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---
created: 2025-07-23
updated: 2026-10-02
updated: 2026-10-03
title: Office of Naval Research
tags:
- organization
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start: 1966-05
role: "ONR project monitor Jim Hughes said ONR would pay for McDonald's Wright-Patterson trip to read the [[Project Blue Book]] files"
fn: 4
- type: participant_in
with: "[[MKSEARCH]]"
start: 1954
end: 1972-06-23
role: "conduit for CIA funds in Navy programs listed in the Defense Department memorandum of September 20, 1977, among them up to 117,938 dollars from February 26, 1971 to June 23, 1972, at least 282,215 dollars for the Lexington codeine project and 20,000 dollars for a blast-concussion study"
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The [[Office of Naval Research]] (ONR) is an agency within the [[U.S. Navy]] responsible for the science and technology programs of the [[U.S. Navy]] and Marine Corps. It funds basic and applied research to develop new technologies and capabilities for naval operations.[^1]
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[[Paul E. McCarthy]] wrote that [[James E. McDonald]]'s ONR project monitor, [[Jim Hughes (Office of Naval Research)|Jim Hughes]], told him in May 1966 that, because McDonald's work was for ONR, it would pay the trip expenses to read the Blue Book files at [[Wright-Patterson Air Force Base]]; that McDonald wrote Hughes that he wished a briefing on "the rumored Navy studies of UFOs" and asked whether ONR might fund his travel for UFO research; and that this began "a controversy within a controversy" over use of ONR atmospheric research funds for UFO research. McCarthy also wrote that in early 1968 McDonald sent Hughes copies of the [[Condon Committee]] "Low memo" and [[National Academy of Sciences]] correspondence, in light of "the day when he would apply to the ONR for funding to do UFO work."[^4][^5]
### CIA funds in the 1977 Defense Department memorandum
A [[Department of Defense]] General Counsel memorandum of September 20, 1977 states that the Navy searched archival material of the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]], the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery and ONR, and that ONR acted as financial intermediary in several programs. The [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] transferred at least 282,215 dollars to ONR for a project on a nonaddictive substitute for codeine carried out at the [[United States Public Health Service]] hospital at [[Lexington, Kentucky]], with instructions that the CIA's interest "is classified Secret"; 20,000 dollars for a study of blast concussion by a California contractor in 1954 and 1955, which the CIA moved to [[Project MKUltra]] as subproject 54 in 1956; and up to 117,938 dollars between February 26, 1971 and June 23, 1972 for a Massachusetts contractor's work on analogs of central nervous system drugs. The CIA authorization document for the last stated: "This project is funded through the Office of Naval Research. This arrangement protects the Agency's association with this area of research and provides the contractor with credible sponsorship." The Navy list of documents has 42 items, many of them CIA memoranda to ONR dated 1954 to 1961.[^6]
### Footnotes
[^1]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis*. Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
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[^3]: Naval Research Reviews, vol. 9, no. 1 (January 1956), pp. 22 to 23, https://www.onr.navy.mil/media/document/naval-research-reviews-vol-9-no-1-january-1956
[^4]: Paul E. McCarthy, "Politicking and Paradigm Shifting," Ph.D. dissertation, University of Hawaii, 1975, chapter 2, pp. 39 to 40, https://files.ncas.org/mccarthy/chap02.html
[^5]: Paul E. McCarthy, same, chapter 3, p. 144, https://files.ncas.org/mccarthy/chap03.html
[^6]: General Counsel of the Department of Defense, memorandum for the Secretary of Defense, September 20, 1977, pp. 6 to 11 and Appendix B, release file 02-A-0846; see the [[MKSEARCH]] page for the full description.