>>> The Memory Hole has received three Army reports on experiments involving LSD. (The documents date from the 1960s and 1970s.) Two are posted below, and the other will follow.

In our FOIA request, we also asked for several other similar reports, which are currently being reviewed for release. We'll post them as they become available.

"Lysergic Acid Diethyl Amide (LSD-25): A Clinical-Psychological Study"

Produced by: Naval Medical Research Institute, National Naval Medical Center (Bethesda, Maryland)

Date: 09 September 1951

Received from: Naval Medical Research Center, due to a FOIA request originally sent to the Defense Technical Information Center.

From the abstract: "A study has been made of the effects of lysergic acid diethyl amide (LSD-25 Sandoz) on the affect, cognition, and expression of five 'normal' subjects and 15 depressed patients."

Pages: 11

File size: 2 meg

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"The Human Assessment of EA 1729 and EA 3528 by the Inhalation Route"

Produced by: Department of the Army, Edgewood Arsenal

Date: July 1964

Report number: CRDLR 3226

Received from: Defense Technical Information Center via a FOIA request (the report is not in DTIC's online database)

From the introduction: "This reports summarizes the results of recent investigations by the Psychopharmacology Branch of the Clinical Research Division into the aerosol effectiveness of EA 1729 and EA 3528, the free base and maleate forms, respectively, of d-lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD25)."

Pages: 52

File size: 4.3 meg

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"Studies of the Effect of Personality on Reactivity to LSD"

Produced by: Department of the Army, Edgewood Arsenal

Date: July 1971

Report number: EATR 4536

Received from: Defense Technical Information Center via a FOIA request (the report is not in DTIC's online database)

From the abstract: "Case records of 52 Army volunteers given from 1.1 to 2.0 µg/kg of LSD orally between 1962 and 1966 were studied.... Significant relationships were found between personality (as measured by the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory and Army General Intelligence Test) and performance following administration of LSD."

Pages: 15

File size: 960K

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Although the CIA is more famous for its behavior-modification experiments with LSD, the military (mainly the Army) also engaged in this shady research. For more information see:

"Soldier cannot sue government for LSD experiments - U.S. v. Stanley, 479 U.S. 1005 (1986)" (Supreme Court ruling)

"Covert Testing on Human Subjects by Military Intelligence Groups" (excerpt from a Senate Intelligence Committee report)

"Military Industrial Surrealism," "A Mad Scientist," and "BZ Bombs Away" (excerpts from Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD)

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