SI AND H EXPERIMENTATION, 9 DECEMBER 1953

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00428213
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 23, 2025
• Document Release Date: August 23, 2000
• Publication Date: December 9, 1953

To: Files
Subject: SI and H Experimentation, 9 December 1953.
� On 9 December 1953, Wednesday, sr and H Experiment
h was c Building 13, Room 20 by
d us the followin
As noted a at Tuesday's session, all subjects
present except ere fairly new with no intensive
work. Accordin , e writer opened the session again with
a general discussion and thereafter ran a slow induction on
all individuals present. This was fairly successful and .
certain indications appeared_that indicated some of the
volunteers were beginning to accept hypnosis
ceivably be good future subjects. Thereafter,
somewhat later, ran a slow induc ion o
fixtation process. This was qui
s c.ess �r .-. . -'. state of hypnotic
sleep. en gav imple PH on
sleep en H was wor e responded
quickly.
gave a slow induction w ik ch further indicated
After some discussion, ho had arrived late,
to al lands
teers were approaching deep hypnosis.
individual hypnosis with all
e. - � II who has worked successfull
' e. in a cases, with the exc
, was :. ti- o obtain a good sleep state. se
ariou methods of attention, includ e r mg and
falling arm with a count, etc. I case, she
.apparently accepted the hypnosis at. irs an. succeeded in
reaching a light state but owing to an un e position
in which she had fallen and the fact that ttempted,
an arm movement, caused her toswaken prema ure
Since the work had started promptly at 6:00 PM, the writer
terminated the session at this point which was approximately
9:00 PM.
that some o
Thereafter,
volunteers
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