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TO Chief, Technical Branch DATE: 4 November 1953 FltOM SUBJECT: Conference vi Nov~mber 1953 . • 2. It vas his opinion that any approach by physical means that do no la.sting damage to emotional centers in the brain ~ould or elsewhere in the nervous system was impossiple at thi3 time. As a neuro-anatomist and-neuro-pathologist, he that any doubt~d such approach, as by or other radiant would ultr~sonics ener~J, ever be possible. - •.. · J. One should find, he believed, more numerou3 and more sa tis factory drugs than the older morphi.ELscopolamin combination, .. ., which would act selectively on specific~rve cent~rs. F~~~ sonally, he disclaimed knowledge of helpful leads; e.g., would ~:~ not offer an opinion on whether the currently controversial ~-- Hephenesin (I·~nesin) \las effective or not to\lard alleviating anxiety. He ~sd no opinion to offer on Isoniazid. Among the more toxic drugs (he has •,.rrit~n .authoritatively on effects of cyanides), he did not.expect us~ful developments. that we consult of .this City. gh fully cooperative in a sense it was clear that as uncomfortable. Certainly he \IOUld not care to -- quite the opposite of who were r~spectively terested. associated with the~ to me -- might mean~ A s , The image displays a dark background with a stylized graphic of a vault door on the left side, illuminated by blue light. To the right of the vault, white text reads "THE BLACK VAULT" in a distressed, handwritten-style font. Below this, further white text explains that the document was obtained from "The Black Vault," an online database of declassified government documents, specifically mentioning the "MKULTRA/Mind Control Collection" housed by the CIA. A yellow URL, "http://mkultra.theblackvault.com," is provided at the bottom. There are no photographs, handwritten additions, official stamps, forms, diagrams, tables, or visual evidence of experimental procedures present; the page consists solely of text and a graphic. This document is a typed memorandum on official U.S. Government letterhead, indicated by "Standard Form No. 84" and "Office Memorandum UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT". The form includes fields for "TO," "FROM," "SUBJECT," and "DATE," with some entries partially or fully redacted. Handwritten annotations in blue ink are present, including "A/B, 5, 136/1" on the top right, "H-B/6" near the Subject line, and several instances of "B/6" and "B/6 C" in the left margin. There are also numerous black redactions obscuring portions of the typed text, particularly in the "FROM" field and throughout the numbered points. A single large "A" is hand-drawn in the lower right quadrant of the page. There are no photographs, diagrams, or explicit visual evidence of experimental procedures.