MORI 190674

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Subject: SI and H Experimentation, 1 December 1953.

On Tuesday, 1 December 1953, SI and H Experimentation took place in Room 20, Building 13. Messrst and and -were. present and used Misses and subjects.

In view of the fact that there were so many present, including entirely new volunteers.The.writer again divided the work group into Misse3 andr uho continued operations in connection with the polygraph(se report appended below).

The writer then continued the conversations as previously carried out on Tuesday, 24.Nauember,explaining particularly to the new volunterrs, Missesand the nature of the ARTICHOKE work and the very sensitive security problems involved. 1

At the conclusion of the general discussion, the writer tested bothMissand M onstandardsuggestibility tests,usingMES M and Mi :asobservers.:

At the conclusion of these tests, the writer ran again a very slow relaxing tests in which all subject participated. After another short discussion in which therorwere numerous questions and answers, the writer tested Mis and Mie in an eye concentration test. In the above, no outstanding results were achieted but it should be noted for the record that no extensive effors was made to obtain a deep hypnotic state in any of the individuals present. It should also be noted that these new volunteers all expressed continued interest and a willingness to continue work along these lines.

Special Comment: The writer notes that it is considerably difficult to don conduct intensive H work with as many as five volunteers in the operations room for various reasons. The first is the room is crowded, the second is the air conditioning unit is not functioning and the air becomes stale with cigarette smoke and the third is that it is difficult to concentrate on one individual at the expense of the others present since it is important in this work to maintain the absolute interest of all volunteers present.

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Further in connection with the experimentation on 1 December 1953,Mil Ras run twice on the polygraph by lir. to obtain anorm pattern from which to.compare with experimentation under hypnosis. was then put under hypnosis and a card test was run under instruction that she lie toallstimuli questions. This identical procedure was used with l . The results are unknoih. Further comnents will be required by Mr after a study of the polygraph charts..

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