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Special Training Project 3 through 5 November 1953.

to the Technical Branch on hypnosis arrived in Washington at ll:05 AM, Tuesday, 3 November 1953 and He was met by Messrs in at a hotel, at the Airport and after checking he ,was taken immediately to lunch.

2. Between 1:00 and 5:00 Pri, Tuesdayafternoon, a general and work session was held with Messrs present with discussions aimed at development of plans for the stay in Washington and at hypnotic remainder of Fr work in general.

3. From 6:00 to 9:30 PM on Tuesday, a first worksessior
was held by M Present were Messrs
and and and In addition, the
following subjects were present and By a pro
cess of observing and participating in the work
demonstrated hypnotic methods and techniques with good resurts. ideas and
The work, in general, was routine but
delivery techniques and mannerisms were carefully observed and offered comments and some
noted by all present..
discussion as each test went along. The evening was devoted to do the bulk of the hypnotic work
having and main effort in coming to Washington was to de
since
vote primary attention to and secondary attention to insofar as assisting them in hypnotic techniques. On Wednesday, 4 November 1953, a general conference was
held between 10:00 and 12:00 in the morning on the hypnotic work with Messrs. and and Again in the afternoon of Wednesday, 3 November between l:00and 4:00 PM, a general conference and critique was held with present. These and conférences Wére of an informal nature and consisted of a more or less round-table discussion involving any and all subject matter and having to do with the practice of hypnosis and the relation. of. hypnosis to the ARTICHOKE program.

STANDARD FORM NO. 84

A/B,3, 2/33

Office Memorandum : 'UNITED STATES. GOVERNMENT

DATE: 25 November 1953

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5. On Wednesday, 3November 1953, between 7:00 and 9:30 PM
.a special demonstration in hypnosis was conducted by Mp
:in Room 24, Building 13. Present at this demonstration.were, a
group of representatives from g:office; and ih addition individuals that had pre ously partfcipated in the hypnotic work.In addition rattended. No official count was made of those present but probably25-30 people attended. 6 talked for approximately 10-15 minutes at
the start of the demonstration on hypnosis in general and then pro
ceeded to"give a.series of demonstrations which he believed would
be of interest to Security officers and the others present. In
addition to answering many questions and demonstrating certain
simple hypnotic proeesses, gave three main demonstra
tions: A) by the use of hypnosis, arranged with
two good subjects and that if questioned in any
way or manner on questions involving security, they would immedi
ately go into a deep hypnotic state Thisrwas very clearly and
effectively demonstrated.B) demonstrated a good
regression with with the subject going back to the
age of ten. In this-connection, it should be noted that in writing as she did at the age of ten wrote her name as which was,her name before it had been changed by her explained-that security codes could be
built around the process of regression and messages could be con
veyed in this manner using aregression technique to coneeal the demonstrated the possible transfer of
message. C).
control of asubject by showing that unless certain code words
were used a good subject could or would under no circumstances recall the words or give them to anyone else.

7. In general, this demonstration was successfyl and all demonstration in-. hands expressed appreciation for." who stated to the writer that a demonstracluding tion similar to this or perhaps more advanced should be done for other Agcncy officials in the near future. In this connection, was particularly impressed by security aspects of individuals operating under hypnosis and so commented.

theld a 8. On Thursday, 5 November 1953 ánd general discussion on hypnosis with and Messrst, present although Mess ane gerg unable to participate for part of this time owing to.tertain air raid duties which they had to perform.

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9. Between 2:00 and.3:00 PM, another general conference followed withe and fand Messrs. and participating. Thereafter, from 3:00 to 5:00 PM, at the invitation of thewriter, Mr. r MP Mr.

attended the round-table discussion with the above group fn regard to the possible use of hypnosis.in connection with the polygraph. The writer explained to all hands that this discussion must be kept at an absolute Secret level since ARTICHOKE research was in no way interested in "beating the polygraph" but only in assisting the polygraph system in detecting persons under hypnosis and obtaining technical information on the reşults of persons operating under hypnosis on the polygraph. This roundtable discussion appeared very successful and M expressed his appreciation for the discussion to the writer later.

10. Between 7:00 and 9:00 Pr, another informal discussion was held with Messrs and Doctorsand present.This discussion was in the natureof a roundup and resume of the work carried out and was entirely succesaful.

11 left Washington at 1l:00 AM had previously planned to she morning of 6 November but his plans were changed due to heavy snow fall at Washington.