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Monday May 3 8:46 AM ET
Jury Rules For Dead CIA Agent In LSD Case
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A jury Friday ruled against the estate of an
artist who said he was driven mad by a clubfooted CIA agent who
slipped LSD into his drink in 1952.
In a case involving a dead plaintiff, a dead defendant and a dead
judge, the suit revolved around the activities of the late Sidney
Gottlieb, head of the CIA's Cold War efforts to control the human
mind.
In the 1950s and 1960s the CIA gave mind-altering drugs to hundreds of
unsuspecting Americans in an effort to explore the possibilities of
controlling human consciousness.
The practice came to light during widely publicized congressional
hearings in the mid-1970s. Gottlieb died last month.
The New York suit was brought by Stanley Glickman, an American artist
who had been living in Paris in the early 1950s.
Glickman, who died in 1992, alleged that he had been drinking with a
friend and three other men at a bar. One of the men, who had a
clubfoot, offered him a drink and halfway through the beverage,
Glickman said he had such severe hallucinations that he had to be
hospitalized.
Glickman's family brought him back to the United States for treatment
several months later, but he never fully recovered. The suit was not
filed until 1983, after the congressional hearings involving Gottlieb
-- who had a clubfoot -- were broadcast.
After 16 years, the case finally went to trial and was nearing final
summations Tuesday when presiding Judge Dominick DiCarlo died Tuesday
while exercising in a federal court gym.
The case was immediately transferred to U.S. District Judge Kimba
Wood, who had thrown out the suit in 1997. However, it was later
reinstated by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. Closing arguments
were held Thursday and the jury deliberated about seven hours before
ruling against the artist's estate.
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