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rin iimwihw ii hi i Tvjtm mriiini i i i rcf -VSS)ifM 1975 -3 Army reveals man died in a test of a mind-bending drug in 1953 WASHINGTON (UPI) In 1953 a mind-bending drug was friimn In UamlH Rlaiior a 49. year-old patient in a mental hospital. He died 2'i hours The day before, she said, "a (medical) resident told him a doctor had ordered another injection for diagnosis jpur- poses. He had had two -ejections before that and had a bad reaction." She said her father was in the hospital "suffering from depression because my mother had left him." Miss Barrett, then 13, said her mother consulted a lawyer unde to file a malpractice suit but "we couldn't get anyone to testify so my mother made a very small settlement with either the state or the hospital." After her father's death, her mother took her and a sister to Mexico "because it was a cheaper place to live." They returned to New York in 1955 where she eventually married twice and had-a-daughter. Amy, who is now 13.

She was divorced from her first husband and her second died five years ago. Miss Barrett said she got a call from Army Lt. Col. Charles Young Tuesday asking to meet her. She said she met torn and two other officers ill the Plaza Hotel.

"They gave me their press release about my father's death and said they wanted to tell me before they released it to the media. They said if they could be of any help to please let them know and that was it." years ago. As of early Tuesday, Laitin said, investigators had found neither an official, final report nor a copy of the contract. did not know if an autopsy had been performed. In New York Blauer's daughter said she was "horrified" to learn of the incident.

Elizabeth Barrett told UPI today she was informed Tuesday afternoon by three Army officers about the circumstances involving the death of her father the day before he was to be discharged from a hospital in 1953. She said she saw her father at Christmas 1952 when he was out on a pass from the hospital and "he seemed just He returned to the hospital and was to be discharged Jan. 9 i n1 I i i i I dm later. The Army sponsored the experiment with a mescaline derivative, conducted by the New York State' Psychiatric Institute. AIL it knows are the sketchy, imprecise notes that have been stuffed in a manila envelope for more than 20 years.

"This does not have enough information in it to give us the full story," said Assistant Defense Secretary Joseph Lai-tin. Although indications are the man died of the derivative, officials who have seen the envelope's contents say nowhere does it specifically tie the death to the drug. Laitin's announcement Tuesday was the first report anyone had in a military-sponsored drug experiment. Frank Olson, a civilian. Army employe, committed suicide in November, 1953, after receiving another hallucinogen, LSD, from the CIA.

Van M. Sim, former head of chemical research at Edgewood Arsenal, said 585 Army volunteers received LSD with about 900 more getting it in private experiments' conducted under Army contracts. The Navy and the Air Force also conducted limited LSD experiments. Tuesday's announcement indicated the Army was experimenting with mind-bending drugs other than LSD. It said the contents of the envelope indicate but do not say I "4.

UPI 'CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST Dick Gregory, left meets with Joan Little at the Raleighi courthouse after Miss Little had finished testifying. The Berkshire Eagle Published every day except Sundays and holidays by the Eagle Publishing Company, 33 Eagle Pittsfield, 01201 SUBSCRIPTION RATES SINGLE COPY 15 CENTS BY CARRIER -93 Cenh Per Weak BY MOTOR ROUTE 4.50 Per Month BYMAIl--- PoDot Zonei 14 poitat fAoa AOO Defense rests in Li ttle case after defendant leaves stand The Wave Of The Future! CIA data of Nixon sought WASHINGTON (UP I) -Secretary of State Henry Kissinger says he knows nothing about assassination plots during the time he served Richard Nixon. A Senate panel has subpoenaed some of the former President's records and may try to take testimony from him. Kissinger told reporters after testifying before the Senate select committee on intelligence Tuesday was no policy to assassinate any foreign officials or leaders or any plot 'to assassinate any foreign leaders" during the time he was Nixon's national security adviser and later secretary of state. Sen.

Frank Church, D-Idaho, the panel chairman, appeared satisfied. But he saidjhg com mittee still wants to hear from Nixon or to see some of his papers because he is "the best witness to administration policies that took place while he was president." The committee was particularly interested in CIA activities in Chile from 1370 until 1973, during which time Chilean Army Chief of Staff Gen. Rene Schneider was assassinated and Marxist President Salvador Allende was overthrown and died in a military coup. Church" said Kissinger was called in so the committee could "know what policy was in Chile and how it was transmitted through the CIA." He said "his presence here should not be interpreted that he himself was ever involved in any plot to assassinate any foreign figure." Church said the committee had also "extended an invitation' to Nixon to testify, but' that because indications were the former President would decline, two subpoenas were issued for certain of his papers held by the Ford administra- tion. The subpoenas were delivered to the White House Tuesday with a response deadline of Aug.

25. White House press secretary Ron Nessen, in Vail, said the documents Church wants cannot be released because of a standing federal court injunction issued at Nixon's request in a pending case on ownership of Nixon's documents. He said the Justice Department's civil division is looking into the matter. 7 Physical control of the papers rests with White House counsel Philip Buchen and Arthur Sampson, head of the General Services Administra-and the committee subpoenas were made out in their names. The committee, having heard from almost 300 witnesses, has completed the assassination phase of its probe of intelligence agencies, except for what may later come out from the Nixon papers or his testimony.

-The committee's report will be ready when Congress reconvenes Sept. 3. Until then, no further hearings will be held by the Senate panel or a similar House committee. Milei) 54 45 wanted to have sex with you?" Filially, Miss Little snapped at Griffin: "I was scared and I didn't know what to do because he could have killed me right then. If you had been a woman, you probably wouldn't have known what to do either." Alligood was found naked from the waist down exceot for RALEIGH, N.C.

(UPI) For nearly seven hours Joan Little sat on the witness stand, fielding often hostile questions in a barely audible voice so well that when she was through her. lawyers rested her defense. Tuesday, at the end of the 22nd day of her trial for the murder of white Beaufort County jailer Clarence Alligood, the defense Abruptly ended its case. The prosecution, contending the 21-year-old black woman On Tuesday, Dist. Atcy.

ney William Griffin hammered at Miss Little's initial lack of resistance to the 62-year-old jailer's advances. Miss Little said under cross examination Alligood fondled her breasts for three orfour minutes after entering her cell the morning of Aug. 27, 1974. "Where was. the icepick?" 'asked Griffin.

"I hadn't seen it at that time," she said. "You didn't slap his hand, that Blauer, a tennis from Locust his socks on Miss Little's cot professional" On. oni 4.00 4.23 TtirM months 11.25 oo Siimonriu jioo 22.30 On.ytor 42.00 49.00 Single Copy Current 25c Back Copy 50c For foreign-country lubicription, double Zono Poital regulations require paynwnt in advance. Ail charge orders must be paiaV within 15 days. College students and members off armed forces 20 per cent discount.

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He had 11 tie with the "The Soon" synchronized 4 wave sole in walnut, for women. $28.00 killed Alligood in an escape you didn't push him plot, expected to take, up today asked Griffin, with four rebuttal witnesses, "No," she said. at the Berkshire Common. FREE PARKING FOR OUR CUSTOMERS IN COMMON GARAGE a friend for "depression." He received "various mescaline derivatives which were furnished by the Army" five times in 29 days. "Notes in the discovered file indicate that the drug was being used for diagnosis purposes," the statement said.

"The first four tests produced mild or no effects on the patient. On the fifth test, in Jan. 8, 1953, the patient died about Vk hours after receiving an injection of a mescaline derivative." Laitin said an unsigned memo in the envelope says Blauer died of cardiovascular collapse a heart attack. "There's an indication in the files that the program was terminated, "he said. The envelope was found Thursday in a vault at Edgewood by an investigator of the Army inspector general, looking into the drug testing program.

It contains notes, memos and carbon copies of reports. Many are unsigned. A turther search turned up little more on the death 23 stab wounds in his body. But when she left. Miss Little said, "he.

was standing in the corridor." "I knew he was alive," said Miss Little. "I knew he had blood on the side of his face. I thought he might. have had enough energy to get out, and I didn't want him to. I knew there was a possibility of him coming after me.

"It was not my intention for him to die," she said. "If I had known how many times he had been hit, I would have stayed there. I wouldn't have left him theretodie' Miss Little said she fled the jail and went to two houses looking for help but saw police cars at both. Finally, she said, she went to the house of an "old named Willie "Pop" Barnes, who took her in. She hid there for six days, she said, during which police searched the house "four or five times." Each time, the Miss Little said, she hid inside a hollow in the old man's feather mattress.

She said she did not resist when Alligood pulled her nightgown over her head because she was frightened. "I just let him do it because I was scared," she said. "You didn't scream or yell for asked Griffin. "I was scared and I didn't know what to do because he could have killed me right then she said. "He didn't have a weapon did asked Griffin.

"I didn't see one," she said. Miss Little, her voice composed as she told of the attack for the second time on the witness stand, said Alligood grab-, bed her floor-length nightgown with his right hand and pulled it up. She broke into sobs at one point during her testimony Monday and the" trial was recessed briefly. "He hadn't threatened you and you didn't resist him," said Griffin. "All he said was he three of whom appeared previously.

The fourth, a bail bondsman, was expected to testify that Miss Little offered him sex if he would go her bail. "After she was so strong when Joan withstood cross examination and her story remained the same the defense felt that was it. All we needed was to corroborate her testimony," said defense attorney James Rowan. Miss Little told, twice in most cases, her story of how Alligood forced her at the point of an icepick to submit to his sexual demands in her jail cell, how she grabbed the icepick and drove him away with it, and how he was still alive and standing when she fled the jail. She told of her- eerie, ''underground railway" existence for eight days thereafter, six of them in the house of an old man who hid her inside his feather mattress when police came to search the premises, and how she turned down two offers to spirit her out of the United States because "they were saying I left a man to die.

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