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To provido technical support for the operating officos in ordor that.thay may utilize existing speoial interrogation techniques as well a3 newteohniquos as thoy may bocome available.

FACTS. BEARINO ON THE PROBLEM:

.1. Information is available on certain apecial techniques which are of sufficient potential to warrant thoir consideration in connection with CIA oporations.

2.,Mhile these techniques have not been developed and ovaluated completely, 'further devolopment can proceed more rapidly under field conditionsthan in domestic laboratorios.

3. Availability of these.tochniquea in the field would be of material. advantage to CIA in seleoted operational casen of an ai hoo.naturo 4. Vso of these teohniques requires personnel with special training and exporience. Efforts to recruit such personnel or to obtain them through the CLA Medical Staff have boon inoffective to date. 5.. Personnel with the requisite training might be obtained under contraot through ono or moro of several consultante who are conversant with' tho technical probloms involvod and who conaider certain typos of field experimentation neoessary,and dosirablo. 6. Arrangements can be made for full clearance and.indoctrination of personnel selected by CIA for this work, prior to thoir becoming

MEMORAIDUN FOR: Deputy Direotor

16 February 1952 A1B, 4, 3/16

SUBJECT : Progran for Project Artichoko

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aware of CiA interest in or the truo nature of the progran.

DISCUSSION:

l. The imvestigation of spocial interrogation tochniques has failed to umcover any radically now and effective proceuuro's which would givo. promise of moeting CIA's operational nosds, in toto. This fact might have boon anticipated ainoe, up to a cortain stago of dovelopmont and use, there is no difference betwean that which CIA is secking and that for, whiich psychiatrista and criminologiots have beon soarching overa numbor.of years of intensive research.

2. Sevoral potentially useful tochniques aro knom which are in fiirly common uso in psychiatry, and sone of which have boen. usod by criminologlsts to verify innocence or guilt in criminal cages. The techniquos suggoated are narco-hypnosis which has been usod with succoss : both in peychiatrio,and criminological xork, and eleotrio shock, leucotom and combinations of the latter with loypnosis which to our knowledgo have beon tried only in psychiatry..The differont conlitions vhich would portain in CIA operational use prevent a final evaluation of the full potantial of thase techniques until thoy have actually been tasted undor roalistic field conditions.  Such testing is not practicable at present, partly because of the fact that this is a rather complox oporntion to establish, but basically because CIA has not been ablo to obtain personnel with the propor qualifications to administer the .tochniquoo.

3. thilo it io feasibie, theoretically, to preparo manuala which would pormit iniiviuuals with some medical background to adninister some of the techniques, this proceduro is not rocoamonded. Similarly, the hiring of goneral medical"practiotioners for subsequent éducation and training

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in the tochniquos io pructicable but not tho most effectivo mothod.
Aotually, the use of these techniquos is as much an art as it is a
soionce, and much of what effectiveness oxiots would bo lost unless a
specialist wore available to participato during any oxperimentation. h... The demnnl for pertonnel competent in the fislds concernod is
such that direct hiring of auitablo poruonnel for pormanent employment in
CIA is elmost out of tho question. An alternate proccdure offcrs possi
bilities and is euggested for consideration. Through contact with CIA
cleared conaultants, it has been learned that specialists in at luast
some.of the fiolda could be obtained on a contract basis. The individuals
concerned would mt know of CIA interest in thoir servicos until they had
been carefully screened, security cleared, and indootrinated. Thoy would
not becope CIA employoes in fact and thus would rotain thoir association.
with their parent organization. Control of their activitieo rolating
to the project both during their poriod of service and aftorward would
be as Eood, or perhaps better, than that achieved with rogular omployoes. 5.: Ir this suggestion is considcred favorably, action can bo startec at any tire toyard the processing of candidates. A period of about aix months from initial processing date to date of availability for fiold assigmment should be antioipated. If action could be expodited, the comiog sumner months would be moot suitablo since many of tho candidates will bo doing graduate work during tho regular ochool yoar. 6. An additional advantage to thio procoduro is the fact that the candidaton whò do participate in OIA ficld oporations can continuo re
searoh projeots in their parent organizationg along tho more promising
..lines as revealed by thoir operational woric.

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CONCLUSIONS:

1. Dovolopment of speoial intorrogation tochniques now belioved to have a potontial for CíA oporational uoe requirca the adoption of a program for procuring personnel akilled in the use of thoso tochnáques and establishing then in the field where thoy can oporato under oporational conditions.

2. A possibility of procuring sone of the personnel with the requirod specialties is bolieved to exist.,

,RECOMTDATIUNS:

That CIA give consideration to this procedure in vieπ of the expressed : operational need for this type of assistance in interrogations.