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T € M *.r%v 5.V^ * V I V-. employing harrassraent mate rials: (not controlled under the MKDEL.TA regulation) and only nine operations employing disabling drugs, (NB: two-thirds of these involved the use of drugs in interrogations) . No ‘ * _ * use of lethal substances was reported. ' " . ' . • • 22. The factors accounting for the low rate of uso of this capa- • : - . , * - , •* — 7 ^"- biUty were considered to be the following: • ' • * *' • a. the technical shortcomings of the drugs . - - '• b. the problem of testing in realistic piloteperations . c. ItmitnHans oh the dissemination of pertinent . : ./ ' ;• infoTiaatlon to operations officers - . \ . orgaiai^Hbaar^d^dmlnistrativ^est fictions :bn Z.-1: operations j; T : ' ' •• - ~ ' • . * _ e. 'negative attitudes toward the use of MKDELTA Aiaterials f. problems" fh"the training of case officers in this field g. the risk of stimulating increased use of MKDELTA . materials by opposition intelligence services ' *• - - • >•"; 23. Technical shortcomings of the drugs: ;• • - - fgy. - .-* • • . V • V ; ' " As of I960 no effective knockout pill, truth serum, aphro- disiac, on recruitment pill was known to exist. _ >MKDEI/TA\was.. : ;vV. describedias^^ihh^^tl^high-rislc7 low-yield.field of operation a,* ^ Three yea?3 later the situation remains substantially unc&mged, . ' v . with the exception that real progress has been made in the use cf V •; drugs in support of interrogation. Iromcally, ho^eVexv^ progress here has occurred -in the development of a total psycho- logical theory of interrogation, in which the use of drugs has been f relegated to a support rol^'V^;' ,/ . .