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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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1. Examination was conducted on 31 August 1925 in the same location as Cases no. 1 and 2. The examination started at 10:30 a.m., was interrupted for lunch at 1:00, was resumed at 2:00, and the treatment started at 3:35. In the initial examination, the pertinent factors in the case were reviewed. These are recorded elsewhere and will not be repeated. It was decided to attempt to induce a phantasy of a meeting between Subject and Subject. The induction was started at 3:35 and Subject was given 10cc of the first solution, at which time a substitution was made in interrogators and in place of the speaking interrogator. Subject took his place. As Subject argued, he started a discussion in the phantasy was rapidly and vividly induced, Subject clinging to his old friend and attempt to find out his present address and what he had been doing since which was the last contact Subject had had with him. In order to be certain that the situation was kept under control, Subject was given a continuous injection, receiving over the next hour 25cc of the first solution (a total of 40cc). After all pertinent information had been obtained, sleep was induced to break off the phantasy. This was done with difficulty, however, because when Subject argued, he insisted that he had been present. As he was completely arrested, he recognised the impossibility of this and began to joke about the fact that he had seemed so vividly when he did argue, the situation had been returned to normal and taken the place which he occupied at the beginning. 2. None of solution No. 2 was given because Subject's history reveals susceptibility to a specific disease which he has had for about two years. In view of his negative physical examination, it was decided safe to proceed with the treatment. His physical condition at the end of the procedure was good. Except for a slight feeling of being drunk, he was fully accused and talking clearly. 3. This treatment is highly successful from a strictly professional viewpoint. The phenotype was vivid and quickly induced. It was maintained as long as the interroster desired and had to be terminated by induction of sleep.
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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.