CHEMICAL WARFARE - UNITED STATES -- PSYCHOCHEMICAL AGENTS & NATURALLY OCCURING TOXINS

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00184386
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 21, 2025
• Document Release Date: January 15, 1983
• Publication Date: April 8, 1953

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- 'studied as a basis for the synthesis or tendidsta pershochomical
egents. These substences hate in common the ability to produce hallucinations
end mental aberrations. The greatest difficulty in this group of agents
has ben the establishment of suitable screening techniqu t ve
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the pashroom_poisons from Amenita.ranoeria. Material is collected from the
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structure. If those eortpounds turn out to be sufficiently- simple synthesis
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