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I choose two practicsl applications from many with which to .illustrate myproposition:

l. The safeguarding of the messages entrusted to Couriers. In deep hypnosis the subject, miiitary or citilian, can be given a mcssaçe to be delivered to say Colonel X in Berlin. The subject may then be sent to Eerlin on any perfcctly routine assignment. The message will be perfectly safe and will be delivcred to the proper person because

a. the subject will have no memory whatsoever in the waking state as to the nature and contents of the message.

b. it.can be arranged that the subject will have no knowledge of ever having been hypnotized.

c. It can be arranged that/one beside Colonel X : in Berlin can hypnotize the subject and recover 、the message.

This hypnotic messenger, if I may use the phrase has in' my opinion at least two very definite advantages over the ordinary d courier. First he will never under any circumstance by a slip of the tongue divulge the truc nature of his mission for the very simple reason that he has no conscious knowledge of what that mission may be. He is merely going on a routine replacement in say the Adjutant General's Office. This will be his story and the story which. he believes.

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Secondly, it b any chance,, he is nicked un throurh a lcakao, of
information from other sources the "essare is shte.r nd amcunt or thrid
degree tactics can pry it loose, for he simply does not have it
.in his conscious mind. Even if the encmy suspects thc use of hypnotisn
the message is still. safe for no one can hypnotizc him except this
Colonel X in Berlin. 2

May I point cut that this technique is one which can be demonstrated under experimental conditions where you wish and when you wish allowing a'certain amount of time to train the subjects in question.

2. A specific counferintelligence technique to be used against enemy agents. This particular use of hypnotism would be more complicated and more difficult than the rather simple case which I outlined in the preceding paragraphs, but is, Iassure you, quite practical. I wil: take a number of men and will establish in them through the use of hynnotism the condition of split personality. Consciously they wiil be ardent Cohmunists, phanatical adherence to the party line, ready and eagcr to submit to any discipline which the party may prescribe. Unconsciously they will be loyal Americans just as grimley determined to thwart the Commists at everyturn in the road.

These men arain will have no knowledre of anything that occurs in the hypnotic state--wil have no knowledge of ever having been hypnotized and can only be hypnotized by sugh persons as the origiaal operator may choose. Consciously they will associte with the Comunists and learn al] the plans of the organization. Cnce every month or at such time is advisable they will be contacted by a member of our intelligence department, hypnotized, and as loyal Americans will tell what they. know. This sounds unhelievable, but I assure, you, it will work.

Once afain the advantages. Your hypothatical counter spy will be placed in a very difficult situation--amounting at best to social ostracism, at worst criminal prosecution. Ho will not disclose his true role for the very simple reason that he can not. Consciously he is a Communist and will not in a moment of wcakness admit to his relatives or to his friends that he is anything but a .Comunist. Again, ifthrough some leakae, he is suspected of being an informeer his true role is safely guarded, locked in the unconscious and impervious to all assults from the outside.

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I consider myself an authority on the theoreticl applications of hypnotism to warfare and would point out that it is a highly specialized subject. .The averace psychologist or even psychiatrist is. as at much of a loss here as would be the average chemist-or physicist if called on to supervise a very :pecialized project for which he had had no particular, training. I claim that I D can demonstrate all my particular contentions to the satisfaction of . the government agencies and request the opportunity so to do.

In closing, may Imake one very significant point. The kussian literature is hard to get and .carefully avoids any mention of the topic in question. Those Russian articles which I have been Ible to get leave no doubt about the fact that the liussian is just as conversive about the field of hypnotism as are we..

Respectfully submitted,

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