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1. The attached papors representtgcurrent thinking and a reexamination of the ARTICHOKE ains and objectives after four months experience in the field.Will fill in detaila when he returns to Headquarters around the first of June.

2. My commonts on the enclosures are as follows:

a. Regarding,paragraph 3 a, Attachment No. 1. We will determine the eyentual location ofthe ARTICHOKE Team after woighing all faetors. Whila is being considered as a baae for the Tean, the final determination has not yet been made.

b. Regarding paragraph 3 b. This is a very important observation which, if proven true, will upset even the approximate timotableoriginally concaived. To deyelop methods and technihueg, which apparently do not now exist,applicable to the different racial groups in thewill be a major, timo consuming project.

c. Regarding paragraph 4. Tho technical assistanco onvisaged hera are oreirn interpreters and translators not technicians such as

d. Regarding paragraph 3, Attachmont No.:2. Phase I has, wo believe, considerable merit and on this plan we would appreciate your comments and concurrencs. We disapprove Phase II at this tims on the basis of the requiremont to make the. .knouledgeable. If, at

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sone later date, and I plan to discuss this with soon, an appropriate cover for a Fhase II operation can be set up without : causing the to be witting, as, for example, under the guise of anprogram, the plan has possibilities.

ARTICHOKE functions which may prove of value to otheriunits. 3. .Attachment 3 is forwarded for your files as a statement of our

3 ENCLOSURES:

1. Nemo, dta 12 May 54, Reiteration of Aims Objectiveą and Functions

2. Memo, dtd 11 May 54, Proposed R&D Program to be Conducted at. G Station

3. lèmo, dtd 21 Jan 54, ARTICHOKE Project

25 May 1954

Distribution: 3-Addressee w/Encls as noted.

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