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RE: virus: Sweet Jane*
« on: 2005-01-20 02:05:40 » |
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http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0604-06.htm
<snip>
A sure-fire truth drug has been high on the wish list of U.S.
intelligence agencies at least since 1942, when scientists working for
the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the CIA's wartime predecessor,
were asked to develop a chemical substance that could break down the
psychological defenses of enemy spies and POWs, thereby making it easier
to obtain information from them.
After testing several compounds, the OSS scientists selected a potent
extract of marijuana as the best available "truth serum." The cannabis
concoction was given the code name TD, meaning Truth Drug. When injected
into food or tobacco cigarettes, TD helped loosen the reserve of
recalcitrant interrogation subjects.
The effects of the drug were described in a once-classified OSS report:
"TD appears to relax all inhibitions and to deaden the areas of the
brain which govern an individual's discretion and caution. . . .
[G]enerally speaking, the reaction will be one of great loquacity and
hilarity."
In the end, marijuana didn't fit the bill as the ultimate "truth
serum"...</snip>
[Blunderov] Perhaps it didn't work out because the subjects were willing
to say absolutely anything at all in order to earn access to the canteen
vending machine?
Best Regards.
* http://www.reasontorock.com/audio/sweet_jane/come_home.mp3
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