 [ T ] he Office of Naval Intelligence right here in Washington , DC , threatened to call me to active duty to use what I knew about the mind . ... [ T ] his officer from the Office of Naval Research came to see me right here in Washington and he wanted me to go on as a civilian employee in order to use what I knew of the mind to make men more suggestible . And I smiled a feline smile . And I said , " No . " And he smiled like something out of Faust , and he said to me , " Well , all you have to do is say ' No ' and I will call you back to active duty because you still are an officer of the United States Navy . " And with that purr he exited . ... So I went down here to the Washington Navy Yard , the Potomac River Naval Command , and I got my resignation accepted . 
