St. Elizabeths Hospital (DC)

[David Morris]

The Pound story deserves a Netflix biopic.  That the 1942 CIA concluded
that THC was the best truth serum is hilarious.  Wait till they got LSD.
Stoned Nazis sounds like coddling the enemy.

David Morris

On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 7:42 PM Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Yeah, here it is. I remembered correctly!
>
>
> https://blogs.weta.org/boundarystones/2014/05/01/ezra-pounds-stay-st-elizabeths
>
> YOPJ
>
> On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 8:40 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> This is also where Ezra Pound was incarcerated after being repatriated
>> from Italy, where he'd been kept in open air cages for the better part of a
>> year.
>>
>> Right?
>>
>> YOPJ
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 11:50 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/st-elizabeths
>>>
>>> In 1942 the proto-CIA Office of Strategic Services established a
>>> committee partnership with St. Elizabeths to aid in prisoner of war
>>> interrogations. Little was known about the pharmacology of mind-altering
>>> drugs, but the premise was that intoxicated Nazis would be more likely to
>>> reveal sensitive information to interrogators to help win World War II.
>>>
>>> The St. Elizabeths truth serum experiments were overseen by longtime
>>> director and superintendent Dr. Winfred Overholser, who quickly dismissed
>>> mescaline and scopolamine and instead honed in on the promising effects of
>>> marijuana.
>>>
>>> According to the now declassified 1943 OSS “Report on T.D.
>>> <http://antiquecannabisbook.com/chap03/WWII/TruthSerum-P1.htm>[Truth
>>> Drugs], “Three varieties of cannabis were studied: Cannabinol from Indian
>>> Charis, tetrahydrocannabinol acetate derived from the above, and synthetic
>>> cannabinol [sic]. Of these, the acetate derivative was found to be
>>> preferable.“
>>>
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