(UNTITLED) RE TRUTH SERUMS

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00144792
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 22, 2024
• Document Release Date: January 15, 1983
• Publication Date: June 12, 1951

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DATE: 12 June 1951
adaibulager as orginially associated withiiteri.
Crime Laboratory, 001024,1045SWIRPRM. During this time he was engaged in a
series of tests on uniTersity students to determine the efficacy of so- �
called "truth Scrums". �
His tests consisted in having subjects come to the laboratory with
some person they trusted. The subj:cts were assured that they would not be
asked any personal or embarnssing.questions and if they did reveal any
personal information during the test their trusted friend is there to
protect their interests. � � �
Vegraggs. would have the subjects list several questisns that
he could ask them. Among these questions wore some that the examiner
� could not possibly know, telephone numbers, names of distant
relatives, etc..
The r:eneral conclusions that reached as a result of
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these tests were: (1) the results of drug interresation were about .),1
pcnnrnts., (2) the most difficult problem the examiner faced was to
separate the disjointed bsbbling of the subject, intended to be mis-
leading from the statements of the subject innocently misleadin,z,and
(3) if the. subject would not divulge information under a compentently
done interrogation without tne use of drugs, he You'd very seldom divulge
the information while under the influence of drugs.
These zeneral conclusions were not based solely on the tests -
conducted upon the students but were also based on the many examinations
with drugs that he conducted on actual criminal subjects.
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At present.......s is the Director of the r:401gpm State Police
Crime Laboratory, He He has held this pest for several
years and the writer does not know if he is still experimenting with drugs
and their truth inducing effect. �
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If a security check is to be run on-ICZ=MMD0.. it is respectfull;1
su:gestud that Professor47.41=410m.be contacted. gMlbsim has known
4V4rAnNkfor many years and would gladly cooperate with an investigator
on this mntter.141:=, is presently employed as 'Professor of Law at
1::4ZItWO6University,
Respectfully 'submitted,
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