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r ccn SUB- PROJECT NO. 39 PRINCIPAL RESEARCHER AND LOCATION: Ionia State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, Ionia, Michigan OBJECiIVE ANO DETAILS OF WORK: 10 exoloit the research potential represented by a group of 142 criminal -sexual psychopaths confined at the Ionia State Hospital. The project proposed states: . "It is thought that these persons have the same kind or motivation for withholding certain information that is comparable to operational interrogation situations in the field." APPROXIMATE TIME SPAN: 1954-'! 953 SIGNIFICANT ASPECTS: Drugs, including LSD, were used both openly and surreptitiously on criminally insane inmates along with hypnosis as aids to interrogation. FUNDING: COVER MECHANISM: Society for Investigation of Human Ecology, Inc. APPROXIMATE TOiAL: $30,000, paid bv cashier checks Witting