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'; Office Memoran • UNITED STATES :GOVERN1Y1ENT ri/Bj:za; '! 6/ /1- TO DATE: 25 Har. 52 A FROM SUBJECT: I & I ' ' 1. You have ask~d me to put dmm in wr:l ting some of my ideas on . ' : l \ how I would go about getting expert help on hypnotism. Above all, I ·)' wculd rely upon proven experime-ntal ts who have their feet psyc.:holoE:i~ on the ground on this subject and who have done plenty of research work on hypnotism. 2. The most hypnotism were carr1ed out by i began his work wh •I is a care ully docu mented research which is a "musttt reading for anybody who ...... cla.~sic I':··.· to be even seriously in the Unfortu- - pr0fes~es int~rested subj~ct. nately, is no longer interested in hypnotism and more- over he as beccme auite feeble, but his two princlpal r~search assJ.st.ants are still active in psychology and would prove partict:.larly valuable as consultants on a research otism. The D efor~ compe esent time, he ~ He has plenty of experience in , business psychology. I would rese~rch, nly trust his judsmen t problem dealing with hypnotism or c~rtai drugs. An of his and thinkin can be obtained frcm ind~ion a recent article entitled I believe morr than has m:Jin- interest in hypnotism thnir days with sine~ r~search ls the inventor of. R test of SUGCP.St~bility >~hich w3::; considerable emph~si s in~b ock. The te~d. has b~~n ns~d by ~xperim~nters. who have ~ublishcd about it in th~ li ter~Lur~ • ·I" . 1.. :\ J:> ,. I·;', ( I• \ ·· ·1 1 ·' D .I .... . ,. .. I I I j , ·' - 2 .... 0 L.i.i;;-~ ~rtlc r:r-c:r. ti..ne tc writes ll"s on hypnctism, or con- tributes chapters to text books on the ~ubj~ct. I have seen him I . hypnotize on many different occasjons and I know that he is very effective in producing all sorts of hypnotic phenomena in his sub jects. I· IJ I l:J r· ~ .D I A • - .. - • .. I r,. I· The image displays a graphic featuring a stylized vault door on the left, rendered in shades of gray and highlighted with blue light. To the right of the vault, text is presented against a black background, overlaid with a faint blue glow. The text announces "THE BLACK VAULT" in large, white, stylized lettering. Below this title, smaller white text explains that the document was obtained from "The Black Vault, an online database of declassified government documents." It further specifies that this record is part of the "MKULTRA/Mind Control Collection," containing over 20,000 declassified CIA pages, and provides a URL for the online collection. This document appears to be a typed "Office Memorandum" from the United States Government, dated 25 Mar. 52. The "TO" and "FROM" fields are heavily redacted, as is a portion of the "SUBJECT" field, leaving only "I & I'". The main body of the memo, which discusses ideas on getting expert help on hypnotism and references specific researchers and their work, is heavily redacted, with numerous blacked-out sections obscuring names, titles, and specific details. There are also handwritten annotations in the margins and at the top right of the page, including a sequence of letters and numbers that reads "A/B, III, 6,9". Additionally, there are several instances of handwritten "D" marks, often used to denote bullet points or sections of text, and small handwritten drawings or symbols. The page contains a typewritten document with handwritten annotations. There are two distinct redaction blocks, one large black rectangle obscuring content in the middle of the page and another smaller one in the upper section. A handwritten "A" appears in the lower right quadrant of the page. The document also has a page number "- 2 -" near the top center, and a handwritten "0,D" and "D" in the left margin. The overall appearance suggests a processed document, possibly with sensitive information removed.