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1. On Saturdey:morning Chief, Sccurity A Research. Staff.aud. Cuief Tedhical bwmch, tol A. è and of and dlscussed cerjcin prorgsals in connection G thathe project known as In genutalsthe project is as follows: In the United States, in Kand-elsowhere thero are large muabors df hoare F "of the country in vhich they sre residing but are gcitizens. These for various reasons such es ausence from their families, possibly anti-Communist,, possibly pro-Cormunist reasons, possibly business reasous,uish to.return to thoir native homes ine. B is concerned with the contactinr of those people and sending ther throurh covert channels back intd co perform intelligence F missions for this Agency.

2. Mlore spocifically, the project contomplates a mechanisn within thc United States wliieh will bo a ways and means of contscting alien..fin thc United States (and elsewhere) end throuch. amreaments with the end the errange to have them branded as alien... and removed from the United States as "undcsirable aliens". Ky the usc ol thoso nechanisma; it is believer tliesc alien Aill be given lecel entre into contemplates contacting these individuals carefully screoning and testing them to see uhcre their loyalties lie and indoctrinating theso people so that they, when they return to will carry out missions for this Agency, regardlcss of Gommunist screening and "brain woshing".

3. lhe exact technique of contacting these peoplg-has not been workod out but through sympathetic "committoes".or "fake" h ft-wing, organizations, it iu believed these people' can be reached and coutacted.

h. The main problem in this case has been and aluays vill be to dotcrmine A) whcre the exact sympathios of the individuals lic and b) hou can we be sure tho subject will perforn the mission onco he foes through the Iron Curtain and C) how can wve train or indoctrinate these individuals so they can pass the "screening" or "brain wəshing" that, probably will be given then by the

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Chiof, Security Hescarch Staff Chief, Tuclmical ranch

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Coumnists upon threir return torss Turtherncre, in this connoction, how cen they be node to snccesatully resist this "brein washina" or Escrcening" so that thoy will te passed or accepted by them. and yet will ultimately carry out their acsirned rissions.

Toward this end and his rroup decignated to study this problen and to diccover vays and neans of as:uring continuous loyalty of individuals diapatencd to., F for this Agoncy. In carring, out this assignront, 1125 A been in studyine indoctrination techni ucs an human psycholocy W In addition, has apparently talked with Sthers tho havg rclated interests slong thosc lines. fhe writer and camot establish exactly whyruaswos not referred to the AhtIChokE work originally since it was otvious. thet.a was to a. certain extent aware of the.ARclcilckb york through contacts ho hed queviously had vith ste apparently referred ertain.it" Cariliar with the so-called Pafroup of the As far.os is known, was Chair-B man of one of the rrcups under o. and vas responsible for report along, AKTICHOKE hines which this staff had B prevlously rqviewed and found inmany waysquite unoatisfactery and empty.

6..Anparently..after six or eight woeks ofstudy withe had cone to the conclusion that the answer to this problen tas through selectionsczenoing, indoctrination and ùltimately, hypnosis. Houever, and. Ahad also apparently cone to the couclusion thet no tcsts had ucen designed as yot to:deterfine thie sixty-four dollar question; i.e. can individuals hr cerranded under hynnosis to do thines that they vould not othervise do because of morals, treining, éthics etc.? This dead-cnd was,rovealed tp the. conference and,since the.Technical Bironch and hescrs. Land chro all arrived at this conclhsicn abcut three mid ono halr years ago, this discevery was not rnzarued as unique. lloveverigne irportant fact arose. fromtho diseussins and that is, and his troup believo they have arple money and they can sunply bodies ad aross where actuel tests can ro madeto establish wiether or uot individuals wlll act aralist their morals, etiics, upbringing, otcuFurtherrore, under tho cover of this loose projcct ramed Pthis'type of experimentati can be financed and carried out without: mich additional.approval or work within the Agency. It appéared obvious tσ all rombers at Lhn conleronce thatearodictlons could not accurately be. made in the behavior of Ibeing sent back into unless certain vory positive.arid definitive tests hnd boen run and results very clesrly established:

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7 a both stated thet they felt Socurity
would arprove of tne use of thesesretechanig for carrying out
ARfIcHOEE experirentation. Botikem the also lelt A313 projcct had creat rerii es cortaia fundariental facts
could bs deronstreted. It was also recogniced that if fand A
his froup could produce bodics and if certein very rough, primitive,
and ultimate tosts could be carried out thcn a nore accurate pre
diction could be rade in cornection with the ultinate goal of gfor specific work for this Ageucy. which is- the rvnningof vack into F

a. This problen tas discussed for sevçrel hoirs. All hands participated. It uas egreed in genersl tisf this typc of work had to be cerried out A) vithì Security cleafench and not as a freclancé show and #i) that it shonld be carried out with the technical aspects under the AaTIClick! experimentation program. s andifelt that full Security approval could be obtained since nd rorecogniscd the clear needs of a finat type expcrimentation. rrtza nd 2130 felt the ARrIcliokE ncchinery could be brought to berr fully in this type of vork; i.e, scientific suppert (chericals, ete.), support in hpnosis, redical end psychiatric support. and technical support (tape recordinçs, ovie picture'cançret, regular cameras, etc.). Furtherrore, in this connectionsms pointed out that an ARIICliokE Teon vas in the areasstxmnd one of their basic assignnents vas thecarrying out of Ecsts to detorrine whcther or not ARTICHoKE could go es fer as ccntrol of tho activities, thoû;thts, otc. of tie individual in controllod nissious andi possibly over long distances und over ccnsiderable poriods of tine.

2. It uas srrced at the conclusion ef the conferctice that ould return t. à and continue his training and on I lercli 195h, Nonday,would return to ashingtou and come up with a serios of tesls and itcos that could be subnitted for AlTIcliOkr study and later their possiblo implementotion. It was agreed by liostrs2 tp. convey the general details of this conferenceto ond to that uhen the natter could be formally taken up, Security would te able to define its positiou and raise walever phjections miht appcar. It wao also agrced thrt the Tochnical Branich would cancider the natter from an ARTiCHOkE point of view and be prepared to aosist. in the dcsigned tests end vorking out says end voons of cafrying out cxperinentstion which yould bc conclusive aud uould ultirately work to the succoss of the projeel. B3

10. lessrsarcconize the drastic morel problens involved in ckperincntation of this type and aro of the opinion that vhether or not this program can be set in totion

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should be a decision for a very high level. ,Tochnically, houaver, this type of exporinontation is essoutiel to deterrine finslly just hou far human toings can le controlled (with or vithout their consent) uaing ARrICliORE techniques:

ll. For tatter of recprd, the Techuical Branch believos ue chould tako full advantare dr the opportunity to act under this Wcover. The Fmission itself has merit, particularly if through AitflokE we cai "guarentoe" succcsclvl accomplishment of rissions ly its ute 'irrespective of tlio "brain vashingh and "screaning" that máy.le applied to'the returnins agenta by the The Technical Branch alsotelieves that the chly vay"théoc ncasures can be tested is by actual exporinentation which must not re of tì:e acadomic or clinical type and mrust be of a typo that proves beyond any doubt certain prenises that up to now have never been esteblished. The Technical Branch recommends that. we support tlis work but believes that the entire operation should be authorized by Security and the technical and mechanical operations be placed:squarely in the jurisdiction of the AlTICIlokE program and directly under the control of the Sccurity Officer,

both empliasized the fact that this type of work must not he overwhelwedand overburdoned in a.maze of statistics, teclunical reports and learned academic experinentation sinco previous experiences alcn; theso linçs clearly indicate,that when this appears the end results aro almost always neretive.