We follow her through her training in a remote Scottish hideaway, meet her fellow recruits and watch as she is put through a mock interrogation to test her.
Thomas's hypothesis is that the C.I.A. was testing interrogation and truth serums there -- not on monkeys but on human subjects, "expendables," captured Russian agents and ex-Nazis.
Detentions at Guant?mo Bay, extraordinary renditions and brutal interrogations all tested the limits of the appropriate exercise of government power in wartime.
This method of testing enables the interrogation and comparison of outputs when specific points are irradiated along these distributed sensors.
In the nineteen-sixties, Army Intelligence expanded the arsenal's work on LSD, testing the drug as an enhanced-interrogation technique in Europe and Asia.
CIA scientists, fearing the Soviet Union was developing advanced "brainwashing" drugs, began testing substances for possible use in interrogations, including LSD, a potent hallucinogen.
Her interrogations were tests of character.
In fact, none of the methods contained in the current Army manual on interrogation have ever been scientifically tested for effectiveness.
High Anxiety: LSD in the Cold War While Ketchum was conducting experiments with a drug called BZ, the arsenal's chief scientist, Dr. Van Murray Sim, instigated a series of overseas "practical experiments," in which LSD was tested in enhanced interrogations of unwitting subjects.
Like Jacobson, he saw the need for additional tests, and even for the construction of an "interrogation laboratory" where LSD might be tested in combination with radical alterations in room temperature, or a barrage of "supra-sonic waves".
