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IIOR IDUi FOR FILFS - Projeet Dluebird

SUEJrCT:Fizcornt, from nemorerlum for the Fecord b A on Percl 26 July 1951, ab fomuronce H-B/3 B

1. .The excorptsfromi subjeet memorarnhum quoted bela aro eirculated as a matter of possible interert, to Project, Plucbirdt. While this information en tho surface docs not. seca to !o too hichly classified for sdministrative reasons it shculd be hendled diseroetlz.Tho oririnel memorndum is on file with tae Assistont for

,uhich 1s ceructing difor rerrated the neputy Director tes CIA G sero a CL reprocent livc to c conferone psychelegicrl varfare to lo holdr The undercigned atiended the confonnce es an orserver and participeted eriefly in discussions.

"5. I urs struck ly the onoraous offort ard auun ef money app rently leing ependled by the varteus orrcnis: Lions ropresented in so-called psychologicel werfare b-sic roseorch. The organizations uhich cre fostering such rcsenrch arc es follovs:

T "6. Pese-rch unlerway :nri conternleted was diescrited in varied dotail. The sponsors are concerned primarily, heuaver, uith basic investinetions desired to .discover the manner in

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which sttibadies, labits, re:eliono, patlerna of tehavior, centánents, influence, ete. arise, are devclopad en) can ie erploited. It. epperred th: t several. of the rozerch nrajeets are concernad vith the samo roscnrch objeetives directed at. discovering: iicuticl besoa for inflvencing indivihuels' tought patterns, hebils, actions ani reactiens to stimuli. If thoso resoarch projects duplicnte each other,.it results in inereroed cost to ths government, aur! perhaps nore tencerourly, to unccononic utilization of wivorsity f. cilities end rosorrch rorepal- 1 vould sucrosl. thet. tiis is e metter which the sesssssight profitably concider."