Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1978 [PAGE 445]

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nization — believed to have been called the Geschickter Foundation — which appears to have served as a conduit for CIA funds. The project was entitled "Pharmacological properties of aromatic amines." It involved study of the behavior in small animals of substances derived from or related to some aromatic amines. The principal efforts of the project were the design of laboratory methods for measuring the effects of such substances on body temperature and whole body activity of small animals. This work was done openly and was in the stream of earlier and later investigations conducted by the same researcher with support from a number of funding sources. All monies received under this project were used for salaries of research personnel, equipment, and supplies; the expenditures appear to be of the kind normal for any research project. Here again, the University of Illinois would have accepted this research project funding directly from the CIA and the use of a "cover" foundation was totally unnecessary. 3. We were unable to find any University records related to the other two projects about which I received information from the CIA. While it is clear that there is correspondence to or from or about University of Illinois personnel in the CIA files related to these two projects, there are no University records which disclose either contractual or grant relationships in the dollar amounts mentioned in the CIA files nor which correspond to materials included in the CIA files. Accordingly, I must conclude that these two projects could have involved University personnel, but were not University projects. Thus, in summary, we find records of two research projects at the University of Illinois which were funded by the CIA through two "cover" foundations. Both projects were unclassified, were projects which were parts of the continuing research interests of the personnel involved — research interests which existed before these projects and which continued after these projects — and were projects which were accepted through regular and open University procedures.