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SubjcctsGeneralOperational, Specific - Request for Technical Assistance

This dispatch is concerned primarily with an urgont request for action, but because of the nature of the reguest it woula be a vaste of tize to route it directly to Instead, it is roqnested that the avtropriate officer discuss the problem with or his designes and that they togethar -arproach vith a requcst for action.

This stytion icticnvinc d thatathing ino approah is the last
and activlties vitally affecting our national scourity. se have
accoriingly placed a great emphnsis on activities, and
seven of the eight staff zeabers of the station have been
spending the ajority of thsir tiie on The Chief of also devotes a large proportion of his tice to designed to increass the errectiveness of

operations. ye are aware from discussions wit visitors from Hsadquarters ard aher stations that is probablv mnique in devoting so largo a proportion of its efforts to and we desire to move ahcad as rapidly as possible in order to deterzine whether or not our decisions has been wise.

3.e appreciate the guidance Headquarters has boen supplying do-
Fsigned to encourage direct dcfoction approaches to in and under no circunstances will we forget thnt the defection of a is the major purpose of We believo, however, that a successful defection vill probably be a esult of our taking advantage of a target of opcortunity ten it suddenly arises; of course, our extonsive and coveregt rut: us in an cxcellent position to learn of such targets and to cxploit the efrcctively vhen the time doss cone. In tho mchntins, however, ve believe that we can stage efrectivoly non-defectionrtype operations which vill, mlike our present asnitch

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and operations, produce significant not merely further "oporstional" informction. At the mozent by intelligence infornticn on activitios in and far the zost pro-ising approach would seem to te the use of dracs dcsiened to incuce to ansver questiors vhich thay would nct otherwise answer.

has discussed, the uce of such drugs vith Headguarters last April and ngain whon visited and at toth tizos ws given the prozise of surport if we could dezonstrate that hers could be prodictably noevers into locations controllod by our personnel for a reasonable length of time while not in the presenca of any other unfriendly bodies this condition has nov been met beyond all question. of has informed usthat the Chenical Research elesent of has already developed drugs or soze proven value in attaining tho result we desireWeurgently renucst that vhat ever drugs nay re row available be-surplied as 5oon as possible, together with instructions and guidance for use.

It should apain be ezrhasized that is t.ot in the same position in rogard to as ara other stations; ye heve competent person-ol vitha wide variety of talcnts and experionce wehave "operational" inforrationprobably unequalled in quantity and in scope ty any other atotion, which can enable us 复 to accertain with certainty (by the use of test questions) the efrcotiveness on the subject of the drup beine usedt we can troduce any one of a large mmbar of

probably OT in controlled locations with no other persons present crcopt our own nationals. How long this extrenely favorable situation can be maintained is not certain and thus urgcnt and prospt action is roguested.

Our conticts aro more than anxious to cnoperate in scoline Aaerican cigarettes in largs quantities ard in drinking our whisk brandy and baer. At least cne and ve have reason to suspoctthat night be another) tico aftor tize coopcrates to the extent or arinking enough to zake him dofinitely intoxicated evon with w-doped drinks

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Lc fully umerstand that the ultimate objcctive of is to develop an easily aüzinistcred drug which will cause the victim to respond to questicns and thon come out of the effocts of the drug vithout rezembering anything about what he has done. We vould like to roquest, hovever, that operations not bo delayed umtil such a riracle truc is perfected. It is enough that the victin may not be entirely sure what le said, cven though he lnows he was talline loosely, or even that he rozain aware of huvine made the answers he did provided that ho not be certain that he was druggod (but merely think that it was the result of the alcohol).It is not necesssry that ve be cortain that the drugwill produce truthfulcnswers, for we are in a. positin to check this in great detail by reason -of cur present operations

Plcast jnep us aovised gf the progrcss ceãe in tcting upon this rocuest in ordcr that ve mny be accurately Eices in developing our controlled social contacts vith likely victims.

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