Harold Alexander Abramson
<p>"In a 1953 document,
Sid Gottlieb listed subjects he expected Abramson to investigate
with the $85,000 the Agency was furnishing him.
Gottlieb wanted "operationally pertinent materials along the
following lines: a. Disturbance of Memory; b. Discrediting by
Aberrant Behavior; c. Alteration of Sex Patterns; d. Eliciting of
Information; e. Suggestibility; f. Creation of Dependence.""</p>
<p>Sub projects 7 , 27 and 40</p>
<p>The Macy Foundation’s chief LSD
executive, Harold Abramson, was a psychiatric researcher at Columbia University
and at the eugenics center in Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York. In 1953,
the same year that the MK-Ultra was established, Abramson proposed an $85,000
study to the CIA on the effects of LSD on unwitting hospital patients. Funding for
the project was funneled through the Macy Foundation. It was Abramson who first
“turned on” Frank Fremont-Smith.</p>