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MEMDRIDUHFOR:Chairman,

SUBJEC T : Requcst for Technioal Assistance

l. I vould appreciate tho assistance of your

in'connection with aproblem now under atudy in the intolligence community becausé of its possible concern to national security. Tho attached ptpers indicate the nature and scope of the problom and contoin certain récomendations as to steps necessary before tho full implications of the matter can be evaluated.

2. Should the services of the be available for this purpose, , my Assistent Dircctor for Scientific Intolligence, wlll conteot whomever you may designate to work gut the detalls of the atudy...

3. Because of the sensitivo nature of this matter, all. papers are being handled on an "EYES OlLY" basis. The code word "Artichoke" has been ossigned and is "urclassified" when used in such a way that it does not reveal the nature and scope of the problem.

WALTER B. SHITH Director

Attcchment A

Distritution: Addrossce - orig & 1

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l. Whether effvctive, practiesl tochnlgues exint wherely an iniividual can be eauood to tecora subservient to an inposed ccatrolj ani sabsoquently that inxiivirual be unavere of tho evonts

2. Thu dagrne of efiaetivenoas and tha prsetiesbility of ppplying such tachniqueaj end

J. The prectierbllity of devislng teons for noro offuutivels utilising existing tochniquns fur this purpese. 1

PATS BEAPIM ON TRE MCDLEH:

1. F'odicel rolerce, pertlcularly in tho lielda of papchiatry en psychotberapy, hns developed à varioty of techuiuos unorety soma control can le imposod on the will of an Individual. The tocaniques immivle nouromurgery, elootrle shock, drugn, hipiosis end ctbers.

2. In cortnin enoes after tho edainiatrrtion of theos techaiques, tho inlividual has munsate with respect to tho event.

3. The tecanigacs mara not been daveloped ln ths Crited Statoà to tha po.nt whero tho rosnlta can te pradictni uith rempeet to Uhs oxlont or control thst cun to schicvnds whether or nat ari to jint oxtent anresie wiil resultj anx vhat unlesirnblo phrulolozkeal repetLone ray oocur in eddition.

COR LUCLOHEI

l. If these- toandquea wore ceveloped ty a forclgi govurinont to tho extent lhst relisklo resulte osalt to eupected iu tha rajority of caseg, it is evident thst a serious taront to U. 3. Notional Fo rity vould exist.

2. Foports of Soviet intorent e:d reseeren in this dirvction, plus rurors, roporta ani evabnations of posaille. ovit ure er thesv techniquea in interrogeti ps, ern sufflciont to uarrant ecrotul imestiution of tho oujoct os e lesio for oveluating the extent of tae throat to V.r. Matinal "ccurlty •

l. That o torrl of selertists vith competenco in We sppropriats redkel flelds, end providel with the mecasery security gofoguardo to insurs access to naterlal toarine on the subjrat, te requosted to study tho probiea and rako roccizcnistions.

ATTACHMENT A

TRE PROULENt

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2. Tiunt ths otuy Lrelule roforence io all egents or procedures vhich miiit bc considorad in relation to this probles and eliainite those which U. S. eclence cen establioh an unfeagiblo.

3. That, in the cesd of arpents or proeiures or canbimtions 'areol shoro a potontial threct ry exirt whieh ennnt bo evaluated on tho tepis of the present state of lis's. scieico; rcecaniations be pade for furthar resnerch, if precticel resilta can be ecbioved vithia a rensonble tine.

l. That the rocorsceniatiers inelude the ecopoihf the reacarch roquiral, estrhlished fncilitiss winre such repoarch night tehuodurtaken, anl the" approxinate cost of the ressrroh.

5. Thut the loard culmlt an intorin report wiihin three pontws of the initiation of the study anl further interia raports avcry three months until tho study io copleted.

Leonijoded

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KERROTUANDUN

To:

trom:

bubject:

KeolerPolycrupì and Truth berums

Roferenco is made to my monorondun of f tho asa wao endenvorine to tbtain fur- B/1 thor information ccncnrning tho use of trutli sorum for the writer.

the writer und etatod thut the folicwing bocks und On 8 Janury 1040  called B/ decunonta wore the only seurcos of informution on this subject thiut ho had boen ablo to ascnrtuin:

1. Fructicnl Clinical Foychiutry byStrecher and Ebaugh

2. Hurco-inplyois ty Horsley

3. U. S. Wur Department Truining Bulletin Mouical No. 84.

with the B/1 nlgit be of assistaiíco.

He further stuted thatdomef the B/6 eanight huvo oeno informntion on this ject, Inusruch as it was bollevod thut ho, torethar with eups hud cenductod somo oxperimontntien into thls atbjoct.

No further action wi.ll bo takon b. tha writor in thia mutter wtll advico hus beon roccivod fred you.

A/8,1, 82/3

9 Jumuury 1940