Files Show Tests For Truth Drug Began in O.S.S.
Documents on file in small college museum in Los Altos Hills, Calif, indicate that US intelligence community's research on control of human behavior focused as long ago as '43 on ways to induce people to tell truth against their will; show that Office of Strategic Services began highly classified experiments, apparently conducted in some cases on unwitting subjects, that were intended to measure potential of marijuana derivative as truth serum; references to search for so-called T-drug that might break down psychological defenses by Allied counterintelligence officers are contained in diaries and correspondence of late George Hunter White, who rose to rank of lt col in OSS and after war had career as sr Fed narcotics official (L)
