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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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belief that he had very little control during this period. After thirty minutes, his control gradually returned to the extent that he recognised a fourth party in the room, whereas before there had been only three. 8. Before complete recovery, he was given another injection of the first solution over a period of five minutes, consisting of 15cc. He had another good initial response and this time the interrogator imitated a friend. This response was exceptionally good and was associated with a good initial response of hatred to his interrogator. This response remained very good for approximately thirty-five minutes. During this session also, the interrogator thought that he had been recognized as himself, but this was proved erroneous by further developments and the interrogator himself recognizes that the man was living actively in his phantasy. Everything which was said was appropriate to the circumstances. The content is on the recordings of the interview. 3. After forty-five minutes, he again began to control himself well, and he was given an intra-vascular injection of lec of the second solution followed in ten minutes by lec of the first solution. His response was again good and the interruption proceeded with direct interrogation. It was considered that during the first thirty minutes of this session, Subject had little control. His final blood pressure was 130/60. 10. It is my overall impression that from a technical analysis, it was a satisfactory interview. For approximately thirty minutes at the beginning of each of the three segments of the procedure, there was good detachment from reality and loss of control. There are two things, however, that need clearing up, neither one of which is probably very important. At one time Subject stated an intricately that he would like to see the rest of our knowledge, he is not. The second point is that he then of a number of otherwise, as I understand from the interrogator, the story checks "all but too perfectly." It is my own impression, based on the total examination, that in the areas which were covered, Subject was telling the truth. 11. At a final interview on 26 August, conducted with the same case officer, subject complained of a headache and related a rather involved dream in which he was in having the feeling that he had recently come there from he was looking at the brain schedule to try to find the town of he had difficulty in finding this but finally did locate it at the end of the list rather than there it should have been. while he was standing looking at the sign, one of his former case officers
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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.