!-@tA?Jr)Atln 1111?0,1 NO. Offl- co Mei;ioraii 11,17@ UNITED STATES'GOVERN.L%,IENT TO DATE: 25 Piar. 52 FILONI SUBJECT: I & I 1. You have asked me to put dovn in writing sorie of my ideas 2on how Iwould go about getting expert help on hypnotism. Above all, I wculd rely upon proven experimental psychologi5ts who have their feet on the ground on this subject and who liave done plenty of research work on hypnotism. 2. The most extensive and careful series of e eriments on 4 hypnotism were carried out by- 2 er a t n eri He be an his work wh e he was still at the finished his studies after he transferred to the entitled is a car,! lly docu- men ed research classic which is a "mu--t" reading for anybody who professes to be even 2seriously intmrested in the subjrct. Unfcrtu- nately, is no longer int.erested in hypnotism and more- over he has beccme cuite feeble, but his two princi.pal research assi.st-ants are still active in psycholou and would prove c)articularly valuable as consultants on a research ro ect, on h notism, They are 4D 2 3. --Im-bef ore he became a psychologist. He is an extremely competent, broad-minded, and non-dogmatic scientist. At the 1)resent time, he serves as a He has plenty of ex-perience in research, experimental, ciinitai, and business psychology. I would 2 certainly trust his judgment on any problem d@--al.ing with hypnotism or drugs. An indicziion of his wrj.tin and thinki.n can be obtained from a recent article entit 4. I bel.ieve more than hss moin- tained an active interest in hypnotism sine@-- hnir r@,search diys wit4h LID i.s the inventor of i test of sijgf-,f-.stAbility whic@,. was given considerable emphn . book. 'I'he test, h;3s b@--@-ii iis@,,d by si s i.nomw other experimenters. who have publishf!d about it in t,hf- t.ille tc writts artl.cles on hypnotism, or con- tributes chaoters-to text books on the @,@ubject. I have seen him hypnotize on many different occasions and I know that he is very effective in producing all sorts of hypnotic phenomena in his sub- jects. 5. I am sure that both @@,@wotild be glad to cooperate with you on such a roject. I think that the w u a d.team of advise