MORI 184479

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MEMORANDUM FOR:

"Brainwzshing"

1.For your iaformztion I have pow been briefed on the various Agency interests subsumed under the word "braiowashing". This was made necessary because of the responsibility of this office to represent CLA in research matters with the both in the context ofandthe

H 2. Specifically we are now being consulted by the on a proposal for research on "Study of the Nature of £ Brainwashing and the Metbods Necessary to Build Resistance to It". I have made arrangements to work with the Agency offices coaceroed in . These arrzngemcnls preparing a reply to the have been made very carefully dus to the extreme sensitivity surroucding our inierest in this subject.

committee on POWs and its secretariat 3. The bave varions officers of zesigned in immeäiate support of its work. Research support isprovied by

APPROVED FOR-RELEASE Date -1 Jüll 1976

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