Memo: Project Sparta

Draft 1
June 9, 1953
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Project Sparta

1. In order to study the effects of forced cross-sex hormones combined with hypnosis, this project will take twelve female test subjects, isolate them for a month, hypnotize them, and inject them with testosterone regularly. The test subjects will be returned to their communities and observed by the principal investigator.
2. If this experiment goes as planned, it might be expanded to more test subjects.
3. The principal investigator will be Dr. Johan Engelbert.
4. The estimated budget is [REDACTED] and will not exceed [REDACTED] for a period ending in September 1, 1954.
5. Attached is a detailed plan of this project.

[REDACTED],
Chemical Division/TSS

APPROVED:

Sidney Gottlieb
Chief, Chemical Division/TSS

{The Historian has not been able to find an unredacted copy of this memo, nor the attached plan}