ABRAMSON, HAROLD A.

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00144974
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 22, 2024
• Document Release Date: January 15, 1983
• Publication Date: December 2, 1953

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TO : Colonel Edwards DATE: 2 December 1953
FROM : Chief, SSD
SU; U I:CT: ABRAMSON, Harold A.
New York State does not require a license to practice
psychiatry. Their only requirement is that an individual be
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a physician. Subject is a physician but not known as a
psychiatrist.
He has engaged in the practice of medicine since 1925. He
wls educated at Columbia University, receiving his M.D. in
1923. He is a National Research Council Fellow; studied in
Germany at the Kaiser Wilhelm In-;titute, physical and electro-
chemistry; instructor in medicine at Johns Hopkins University
1928-29; insuctor i�-1 biochemistry at Harvard 1929-31; Asso-
ciate in Bacteriology at Cornell 1934-35; Assist:Int Professor
of Physiology at Columbia University since 1935; Associate
Physician and Chief of Allergy Clinic, Mt. Siani Hospital,
New York City (this position indicate of his high stature in
medecine at Mt. Siani known as one of the best Hospitals);
member of the American College of Allergies; member of
American Association for Advancement of Science; member of
American Academy of Allergies and American Psychosomatic
Society.
A reliable source has advised that to be an authority on
allergies one would have to take courses in psychosomatic
sciences but this does not make one a psychiatrist.
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