ARTICHOKE CONFERENCE, 21 MAY 1953

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00146091
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 17, 2024
• Document Release Date: January 15, 1983
• Publication Date: June 8, 1953

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Chief, Technical Branch
ARTICH0K1 Conforcnce, 21 nny 1553
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- 1. On 21!:y 153, Thuroday, botween 2:CO and 4:00 F.!, an AaTi-
Confe-ence wes held in the SO Cenference Roon,..2060 I Buildinc.
?recant at the Confcr:ence .er-20/04WwW12=M1Ma5250& ,#111,14021100
_resenting SO;
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1040:1100abaNDOMmirepresentin.; the:edical
ropracenti% the Director's Office and 031; andie=SMISISLAUGISU
representing TS3.
2. ININUOMMWopened the Conference by discussing the partici-
pation of t:le .echnical Itr:nch of S^. in the intsrro::tion of the
returning ;:orean F0.:s at Valley Ferro. laNdICOMOstnted that e=treme
pre.ssure of publie opinion both on the nilitery services and on Con-
-gross had Interfered with a well :7er:zed-out pro:ran in connection -si-th
the 1-0':s. Es stated, however, that thisLLenc7 h:d tarnished s11;tert
in the form of teohnieri e,uipment to 0-2 of the ;.rny who actually
handled the returned 10..s. legitaaPle stoted th-t he had h%d confer-
cnces :Ath 0-2 of the irmy and repr.....--ti-;es of the Sur-;:en 0anarals
Office and that altho.r:h there had be 5=3 cliscussion as to posaible _
use of sodium a-vytal and pantottal, this had been ruled out co1otely
by the Surzeon General's Office.
3. laNWeireiWthen pointed cut thrt he had briefe4A4Pg
T=Nkof 0-2 and reeracent:tives of the .iurceaa Oanoral'e
in very zencral tarns on �Serani but since J. returnees in Va.ley
.17073.: wore held in one ;er-', the of t*-4s ch--4en' �r�^4
out because of the ion: tr.:1 obvious'period of han:over. lartaingillaSa.
stated th:t thre ::as little chance cf usin.; the ;.f.:I:HOZ: tec:nique$
on the returnees. Ha stated that after too f:nr d-ys scent at -.7a1ley
Force, the non would go on lerve for thirty e.ays and return to the
-nearest Veteran's noepitcl :�hore they would be eiseh!,rel. stetsd
there was a slicht 7o5sibi2ity of zone aspot" intorrontions
� cert-in of the non returned but that would be solely uoon the rer.uose
of 0-2 and would probably L3 too well controlled for advz.meed
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techniques.
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� 4. 45=n*Mmist=ted thet, in Leneral, the interro:ctions had
turned up only five returnees who ri:,:ht be classified as "hardcore"
..t.nd that 0-2 would ?robebly lInndlo these Cases on a senewhat :afferent
basis although the det:Ils have not been 1.orked out at this time.
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5. A .:enqrr..1 diseus9ion Vella:n-2d cone.rnirr.: thn iwtorroc7.ti.nn .
of the returneeo an74. it was aLre:'.1 that tno interro,-,:tions would not
probabl-, be too e:ffective thero were too many 1i:cm:leaps to
LIZTICD:Zf: tce:lniclues cr even huldic extensive interro�;ttions in the
conventienni way. �
6. ileaftglielor thea stated thnt Geglig:421000 had participated in
the debricfin; ofieWinafteftsgsgora returnee from Norco ::ho had been
pieLed up in the early eays of t le war; c.r.d stated there were a numaer
� of suspicions rezaran.:1!!!tand th:.t"tigapuould follow the
case.. .
7. 41:30Ezeor c:eplained th:.-t the projects at and eleSiAllaratamk-
gemMEOMMONNIMOommimow had bean delayed because of the fuli investj.7,,t_
gations on the persons involved. In chec::in3 Vac NM .personne.4_,
it wms fourr2 that on erson vas the subject of an Oa investi.tion
and until this is clerred up our project could not be started. fra
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MIMMit explained that also ran into problens at the elaimegiatommm �
INUOMagbin connection with ktv personnel for the 471...IC..3:::3 project
proposed there.
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8. Sigilleperithon discussed the conferences th�-.t.C.410:010401
and hinself had attehied with
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at the 1:ctional instij-utp f rt 2athecea, ;:aryinna:.. L.121.-zn
pointed out that
-ere txtra�-.ely co-opti7e
and pro.-eised support 'aoth in reseerch and actual proceeein:: of es-az:a
materials as necaariar:. etZglelatstzted that the contactin;
telga=gSaeltgOt4;g4=07; wls pert of the awpansion of the
pro:,:rzn in and to insure that all possizlo� avenues
and fields were celnL xviored in this connection.
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