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Chief, Technical Branch

SUBJECT: Conference with

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1. Das cooperative, but much less familiar with our problems than was either 1,

2.1 Was tentatively doubtful that ESP (extrasensory perception) would prove of use.

3. He doubted that a post-hypnotic suggestion could be positively depended úpon to conpel a hypnotized subject to carry out an activity toward which that subject, when in an unhypnotized condition, was unalterably opposed.

4. He thought that the old Kent-Rosanoff Association Test's usefulness hed not tranexhausted. Words relevant to an interrogntion were to be interpolated and the subject's reactions observed. Such a modification was once reported from the

(However, I looked into this type of modified Kent-Rosanoff sevcral years ago in connection with suspected malingering: a non-cooporative subject could too easily throw off the interrogator and vitiete the findings.)

Office MemOrandur • UNIrEDSTATES GOVERNMENT

DATE: 28 October 1953