Doc 0000190569
CIA
This CIA document, titled "SI Testing, 17 July 1951," details experiments conducted to determine if individuals under control could act "normal" when instructed, with the tests deemed successful despite variations in subject performance.
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Ask the archive about this →--------------------------------·---·-·-------·--·-------·· .•... . tt: • . ,.. .. . ,: e ~~~~ •J· ,\-. i!•!:t~· To: Files I..::: . ' J . I''' .. , " I ,.f : I • ~ ' Subject'. SI Testing, 17 July 1951, (Polygraph Room #J). The advanced experiments were then started using each subject in rotation while others observed--all subjects having been briefed in advance. These tests were designed to determine whether or not average individuals under H control could move, talk, and think in a completely "nonn.al" manner if so instructed. -~-•ere In each case, able to.procluce '•;·•.j• the desired result ~s~~ "normal" activity ·~.. \... .......... .... ,/ that tests were regarded as completely successful. Howev9r, it should be noted that the ability to act normally apparently varies in each subject--one having a slowness of one a tempo- mov~ment, rary lack ing slightly changed speech activity. t this point are of the I A· opinion tha to the subject to ~ct normally in all ways, even minor variations in behavior could th~se ~'normal" >· be removed. Tests were concluded with the usual precautionary in- structions. .c. ' Comment: . ;;\' ' ~ t I ! . tt ;t \ l . ' ' Above subjects apparently ar~cle of excellent ,.\, \II performances an . . ·- an agreed that "•I', • furth~the with same a ove could fool any but the most careful observers in normal activity. "o I ·' .r. l. . i . .. . ,!. .. 'I,•, "' ' . ;,< ' . .:f ~·
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The document is a declassified typewritten report on a page that appears to be from a notebook, indicated by the left edge and punch holes. There are horizontal lines present from notebook paper, and a handwritten notation "A/B, 3, 2/134" is in the upper right corner. Several areas of text are obscured by redactions, appearing as black rectangular blocks of varying sizes, particularly in the first paragraph and scattered throughout. A large, roughly drawn letter "A" in a circle is present on the left side of the page. There are no photographs, stamps, forms, diagrams, or tables visible.
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