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This Central Intelligence Agency document, estimated to date from September 1954, is a medical report by a redacted author on ARTICHOKE team interrogations. It describes examinations of subjects in late August, in which injected solutions were used to induce detachment and fantasy states so that case officers could question them. The report judges the subjects probably truthful and questions one subject's value for legal proceedings. It concludes that ARTICHOKE techniques are a valuable support weapon.
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continued to insist that he had been with him in the wood and park he so cherished near about. The subject even insisted to that he had bricked him and that he wanted to return to the place finally the subject, although still confused, accepted the anecdon that he had dressed visibly and assured high praise by his dresser. The case was concluded at about 5:30 p.m. after and checked subject's condition and found it satisfactory. (Lateral report indicates previous heart condition.) 8. On Wednesday, 1 September 1974, a general conference was held with all case officers involved and the AFTCHUKE team present. The case of was discussed and results learned as highly satisfactory and important. The AFTCHUKE Team, based on the observed results of the treatment and on the professional opinions of, interposed no objections to operational use of subject or returning him. In addition, several matters involving all cases were discussed and results were reviewed. 9. It should be noted here that all of the above cases were handled under straight duty: techniques—hygiene or nurse-hygiene, but not allied. This was argued even for the basic reasons: A) broadly pressed for life and b) there were no special officers available or present at the time who were in any way grounded in hypnosis. 10. At the conclusion of the work at the AFFICACE team returned to the request of officers there to examine the possibility of the use of the AFFICACE techniques in connection with two subjects. After a careful examination of all details available in these cases, AFFICACE treatment was denied on both medical and security grounds. Thereafter on Saturday, in September, after studying the above cases on Thursday and Friday, the AFFICACE team left the area. ## CCCOLLEGE ## 1. 1. In the opinion of the ARTIClOKE team members, the effort was profitable and generally successful. As has been stated before, absolute predictions as to outcome of cases cannot be made in advance. Certainly armenias cannot be guaranteed. However, it is skillful that the ARTIClOKE techniques are a valuable support weapon and should with more casework and more research become increasingly efficient and certain. SPECIAL CONTACTS 1. The MJGiNTe team greatly appreciates the opportunities for handling actual cases. This is the only positive test of research and study.
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 10 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.