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This document is an agenda for an ARTICHOKE MEETING held on October 22, 1953, listing discussion topics including LSD and comments from various divisions, with significant redactions.

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t-...:.::rr::G • AGEllD..\ - ARTICliC:'J:: 22 October 1953 1. Introduction or nerr DD/P Reprcscnt:ltive. t z i - 2. Discussion or LSD. ' i 3· Discussion or Dr. trip. I I .b. i Discussion of resta~~ent of aims ~~d functior~ -c;_ I or ARTICHOr3. '.: 5. !SS co~ents. ·- c_:: .I 6. OSI ccn.-ents. - "') . . I .. 7• Medical Division ..... co~ents. . .~. , 8. DD/P co.;.l. .. ents. ,:.>_ . • 9o Director ~f Se~~ty co~~ents. -. .-. ; .• I I ! .- ... .. I i I i . . I . .. ~ • .. I .... I ..•. t,-:,;:, ,·• •.. The visible content of this document consists of a stylized title, "THE BLACK VAULT," and a block of text providing information about the document's origin and content. On the left side of the page, there is a graphic of a vault door with intricate mechanical details and a blueish glow emanating from it. The text states that the document is from The Black Vault, an online database of declassified government documents, specifically from the MKULTRA/Mind Control Collection, which contains over 20,000 declassified pages from the CIA. The text also provides a URL for accessing the collection. This page contains a typed document with a handwritten annotation "263" in a circled area at the top right. The document appears to be an agenda for an "ARTICHOKE MEETING" held on "22 October 1953." The agenda lists nine numbered items, including discussions on a new DD/P Representative, LSD, and comments from various divisions. There is a significant black redaction obscuring text under item 3, and another redaction towards the bottom center of the page. A vertical strip of small, dense text with some smudging is present along the right edge of the page.

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