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MEHDRADUM FOR: Chief,G SUBJECTJDr. C

C Z I TSD Chemical Division I has a projeot whereby in return for conduoting experiments in support of TSD's prograa to develop means of controlling behavior, they fund a portion of the laboratory through the was originally made by Dr. and Dr. This arrangement I tho contact is now retained primarily by Dr. C

2. In a talephone conversation yostoriay batween Dr. A and myself, I suggested that I should like to talk with of the conversation was a hypothetical question whioh I put to (The cocasion C
Tin oonnection with the A
A randu). case; this is coverod in a separate momo-. said that he would contactby'phone imadiatalyC and would set up a roating asong the three of us.

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J 4. Previous papers in the file on tho oxporinental objectives Jofthe progran have ostahlished a rathor rough and ready group of ariteria by which we hope ultimataly to know uhother tranco can be introduced instantaneously on a hostile and unwitting subject. Translated into somewhat more technical terms, theso criteria amount to our boing able to detsrnine whother and under what circuastances trance con can be introduoed without a process of aoquaintanceship betwaen subject and hypnotist. That is, the degree in which the transferance element can be introduced aftor regression has bean caused by sone treuma.

5. At the present time, thare appears to ba little disagreement among the psychiatrists with whom this subjeot has been discussod that amesis and post-hypnotio control can be caused once trance is introduced. Dr. A pf the Hodical Staff, qualifies this viev only by noting that in some circumstances hypnosis can cause certain types of psyohotic opisodes to occur which cannot be controlled completely by the hypnotist.

6. The foregoing indioates the nature of the thooratical and exporimental diaoussion that must contimue at this stage of the prog.J Obviously, the answers to the questions raised can only be acquired by further experiments under realistic conditions.