MORI 190514

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Thore are a few answors to certain questions which wore brought up at the conferonce which, bocause of the timo limitations, I was unable to discuss at the time.

I am more convinced thnn ever conccrning, the necessity of the prevonting of the dissemination of kuowlodge that we are using a hypnotio technique. Becauso of this. it sooms inndvisable to rely upon the.oral teohniquo of drug administration.Although this mothod may well sucoeed in a large portion of cases. in thoso in whioh it fails, the subjeots would have reason to kow that hypnotio attempts had been tried and might woll pnss ón such information to other poople. In our recont resoarch prpjoot, no word or menipulation which could be construod by the individuals affeoted es the commonly recopnizod hypnotic toohnique.

The sano goneral objootions would bo applicable to the surreptitious use of drugs by the agents in that the attompt to use anything similar to a hypnotio teohnique might be recognizod by the subjoct. As you know, sinoe time immemorial, attompts have boen mado to extract information from individuals under the influence of elcohol, sometimos with suoooss, ofton with failure. As a matter offact, other drugs uaed to affect tho state of oonsciousness aro not muoh different in thoir effocts than that of aloohol. It is probable that tho intravenous uoe of solutions of aloohol might be juat na elfioacious as that of any of tho proparations we are now using. In a comparison botween tho effocts of aloohol and the other drugs. it must be rememberod that there is a wide differenoe in individual rosponse to. any ofthem

We shall continually strive to attain more knowledgo and bottor tooluniques. In the moantime, my genoral feeling is that because we have accomplishod things which soen almost impossible, the authorities concornod almoat beliove that nothing ia impossible. As you know, there are definito limitations, espeoinlly since we are so greatly handicapped by popular and offioial prejudioo against come of our mothods.

Concerninz the dlscussion of the work at the a to tho dovelopmsnt of n better Polygraph, it is my opinion that the operators will always be more important than the machino. I roally boliovo that suoceosfulD. D. machine oporation toohnique is essentially a hypnotio one, This nlso oxplains hy it seems important that tho subject bo sorooned from an olaborato intravenoua injcction used becmuse tho latter. if visualizod by hia, woulllgreatly divert hio nttontion and might well upset the succossful oomplotion of tho tooluniuc. On the othor hand, the vers mystory of tho subjoot's not knowing what is going on behind tho curtain enhancos tho psychologioal aapeots of the method.

A/B,III,6,10

Deputy Chiof, I & S Staff

27 Ootober 1950