TO THE FILES RE ON TUESDAY, 13 APRIL 1954, SI AND H EXPERIMENTATION AND RESEARCH WAS CARRIED ON IN BUILDING 13, ROOM 20

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00428306
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 23, 2025
• Document Release Date: August 23, 2000
• Publication Date: April 13, 1954

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TO THE FILES
1. On Tuesday, 13 April 1954, SI and H experimentation and research
ied on in Buildin 1 Room S the o owin. ub'ects ire
Work was begun with the slow general induction with,
cipating and an effort nicie to 'reach, as great a deptli.as
simple PH was put in effect at this time. After
hands were again placed in a deep trance state.
produced anesthesia in each subject's hand and ar
that the hand
On this test,
anesthesia whi
ey-wer w ene
given to that effect. All other, subjects produced anesthesias of different
degrees which they maintained after they were awakened.
Of particular interest in the above was the fact that
was unable to move her hand or arm at all wakened- 'w
subjects could move their arms and hands checked the
by pricking the hands of the various subjec ife.
Following this, all subjects (except were again placed
in a deep trance state and instructed that er ey o
still maintaining a deep sleep state, the
"follow the leader" series of movements.
all hands parti-
poSsible.:. A.
t the.PH� all.
at this point..
'instructions
and without feeling.
roduced a complete.
instructions were.
eU1J. other
anesthesia
eyes, while
in a sort
e su jects had
opened their.eyes, lead the subjects throug various rooms of Building 13
performed numerous,noneense movements such as writing on blackbo
in circles and doing odd and unusual things. In this connection
responded with great seriousness and followed the leader's moveme s comp e e
ot remember any of the activity she had gone through.
folio o eletely on the movements but had memory
� oing same, ;followed the movements and had memory
for doing .same. however were unsuccessful although she
followed most of
This test again reflects in general the idea that good subjects will do
almost anything seriously and accurately if prOPerly instructed, whereas
weaker subjects will quite often fail to carry out instructions. No particular
significance is attached to this test except it is believed that subjects asc
a rule will carry out serious tests better than nonsense tests and usually good
sub'e ts will out perform poor subjects on any type test.
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