Brainwash
by Dominic Streatfeild · first published 2006
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"What would it take to turn you into a suicide bomber? Do heavy metal LPs contain subliminal messages? What was M16 doing with LSD in the 1950s? Do religious cults brainwash recruits? Is the Manchurian Candidate fact or fiction? Is it possible to erase memories, or to implant them artifically? How would you interrogate a member of Al Qaeda? With access to formerly classified documentation and interviewees from M15, M16, the CIA, the US Army and British Intelligence Corps, 'Brainwash' traces the evolution of the world's most secret psychological procedure, from its origins in the Cold War to th
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For an overview of the context of the state's research on, and use of, solitary confinement I'd recommend the book "Brainwash: The Secret History of Mind Control": http://www.amazon.com/Brainwash-Secret-History-Mind-Control/.... Despite the sensationalist title, it's a sober, wryly humorous look at the evolution of psychological…
on “What Solitary Confinement Does to the Brain” ↗There's a book called Brainwash: The Secret History of Mind Control by Dominic Streatfeild that goes into this topic well if people are interested. (And by well I mean takes a fairly sceptical view that they ever really got anywhere,…
on “The CIA's Secret Quest For Mind Control” ↗