(DELETED) AND (DELETED) RE MILITARY PERSONNEL TRAINED IN HYPNOTISM

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00140398
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: September 25, 2024
• Document Release Date: October 4, 1999
• Publication Date: March 4, 1952

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on page ontains the iollowing:
"Today every Jittery doctor and nurse is trained in
, hypnotism. The have used hypnotism to an amazing extent in
..bealing amnesia cases. Their po ho ists use it for traumatic cases.�
Hypnosie has indeed become the . paramount weapon in the treat-.
mcnt of var neuroses." �
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Will you please advise whetheAMIIPqas any interest in our find-
in g out vhat.facta, if any, the authors have to.support the otatemento
contained in the above quotation? Such an investigation vould undoubt-
edly be time-consuming and vn do not vish t0 embark upon it unless vm
...have:some Assurance that the results might be of;value.to CIA.
2..-H This book on paGeApean, .-!falso.conta A the,folloving-Ty
statements which may be of interest as well as
, n oneccesful author o books on
one step further le has declared:
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"'I can hypnotize a man�without his knowledge or consent--into cormnit-
tins treason against the United States. If I can do it, ao could psy-
chologists of other nation� in the event of another var.'
to absolutely right. I, too, could produce hyp-
novic secret agent� and so could hundreds of other� trained in the science
of hypnotic ourzgeotion. I would be surprised if many secret services are
not now actually employing hypnotic methods for some of their underground
activities,
"Soon after World Var II had started, was called toldiftge
le vna asked by 1...t61.11-mnce officers about the possibility
tha and secret services might be plann.inG to
use hypnotism to obtain information.
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