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SUBJECI: Security Inspection and Special Assignment at.B/

1. On 10 and il January 1955, the writer visited B/3 for purposes of carrying out a special identification problem at request of nand makingnaasecurity inspection involving A certain missingdocuments at B/3

2. 0n 10 January 1955, between 9:30AH and 12:00 noon, the writer worked with Gof thf B/3 ron an identification problem involving sevcral hundred feet of microfilm which had in her custody while at G uas very co-operative and made full and conncction was given to Pby the writer.

writer dn the cae day, startiar at approaitely lito , thed G in all safes at the office in an effort to locate B/3 certain missin cables which had disappeared fron the "personal"
files of Phese cables, approximately eight in number and of Secret classilication, were in connection with a trip made
by the writerlate swmer of 1953.The
search through the safes was conpletely unsuccessful; the documents were not in any of the safes. Later in the afternoon, the writer
ahere had his living quarters while assigned A This search, which consisted of examining chests, dressers, closets, cupboards, etc., was also unsuccessful. The
writer acknowledges, however, that the search was superficial as he was not in position to take up the carpets or thoroughly examine
furnishings, bedding, etc.

later at licr utter s record, it should be noted that setoal days A writer that hc had, after a conference with te on ofi,obtained G a certified statement from thac had burned the A documonts to prevent them from being discoveretl by unauthorized per- A somnel in stated he and ewerc satislied with thc statement opre The writer informed ene would so infori hice the matter was obviously bf sccurity importance

5. In adlition to the extensive search for the missing docwnents, the writer made a general inspection of the property,,exanining locking

UMICE IVIEMOrANAUNUNITED STAES GOVERNMENT

to: Chief, Security Research Staff

DATE: 26 Jauary 1955

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B/b mechanisns. firo-fighting equipmont and technical apraratus installed at  In so doing, one of the clcared employees, in reply to a question concerning recording tapes, informed the writer there was a pilo of boxes of tapes in a small closet, the nature of which vas unknowm to her. The iniiter examined these tapos and discovered A they uere apparently the-entire taped recordings of highly classified

A intervieus held by Board the with B/3 Lac on project carried Bue r8r Aency in Tate of 153. Positive identification uas made of the tapes because the vriter himself had recorded the tapes and his handw'iting appeared on each individual box containing 4 roll of tape. This material, which is classificd at the Secrethlevel and is regardicd as highly sensitize vias found in one of the rain cffices, second floor
3/3 rear of the ouse lying in an unlocked and entirely wnguarded. cabinet. The vriter, withcut disclosing the true nature of the tapes but informing the cleared perscmnel present they were of a highly classified nature, placed them in one of the safes and gave spocific, instructions Ithey were not to be moved or played pending their removal to lieatquarters, jashin ton. The writer obtained an oral staterent from cleared emploveo, that as
A far as she knev, the tapes had bcen placed there by and had been there for months. She herself kanew rothing of tho.ccitents thercof.This sane statcment was.confirned by bothres and (note: Tho writer could net play the tapes at, ebvious roasons but identity" B/3 appears certain.) 6. At thie present time, the tapcs as ,voll as other classified
material that requires being brought to ashinrton are boirr, kopt
in a safe at pending a visit to Tho is to further exarine. Zf material for
return to tashinrton. The writer, with the consent c
inforned :janat when tho entirc material was assemurtd
for transportation to dashington, Security would arrange safe trans
portation of it. iio date' has yet been set for removal of this
raterial but it. is expected tc be taken out within the next two weeks.

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TSS and TSS operations at present a problem. lows many men who are TSS consultants, most of whom would be on the covert side and it is possible that we may have a flap on this because sooner or later TSS will probably find out about the project. In addition, it probably.would be a good idea to cut TSS in or at least selected personnel since they may have some new chemicals for tests,'possibly of interest to us.

2.. I believe we should cut! arinto the project, He is very valuable on research and is devoting almost all of his time now to psycho-chemicals. He is fully cut into ARTICHOKE and I believe we can control him completely:

3. If offices are established ir they must be fully equippedB for monitoring purposes. This is the type of work that wé should do since we may want tapes'on significant conversations.

h. I have discussed the situation in very general terms with  A and I believe he would be definitely interested in the clinical psyehiatrist assistment on the project at I believe we should push thisB/3 since it will place in a key position where he can watch the situa-A Dete tion from our point of view and he has a projset natural cover.

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5. In our discussions, we have failed to point out the fact we will probably need a -spealding individual in addition trron the Staff A at the This is important for a. great many reasons and might be very valuable if the "students" were not aware that the person in question spoke and understood I believe this employee should be a staff employee of the Agency. 1

'6. I am still somewhat concerned over the bringing together of agent candidates all at . This may be a security hazard and unless our cover is extraordinarily good, it may blow the project. This needs a very careful study. told-me that there-are no-bodies-available A how that-he knows about in:thearea-for test puposes.. C

. .It is my opinion that the proposed three hypnotic consultants may be..
a bad idea and may possible drive& Cout of the picture. Cer- A
tainly we should check this with as soon as possible. .As you kmow, hasa large contempt for the college instructor type hypnotist and.
his objections in many ways are valid. We must talk tod about Tas soon as possible. is completely inexperienced now and I A
wonder where he will get experience, particularly on and under what cover will this be attempted. As you know arranged first case
a week or two ago and I am aboolutely certain thatrdgav a well
condition subject.

8. Details concerning the trip into the for tost purposes are F 0K Istill very, very vague. In ny opinior, ARTICHokE yill have to have a fairly sizable representation at these testsExclusive of physical

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security which probably will te handled byssrseout opat A1-F though we have discussed this before, I feel that we should probably havo on our tean, in addition to you and I, ,  and

! 9. We have not yet discussed technicaldetails as you know. lie are not at all certain as to whether or ne ows anything about hypnotism or for that matter, of course, has had no experience and we A Ado not know ifspeaks enougto work ll on subjects. F HAt the present time, we do not yet know how Fēt lB C A propose to bring ll to bear on'the "students." Hou this will be done and what cover will be used is of vital concern to us for many reasons.

canditinmuis, Cnirt inus,

10. .The centiauing process of the students in Fand the subjects B/3 in the on the test if of vital interest to us. We would like to F know what the views ol etc. are on length of time B C required, techniques, covers, methods, etc., etc. We would also like to know would it be possible to test new chemicals under sone pretext or other at the project in B/3

1l. Whereas I believe we should give all the technical equipment . he necds, we csrtainly should have scme say in the purchase of it and I personally would not be in favor of-buying lechnical equipment for olff merely for non-pertinent experimental reasons.

12. We have not as yet been briefed by ongas to A C Ahe specifically what they intendrthertwhat they indend to look for in the

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way of subjocts and how he proposes to go about the conditioning process. Since we must be responsible for security in these matters, I feel we must have full knowledge for any work such as this. A flap in this matter might be very serious.

13. In comnection with the special testing in tharea this fal, what F has been proposed to datef does'nt yet make sense)to me.

A.says there are no bodies for testing. A

B.a suggested we would need 10 selected subjects. C A

C. Selocted by whom and would these subjects be witting, unwitting, prisoners, volunteers, or what?

D. Who is going to choose them? It was proposed thate choose thiese A 10 subjects but how can we expec. to correctly choose theu.- Or A should we send o assist prior to the arrival of the A team? 1

E. If time is short for the testing we are œriainly going to have to use chenicals. We should' discuss this in detail..

F. Also this may be an opportunity to test a few new chemicals and this should be considered since the expense involved would not add anything more to the overall cost.

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Thc Committee in its report will'almost certainly rccommend that no further regular meetings of the Committee be held, but called when fresh information requiring interpretation becomes available. It is also likely that the Committee will recommcnd thatdesignate or assign ah individùal to act as clearing bouse for all informlatidn in the area of the Committee's interest and brief the Committee as indicated. We will comment on the Committee's final report when it is completed. .:

COMMENTS ON COMMITTEE:

1) Alh of the members of the Comnittee are largely-without personal experience in this area with the exception of the

Chairman, who carried out a number of studies for OSS in WW II. As a consequencc,-the statements in the fiual report will be largely ex cathedra and based upon the scicntific outlook of the individuals as applied to interpretation of the very limited aterial offered in the briefings. The Committee is composed of.competent scientist well able to evaluate finished work or to guide enterprisee which have avanced sufficiently to provide quantitative data for discussion,

2)Attitudes:Bothare activelyengaged in work under contract and are naturally anxious to pursue it.

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