CONFERENCE WITH (DELETED), 22 SEPTEMBER 1953

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00146346
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 17, 2025
• Document Release Date: January 15, 1983
• Publication Date: October 28, 1953

Office Memo; Aandum � uivithliTSTATES GOVERNMENT
TO : Chief, Tec4nical Branch
FSOM
SUBJECT: Conference with
DATE: 28 October 1953
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1. IFIs cooperative, but much less familiar with
our pralems than was either
itas tentatively doubtful that ESP (extra -
sensory'perception) would prove of use.
- 3. He doubted that a post-hypnotic suggestion could be posi-
tively depended upon to compel a hypnotized subject to carry out
an activity toward which that subject, when in an unhypnotized
condition, was unalterably opposed.
4. He thought that the old Kent-Rosanoff Association Test's
usefulness had not tar:exhausted. Words relevant to an interroga-
tion were to be interpolated and the subject's reactions observed.
Such a modification was once reported from the
(However, I looked into this type of Modified Kent-
"Rosanoff several years ago in connection with suspected malingering:
a non-cooperative subject could too easily throw off the interro-
gator and vitiate the findings.)
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