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(?'\ I ·/) !A''l• ~-~ il\ .,. I ~ _J.J.'-.I;_..~,:y' DE.PAR.TMENT OF HEALTH. EDUCATION. AND WELFARE PUBLIC HEALTH SEAVIC! 1 December 1958 Nadeau Juatlat• ot Wntu H.Utla A.Wictin a.-an:ll Cnrtr u.s. hWlc Hcaltla S..ma Hoepital l.aiapa. ltaatllck1 --)-----··· .. ~b)(J ---~--- .I L---· ------------- r: Thanks for your letter-of 26 November 1958. I do not yet Y~ow the January schedule, but 1 am anticipating that the Committee on Drug Addiction and Narcotics will hold its annual meeting in \1ashington sometime during that month. Dr. Eddy is corr.ing do\·m , next week and I.may learn at that time when the meeting is to be. I \vill let you kr~----~ /. ~ 1 have receive\t $00 mg of Psilocyl:iin.J If you would like some of the material plm.e-.teL~e..-lmo.,,. I have noH given doses of 2 to 3 mg/70 kg to 8 men, and am observing definite effects with even these doses, \·rhich are lo\ver than those recorT1.11ended by the company. The pattern seems to be very LSD-like. Concerning the benzimidazoles, I am enclosing a thermofax copy of part of a letter from Dr. Eddy. The three compounds mentioned are not these of Janssen, but are produced by the Ciba Company. Two of them, you will notice, are tremendously potent in monkeys (see figures on physical dependence). I could probably obtain small supplies of the two most potent drugs, and ask Dr. Eddy ~ill to obtain some for me when he is here next week. I also have a supply of Ba-19390, and some information about its use in clinical trials. It is not as potent as morphine in man and, therefore, is of little interest at the moment. As soon as I talk to Dr. Eddy I will let you lmow about the January dates. With kindest personal regards, Yours very sincerely, l{t~Qr~~. H~is Isbell, M.D. Director HI: tlm Enclosure ;3-ff The page features a dark, stylized background with a digital image of a bank vault door on the left. On the right, text describes the origin of the document, specifying it's from "The Black Vault," an online database of declassified government documents concerning the MKULTRA/Mind Control Collection. This collection consists of over 20,000 declassified pages from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). A website address, "http://mkultra.theblackvault.com," is prominently displayed in yellow at the bottom, indicating where the entire collection can be downloaded and accessed online. The overall design evokes a sense of secrecy and the storage of sensitive information. The document is a typed letter with several handwritten annotations and an official stamp. A circular stamp with text "DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE" is visible at the top center, along with "PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE" and a date. Handwritten annotations include circled numbers "147" and "6)(3)" in the upper left and a signature and name "Harris Isbell, M.D. Director" in the lower right. Several lines of text are obscured by a darker shaded rectangle that is not fully visible in the provided image. There are no photographs, diagrams, or tables present.