"ARTICHOKE"-- (DELETED)

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00146342
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 17, 2025
• Document Release Date: January 15, 1983
• Publication Date: December 3, 1951

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and the writer
disc iseed.electric
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in addition, is a phychiatriit o coniide ate.
's, in addition, a fulli cleared.Agency-consultant.
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3. explaified that he felt that electric shock �
might be o .considerable interest to the "Artichoke" type of work.. He
stated that the standard electric-shock machine (Reiter) could be used in
two Ways. One setting of this machine produced the electric-shock
treatment (including convulsion) with amnesia after a number of treatments.
He stated that using this machine as an electro-shock device with the 0011..
vulsive;treatment, he felt that he could guarantee amnesia for certain J.:,
periods of time and particularly he could guarantee amnesia for any know--
ledge of use of the convulsive shock.. . � .
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46 4.11100.11r,. ta � ' s 'ted'that the other or lower setting of the�
(1. machine produced a different type of shock. He said he could not explain
. it, but knew that when this lower current type of shock was applied with-
out convulsion, it had the effect of making a man talk. He said, however,
� that the use of this type of shock was prohibited because it produced in, �
....the individual excruciating pain -and he stated that there would be no
,-Ouestion in his mind that the individual would be quite willing to give.
information if threatened with, the use of this machine. , He stated that
this was a t ird egree method but, undoubtedly, would be effective. "
tated that he had never had the device applied to ,
14'14d :talked with people who had Peen shocked in this manner
stated' that they complained that their whole head was on fire and it'.
was much too painful a treatment for any medical practice. He stated
. that the only way it was ever used whs in connection with sedatives Id:.
n its use was extremely painful. The writer asks
hether or not in the "grOggy".condition following the convul-
sion by the electric-shock machine anyone had attempted to obtain hyp-
notice control over the patient, since it occurred to the write
it would be a good time to attempt to obtain hypnotic controls.
stated that to his knowledge, it had never been done, but he could make
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. this attempt in the. near future at th and be would see whether .
a, or, not this could be done.
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and ,as well as all others present
�. i: , �disclose Use of electro shock at'Considerable�length and it was
: .,.... . . opinion that an individual could gradually be re-
duced through the use of electro-shock treatment to the vegetable level. ��
,,, ���� ' ,.. He stated that, whereas amnesia could be guaranteed relative the actual -� ,-.� ..
"a', '''' ..' l� ',.; use of-.the .shock and the time element surrounding its he ,asid it would � --,
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,11 rimembered_some:details of certain. things and complete blanks in other' �� ;.. -;
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101 according ';''' is portable* aid ' � .
'�that the at � ard electro-shock machine is a very common machine in me di-'
Cal offices and in the major' citierathere must be novena hundred' of them ��
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detecting that an
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individual who had been given the electro-shock treatment were placed on ; �
the encephalograph within two weeks after the shock had been given. He
stated that a definite pattern (similar to the epileptic-encephalograph (.1':
peMer) showed on the encephalograph after the shock treatments, but this:
pattern diminished in time and disappeared in about two weeks.
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