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Amid revelations that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) covertly funded a series of drug experiments on Boston-area college students in the '50s and early '60s, Harvard released a document showing that a Medical School professor received $30,000 in CIA money for a series of experiments on the "hypnotizability" of individuals. No drugs were involved, and the tests shows hypnosis to be "a very poor method for mind-control," Dr. Martin T. Orne '48 said after the research was revealed this year.

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