Doc 0000190672
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This document, from the CIA MKUltra mind-control program collection, discusses doubts about the usefulness of ESP and the reliability of post-hypnotic suggestions for compelling subjects to act against their will.
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The document is a typewritten report with handwritten annotations. The header includes typewritten text "Chief, Technical Branch" and a date "28 October 1953". There are several large black redactions obscuring portions of the text, particularly at the top and bottom, as well as smaller redactions throughout. Handwritten marks include an "A" in the top left corner, a "A/B, III, 6, 11" in the top right, "D, D" and a single "D" on the left margin, a "B" on the left margin, and an "A" with a hyphen and another redacted box below the main body of text. The bottom section of the page is almost entirely redacted. There are no visible photographs, diagrams, stamps, or forms.
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