public agencies, according to CIA documents. One document tllat was declassified and turned over to the Senate subcommittees Addicts yesterday indicated that LSD research was performed on humans in' an unidentified hospital in Massachusetts, a biological laboratory in New York and a "clinic of fife ayoffs record court" in a city in Michigan. The CIA dOcuments also state that various employees of the intelligence agency took the to prepare them for administering them to others. - In CIA ests The ins-house experistents were conducted by the By Bill Richards agency's Technical Services Washington Post Staff Writer Division, which was under the biitg addicts at a federal rehabilitation center in direction of Dr. Sidney Got- Kentucky were "paid off" in and other nar- cotics for taking part in CIA-funded experiments there during the 1950s, witnesses told a Senate hearing yesterday. tlieb, and the aiihjects were "I was asked if I could help Central Intelligence Agency officials also described a told what they were getting. them by providing a behavior lb-year _program of drug experiments on hundreds of In addition.tp the informed altering drug which they in- unwitting subjects that was subjects, ,the. jntelligence dicated would be given to an conducted in so-called "safe Sgencyfrilse conducted LSD individual who was never Houses" here, and on the West experiments on hundreds of identified," said Gunn. Coast. the arm and then everyone unwitting subjects. Gunn said he warned the And a former CIA doctor would walk around the halls Another CIA document pair that giving the drug to a told of a request by convicted high." made available by the corn- subject in pill form would be (Watergate conspirator E. Another former prisoner, Oiittee yesterday described difficult but that research was Howard Hunt for a mind- Edward M. Flowers, said he those involVed :in the ex- being conducted on the ab- altering drug such as LSD learned of the availability of periments-se "individuals at sorption of drugs such as LSD which could be absorbed LSD which was being given to all social leVels, high and low, through the skin. through the skin and ad- prisoners in cookies during native American ' and Hunt never identified the ministered to an unidentified experiments from 1,953 to 1955. foreign." source of his request but noted target in1972. "My whole reason for going Carl DuCkett,,dirisctor of the that his office at the time was The experiments at 'the into the program was to get CIA.'etleiiiititientAr science 061Ahike quJin Said. federal Research drugs," said Flowers, who and technology, said most or Last month Hunt told the Center in Lexington, Ky., now works for a drug the records of the experiments Providence Journal that he involved the administration of were destroyed in4972, shortly and Liddy had discuSsed with various, drugs including See DRUGS, Al Co1.2 before Gottlieb retired. a ifoviner, CIA, floctor the hallucinogens to prisoner From the remaining records possibiliti toat'ihV the voltinteers: according to a Duckett said it did not appear steering wheel of columnist that participants knew they Jack Anderson's statement, prepared by the DRUGS, FroM Al - -car with were getting LSD and no drugs which would then be The intelligence agency said rehabilitation program in followup monitoring was done absorbed through Anderson's the experiments were funded Alexandria, Va. by the CIA. skin.. under the cover of the Office of The director of the ex- Duckett said that. Allen W. nn said / yesterday, Naval Research and were perimental program, Dr. Dulles, director of the CIA in however, that he informed carried out by doctors from Harris Isbell, said he had to 1953, approved the program. Hunt and Liddy that he could the National Institute of pay prisoners in drugs or time He also said yesterday that not prbvide them with' a drug Mentit1Health: -,, off their sentences because no the Justice Department is such as they requested James Henderson Childs, a money was authorized fel- investigating the destruction because he was retired from Icirrner prisoner at the facility incentives to take part in the of the drug testing records, an the intelligence agency. He in 1951 and 1952 who now lives experithents until the mid- act which lie said Gottlieb said he never heard about the in Washington, told a joint 1950s. undertook at the direction of subject again from. Hunt or meeting of the Senate Health The CIA experiments, he "then CIA Director Richard Liddy. Slid 'Administrative Practice said, were done to test new Helms. and120tiedtire stibcommittes drugs \as they -became Details of the Hunt incident that'her-volunteered for the available. "The overriding were related yesterday by Dr. "nt?.., beanie of - tire consideration," said Isbell, Edward M. Gunn, a doctor for ,llitY0t4 "was protection of the public. the CIA from 1955 to his rkinitniers Who took part, he We had these new' drugs retirement in 1971. kaki, would build up deposits coming in and they had to be Gunn said Hunt introduced , in a.."drug_bank" which they evaluated." him to G. Gordon Liddy, could collect after finishing The Lexington experiments another Watergate con- with the experiments. were part of a broad CIA drug spirator, during a luncheon "You would go down there experimentation program arranged by Hunt on March and a guy would lotik out the that involved more than 30 24, 1972 at the Hay-Adams *Or and he'd •gay, `Where do .universities and private and Hotel here. ,nu 'want it?" .Chilits said. ildlost addicts Would take it in