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On 11 September at 1015 hours, Dr. and myself visited the Hospital in for the purpose of conferring with the senior medical officer, Dr. in regard to a statenent received through channels that anember of the Translation Section had conveyed certain informationto Dr. Co-Director of Hopsital. Upon our arrival,Dr. escorted Dr. and myself to a small·A private room in the basement of the Hospital.From the outset his manner was particularly cooperative and friendly. Aftera fev incidental remarks, Dr. stated the reason for our visit."Dr. said that since contracting with the Hospital to take care of Translation Section personnel, it had come to his attention that perhaps certainmembers of the section had possibly conveyed their personal troubles inrelation to their medical difficulties to the doctors at the hospital. Dr. added that if this vere the case, he would ap-A preciate Dr. or any other doctor who handled the people from advising Dr. of any special problems that might arise. Even A before Dr. had stated politely words to this effect, Dr; geve indicationof knowingthe subject about which Dr. was speaking. Dr. stated that he could perhaps clarify the issue that was confrontingDr. Hesaid the issue concerned that this individual had formerly been a close acquaintance of Dr. in and that this friendship had been over a period of about ten years. Dr: added that Dr. was elderly, a bachelor and greatly interestedin helping younger menachievetheir ambitions,andassuch, over a period of years had "adopted" various youngmen andsponsored their education or provided for their wellbeing. This was the case with As a matter of. fact, Dr. regarded as more orless a foster son. Fe has been inregular conunicetion with since helast saw him two or three years ago in and, at reguest, suppliedwith funds on a fairly regular basis to the amount of \$150 or\$200 every two or three months.

A week or tuo ago Dr. received a letter addressed to him FI at the Hospital.This letter,which Dr. actuallyshoued

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to Dr. stated in essence as follows:

I am in a desperate situation, and it is imperative that I see you at once.. I need your help. Please get in touch with ne at a designated spot at a certain time."

or words to that effect. Dr. izmediately sent his car to pick up fand bring him to his home. then revealed 'to that he was being held a virtual prisoner by an American organization and that he had bensubjected to Polygraph tests,Sodium Anatol "truth serum"injections and severe interrogation by the office with which he worked. stated further that he had worked for the U.S. Governnent, doing extremely important and valuable work for them, for a period of seven or eight years and that hecould not understand this terrible treatment to which he was being subjected; and, furthermore, it was unfair, huniliating and degrading,or words to that effect. Fe befged Dr. to help him out of thisterrible situation.Dr. added at this point that Dr. was greatlyüpset about the situation and confided the entire matter to him shortly after it transpired. "He added that Dr. was an elderly man and, although a and a good one and a loyal U.S. citizen, was probably not fully aware of many fields of U.S.activity outside ofthe field of medicine. Dr. stated that, although he was not familiar with the particulars of the case at all, he himself was familiar with various clandestine activities of the U.S. Government,havinghandled all medical cases for a period of five or six years. He stated to Dr. thatthis was rather unusual because the policy of theU.S.Governnent was, as far as he knew, always to compensate these people well andprovide them with every aôvantage possible. He implied to Dr. that may have been stretching a point, and that, in any event, it was a netterthat was probably outside Dr. jurisdiction, However, he noted that Dr. did not take kindly to his suggestion probably because of the fact of the close relationship between and Dr. adãedthat Dr. and had met three or four times at a secret rendezvous since the original meeting and that had had dinner with Dr. on two or three occasions. Dr. then said thathis first inoication that Dr. had confided in anyone but him self was a few days earlier when he had noted the receptionist at the telenhone desk of the Hospitaldialinga confidentialphonenumber of Since the number was supposed to be only in the possession of Dr. he-imnediately questioned the receptionist as to how and why she wes telephoning this mumber. She said that Dr. hadrequested her to get in touch with the individual whose phone number she was dialing. Dr. then called on Dr. and asked him why he was calling this number. Dr. stated that he thought the matter shonld be investigated, and, as a result, felt it his duty to contact then added that the relationship

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between and had been very casual up until that time. In
actual fact, he, hinself, had knoum for many ycars, but relationship had onlybeen because of the relatively long fricnd
ship between and Dr. then stated that althouch no
names of the individuals who were to come under his care were ever supplied
him, he did not think thetwas in that group. However, frou the nature
of the conversation and from certain things that Dr. ehadsaid, he
was inclined to believe that in some way fell into the jurisdiction of the-same office. Dr. added that, as he had told us previously, he
had investigated Dr. on his own initiative prior to accepting the
agreement withwith regard to the Translation Staff, and that although
he wes not aware of the specific type of work in which we were engaged, he
kewin a general way the work we were doing as a result of his conversations with and

4 Dr and I thanked Dr. for his frankmness in explaining the situation and tended to concur with his earlier observation that Dr. may have been the victim of unfortunate circwnstances.We implied that had been both well paid and fairly treated, as it was the policy ofour officeto always treat people who worked for us in this manner. Dr. felt that in view of the close relationship existing between and Dr. it would not be advisable to inform Dr. of the fact that he may have been victimized. he stated that he, was perhaps the best friend that Dr. had, and that Dr. always confided hispersonal problems to Dr. He suggested that the best way to handle the situation-was for him to pass on information which he £ained from Dr. to us..Dr. stated at thispoint that the best procedure would probably be a direct liaison basis between Dr. and DT. however, steted that be did not think this A was advisable since there were regular liaison channels which our office went through in dealings with DT said that he felt that, at the very least, an informal liaison-wuld do much to mitigaté eny possible differences that might arise between and Dr. office.Fe said that be would like to arrange an informal cocktailA and -lunch with Dr. and sonetime at Dr. wonvenience. Dr. was not too enthusiastic about the idea end stated that although he was agreeable to meeting socially any contact would heve to be approved by his superior. Ir. thencsaid that he was aware of the pestdifferences ofopinion between various U.S. intelligenceorganizations in the and kew that there had been continual friction between and and and other units. He said thnt he had known for a long time, and that while was remarkabld able in many respects,he was also psychoneurotic in other respects. In any event, he felt thet if a personal relationship existed between Lr. and there was much less of a likelyhood that a misunderstanding would result. Ve stated that we eppreciated Dr. good offices and let the matter drop. Istated thet I hopedif any cases of this kind ever did come to Dr. attention while treating personnel which were sent to the

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Hospital by us I would apprcciate hin lctting us know about it. Dr. said that all our cases trcated so far had been routine in nature
and nothing like that had arisen, but that if it cver did he would contact either myself or Dr.
phone number so that he could contact us in an cmergency.  The conversation Re then took Dr.telephonenumber and my
then changed to.general medical subjects, weather, ete.Dr.
in the course of the conversation, that he had a large cottage at staled
thanked Dr. invitations to join each other for luncheon at some future date, and we egain and that Dr. and I were welcome to use it at any time. We all exchangod As we were lao ana we egail As we were leaving the hospital, we encountered Dr.
just entering. Fe apreared a little surprised to see Dr. who was
and myself together, but nevertheless exchanged greetings with us. It
seemed to me that he may have sensed that the reason for our visit may have been in regard to the question of Dr. A
not usually come to the hospital on Tuesdays until the afternoon; and, for another thing,Dr. For one thing,Dr.
office for which suspects thet Dr. does works. is associated with the A wrated with the A I would ect: I would estimate that our entire conversation lasted about one hour
Dr.
It was characterized by cordiality and apparent frankness on the part of
standing. There were absolutely no indications of-ill feeling or misunder-