MKULTRA SUBPROJECT 92 (14 DOCUMENTS WITH PUBDATES FROM 590330 TO 600919 )

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00017495
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 19
• Document Creation Date: September 25, 2024
• Document Release Date: September 8, 1976
• Publication Date: March 30, 1959

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Category of expenditure
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Pr tu pa I invest ig-itor' fue5. $ 2933.23
Research assj-itants.-pt-ogramer,;, including
-.HU and Emp3oyFit ..... --- 6175.85
----Secretarial salairimt; 572.65
Exper irCnt al subjects �.. ... 301.47
Consi!ltants . ........ ... . . 501.54
Consultation with the .� 600�(0
Design, engineering, and ..it�t-Liort of the
two teaching- machines as,-! ir the project,
including auxiliary egui,.1-,enl. porchase
spare parts, enginceriac.: coosu)tant's tralel,
and maintenance costs
11,199.53
Stationery and hooks
89.39
Print ing and -iePr �duct ion fr,VV.
004.17
Photographic supplies ad ;;Tcc-!�sFing ...�
122.63
Telephone, telegraph, poste, s!tipping
103.65
Tape recording equipment and nupplies
605.16
Statistical analysis and computing
41.50
Travel POI 1015.85
Space rental and overhead 24..60
AccOunting error (properly to 1,e counte0 with
one of the above categorki. 1.00
Crard t tal $25.172.62
Receive:1 in two grants 25,172.62
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September 19, 1960
Memorandum
Subject: Teaching Machine Project
A final accounting and report will be forthcoming on thi?,,i
project when it is completed. In the meantime, Dr. inforn3
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us when he is need of a payment and that is forwarded to him.
The status on this project is as follows:
Total received: $22,716.62
Amounts forwarded: ,
JuTle. 1959
5,679.62
February 1960
5,000.00
August 1960
_L000.00
1679.62
Balance in the account to date $ 7,037.00
I certify that this is a true statement of the status of this
project.
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(..!(., xot thinh, hc,-Javer, ',a could justify pl,.rticipatinL; in this
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::,I2plied pvcholw:y c:vid ca,dation, Wc, balve thut
t:L,.-: davelon.t o: ,:z rlachin3 is of loz-rane 10nee to the �
of -; ,f;1010:V, .}7:./ :-,* an 0A:ization active in this field, wa are
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19 May 1959
FOR: Chief, Finance DiviLion
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INVOICE
For Service $Z2,, 716.62
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CERTIFICATIONS
(1) It is her0.-,y certified that this is Invoice 11;11 applying to Subproject No, 9Z
of PIKULT1, that p:-_rformance is satisfactory, that services are being
accompli-::_i in accord-,no with mutual ap,rcemertts, that a detailed agenda
f the pcts dreceipts is o:t file in TSS/CD, th-z_t this bill is just and
correct and tat payment thereof has not yet been made.
Acting Chief, TSSfCheirdcal Division
(?_) It is her ol3y certified that this invoice applies to Subproject No. 94 of
t.11;VI4Tfti. as duly approved, and that the project is being carried
out in accotrd.tacQwtL the meu-toran,lum. of 13 April 1953 from the Dil to
the DD/A, and the of this authority in subsequent memoranda.
Date:
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30 March 1959
MEMORANDUM FOR: TRE RECORD
SUBJECT : MKULTRA, Subproject No. 92
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1.- The purpose of this project is to explore the usefulness
of mechanization in foreign language training. It will involve the
"programing" of
language material for most effective learn-
ing and will include the testing of such an approach on 'mum subjects.
This work is undertaken in response to -a requirement established by
the Office of Training. c_
2.
a psychologist and linguist of
has submitted the attached proposal and budget to the
covering the
necessary research.
3. The Society's interest in international communication and
intercultural phenomena generallyr and its support of other projects
involvin
individuals and institutions should provide cover
for its participation in such a project.
4._ Funding and supervision of this project will be handled by
in the regular
manner. Accounting for the funds expended will be according to the
procedures previously established In
relative to grants
to unwitting agents. Any unused funds remaining at the conclusion of
the project will be returned to the Agency. Travel funds will be
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accounfed for in a manner consistent with the established practice
The total cost of the project will be $22,716.62. Chi ges
should be nade against Allotment 9-2502-75-902.
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Secret material.
is approved by the Agency for access to Top
Chief
TSS/Chemical Division
APPROVED FOR OBLICATIOU OF FUNDS:
Date:
Distribution: Original only.
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PROPOSAL'
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Interest in the teaching of modern foreign languages has increased
enormously in the last decade. Among recent indications of this surge of
interest have been the provisions of the National Defense Education Act of
1958 for increased support of foreign language teaching and research, and
the recommendations of the "Conant report" (The American High School
- Today, by James B. Conant) to the effect that talented high school students
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should study four years of a foreign language.
In seeking to make a contribution to the field of modern foreign
language teaching, the writer's Previous research efforts have been
directed toward improving the. selection of trainees and toward measuring
the success of training. Even with the best possible methods of selecting
trainees and measuring their achievement, however, the quality of the
training given to the students is the most important factor in the ultimate
success of language training programs, whether in schools and colleges
or in governmental agencies.
Considerable interest has lately been evinced in the possibility of
supplementing foreign language instruction by means of purely automatic
"teaching- machines" which would provide optimally "programmed" instruc-
tion. The central features of such machines wciuld be : (a) arrangements for
the sequential presentation of the material to be learned, broken down into
relatively small units and graded in difficulty; (h) provision for appropriate
responses to.be made by the subject; (c) programming of the sequencing of
the presentation as a function of whether the subject's responses are cor-
rect or not; and (d) a maximal degree of linkage between the machine ard
the learner. Because of these features, it is believed that learning might
progress more rapidly and accurately with the machine than under the usual
conditions of learning. It is hoped further that properly designed machines
can surpass in efficiency such relatively simple devices as the tape recorder.
As suggested by Porter's review (2), the idea of automatic teaChing
machines is by no means new. Some years ago, Pressey, at Ohio State
University, developed an instrument for automatic "self-testing." During
World War II, the Special Devices Center of the Navy Department exploited
a number of self-teaching mechanisms. An article by B. F. Skinner of
Harvard University (3) was probably largely responsible for the present
interest in teaching machines. Skinner viewed the problem from a some-
what novel angle, i.e., in terms of (a) breaking the behavior to be learned
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into small units, (b) applying appropriate schedules of reinforcement,
and (c) utilizing "prompts in such a way that the availability of cor-
rect responses for reinforcement was enhanced. Skinner and others
have developed and used teaching machines with considereble success
in connection with the teaching of physics, psychology, arithmetic,
vocabulary, and spelling.
Very little has been done wit h the teaching of foreign languages
by anaohines with the automatic featifres of those used in the studies
just mentioned, partly because the content being taught could be pre-
sented solely by visual display. There is a published account by Ferster
and Sapon (1) of teaching a foreign language (German) b a very simple
device constructed in accordance with Skinner's principles, but these
investigators sought only to teach a knowledge of the written language.
For foreign language teaching, correlated visual and auditory displays
would obviously be desirable. It is true, of course, that various kinds
of arrangements involving single-channel or dual-channel tape recordings
have been employed extensively in so-called "language laboratories" con-
nected with foreign language courses, but these machines do not have the
programmed and automatic features which are.central to the Skinner-type
teaching machine.
It is the intent of this proposed research to enplore the possibilities
of developing a practical and efficient teaching machine for various aspects
of foreign language instruction, to investigate what phases of instruction
are best suited to teaching by machines, and to discover principles for
the "programming" of material for most effective learning.
References:
I. Perster, C. B., and Sapon, S.M. The teaching of German by
an automatic teaching device. Harvard Educational Review, 1958, 20,
2 2, Porter, Douglas. A critical review of a portion of the literature
on teaching devices. Harvard Educational Review, 1957, 27, 126-147,
3. Skinner, B.F. The science of learning and the art of teaching,
Harvard Educational Review, 1954, 24, 86-97.
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Salaries and Consulting :e
Fees; Principal Inveatigator $3,000.00
Research Assistant
Secretary and Clerks $5,216.62
Experinental Subjects
Services and Supplies
$11,700.00
Travel
$1,000.00
rent and Ov head
800.00
Total $22,716.62