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This document is a declassified CIA memorandum concerning the "Artichoke program" and its potential use of interrogation methods, with redactions obscuring specific details.

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.. Office Menzora1Z'"Cli.U1n • uNITED sTATEs < TO DATE: Via FROM SUBJECT: Reference is made to your informal memoran1 comments relative the possible use of nection with the Artichoke program. know nd has a In this connection I a ted the course, thatiililili j .. gen ,·a good lecturer, apparently well~ '!; and both psychological and police inte ~ ~is also of the impression~~hatjllllllll . th~ use or-some Arti~hoke interr~gation methods. He also d ve in that community in l .The investigati9n o~ Irl u. In view of the fact t emplr r~ activities would undouttedly consume a propo it is seriously doubted if he could be prevailed u !l - r himself with the Artichoke program as a full-t ever~orms me that he·believes in th~near future cmd again" instruct in th · !l If ~ the writer .requests that i ~viewJIIIIIIIIIIin regard to the Artichoke I: from him operating information, names of individu r recommend in this connection, and .;Jny other advic offer at writer, and his associat t~The lieve have infor -- th~t-may ve~e choke and authority to line~ cut~fully I '· program appears entirely worthwhile.-- ... '·-· ~~ " " ·~ :io- ~-·· _, :~, I . I.. ~·<".~: ' ... The image appears to be a header or splash screen for a declassified document. On the left, there is a stylized illustration of a vault door, complete with a lock mechanism and spinning tumblers. The right side of the image contains large, stylized text that reads "THE BLACK VAULT." Below this, several lines of text are displayed on a black background, explaining that the document was obtained from "The Black Vault," an online database of declassified government documents, specifically from the "MKULTRA/Mind Control Collection." A URL is also provided: "http://mkultra.theblackvault.com." There are no photographs of people, locations, equipment, handwritten annotations, signatures, official stamps, forms, diagrams, tables, or redactions visible in this image. The document is a typed office memorandum, identified as "STANDARD FORM NO. 14," with the header "Office Memorandum" and "UNITED STATES C." Several fields are present: "TO," "Via," "FROM," and "SUBJECT," with black redactions obscuring the entries. A date field is also present with a redaction. The body of the memorandum contains numbered points with significant portions of text redacted, indicated by black boxes. Handwritten annotations, including "A" and "C," are present in the upper right area, and another annotation "A/E" is in the date section.

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