Doc 0000190887
CIA
This CIA document, dated June 1950, discusses the interrogation of individuals captured by the Red Army in 1945, noting the potential for obtaining valuable information through interrogation techniques, including hypnosis, and requesting personnel for such interrogations.
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The document is a typed memo with handwritten annotations in black ink and some red ink. There are several large, black redactions obscuring portions of the text, primarily in the right margins and across specific words and phrases throughout the body of the document. A handwritten "G" appears in the lower third of the page, and a signature or initial in red ink is present in the upper right corner. There are also some fainter notations, possibly stamps or routing marks, near the top and bottom edges. The document's layout suggests it's a memo with standard "TO," "FROM," and "SUBJECT" fields.
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