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2 CQUIREHENTS FOR TSS NRSSANCH ND DEV LOPNT ROOUM

The follovins outlines in priority categoriss tho ncst pressing operctional neede of for tecnnical equijmont. nothode snd. services which are not now arallable aod which the TSs roscarch and developaent progras can best aid in devnloping.

APPROVED FOR RELEASE Date1  1978

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Neans of Producing Physical and Mental Fffocte on Muman Being

Among the vide variety of projects potentially possible in this field there are à muaber-or limited but practicnble speciric requirements vhich,if succesafullyfilled, vould subatuntially increasecapabilities by making it possible, instead o? hnving to circuavent humsan obstacles or opposition. to overcome it. Goneral ezamples are ressarch into precisely controlled chemical and physical peans of producing states of consciousness favorable to interrogation, briefing or dcbriefing. or tezporary amnesia, unconsciousness or sleep. and means of covertly adeinistering them in solid, liquid or gaseous Tora. Specifio sxamples are à definite need for improvepeat of the present xs tablet to provide for more pradictabie nnd controlled pction and. the possible usefulness of a hypojeraic device operated by conpressad air for covert injection of a dras devised for predictable reaction, as vell as a gus to be iatroduced into ventilating systoms to anosthetize guards or. sentrivs for predictuble periods. In viewof the sensitivity of this field of nctivity and in view of the vork presently in progress in other officns bearing on this problem, no program should be instituted vithout detailed prior discussion vith