MK-ULTRA was the code name for a CIA mind control research program that was started in the 1950's and continued into the 1970's. The intention of the project was to produce a perfect truth-serum and to explore different ways to control people's minds.
Headed by Dr. Sydney Gottlieb, people were dosed with many different drugs (often without their knowledge), and subjected to electro-shock and many other bizarre forms of abuse.
Nevermind the conspiracy theories! Analyze the information yourself, then draw your own conclusions. Mind control is a very scary thing indeed!
Theory and Systems
These mind control and brainwashing theories tackle the history of brainwashing and different techniques used to control victims.
- Repeated confrontation: The repeated confrontation method supposedly serves to "break down a person’s resistance, expose poor habits, and allow the person to start over with correct methods and new goals," according to VisionandPsychosis.net.
- Brainwashing has nothing to do with self-discipline: Even in situations involving obsessive compulsive behavior or corrupted thought processes, any new idea or practice brought about through self-discipline is not considered brainwashing. Brainwashing exclusively refers to manipulating a person’s sensibilities and thought processes against their will.
- The use of chemicals, drugs or physical tools isn’t brainwashing: If someone is using chemicals, drugs, weapons or other physical devices to get desired results from a person, he or she is not brainwashing them. Brainwashing is mind control without the use of outside resources.
- Education and re-education: Before the term brainwashing was introduced, the same techniques and effects were referred to as "re-education," in the U.S. in the Soviet Union especially.
- Brainwashing is generally considered a form of torture: Because manipulators may use torture methods to achieve brainwashing their victims, brainwashing itself is referred to as a form of torture in some dictionaries.
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