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l.A suggested research program for ARTICHOKE purposes.ia hereby presented. Although it has been impossible to go into, this idea in preet detail.some of tha pertinent facts follorii

i2The underaigned served in the
In an infommal discusaion with hin,in which L did not discuss my partioular interests I have learned that the
carries on many of its experinents within the federal prisons. " Severalso-called dangerous exporiments were conduoted in federal prisons and there is great co-operation,between the Fand the research organization.

3. Intaresting from the AnTICHOkE point of view is the fact that thera pre some fourthousand (4,000) American military men who are:serving court martial.santences in the fedoral prisons at the present time.  Thése men are scattered through the federal in stitutions acconiing to their age -- aome being at reformitories, others at prisons." It is administratively possible that the. sentences of these mon oan be reduced by direatinn of tha office. Tharefore,if these men should,ba vanted for" work, on a dangerous research project, it might be possible to motivatetheir intereat by promising that. recommandations would,be made to the Tofrice to hare.their sentences appropri. ately reduced if they co-operated in the oxperimentation. Alao many offenses of militnry men were committod in cirounstances whioh might tend to lessen the feeling of guilt on the part of the individual'and suoh casee might reveal interesting information.

4 Another bit of information that came up is that the fof the reformitory at Buch an individual might be very Literested in experimonta along ARTl-ClOzn lines. The closest foderal inatitution (with the exceptione of Natienal Training School):is at Lowisburg, Fonnsylvania, 21.64

5.All federal prisons have hospital sstups with dootors on the permanent stafr. Such things as the size of the inatitution and ourrent population would have'to be conaidered but it is a : faot.that the faderal prisona are not overcrowdod as is tha case with many state prizonspthue, it would be muoh easier to obtain mrkne mane in a federal inatitutiono

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who would be tho contact, and the of the institution friend, selected.: It may not even be necessary to clear the modics in" the institutlon if the ARTICHOKE tean would represont itsolf as resoarch team fron a univeraity or a research organization. At most, it would be neoassary only to clear the chiar modic. Since both are lpcated in the alty,. it, would bevery easy to definitaly detormine the feasibility of such a project with no expense."I understand that who has been at the since its inception, bas engaged in many highe leval government aotivities and may already bscleared for contaat by. thle Agencyain