(ESTIMATED PUB DATE) RESEARCH PLAN RE ARTICHOKE

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00146319
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: January 17, 2025
• Document Release Date: January 15, 1983
• Publication Date: January 1, 1954

4ES1JHCH PLAN
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The reoarch Froject will be carried cut at th
At the present tiro there are oz hundred and fortr-tWo (142) ipon-
psychotics classified no criminal-pexual paychopaths-.. There are four
full-tine paythiatrista and varying =bora of medical interns; two
psycholecisty; four social well:oral-nurses and attendants. The super-
intendent of the Hospital is1111111111111111111111111a witting renber
or the research tear. The institution cores under the direction of
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The subjects will be selected from the one hundred and forty-two
(1142) criminal-sexual psychopaths on whom there is an adequate previous
invooticotion including police reports, pica1, paychiatric and
paychologic axasanationa. and social histories. no km ranco of Um
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subjects varies from twonty to seventy years and there is a widc vari-
ation of intollicencO lemols and social backgrounds.
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sient'oraptionts and has also used hypnosis with mental
patients. The research assistants have not boon selected
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as yet bqt might well include psychologists cr medics nou
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MENpresent secretary Who win :do all the nodes-
amrrstonographio work in addition to liar present duties.
Three teams or two senior prorossional nen each 1.-Lfl be soldctcd.
;us tow? working with the selected group or patients will use straight
interrogation, hypnosia and hypnosis and LSD and hypnosis and a
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tetrahydrocannabinol acetate derivative. Another team working on another
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group of subjects will ule straight interrogation, LSD with interrop.tion
and a tetrahydrocannabinel acetate derivative and interrogition. Later;,
the third tpara with pother group of subjecto will use straight interro-
gation and a combination of LSD and a tetrahydriimannabinel acetate
derivative
A resting of all the rO,Pitre of the researeh'projeet bill be briefed
on the drugs to be ueed and ail of the pharmacological and mlpical know-
ledge gained .= far in the use of them druge.
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'Inselecting groups of subjects for experimentation, the following
objectives will be equght:
1) Subjects will be *elected who have denied ellogatione
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or'vcricun kinds that can be checked or strongly assumed
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2) As far as poogibies the actual research ran administering
, drugs.will not be aware of the drug he is advdmiztering
and placebos will be interspersed with drug administration.
3) .Vrocautions will be taken to neutralize ago, intalli-
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other controllable factor in aelecting groups. _Ad-
ministration of drugs will be done bath openly and
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and written reports will be obtained in other casce.
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' 5) Due care will be oxareissd in equating nothods of
interrogation as far as this can be done. The results
� of interrogation with drugs and other.techniquos will__
ba checkad against existing records and qualitative and
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quantitative reports will by evaluated. Accurate and
=Main reports will, be kept and reports will be sub-
-stilted on the�blIsis of interim progress and corplete .
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