BRIAN WASHING

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00145015
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 17, 2024
• Document Release Date: January 15, 1983
• Publication Date: October 23, 1953

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2.4MORANDUM FOR RECORD
SUBJECT: . Brain Washing
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- 23 October 1953
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1. The responsibility for brain washing has been scattered
among various people in the organization, both in DD/I and DDO.
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are trying to make the brain washing expert. He has been told 71�yr5Lt.1 -
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that he should take six months work in psychiatry in order to .
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his responsibilities. I have recommended to him that he use
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� and consultants. Both of these men are fully cleared.
3. It would be much wiser, in my opinion, to use consultants
' of the above caliber rather than psychiatrists in the Medical Office
of the Agency.
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