OUTLINE OF SPECIAL H CASES

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00428309
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: January 23, 2025
• Document Release Date: August 23, 2000
• Publication Date: January 7, 1953

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OUTLINE OF SPECIAL H CASES
� In a gen6ral request for volunteers,
� volunteered for H'.experimentation and were originally tested on 21 May
1951. Both girls were, at this time, nineteen years of age.
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. initially tested in the H techniques along with .a group of volunteers.
WOat this time was twenty years of age.
In each instance all volunteers on the initial contact were given 1
a brief discussion of H0 were given a very general picture of Securityos
interest in the work and were given a very-pointed lecture on the neces-.
sary security essential to these operations.
In each instance 'after the above explanation's had been made all. .
subjects were tested in the.following Manner:
A. Falling back test'
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B. Hand and arm levitation test
C. GeneralrelaXation procedure With explanation..
It should be noted that
on their initial tests,
responded successfully to the falling back and levitation tests but on the
relaxation or sleep induction tests were not overly successful. However,
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since both girls were intelligent and co-operative they were, at that
point, regarded as very good material. The same more or less applied to
101117ho did not appear particularly suggestable to the above mentioned
tests, but since she had shown interest she was regarded at this point
as being a good future subject. For matter or record in all three cases
on the second effort at:, induction each. subject succeeded in obtaining
a very deep H state and thereafter and up to the present time, these girls
have been exceptionally splendid subjects..
All of these individuals have been given nmmeraas tests from simple
,post H to very complex activities and have performed in what we believe
to be a highly indicative manner.
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have never felt that we could determine
by experimentation what actually. could ,be done with the H technique' under':
field operating conditions with life and death element at stake. How-
ever, the writer andelMillo firmly believe that from a physical
point of view, a great deal can be determined what individuals can do
under H.
All of these subjects have clearly shown that hallucinations
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illusionsl'and.aMnesiae can be produced through H. They. have done very
complicated mechanical acts such as learning to use a camera, Open safes,
typewrite set timing mechanisms, fire guns, ,etc. under H.
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In addition, under.H they have moved all over the building2 passed
guards, engaged in conversation ritten drawn ;
fully under H.and have had total amnesias for these activities. Further
more, in these cases, when work has been expended for a considerable
period of time, H commands have been carried on in matters of a few
seconds although H was not discussed or in any way brought to the at-
tention& the subjects for periods existing over months at a time.
Recently, in view of the broadened approach to the problem and also
in view of the fact that we have lost the services of
we carried out experiments involving considerable areas in and around
Washington. These experiments clearly demonstrated to a certain extent
that individuals under H can move about, travel and act normal over a
certain amount of time and space and may possibly have a bearing on more
advanced experimentation which this Office wishes to undertake in the
future. In this connection, this Office expects a report from
.our professional H consultant
near future. This report should cover
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checks on certain
very pertinent matters concerning very advanced uses of H. The report �
. should have been in several weeks ago but owing to certain personal
matters, has not been able to complete it. This report
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. Since these subjects have been actively engaged in 'this work for
some time, they have, as mentioned above taken 'part in a great many
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difficult tests and experiments but basically the efforts of the writer
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while under H and also how could H be obtained on an individual via the
,telephone or very subtle methods without the person's immediate associates
realizing that H control had been obtained. In all of these cases these
subjects have clearly demonstrated that they can pass from a fully awake
state to a deep H controlled state via the telephone, via some very subtle
signal that cannot be detected by other persons in the room and without
the other individual being able to note the change. It has been shown
Clearly that physically individuals can be induced into H by telephonei.
and
by receiving written matter or by the use, of' code signals, or words/that
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control Of thOse.hypnotized can be passed from one individual to another
without great difficulty. It has also been shown by experimentation with
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these girls that they can act as unwilling couriers for information. lour-
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poses and that they can be conditioned to apdint where they can believe
a change in identy on their part Whether or not
H could be used as a challenge ailliffigicannot be stated by the
writer andel...ince we are lacking statistical information, but,
in ce*ain instances, it has been clearly shown that H can materia4y.
affectIMMIS Farther experimentation along these lines
is contemplated.
_ All of the above will show that certain .normal individuals are
capable of very deep H and can carry out activities which may be of value
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� Our tests, which now number in the thousands with dozens of subjects,
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while strongly indicative, are not, in our cpinion complex enought or
carried out under hazardous conditions to warrant extravagant claims
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as a weapon either as an information gaining aspec
indicate .that H has a potentiality
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