short lead times for purchases.
About $11,000 was involved during this period 1953-1960: 3
subprojects.
13. Single subprojects in such areas as effects of electro-shock,
harassment techniques for offensive use, analysis of extrasensory
perception, gas propelled sprays and aerosols, and four subprojects
involving crop and material sabotage.
14. One or two subprojects on each of the following:
"Blood Grouping" research, controlling the activity of animals,
energy storage and transfer in organic systems; and
stimulus and response in biological systems.
15. Three subprojects canceled before any work was done on them
having to do with laboratory drug screening, research on brain
concussion, and research on biologically active materials to be
tested through the skin on human volunteers.
The relevant section of a 1957 Inspector General report on the
Technical Service Division was also made available to the Church
Committee staff. That report discusses techniques for human
assessment and unorthodox methods of communication (p. 201);
discrediting and disabling materials which can be covertly
administered (pp. 201-202); studies on magicians' arts as applied
to covert operations (p. 202); specific funding mechanisms for
research performed outside of CIA (pp. 202-203, 205); research
being done on "K" (knockout) material, alcohol tolerance, and
hypnotism (p. 203); research on LSD (p. 204); anti-personnel
harassment and assassination delivery systems including aerosol
generators and other spray devices (pp. 206-208); the role of Fort
Detrick in support of CIA's Biological/Chemical Warfare capability
(p. 208); and material sabotage research (p. 209). Much of this
material is reflected in the Church Committee Report, Book I, pp.
385-422. (See Appendix A, pp. 65-102).
The most significant new data discovered are, first, the names of
researchers and institutions who participated in the MKULTRA
project and, secondly, a possibly improper contribution by CIA to a
private institution. We are now in possession of the names of 185
non-government researchers and assistants who are identified in the
recovered material dealing with the 149 subprojects. The names of 80
institutions where work was done or with which these people were
affiliated are also mentioned.
The institutions include 44 colleges or universities, 15 research
foundations or chemical or pharmaceutical companies and the like,
12 hospitals or clinics (in addition to those associated with
universities), and 3 penal institutions. While the identities of
some of these people and institutions were known previously, the
discovery of the new identities adds to our knowledge of MKULTRA.
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<A HREF="http://eserver.org/history/the-october-surprise.txt">http://eserver.o
rg/history/the-october-surprise.txt</A>
Was the CIA loyal to Carter, or to Casey In the wake of the
Watergate scandal and the findings of CIA abuses by the Church
committee in the mid '70s, Carter's new CIA chief, Stansfield
Turner, removed around 600 people from their jobs in covert
operations. This made for a very demoralised intelligence network.
<< NOTE: William Casey was Ronald Reagan's CIA Director
and campaign manager -TK >>
Shortly after the Shah was deposed, Carter chewed out the CIA for
misinterpreting the unrest in Iran. He chastised the Director of
CIA, Stansfield Turner, and reorganized or fired much of the Middle
East division. Relations between the white house and CIA grew
increasingly hostile. "There was no doubt that the CIA was more
Republican and didn't like Democrats," says admiral Turner.
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Then there were the allegations coming from Costa Rica regarding
White House involvement in the drug trade. The Central American
country of Costa Rica lies on Nicaragua's Southern border, which
made Costa Rica strategically important during the Contra
insurgency in Nicaragua. In that time, the Northern region of Costa
Rica bordering with Nicaragua was the site of extensive CIA and
Contra activity. In the wake of the Iran-Contra affair, White House
NSC staff members Lt. Col. Oliver North, John Poindexter, and
Richard Secord were banned-for-life from entering Costa Rica in
1989, after the Costa Rican legislature implicated the NSC staff
members in guns and drug smuggling. Former Contra leader Eden
Pastora has said "I knew that much of what went through (CIA
operative John Hull's northern Costa Rica ranch's) airstrips was
related to narcotics trafficking" as part of a "Colombia-Costa Rica,
Costa Rica-Miami connection." (Cockburn, p. 177) These White-House
NSC members, along with John Hull, were indicted in a Costa Rican
court as accessories to murder in the La Penca bombing and
assassination attempt on Eden Pastora, which resulted in the death
of an American journalist. North, Poindexter and Secord were never
extradicted or arraigned in Costa Rica.
...
Ex-CIA field officer John Stockwell has commented, "We cannot
forget the Senate Kerry Committee findings of cocaine smuggling on
ClA/Contra aircraft, the DEA reports on the number of prosecutions
in which the CIA has intervened to block prosecution of drug
smugglers, the note that escaped Lt. Col. Oliver North's shredder
that $14 million of drug money had gone to the Contras, or the CIA'
s 20-odd-year relationship with Manuel Noriega." (Austin American
Statesman, op- ed editorial) Nor has this escaped the comment of ex-
DEA agent Michael Levine: "God knows how many secret elements are
out there working under the guise of the drug war. Oliver North was
the latest example. His operation was hip-deep in Contra drug
smuggling. He was banned from Costa Rica for his involvement with
drug runners. The DEA documented fifty tons of Contra coke that
was being routed into the U.S. by a Honduran connection. An agent
bought two kilos in Lubbock, Texas, and made the arrest. The CIA
comes quickly to the rescue. A closed hearing is held. Case
dismissed." (Esquire, March 1991, p 136)
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