SI AND H EXPERIMENTATION, 23 MARCH 1954.

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00428263
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 23, 2025
• Document Release Date: August 23, 2000
• Publication Date: March 23, 1954

To: The Files 901t71
.Subject: SI and H Experimentation, 23 March 195I.
1
On Tu da
ch 1 1 SI and ir was carried out In Buil
d usin the followin sub'ecte:
The session was opened by slow inductions to set the stage for a
different e of experimentation to be carried on later. Thereafter
ran n a straight, slow induction.
airl e a not obtain great depth.
The concluding experiment of the evening was one of automatic
lowing subject participated:
Following the usual procedur
1 Dag, eac su ject was instructed upon the placing of a-pencil in
their hand to write and in each instance the individual ticipating,
wrote a crypticmessage. All messages excep'
ere sub-
sequently translated under deep hypnosis by tfluoectS themselves
and without exception, these proved to be of an interesting and personal
nature. �
The techniques for the above were as. follows: subject was placed
in deep H state, her hand was dissociated and instructed when pencil was
placed in hand, hand would write. In each instance, the hand did
write a cryptic message. The subjects were then placed in a deep H
state and told to open their eyes and write underneath the cryptic
message a tnslation of this message. All except were able
to do so. r.iting postion was extreniecotab1e
and her message e y was so confused that the writings -could
not be translated, although no great effort was made to bring this
message to the surface. After each subject had translated their
message, the messages were taken from them and only Shown to the
subjects after they had asked to see them. Each subject was amazed
and startled at what she had written. In the opinion of
and the writer, the activity was entirely successful and
sense a "faked" operation by the subjects themselves.
In view of the personal nature of the messages, they will not
be included it this log. �
The natter of automatic writing which may or may not have an
intelligence interest will be taken Up the following Tuesday, since
the writer will be out of town Wednesda 24 March 1954 and that
session will be conducted by probably with
as an observer.
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