ACSI was also interested in advanced interrogation
techniques, especially the use of drugs that the CIA and
the Army Chemical Corps at Fort Detrich
A random Google serch for ACSI turned up the following
excerpt from what appears to be a Church Committee summary report:
Re: THIRD CHANCE and DERBY HAT - “….make a net evaluation
concerning the adoption of EA 1729 for future use as an effective and
profitable aid in counterintelligence interrogations.”
On the same day the ACSI requested that the CDC Commander
revise regulation FM 30-17 to read in part:. . . in no instance will drugs be
used as an aid to interrogations in counterintelligence or security operations
without prior permission of the Department of the Army. Requests to use drugs
as an investigative aid will be forwarded through intelligence channels to the
OACSI, DA, for approval. . . .Medical research has established that information
obtained through the use of these drugs is unreliable and invalid. . . .It is
considered that DA [Army] approval must be a prerequisite for use of such drugs
because of the moral, legal, medical and political problems inherent in their use
for intelligence purposes. The subsequent adoption of this regulation marked
the effective termination of field testing of LSD by the Army. The official
termination date of these testing programs is rather unclear, but a later ACSI
memo indicates that it may have occurred in September of 1963. On the 19th of
that month a meeting was held between Dr. Van Sims (Edgewood Arsenal), Major
Clovis (Chemical Research Laboratory), and ACSI representatives (General Deholm
and Colonel Schmidt). “As a result of this conference a determination was made
to suspend the program and any further activity pending a more profitable and
suitable use.”
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