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SUB- PROJECT NO. 90 PRINCIPAL RESEARCHER AND LOCATION: BP—fc ' MIT Center for International Studi es OBJECTIVE AND DETAILS OF WORK: To study the scientist in produce a descriptive model of the type likely to come in contact with Americans -- and develop strategies for evaluating and influencing such scientists. APPROXIMATE TIME SPAN: 1958-1959 SIGNIFICANT ASPECTS: None FUNDING: COVER MECHANISM: Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology APPROXIMATE TOTAL: $12,000 RESEARCH PARTICIPANT: ( MIT ) " Unwitting OTHER SPONSOR: NAMES OF CIA MONITORS:MB APPROVERS: C. V. S. Roosevelt The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has asked the CIA to clarify its involvement with CIA drug and behavior modification research: The research performed at MIT was conducted by an independent researcher. The purpose of the research was to obtain a better understanding of the personalities and motivations of scientists of a particular foreign country who were likely to come into contact with American scientists. The project was neither administered nor funded through MIT.