Thirty-Three Cases designed by(Classified) as Having Joint Security and Psychiatric Staff Interest

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-06180A000300180014-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 1, 2000
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: March 16, 1964
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR : Chief, Medical Staff
SUBJECT Thirty-Three Cases designated by
as Having Joint Security
and Psychiatric Staff Interest
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REFERENCE Memorandum for Chief, Medical Staff from
Chief, Psychiatric Staff, Subj: Cases with
Joint Security and Psychiatric Staff Interest,
dtd, 3 October 1963
1. In October 1963, Chief, Medical Staff presented the
referenced list to Deputy Chief, Medical Staff with the
request that each case be studied "to determine whether
anything might be learned from them". The chief lesson to
be learned is that Medical Staff Psychiatric files are
excessively wordy, rambling abstractions, laminated with
layers of ruminations by succeeding psychiatrists.
2. original list consisted of forty (40)
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cases, but in order to approach a coherent analyses, seven
(7) were eliminated for the reasons that (a) the files had
vanished (b) the cases were defectors or dependents, neither
of which types lend themselves to orthodox Medical Staff
(c)
handling, or e one case who was so extremely senior that
Chief, Medical Staff alone maintains his record.
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cft4teria for selecting these cases is obscure, although I
have sought to elicit his mode of choice. It is apparent,
however, that few of the cases appear to have any more
medical-security relationship than is common to almost all
psychiatric problems.
3. In any event the remaining thirty-three (33) files
were laboriously dissected, with certain statistical derivations
noted below. It must be emphasized that the small sampling
represented and the seemingly irrational mode of collection
used by or his secretary do not assure a high 25X1A9a
degree of validity so far as the implied conclusions are
concerned.
4. The following information, for whatever it is worth,
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was distilled from the thirty-three (33) files a13l~
a. Those entering on duty prior to the psychiatric
program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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b. Those having a negative or "no interest"
P.I. prior to symptomatology. . . . . . . . .
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c. Those interviewed and qualified EOD or
overseas assignment by a psychiatrist:
prior to symptomatology . . . . . . . . . . .
11
d. Those having an alcholic factor . . . . . .
6
e. Those having a homosexual factor . . . . . . .
4
f. Resigned, medically retired, or otherwise
separated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
27
.g. Suicides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Still on duty as of October 1963 . . . . . .
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Those in which there was a possible
psychiatric staff error in prognostication.
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Those in which there was a possible Office
of Security error . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Those in which there was primarily su er-
visory error (a DD/P Division Chief. . . .
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5. For reference purposes extremely brief condensations
of each case are attached to refresh Chief, Medical Staff's
memory. It is entirely possible that newer members of the
Psychiatric Staff might gain some insight by reviewing the
basic voluminous files, and thereby dedicate themselves to
streamlining future records.
eputy Chief,/Medical Staff
Attachments:
As stated above
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