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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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in addition to the drawing of blood, but he does not know how many solutions were used or of that nature. He asked if a narcotic had been given and he was told that it was merely a weak solution used in psychological testing. He questioned my identity as a physician a number of times although he accepted the answer as a genuine physician. His final conclusions seemed to be that I was some sort of psychologist. It is my opinion, after the total examination, that Subject is probably telling the truth. 5. I seriously question his value for any legal proceedings. His indecency makes him grasp for the nearest authoritative source on which he can lean. His doing this at the present time with us indicates that he is just as likely to do so if he remains in his ordinary. This does not indicate that he is not telling the truth now, but that he would probably also tell the truth upon his return. We consider his operational potential nil, except perhaps to return to his homeland with a good deal of pseudo information.
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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.