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SUBJECT: Conference witha C

C at the jormer's office in the tes seen by myself and Washington, D.C., on 6 November 1953.

gave the impression of being the beat informed, as well as expressing the highest degrec of cooperation, of the five authorities whom I heve contdcted in behalf of ARTICHOKE.

3. "Truth Serums" - He quoted historical sources not generally known, that described the obtaining of reliable and most important information from a Givil War captured Confederate Officer through interrogation under chloroform anesthesia.

Recent narconnalysis of certein unwilling subjects had succeeded through this ruse: an exhaustive physical examination, including the taking of blood for tests, finally assuring the . subject that he showed evidence of an incipient fatal disease that could be averted only by an immediate intravenous injection.

"Scheintodt" -1 repmmented that pistols so called had been in Germen manufacture for mmy years. Chemicals other than teargas would in all probability have been used: te supgested our contacting:

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owner/manager of a research and development lab at

118,5,112/3 Office MelMOrandum · UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

DATE: 13 November 1953

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Electric Fields - With the potential of radar waves or electromagnetic fields, to effect' confusion or aleep, he was unfamiliar.