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' which are baoie to me indirect assessment program!fiesJly, to relate certain "concepts derived from ilm
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nitiated: /Continuing. X.atoat obligation approved I December
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MEMORANDUM FOR; THE COMPTROLLER
ATTENTION ; Finance Division
SUBJECT 5 MKULTRA, Subproject^J#___
Under the authority granted in thememorandum dated 13 April 1953 '
from the DCI to the DD/A. and the evasionof this authority in subsequent
memoranda, Subproject ?? ^en approved, aad^^;^QO__
of the ovcr-alj Project MKULTRA £«nda-ha3ta_beenoWie&tedto cover tho
subproject's expenses and should be chargedto cost center 212SaU93aa902_.
APPROVED FOR OBLIGATIONOF FUNDS:
Research Director
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TSD/Pveacarch Branch
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ara pleasecTto report that the Board of Directors has approved a grant
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0 for your continued personality study iflMMMMl1: Enclosed is our check for $6 f 250. 00 v/hich
represents ih
conn" norr.oer iiiiiiiiiiiiiwiiiip ip i
There ore several conditions which apply to the utilisation of those
funds. A find report, m well as a terminal accounting, shall be submittedupon completion of fho study. All funds are to be expended entirely for the
research designated. Any unused funds shell be returned n
The Board of Directors end the scientific advisers t-dqBBBw Join me
In wishing you well In fids endeavor. Pleeso call upon us foror^sslstdhce
that we i«ay be able to provide.
Sincerely yours.
Fncbsuro
December 19* 1961
I am Eure you will correctly anticipate that the purpc^^^rftl^^let-
ter is to request formally that my relationship with the
be continued for another year, as an extension of the arrangement
currently in existence. While we have had occasion, alone or with others,
This is not tEe”fxT&ce for a detailed progress report. Briefly, I can
characterize the past year as one of consolidation find preparation con-
solidation of the factor analysis projects initiated earlier, and prepara-
tion for future projects along other promising lines. The most tangible
outcome of the! recent effort is a group of ten computer programs for vari-
ous phases of psychological (end other) data processing. A few technical
papers have appeared or been newly written, and copies of these are here.
It is my plan .to wrap up early in the coming year all of the factorial
evidence relating to the Vechsler, including suggestions as to hov this
battery may be amplified, administered and scored to yield a maximum of
reliable information. I also propose a high priority for the obtaining of
useful cross-cultural data, such as the material from a Japanese standard-
ization of the WAIS, end to investigation of methods for insuring accurate
cross-cultural norming. Thirdly, I mat to develop further the machineprocedures for
11syndrome analysis," which will make use of the Wechsler
versus Kyers -Briggs data now accumulated. On a lover priority basis than
the above, I would continue to try to involve other researchers in the in-
teresting problems existing in this whole area of work.
I have agreed to furnish a specific summary accounting of this year's
expenses by the end of January . -
1
962 ......... Og..a .cash .basis I will probably- ap-
pear to have underspent, but on an accrual basis I expect to be very close
to the $25,000 budgeted. Therefore, and in accordance with our eonversa-
cions on this point, I propose the following budget for calendar 1962:
' time (overall) $ l't , 500
Office services, equipment, supplies 2,000
Travel and related expenses 2,400
Computer rental 4,000
Available to subsidize data collection 1,500
Miscellaneous 6CO
Total $ 25,000
Sincerely youi*B,
Project Title
Category. EohavtQg yretU.Ct.lQUV^ivtw
(PrCd-2Ct_ Item Classification.
Project Crypto—imynish Crypto Classification
Branch Project No-—1*^-™ Project Engineer-
Contractor—
Contract No.vmxzzh vtl Task No._
Type of Contract- Date Initiated
4i!i.CDO.CO Completion Date—January 19&3
Purpose
Status* A tost pro for tl« ewhUw interpretationof U^VW
patterns U* fcson vrlttea and wx*o point* of It ora oettkjvU\l0
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11 January
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CERTIFICATIONS
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77 - /S
26 December 1961
MEMORANDUM FOR: THE RECORD
SUBJECT : MKULTRA, Subproject 77
1. The purpose of this project is to provide funds tocontinue
the research program conducted by Dr.The program
t
is designed to specifically state and empiricallyrefine certain concepts
of personality structure which ar e basic to the TSD/RB indirectassess-
ment program.(d _
7. 33rT continues to spearhead an unusuallyproductive
research program. As an adjunct to his full time work on thedevelop-
ment of indirect assessment techniques, ' he has undertakentwo additional
responsibilities: personal guidance searchprogram to
relate sornatotyping to personality characteristics(Subproject 134),
and to consult systematically on a training program forcase officers
in psychological assessment techniques. A major portion of Dr,
aggHlggj& 'effort in the past year has been devoted to developingv-"
certain computer programs which can handle amviderrange of
personality data. Since these same computer techniquescan be
generalized to the broader problem of data analysisand retrivai,
his efforts have excited the interest ofother Agency components
7.nf * l*’ 'i *•> ly*~
has made feubstantial progress with his factor analysis of the WAIS
to determine the nature of the approximately 17 factors involved, to
S\
establish the nature of the internal dependencies in Weehsler profiles
across the factors, and to identify and construct performance tasks
that will fill out the factor matrix to a total of 20 factors.
3. During the following year, PrVjWPUBlfrlans to obtain the Odata necessary to fit the three remaining factors into the personality
profile, and to develop some alternative measures of the factors which
may be more easily obtained by the clandestine services. He will con-
tinue his collection of representative data from other cultures and to
systematize his material for eventual book-length publication
4. The project will be funded arid monitored by the
through a direct grant to Di An annual
accounting will be made to the Fund according to established procedures;
and unexpended funds will be returned at the end of the year.
5. The cost of this project for a period of one year starting
1 January 1962 is estimated to be $25, 000. 00. Charges should be made
against Allotment Number 2125-1390-3902. A copy of Drj
6. Purchase of permanent equipment will be accomplished by
prior arrangement with the Sponsor and the right to determine ultimate
7
Proposed Budget
$14, 500. 00 .
Office services, equipment^ supplies, etc. 2, 000, 00
Travel 2, 400. 00
Computer rental, etc. 4, 000. 00
Available to subsidize data collection 1, 500. 00
Miscellaneous 600.00
TOTALT^ $25, 000. 00'
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MEMORANDUM FOR: THE COMPTROLLER
ATTENTION s Finance Division
SUBJECT ; MKlTLTRA, Subprojec t
Under the authority' granted in the memorandum dated 13 April i$53,
from the DCI to tua DD/A, and the esteaeioa of this authority in subsequent
tn &moraada , Sttbprcj ect jins been approved, and^S ,*&*£*$&-
of the over-all Project MKULTRA funds have been obligated to cover the
subproject’s expenses and should bo charged to coat center
APPROVED FOR OBLIGATIONOF FUNDS: .
Rose.jjch Director
Date: ' ^
Distributions i
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TStilResearch Branch
Kovcsber 1$X?Q
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• ynis** tho authority granted intho ttemx*x&m a&tod
3.3 Aprill 1933 fro* th«BCI to the DD/A, «* «» «*tolwlatt «tf
this authority in «*•»*«* «*»«**T( has *»
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(x) : it la '-o-eby certified that this i® InvoiceKo. 4 applying to bm
wo feet Ko. ( f of imM, that performance is satisfactory, that tservices are boiiyj accompli&'a$d in accordance with mtual agreoiaents,
that' c detailed acenda of tbs payments ond receipts ia on file in
3?3I)/l®, that Wits bill is juat and correct and thatpaj'iaenb thereof
has not yet been mde*'
MJ 4 ^ - i r,T-T ~I~J' i__r**’•
Chief, SSD/J&search Branch
Sates M .»-
^ —gi-' Ay-29 November i960 n
MEMORANDUM FOR: THE RECORD
SUBJECT MKULTRA., Subproject 77
1. The purpose of this project is to provide funds tocontinue
the research program conducted by DrJ The programis
designed to specifically state and empirically refine certainconcepts
of personality structure which are basic to the TSD/KB indirectassess-
ment program,
2, ^een unusually Productive during the past
year”. In view of the progress he has made, he has electedto spend
full time on the development of indirect assessment techniques. Spe
cifically, during the next year he will further develop the following:
a. Continue to work on publishable reports of the various
factor analyses that have been done or are in process,
which serve to establish 17 to 20 factors operating
within the VAIS and to shed light on their meanings
and ways they might be measured - either through per-
formance or more fundamental (physiological) approaches.
Possibly begin to develop systematically the relations
between this material and Cattail’s and Guj.lford's
models
.
b. Try to establish the nature of the internal dependencies
in Wechsler profiles across the factors, vhich dependencies
must exist if it has been possible to utilize profiles ,
across just the 10 subtests with so much success.
c. Spell out the pattern of relationships which will predict:
the Myers-Briggs self-report scores from the 17-factor pro-
files. Item-anadyze—the-hSK—to-see what further informa-
tion it may contain that can be tied in with performance.
d. Begin the actual construction of an improved battery of
tests.
PROPOSED BUDGET
Office Services, equipment, supplies, etc.
Travel
Computer rental, etc.
Available to subsidize data collection
Miscellaneous
TOTAL
$14,000.00
3,000.00
2,400.00
2,000.00
3,000.00
600.00 • i
$2^,000.00
DR
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KffiOHWHXM FOK* CCf-UTOUSa
W?zmmi i Fiance Division
&U&BC? s m»i £i*pro^et So. 77Authorisation #4
•' Under tlra eutlxoi’xty granted In the Ker^rendua dated
13 April 1953 froa tfca SCI to the DS>/A, cud tha extensionof
this authority in ©\fcs33u9nt iseraor&nda, SJjprojeet 77 haa baen
approved and $25,000.00 of. the ovasvaXl project iSOriffHA fuMa
have h.3®n obii^fced to. cover tho euhpro^set’a erases and
should bs ehargad to Allotment il?25-30
Analysis of t-xpensea
From 10/1/59 through 6/30/61
sonalit
(Grant fr
October 9> 1964
Dear Miss4
the grant of Ufor studies *
tion of data required a special search of the financial records offour years back, and thus took a little more time than I had antici-
pated when I wrote" to you on September 1.
. Though the grant was-for
-the' period October 1, 1959 through
December, I960, in actual fact the work continued to June 30, 1961,The attached statement of expend! Lures reflects the research activityduring this - period. ,
Youuwill see that total expense was $28,123.22 against the$20,000 grant, and that th^M^p^ contribution was therefore $8,123.22.
I trust that this report ray serve your needs, but if youwould like further data or clarificatij^-'^^would be happy to try tosupply it . 1 .
With appreciation" for your assistance,
r Sincerely yours.
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November 9, 1959
am sure you are aware, the.W,*f? f fT'-W M |
#• j&nsjMi*me hasaga
to request .a further grant of $20, 000 from help support thiswork during the period from October 1, 1959 through December 31, I960.In order to keep our request at the same level as in previous years, andnot at the time to unduly prolong the time-table for continuation of ^the study, $&gjp- has allocated $8,000 of its own research funds to thisstudy for the fiscal year 1959-60. We trust that you are as pleased aswe have been by the progress of this study to date, and that you will beable to act favorably on our request for continued partial support.
In order that you and the members of your Board may be more fullyinformed regarding the progress and prospects of this study, Dr.^|0i||^|hae prepared the enclosed memorandum. I am sure he would be happy toelaborate upon any of the topics discussed therein if this should seem de-sirable.
We are , of course, pleased and grateful for the support that theSociety has given to this project in the past and hope that its continuancewill seem appropriate.
Sincerely yours.
Enclosure
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as of October 1959*
This study began with the idea that the concept of Sensation vs
«
Intuition as described by Jung and measured by the Myers-Briggs Type In-
dicator was essentially equivalent to the concept of Extermination vs.
Internalization as described by and measured by the Digit Span
subtest of the Weehsler intelligence tests. Some very limitedevidence
consistent with this hypothesis was included in the original research
proposal, and some other parallel hypotheses were also putforward at .
that time
.
The first year of work under our grant from the Society wasspent
doing a number of things, such as collecting data and examining itin
relation to the original hypotheses. It turned out that the hypotheses
could be supported if, but only if, one were careful to choose the
right kinds of subjects; there were other very important aspects to the
relations between Weehsler scores and Myers-Brlggs scores. Thus, given
two subjects with parallel Weehsler profiles, one could state withsome
confidence that they would have similar Myers-Briggs profiles. Hovevei
,
changing almost any of the Weehsler scores in relation to the profilewould
almost surely result in some change in the Myers-Briggs "type.' It turned
out, therefore, that the most important act first yearwas that
spent becoming more thoroughly familiar vitnMHHBHp theory of per- /\
sonality and his use of the Weehsler to assess"personality operattonally
.
The major result emanating from this phase of activity i^jjj?esearch ^
Memorandum "An outline personality theory as applied
to the Weehsler: I." A
One clear understanding provided by thiswrit, was that the Wecholer.
is not an ideal measuring instrument HMHp* theory because it doesnot contain enough different subtests.
T^ofile of eubtest scores
t'hat has been used is merely a ten-dimensionalshadow cast by an appreciably
more complex pattern of personalityorganisation within any given individual,
It may be possible to use thisshadow tb make deductions about the person
who cast ..it primarily because ofcertain dynamic mechanisms that inter—
relate the known and the unknown aspects.However likely such deductions
are to be properly made by good clinicalpsychologists, they are certainly
beyond the ken of conventional statisticalapproaches.
A major goal for the second year of ourwork has been to understand
as fully and empirically as possiblewhat is measured by the Wechater^nd
to try to pinpoint its shortcomings inrelation to coverage of
/
theory. Factor analysis has providedan approach to this problem, and
nine different factor analyses relatingto some form of the Wechsler have
been carried to virtual completion atthe present time. One of these has
led to a published report, a secondhas been ..accepted. for publication, and
reports dealing with the remainder areexpected to reach at least the
stage of complete first draft by January19^0.
The first report
The sec
has been
ohl.y~after-£^^^^^mbst of thein
incarnation at^pyeseerch Bulletin||j||j§ Three factors
yere found to be involved in the Item's ofthis one siMest, and these
*•
factors were clearly those anticipated byRapaport's classic discussion
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of WB-I as a clinical instrument. While there have been severalitem analy-
ses of items in the various forms of the Wechsler^ and the resultshave
contained evidence that should probably have been interpreted as implying
multidimensionality even for individual subtests, no one has previously
reported factor analyses of items in any of the scales. Vo have completed
and are ready to write u-p two further such analyses. Six factors have been
found in an analysis of Information and Arithmetic items, and sevenfactors
have been found in an analysis of Similarities and Comprehensionitems.
However, the sixteen factors found by factor analyzing items are not all
different, there being abundant evidence that some of the factorsappear
in more than one subtest.
aihi rd wit} a
.lias- been corm
Dieted Research BiilletiT^^£££^jui7 will be submitted to tl
"The major conclusions of this report ire that Alpha"frl
^quency 'in' the^EG probably corresponds to Digit Span in the Wechsler, and.
that Alpha Index probably corresponds to Picture Completion. Using data
collected subsequent to our re-analysis of Mundy-Castle we have been able /#
to cross-validate the first of these conclusions, and to obtainevidence
;
suggesting that the relationship is an even more general one between Digit
• Span .and the dominant EEG frequency even when this frequency is well outside
the limits normally used to define "alpha" frequency. (Because the 'sample
used for cross-validation came from a mental hospital, these furtherresults
cannot be adequately reported without a prior or concurrent discussion of
the effects of brain damage.)
The implications of a chain of relationships bringing together a
neurophysiological measure such as Alpha Frequency in the EEG, a performance
test measure such as Digit Span in the Wechsler, and a self-report inventory
measure such as the Myers-Briggs,. are substantial, and we hope .to spend
some of our effort in the coining year working them out ana reporting them
specifically. The "meaning" of the alpha rhythm has been well worked out,
by others, in terms of a sub- cortical ly controlled master "excitability
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cycle,1
' which fits nicely with s ^
Jung's "Sensation-Intuition," andReymans and Viersma ' s " Pri mary-Secondary
.
"
This dimension, by whatever name, is emergingas perhaps the most in^ortairt
dimension in the whole theory of personality,in the sense that all other
relationships may he subject to its influence.It is my hunch that its
manifestations can he traced hack even to;the biochemical level of observa-
tion, and that at that level it willhe tied in with the characteristic
response of the adrenal gland to chronicenvironmental stress. Such a
^
conception seems to he consistent with afair body of hitherto unrelated
literature, and with some very limiteddirect observation.
In any consideration of this area thequestion of anxiety and its
measurement is hound to come up. Within theWechsler, a relative deficit
in Object Assembly-performance isregarded as. betraying a degree of anxiety.
(Digit Span is also sometimes said to; measureanxiety, but we would prefer,
in keeping with the above, to put it thatDigit 'Span says something very
fundamental about how anxiety may be expressed.)Since our first factor
study of the WAIS yielded evidence forthe unique contribution of every
subtest to the battery except Object Assembly,and since we did not want
to throw OA out on these grounds withoutgiving it a second chance, we
developed and experimented with a new subtestcalled Sentence Arrangement.
This new test was designed to measurethe unique-contribution of- OA, but
to. correlate differently than OA with.the., remaining subtests -I^idence ^
indicating the success of this venture isnow written up ixjg^esearch
Memorandwfijttlfeven before this was completed,however, one of the
'
three faetSsin^cture Completion had confirmedthe reality of this
dimension , which we like to referto as the "effect of uncertainty
.
"
In view of the sense of reward achievedinstrumental^ through the
re -analysis of Mundy-Castle1 s data, we have been encouraged to pick
up
other data from the literature that seem tohave been incompletely or
improperly analyzed. Reports on four suchstudies now await write-up,
using data originally gathered by Reitan,Davis, Witkin, and Birren. It
is our plan to report the Reitan dataseparately, since it was not extensive
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enough to yield more than seven factors in either a normal or a brain-
damaged sample, but does afford an opportunity to discuss the
brain damage- on..both the Vechsler, and Halstead batteries. Dr
id: a former -Colleague of
a^eed^to'collaborate in interpreting and reporting these results.
The remaining three factor analyses each bring the Vechsler battery
together with an interesting and diverse array of other measures, and yield
11-12 factors. From the present perspective I donot see that any of these i
can be reported first without extensive anticipation of the results of the
others, and I therefore envisage a single report covering all three. While
the report is not yet even drafted, it seems fair to expect that it will be
possible to develop a framework of about l4 or 1$ factors that can account
for all of our results to date, and that may be regarded as the "real"
structure whose11 shadow" is presently obtained from the Vechsler. Further-
more, it seems likely that these factors can be conceptually organized in
a manner that results essentially in both simplification and over-determina-
tion of theory . Accomplishment, of these purpose s would complete
a major phase of research.
Assuming all this works out in the manner just indicated, our study
will have reached an important crossroads, from which there is more than
one way to continue. One major alternative is to get started on the build-
ing of a test battery designed for the most efficient and reliable measure-
ment of all tliese factors, and at tlresame time making as much use of group
testing as validity will permit. s well equipped to follow this line,
and I believe enough effort should be put into it to try to insure the
completion of material for an experimental battery by the end of i960.
This would look towards experimental administration of the material inthe
spring of 1961, completion of the battery, by . tbe_ end .of 196l> and final
standardization in 1962.
The second major alternative is to continue the exploration of im-
plications, which by now are appearing at various levels of measurement
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ranging from 'biochemical through self-report. In additionto reporting on
the vicissitudes of the one variable so far studiedacross levels, ve should
be considering its further vicissitudes in the realm ofobserver-ratings,
for example, and should be beginning to trace themanifestations and inter-
actions of some of the others of the 14-15- dimensions nowisolated. All this
is the stuff of which future application^''are: likelyto be made, and I
would be dismayed to see any substantial cuttingback of activity in this
area simply to facilitate current test-construction activity.
;
however, in view
this whole study, i
fillingress to contribute some funds to
willing to continue its support at the
same annual rate as YoFW^af^wo years this should result in substantial
further progress along both lines of investigation bythe end of i960.
October 29, 1959
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Here are the final figures- through -September 10 IQra-charges we have made against the grants from the Societyf!&al 'd1^
*•0/l/57 - 9/ 30/56Employee costs $ 6,235Other direct charges 3*298Indirect charges and
" *
~
overheadTotal
7,841'
IO/1/58 - 9/30/59
..$6,16310,896
5,359
The meaning of these categories is the same as in my Last letter
the sv^lL^o grant le« «”»'Is continuing, (2) the grant.fU^ r™. *
(l the project
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is continuing (?) STgrmWerTr ™ ™ct8 that ^ the Projecteach (as I ScJrta,,,! if) Md (l) «
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104*. MHSS«SJl «* ***
vpmipftt{ m .V ,a^' t3j te wiij. soon be submitting a proposal
.* +- cJ A. _ • 1
requesting even more money, I assume we won"hut ve can if you would like.
t need to mail you a check.
Chi ofToS/Cheadcal Mv.lai on
Pato: jo
September X?, 1959
5 trust you h;a! a ploasant vacation ana didn't work: too hard,
k'e m*e still Vuitin •; lor your not? pn>i osal. Kcrxevrar, that- is not tbo
purpose oC this letter, . . - ;
-jo -XV-. in ncod of -*n accounting 1'ro'i, your or.yni'-iation of the
ftin.'l3 ex- .ended for the first y-'ar1!* £rani vdAeh run frosi October 1>5?
to fotcb'-r 19 IB then vo vwl
MEMORANDUM FOR: IRS RECORD
SUBJECT j Continuation of MKUI.TRA, Subproject 77
It The purpose of Project MKWLTRAj Subproject 77 is to
support the researchj^Offiram conducted by Dr
of th
The program is designed to specifically state and empirically
refine certain concepts of personality structure uhich are basic tothe
TSd/CD indirect assessment program. — -—
2, During the past year prepared and dis-S. During the past^yeartJDr|^^^jg^has prepared and dis-
tributed five reports on various aspects of the project. The aspect
t
of the project having to do with comparing the two personality theories
is essentially complete. The second stage of the overall plan is now
underway. This includes the highly complex and extremely impel taut
process of developing the new testing materials. This research pro-
gram is considered the core of the indirect assessment program.
3 . The project will be funded thx*ough
for security and co^er purposes-
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and the funds expended will ba accounted for by tbs
irectly tc an annual
basis in accordance with Society procedures. Any unexpended funds will
be returned at the conclusion of the program. It is not anticipated that
any permanent equipment will be- required for the project.
BUDGET
Salaries & Wages • • • • • • *$10,000
Operational costa (materials, travel, etc.) 400
Rent, telephone, machine rental, etc. 3>000
General overhead (accounting, Evaluation 6,600
& Advisory Service , etc
)
$20,000Total
Remarks and ReferencesObligations
Incurred
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MEMORANDUM FOSs CHIEF, FINANCE DIVISION
: TSS/Budgei Officer
SUBJECT : MKULTRA, Subproject 77, IAllotment 9-2|02-75>902
1. Invoice No, ?. for the above subproject is mshould bo made as follows
;
tayable to
Z, Pleaso forward the check to Chief, TSS'/Cthrough TSS/Budgei Officer by Thursday, 16 Gctobe
3. This is a final invoice. However, since itadditional funds will bo obligated for this project, tlbe closed.
Distribution!
-'•©rig k 2 * Addressee
CERTIFICATIONS
(I) It is hereby certified that this ia Invoice #2 applying to Subproject 17
q£ MKULTRA, that performance is satisfactory, that services are beingaccomplished in accordance with mutual agreosnento , that a detailed agoada
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correct and that payment thereof has not yet been made.
Chief, TSS/Chemical Division
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14KU1.TRA which was duly approved and that the project is being carriedor*t in accordance with the memorandum dated iS April 1953 from the DCIto the DD /A, and the extension, of this authority in subsequent memoranda.
Research Director
Dates
23 September 1958
MEMORANDUM i^OR: COMPTROLLER
ATTENTION
SUBJECT
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Under the authority granted in the Memorandum dsfcsd
13 April 1953 from the DO to the DD/A, and the extension of
this authority in subsequent memoranda. Subproject 77 has been
approved and $20, 000. 00 of the over-all Project MKULTRA funds
have been obligated to cover the subproject’s expenses and
should be charged to Allotment 9-2502-15-902.
Approved for Obligationof Fund a;
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Under the authority granted in the Msmaraadum d-ntcd
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authority ia subsc'^uoat . rnennerande, bv&project 77'im$ beea
approved and $20, 000. 00 of the over-all Project MKifLTRA funds
have been obligated to cover the subproject's expenses and should
be charged to Allotment 8-£&02-lO-Oi!J.
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CGAiDTROLL-LR •
Finance Division
MKUPTKA, Subproject - 77
TbS / Chemical Pivi »iea
AFPAGVUll FOR OBLIGATIONOF FUNDS:
heoearch Director
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2. Ples-t-o forward the check to Acting Chi 3!, TiSS/Chcmicalfrivisioa through TSS/fsudget Officer by Wednesday* November 1951,
3. Tlii© is p final invoice. A total of $40, GOO. 00 was obligateduador this subproject Uncia;* FY 5S» However# sine© it ia anticipatedth-t additional fvnds v/ill be obligated for this project, the flies skoaW .•
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INVOICE
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cmTIFICATIQNS
(1) It is hereby certified that this- is Invoice No. 1 applying to SubprojectNo. 77 of MKULTRA, that performance has been satisfactory, that theservices have been accomplished in accordance with mutual agreements,that a detailed agenda of the payments and receipts is on. file in TS3/CD,that this bill is just and correct and that payment thereof has not yet beenmade.
Acting Chief, TS3/ Chemical Division
Date;
( 2-5 It is hereby certified that this invoice applies to Subproject 77 underMKUJLY itA which was duly approved and that the project is being carriedcut in accordance with the memorandum dated 12 April 1953 from the DOto the DD/A, and the extension of the authority in subsequent memoranda.
Research Director
Date;
1
A Research Proposal
examination, to contain important regions of mathematical isomorphism. In
other words, it seems likely that certain of the basic concepts and relation-
ships employed in these theories can be put into a one-to-one correspondence.
At the same time, each theory contains many further elements that seem likelyto correspond only to concepts or relationships that have not yet been formu-
lated in the language of the other theory. The purpose of this proposal is to
suggest the importance of exploring empirically the contact between these and
possibly other personality theories, with the objectives of unifying them into a
larger coherent picture and of filling in a relatively greater proportion of the
details of this picture from the combined resources of the present theories.
CIs
persona
re two authors of more or less comprehensivepear, upon rather close but as yet unscientific
Among, the host of possible definitions of "personality" there are manywhich stress the idea that it is only through an understanding of personality that
one rnay expect to predict individual behavior, including behavior "intended" to
be adaptive to the physical environment or to other people. Thus, any researchthat is able to shed light on the organization of human personality, or to providemeasuring instruments of basic parameters of human personality, is seen aslikely to contribute to the advancement of human ecology. The following para-graphs* show one way in which this possibility"may" be” approached, and includepreliminary evidence that suggests that this approach may be a fruitful one.
theory is one that is grounded in extensive erhpirical observa-tion Imd has" always had objective, "operational" definitions for its concepts. Forthe most part, these have been provided by the various sub-tests of the Wechsler~Bellevue Intelligence Stale, although the constructs and relationships that havebeen generalized out. of careful observation of the. performance of subjects onthese sub-tests are regarded as having potentially even broader theoretical utility.For example, efforts to fit the Thurstone Temperament Scales into this structurehave been undertaken but have not yet been fully worked out.
Jfhcory, on the other hand, is one that was first devised as aserieS"*6f fib'sl*a c tion s , and which has since been "justified" through thedevelopment of at least one kind of objectively scorabL&naaaterial that appearsto behave consistently with the abstract principles^HBBHBias freely employedJungian concepts in developing her theory, but has afsoraa to modify and extendteem somewhat in order to "fit the facts" that are yielded,by her instrument,known as the Myers -Briggs Type Indicator.
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In terms of the writer's present understanding of these two theories,each makes use of three basic bits of information, along with further bits o£information, in order to classify an individual personality. The question ofwhether any of these are in fact the same basic bits of information is the firstone that should be investigated.
For example.^HHBH^Hgives first importance to a distinction betweenpersons that he calre^^^^^W^ers " and "Externalizers". Operationally, aninternalizer is an individual who is able to perform well on the digit span subtest of the Wechsler in comparison with his general level of ability; an external
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izer is.able to performonlv relatively poorly, atleast when he takes the Wechslerfor the first time.flR9H5K following Jung, draws a basic distinction between in-dividuals who arcTuppo'scd to prefer "Intuition" and other individuals who aresupposed to prefer "Sensation" as a mode of perception; a given individual maybe measured in this respect by the answers he gives to certain questions abouthimself. The writer has begun to administer both the Wechsler and the Myers
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Briggs to a series of subjects, and currently has 20 casesJyal^Kkj^y“yenteenof these cases are usable to compute a correlation betwee*I^^M^^^MfMlefimtionof an internalir.er and Myers' definition of an intuitive; the is plus. 7t» (Kendall tail coefficient). Since any correlation that may exist between thesedefinitions must be attenuated by the unreliability of measurement inherent inh
AIt does not appear thaflg9Rii*d basic bit of information,
which
distinguishes between individSiMiliil^play"Acceptably • and those who do
so "Unacceptably" on the basis of relativeperformance on the picture
ment sub-test of the Wechsler, can be relateddirectly to any of Myers basic
type distinctions. Jung's concept of"persona, " which seems likely to be in-
volved here, is one that Myers has not yetinvestigated.
On the other hand, it does appeal-likely that Myers'third basic bit of
. , . , j . • l„. tipiwpcn "Introverts" and "Extraver ts m theinformation, which distmgui||y|gJM|j|gg|^
. . . ;ryd!>
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action between internalizer-^MfflilwPJndits degree o compensa 1 n ,
.
Thus, if a relatively high performance in thearithmetic sub-test of he Wechsle
is taken as an indication of "compensation," extraverts may be hypothesized to
comprise persons who are simultaneously high, orlow on both digit span an
arithmetic, while introverts comprise persons Who
two sub-tests. While the data for our ZOcases can be plotted so as to be consistent
with this hypothesis, the interpretationis utterly dependent on the
appropriate cutting scores for both digit spanand arithmetic, and this should
not he regarded as even tentative evidence.
The discussion that has just been given servesboth to spell out afew
examples of rel ationship that ishypothesized to exist between the
^ of Myers, and to illustrate some of the difficultiesinHP* investigation of such hypotheses. The r...«ch that
is here proposed would take off from this point,and would initially explore a
variety of hypotheses of this general kind.Obviously, longer series of cases
need to be examined before even the specifichypotheses raised in hts discussion
may be accepted as a basis for guiding the formulationof additional hypotheses
Unking other aspects of these or other theoriesof personality. Some encourage-
ment may be drawn from the tentative evidence providedby the 20 cases; additional
encouragement may be drawn as rapidly as an interlockingnetwork of consistent
hypotheses can be formulated and empiricallyvalidated. Exactly where these
will lead the investigation is impossible toforesee.
Assuming, however, that substantial areas ofisomorphism can be
elucidated in the course of this research, it shouldthen be possible to combine
the advantage of the two sets of operationaldefinitions for the constructs.
Myers -Briggs has the advantages of easy administrabilityto groups of persons,
high reliability (in the sense of internalconsistency of measurement) for a
limited number of scores, and a generallynon-threatening appearance. e
Wechsler -Bellevue provides a larger number of scoresat a more moderate
_ l eVel of reliability, and has the marked advantageof expecting the subject to
do his "best"— capitalizing on a form of motivationthat may eiten invalidate
the paper-pencil questionnaire approach whenit is applied to an mdividua .
By using the Myers-Briggs as a screen for theselection of experimen a popu-
lations and as an intermediate criterion for thepreliminary validation of new
"objective" personality tests, it may prove possible to develop materialsthat (a) are equivalent to those now in the Wechsler, (b) possess higher reli-
ability and validity, and (c) include ways of measuring facets of personality
that are not now being tapped. By using both instruments together, it mayprove possible to develop a Scheme for systematically recording observations
of behavior so that they may be readily translated into the unified theoretical
framework. By using either instrument, according to the requirements of a
feasible experimental design, it may prove possible to map the relationships
of a wide variety of additional varfable.sJ&nJfts_«ffiitted.framework; the effects
of "educational" experience, including various forms of psychotherapy, the
effects of physiological "condition" including the influences of heredity and of
sundry chemical and electrical stimuli, and the manifestations of personality
in a variety of "other tests" are all areas of potential interest. Again, which
of these will seem to be the best bet as this research develops is an open
question.
Implementation Br
iopl that the
ferest and thaScB^^HHHpvill see fit
to provide financial support so that research developir^^^J^^^^^Wines outlined
above may be undertaken. Such research is not now being supported by any
other foundation, nor has it been.
In view of the relatively high degree of uncertainty that is necessarily
associated with plans for the kind of basic research that is outlined above,
ttMft proposes that the budget be established initially in terms of a rate of
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oxnenditure of effort, rather than interms of specific goals and the costs o
achieving them. On this basis, it seemsreasonable to request a grant of
«?0 000 to be spent over a period ofapproximately one year beginning
$I \ v th oLh September 1918. This sum would be sufficient to
permitOctober 1957 through September ivi». h Assoc iate , including allapproximately one man-year of effort by a Kes
e-Tien a.soof^hmcal
f^he costs whi-h be may generate throughout§P§byhis requests for technical
and clerical assistance and bythe need for pro^Tidminirtration and accounting.
gmt customary accounting system would be used to account fo* the™were actually spent, and would be expected
to show approximately the
following dispositions:
(11 Employee costs (including salariesand wages,
vacation allowances, ^^contribution to hospital^ ;
and annuity plans, etc. )
(2) Other direct operationalcosts (including travel, c
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purchase of special equipment or materials,etc. }
(3) Indirect operational costs(including general
supplies, telephone, machine rental, space
rental, depreciation, etc.-i_l^i.re
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DRAFT /mm9 August 1957
MEMORANDUM FOR: THE RECORD
SUBJECT : MKUETRA, SubprojectNo. 77
1 It is requested that SubprojectNo. 77 be approved
in order to support research relatedto the Indirect Assessment
Program. Enclosed are a description ofcertain aspects
8 - — ’ *•- the Directors ^f IggPBpThis research program will
o provide
(a) the development of alternateprocedures for
indirect assessment including new tests andnew
"'questionnaires.
(b) the testing of certain of thehypothesis now
u.so
rplus funds will be returned
No others maware of government interest of
of the true °
Cost for one year beginning 1 October1957 will be *20, 000. 00
honM be“Lrgea mAnotrnent 8 - 2S«2-10-00t. »*«-£***continuation of this project from year to
year will he recommended.
r"ttr> T,’TIVnQ'
Reb*far‘ch Directbr
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Attached:
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Distribution:
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Chief, Branch III
TSS /Chemical Division
APPROVED FOR OBLIGATION Approved:
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This project sill MmXj require several M»jrcara of research effortInitially, th©' principal investigator proposes to explore the feasibility
of tfco research and develop definitive plans and-j.»roocdur®a for pursuing
tiu study.-
' Ha *U1 recoKasad at the ©ad of the 'first phase as to uhetbar
V. Cost and Length' of (continued;
tbs task should be continued and,if so, at what lev©1 of ^fort.
The exploratory phase will requireona year at a cost of fcO.OOO.OO
Pert^sriCQ >
This comparative study will el aborataon work doRo
in orewious Society projects end willexhaustively mle
wwinou thu u » «»a*r imu f •»*««'for tha Society and appears to offer
a proxwtebls opportunity.
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Kyora theary, ©n tfe© etaar kand, Is ©a a that ms first devisod s© a
ta.-’ies ©f abstractionss end which has sin©* boos "justified" through tfe*
d©v-*l©paeat of . at least ©se kina ©f objectively ccarAbl© iae.t©rlal that ap-
pears to btfevra ecaslsteatly with the abstract principles. Myer© has fr®«-
ly employed Jim glam concepts in developing ~fe»r tfetory, bat has also had t©
codify and ©xtoad thoa lioa&ab&t is order t© -fit the fast© " that &r« yielded
by bar iastrvis-sDt, known as tb© h'y®r&~8riggs Type Indicator./
la ter«s of tte© writer's present"'understand lag of thes© t« tbsori©*,”
©ash Kaxkss us® of three baoje bits of information^ ©ieag with further bits
of laferc&ticH, in order to classify an individual personality. Tfe© question
of whether any of thus© are is fast the *t>ae basic bit s of information -is the
first on® that should bs investigated.
AJbr ©xaspl©, givos first importance to a distinction betwon |
peros&s that he ©&11» "Jatcraalissre* &sd^Blxtt*riJaliser«.® Oparatiouelly, aa
interRaliger ie &n individual who is able to perforsi ©oil on tfea digit spaa
«ub~te*t of tbs Weefcalbr in coeparisoa v?ith his pnarftl level of ability
j
an ©xteraoliser is able "to- pe flora only ral&tiveiy poorly, ®t least wteaa hs
takes tbs Wecbilor for the first ttet. following Jrr*g, draw© basic
distinction bctwo&a individuals «tva ©re supposed to prefer •Intuition". end
other individuals who are supposed to, prefer 'S«efttlon" as a code of percep-
tion) a given individual nay be c-oasured in this respect fey th© answers k*
gives to certain question© about Mnoelf . The writer fee© begun to e.dsinistor
both the anohsler and ibs Kyent-Brigga t© © series of subject©, and ©urreaiily
&b$©-20'G©«ee is f^jsd. IT ©f tb>s« oases are uasfelo to ccasput© a eorr«lation
bstweesi dofi<ioa of an iatsrralig©? and d-ofimitlea ©f ®ua
intuitive| the correlation is ^.76 (Kendall tau coefficient)# Sine©
CO
its ctMat ,9 r bat the reliability of tb® daviatisB of digit apaaperforate#
fres general ability level is probably stuck leror.
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ts®st important distinction is ; drawn botsrooa wfeat bo
refers to m "Rigid" "ELoxiblo" persoso. Thcao ert eporatiefc-illy diatls-
gwiahcd by their relative level of porforEsue© ©a tbs block design® aubvts^t
of the So-shslor i rigid persona do voll< dra®a ' fear other ba#ia fg2^42Jof the Soohslori rigid pore ora do voll< dra®a ' fear other baaia
distinction betsooa individuals supposed to prefer. "Tbimklsg’* etfcor*
supposed to prefer "Feeling*’ ao a »©4* of Judgassatr further solf-ropert ques-
tions are used to aaeesa an individual subject* 12 of tbo 20 cose® ®r® rsebla
to cofspui© the correlation betuoca “Rigid* aad ~*Fgin£ing>
*• !>*!» Sine
SSsea tbe ufeslo gresp la treated tegethsr, tfei e©relation ie practically terof
booster, tfeo earrelfttlon for the 9 m is /•&§ e®4 tMt for the 10 webos ise theory fese boon dovoloped *li»st exclusively fr«?s»
data
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*bicb di.Uagt.iehM beUara individual, who role-play “Acceptably" iM .tfau*"** d° 80 ^aa«®P^Uy " on the taoi, of relative p.rfcrrmnce on the picture
a«M«.t * th, Whaler, can be related 'directly to any of M,or.’(,jp a dietiaetioee, Juag'c concept of *psr*©jsa,“ which .©«*§ likely to
bo involved ‘here, is one -t tat tyon k*» ut yti boon able to deal with veryadequately.
On the ©tliOr hand, it doss appear likely that third basic bit of'
itforaatioa, which di.tiagBi.hea betwees “Introverts* and “XittraYort** In the
Jua.iax, s*n.e#
is contained inmp theoryLas_an e*»rg©Ht-cf the inter-action between interoaUx.r-exnrniai.er and lie degree of “coEjpsnmtion. “
Xb**» lf a r«1*t**#ly high porfonaaacs in the arithmetic cub-teet-of-thc Vector
lor i* taken go an indication of "coo^nbaticn," ertravort, »my bo Lypolhesirod
to coicpriso periffis »ho ere .isultaueoualy high, or lea, on both digitus andnrithnetic, '.--bile introverts comprise pdrjoiu_'who:jperfora Msparatcly on those
yve sub-teats. Sfcile the data for our 20- cue*.- can -be -plotted so as to bo cos-'
sis tout with this hypothesis, the interpretation is utterly dependent on the
s election of appropriate cutting score, for both digit span uadi arith^tic, and
this should not bo regarded a* ©van tentative evidence.
llse diseuasion that teas just been given serves both to eye11 out a few
•xaaplcs of tfca kind ef relationship that ie hypethsoi.ad to erlst between tb*
formulations ef IHHttHVfend ef dHHfift *nd +n
vid®d by the 20 eases) additional encouragement my be drmwa as rapidly sue
an interlocking network ef eoneistent hypotheses can bo foruulatsd and em-
pirically Tali dated. F> .roily whsre those will lead the investigation Is im-
possible to foresee.
Assuming, however, that substantial areas of isoskstphiaa eao bo oluci—
dated in tha course of this research, it should then bo possible to coisbiae
the advantages of the two sets el operational definition® for the construct#.!
The t/ars—Briggs has the advantages el easy adadnistrability to groups ef
persons, high reliability (in the sense ef Aaierasl c pn* iste®ay ef aeaeure-
meat) for a limited number ef scores, and a generally no&~t hreatening appear-
ones. The dec hslo^-Bellewte provides a larger number 6f scares at a core
derate level of reliability, aad has the Barked advantage ef expecting the
subject to do bis “‘best" — copitalirliag oa a forts of ivotivatlon that ro&y often
invalidate the paper-pcnsil questionnaire approach when it is applied to #a
individual. By using t ha yysre-Brigg* as a.screen for the selection of ex-
perimental populations and as an intermediate criterion for the preliminary
validation of new "objective" personality tests, it stay prove possible to
develop materials that (a) are equivalent to those now in the SJcchsler, (b)
possess higher reliability and validity, md (o) include way# ef measuring
facets of personality that are sot cow being tapped. By using both instru-*
m%t$ together, it my prove possible t« develop a tehene for systematically
reoerdisg observations of behavior bo that they Bay be readily translated in-
to the unified theoretical fvassevforfc, By ueing either iisstrusettt, according
to the requirements ef a feasible experimental design, it my prove possible
to Rap tho relationships of a wide variety of Additional variables on tfeo
unified fraaevork) the effects of “educational" experience, including various
psyckotLJapy, lha effects oi physiological "coBdltioK, * includingth^ influence *f heredity and of sundry cheaicel and electrical stimuli, »<
t^niftstu.iono ef personality in tt variety of "other test®" »ro all ere**i
l rtinl ««i. A&Ln, vhieh of these *111 ceeas to be the boot bet cutthis reicsrch devolcps is on open ^u«tivn.
4,1 ' ‘ * -‘-'I'-.iii -iti. ii** hope that tho sub- /
Jrct rill prove to be o».s of ovl *1 interest on-’ that
lit to provide fiasrc ial **v • -or* '«i n, i , . ," * so . .-,i ros rarer, developing along the linesoutlined ebove my he undertaxc®*.
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res rare r, developing along the lines
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la «lo. of tfo roJ.tlTolj fai £h «!« 4fto of wjo.i-t.tatj tf*t la noce.oori-roefetod rlM. f01. tte «*, of io.i, fM os ,.ch tb„ „ „mi
Of achieving then. Ob this b&ti*, it »e*aa reasonable to request a great
Of $20,000, to be spent over a period of *pproxiB»tely one year beginning
in October 1957. Thi* sum would be sufficient to permit approximately one
Ban-year of effort by a Research Associate, ' including all of the coot* which
he may generate throughout by his request® for technical and Clerical /
assistance and by the need for proper udainieiritioH and accounting,
customary accounting sys tea would be used to account for the funds M they
wort actually spent, and would be expected to a bow approximately the follow-
ing disposition;
Iteployoe costs (including wag®* end salaries, vacation
allowance, |jpj(eo«tri’owtie» to hospital and annuity
plan*, etc.)
Other direct costs (including travel, purchase of special
equipment or aatori&l-s, tabulating sachluo rental, etc)
General overhead (figured 4>J5£l®nHW-.$f ^ployoecosts)
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ffcilam jisp®* that significant pr ogree* Can be mads by expanding thisessount of effort for a year, it anticipate* that there will bo noed for sup-
port for several yc&r« if the area proposed for research is to bo properly
Investigated, end hapss that owld ea.r&ark .additlO’Eal iusda that
Bay b« Bad® available for til* purpoio if the result 6 that are being found
warrant a ceatiRuaiioa of the work,
vauig expect to bob® Dr Principal Investigator
for tide cork.
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