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Office MenOrandum · UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT A/B, 210/81r 205 to: Nirector of Security : Director of Security

Chief, Security Research Staff

FROM : Deputy Director of Security

H-B/3

1. Reference is made to the attached repqrt on proposed development of ProjectB/3

2.This project is an operational application of ARTICHOKE, and I feel that we should clearly be in the pictire from start to finish exercising control features on actual experimcntation.

3. As stated in the report, the principal question is whether or not an indivitual can be controlled into the future by the application of "H" techniques. I further feel that, this cannot be done in the United States on a clinical basis, and the only answer is to concentraté on field applications..To this end we could supplement the ARTICHDKE team and possibly carry out these experimentations one where I understand we have sone likely prospects who meet all the requirements and are not "friendly."

obtain a full working agreement and support this activity in every possible way.

TAND O NO,

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1. TSS and TSS operations at ay present a problom. hows many men who are TSs consultants, most of whom would bo 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 lcast selected personnel since they may have some new chemicals for testa, possibly of interest to us.

2. I believe wo should cut into the project. Hle is very valuable on research and is devoting almost all of hig timg now to psycho-chemicals. He is fully cut into ARTICltOKE and I bolieve we can control him completely.

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

h. I have discussed the situation-in very general terms witheu and I believe he would be definitely interested in the clinical paychiatrtst aosistment on the project at I believe we should puah-this since it will place In a key position whero he can watch the situapefef tion from our point of view and he hos a projeet natural cover.

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5.. In our discussions, we have failed to point. out the fact we vill probably need a speaking individual in addition to on the Staff A at the This is important for a great many reasons and might be vory valuable if the "atudonts" were not aware that the person . in question spoke and uriderotood I beliave this employce should be. a atafl eployee of tho Agency.

6. I am still somowhat concerned over the bringing together of agent candidates all at This may be a security hazard and unless our cover is oxtraordinarily good, it may blow the project. This necds a very carefulatudy. amrEtoid né that thore aro no bodies availatlo now that he khous ebout in/thcstarea for-tost purposcs.

7. It is my opinion that tho proposed thrce hypnotic consultants may be
a bad ideaand nay possiblo drive out of the picturo. Cor
tainly we should check this with as. soon as possible: As you know,- fhas a large contempt for the, college instructor type bypnotist and alsr
his objections in nany ways are valid. ,We must talk to about fas soon as possible. completely inexperienced now and I
wonder where he will get experience, particularly on and unier what
covar will this bo attempted. As you know,y rarranged first-case
a week or.two ago and I an abaolutely certain that well
condition subject.

8. Details concering the trip into tha for test, purposes are still very, very vaque. In  opinion, ARTIcHOkE will have to havo a Fairly sizable represertatiou at thece tests Zxclusive of pbyoical … 2

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sqourity which probably will be handled by cut though wo have discuased this before, I feel that we should probably have on our tcam, in addition to you and I

9.. We have not yet discussed technical tetails as you know. We are not at all certain as to whether or not kows anything about hypnotism or for that matter, of course, has had no experionce and we do not lnow if cispoaks enough to work  ons subjects. At the prosent time, we do not yet know hof et al A propose to bring li to bear on the "otudents." How this will be done and what cover will be used is of vitel concorn to us for many reasons.

Crditinig B l0.The costinuing process of the students L fand the subjectà in the fon the test if of vital intereat to us.  wo would like to know what the views of etc. are on length of tim required,' techniques, covers, methods, etc., etc. We would also like to kiow would it be possible to test new chemicals under somo pretext or other at the project in

1l. WhercasI belleve we should givet all the technical équipmcut he needs, we ccrtainly should have some say in the purchaso of it and I personally would not be in favor of buying technical equipmont for merely for non-pertinent experimental reasons.

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way of subjects and how he proposes to go about the conditioning process.
Sinco we mist be responsible for security in thase mattors, I feel we, must
have full knowlcdge for any work such as this. .A flap in this matter might 、
be very serious.

13. In comection with the special testing intharea this fall, what F has been proposed to dateb., Docs'nt yet mako sense to me.: Y.

A, says there are no bodies for testingh

B. gr Tsuggested wo would need 10 selected subjects.

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

D. Who is going to choose them? It was proposed that choose tliese A 10 subjectà bub how can we expoct to correctly choose them. Or A ghould we send. to assist prior to the arriyal dr the A team?

E. if time is short for the tasting wo are certainly going to have to uso chemicals.We should discuss this in detail.

F. Also this may be.ap oppórtunity to test a few new chemicals and this should be considered sinco the expense involvod would not add anything more to the overall cost.