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: Chicr, Cictnct Divigion G Chief, Torfice

1. A book publishied in , entitlel witlr on pace contains thie lolloving:

"Today every nilitary doctor and nurse is traincd in lupnotism. The have used lypnotism to an amazing extent in lealing amnesia cases. Their poychologists use it for trauntic coacs. Hypnosis hes inleed becoua tlieparamount weapon in the treatment of war neuroses."

Will you please advise whetherr rias any intercot in our findins out what facts, if any, the autloro have to.support thc statcmonto contained in the above quotation? Such an investigation woull wdoubtedly be tine-consuning and wa do not wish to'embark upon it unless we bave:some assurance that the results migbt be of:value.to CIA.

.2.Thie book on pagea ancgclso containg the.following

n nuccceafil author of books on? andthe went one step furtlier. lle has declared:

"'I can hypnotize a man--without his knowledge or consent--into comitting trceson againat the United States. If I can do it, so could psyohologists of other nationo in the ovent of another war.

io absolutcly right. I, too, could produce hpnotic secret agents and 6o could lundredo of othero trained in tlio Gcience of hypnotic sugceotion. I would be swprised if many secret services are not now ectually employing hypnotic methods for some of their underground activities.

"Soon arter World Var II had started, s was called to . le we asked by intellirence officcrs about the possivility tliat ,  and cecret services might be planning to use hypnotiom to obtain information.

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then made a moet provocntive anl controversial otatenent wien le told United States Intelligcnce officers:

:niTwo hundred traincdoperators, trained in the United Statcs, could develop a uniquc, dangcrous aray of hpootically controlled agents,""

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