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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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appeared. while he was sitting, he wrote on his mind whether he should cuss him out, the case officer appeared to become extremely small and then rose to register dramatic proportions. He proceeded, however, to berate him subsequently. While this was point on, another case officer replaced the first and then he switched. One point in regard to the whole dream that should be mentioned is that he told a very superior attitude toward all the people who were walking around the station. In reference to the interpretation, he mentioned the indicated time of his life when he was happy, that he had spent a good deal of his life and that the case officer who grew small and then large produced the association of an experience of the previous afternoon when he thought he saw a fourth person in the room who was very tall and dark in appearance. No real attempt was made to test his amnesia for the events of the preceding day. But one has the impression that he has mixed feelings in regard to it with confusion in his own mind as to how real any part was. 12. He was reassured that our tests were finished, that we were convinced that he had told the truth, and that we would recommend to higher authorities that he be given greater privileges:
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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.