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Operation Mind Control
Walter H. Bowart
New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1978
Please
keep fearfully in mind that the astonishing information published in this
seminal work of investigative reporting, concerning avenues taken to decision
and execution by our secret police to fracture or dissolve human minds, then to
operate those minds as a small boy, might operate a Yo-Yo, for purposes of
counter-intelligence military “efficiency,” and the destruction of democratic
institutions, was drawn directly from federal records and from official
laboratory archives of the highest educational purpose—as well as from the
reviving memories of those who had already undergone the dehumanizing
process. ... [p.
14]
Zombie is a quaint, old-fashioned
folklore word but its meaning becomes obscene when our children’s minds are
being controlled ... [p.
17][Note:1]
It
may have been the biggest story since the atom bomb. The headline, however, was
small and ignored the larger issue. “Drug Tests by CIA Held More Extensive Than
Reported in ’75,” said the New York Times
on
The
testing of drugs by the CIA was just a part of the United States government’s
top-secret mind-control project, a project which had spanned thirty-five years
and had involved tens of thousands of individuals. It involved techniques of
hypnosis, narco-hypnosis, electronic brain
stimulation, behavioral effects of ultrasonic, microwave, and low-frequency
sound, aversive and other behavior modification therapies. In fact, there was
virtually no aspect of human behavioral control that was not explored in their
search for the means to control the memory and will of both individuals and
whole masses of people.
The
CIA succeeded in developing a whole range of psycho-weapons to expand its
already ominous psychological warfare arsenal. With these capabilities, it was
now possible to wage a new kind of war—a war which would take place invisibly,
upon the battlefield of the human mind. ... [p. 19]
The
psychological techniques described in The
Manchurian Candidate were to become a reality less than a decade after
Condon saw his story set in type. As if
Condon’s fiction had been used as the blueprint, a group of hypno-programmed
“zombies” were created. Some were assassins prepared to kill on cue. Others
were informers, made to remember minute details under hypnosis. Couriers
carried illegal messages outside the chain of command, their secrets secured
behind posthypnotic blocks. Knowledge of secret information was removed from
the minds of those who no longer had the “need to know”—they were given
posthypnotic amnesia. ... [p. 21]
The objective of Operation Mind Control
during this period has been to take human beings, both citizens of the
Mind control is the most terrible
imaginable crime because it is committed not against the body, but against the
mind and the soul. Dr. Joost A. M. Meerloo expresses the attitude of the majority of
psychologists in calling it “mind rape,” and warns that it poses a great
“danger of destruction of the spirit” which can be “compared to the threat of
total physical destruction . . .” ... [p. 23]
“I
can hypnotize a man—without his knowledge
or consent—into committing treason against the
Estabrooks, chairman of the Department of Psychology at
From
one such think tank, the Rand Corporation, came a report [1949] ... [p. 67]
“ ...
a hypnotized subject will often accept and confess to an implanted memory as a
real event in his own past life.” ...
A
number of experienced hypnotists had been able to train their subjects to
perform “in such a way that observers could not tell that the subject was in a
trance or that he was acting under hypnotic suggestions.” ... [p. 69]
To
induce hypnosis in an unwilling subject, the report suggested any of three
possibilities which were then well supported by research findings:
1. As
part of a medical examination, talk relaxation to the subject, thus disguising
the hypnotic induction. For example, the person could be given a blood pressure
test, told that he must relax completely in order to give an adequate test
record, and then be given suggestions to go to sleep which would result in a
hypnotic trance.
2.
Induce hypnosis while the person is actually asleep from normal fatigue. This
could be done by simply talking softly into the sleeper’s ear.
3.
Use injections of drugs to induce hypnosis. The hypnotic drugs would relax the
subject and put him in a “twilight state” where the subconscious mind is very
susceptible to suggestion.
Subjects
who refuse or resist the simple “talking” methods of hypnotic induction could
be given a few grams of paraldehyde or an intravenous injection of sodium
pentothal or sodium amytal. ... Subsequently the
subject could be allowed to practice carrying out posthypnotic suggestions. He
could then be rehypnotized, still without his
conscious cooperation, but this time without the use of drugs. ...
Another
important use of hypnosis ... the report said, would be the induction of
amnesia: “Once a deep hypnotic trance is achieved, it is possible to introduce
posthypnotic amnesia so that [a subject] . . . would not know . . . that he had
been subjected to hypnosis, to drugs, or to any other treatment.” ...
The
report then said, “Conceivably, electroshock convulsions might be used as an
adjunctive device to achieve somnambulism in a very high percentage of the
cases. ... It is conceivable, therefore, that electroshock treatments might be
used to weaken difficult cases in order to produce a hypnotic trance of great
depth.”
In
1958 the Bureau of Social Science Research (BSSR), a subcontractor to the Rand
Corporation, issued a “technical report” on hypnosis to the air force ...
“it
is conceivable . . . that these techniques could have been used and covered up
so successfully that they might be impossible
to recognize . . .” ...
All
of these techniques, involving drug-induced hypnosis and electroshock
convulsions, were eventually developed and used to reduce some of our own
citizens to a zombie state in which they would blindly serve the government.
Regardless of the Constitution and the laws which supposedly protect the
individual against government coercion, “zombies” were covertly created to do
the government’s more unsavory bidding. Such “zombies” asked no questions about
the legality of their assignments. Often their assignments were never
consciously known. And if they were ever questioned about their own actions,
amnesia protected them from self-incrimination. ... [p. 70-73]
In
1951, a former naval officer described “a secret” of certain military and
intelligence organizations. He called it “Pain-Drug-Hypnosis” and said it “is a
vicious war weapon ... The extensiveness of the use of this form of hypnotism
in espionage work is now so widespread that it is long past the time when
people should have become alarmed about it . . .” ... [p. 75]
Mind
control arranges that “slaves” of the intelligence community—witnesses,
couriers, and assassins—are “protected” from their own memories and guilt by
amnesia. These “slaves” may be left alive, but the knowledge they possess is
buried deep within the tombs of their own minds by techniques which can keep
the truth hidden even from those who have witnessed it. It is the ultimate
debriefing, the final security measure short of assassination. ... [p. 148]
José
Delgado was a neurophysiologist at the Yale University School of Medicine. By
1964, ... he had already been experimenting with electronic stimulation of the
brain (ESB) for nearly two decades. His work, supported by the Office of Naval
Research, ... [p.
250]
A
number of government agencies were actually at work on projects similar to
Delgado’s, and through these projects the cryptocracy
had gained the technology for direct access to the control of the brain and
through it, the mind. ... [p. 251]
ESB,
however, used in conjunction with psycho-surgery and behavior modification,
offered unlimited possibilities. After experiments on laboratory animals met
with success, human experimentation was enthusiastically undertaken in quest of
the most reliable and absolute method of remote
control of the mind. ... [p. 253]
ESB
has, meanwhile, been strikingly successful in other areas. It has been used to
modify mental mechanisms, to produce changes in mood and feelings, to reinforce
behavior both positively and negatively. It has been used to activate sensory
and motor regions of the brain in order to produce elementary or complex
experiences or movements, to summon memories, and to induce hallucinations. It
also has been used to suppress or inhibit behavior and experience and
memory—outside of the conscious control of the owner of the brain. ... [p. 256]
And,
in 1974, the first victim of Parkinson’s disease treated by ESB walked
gracefully out of a San Francisco hospital under his own power, thanks to
portable ESB. He had a “stimoceiver” implanted in his
brain ... The “stimoceiver” which weighed only a few
grams and was small enough to implant under his scalp, permitted both remote
stimulation of his brain and the instantaneous telemetric recording of his
brain waves. ... [p. 256-257]
And
by the late 1960s, the “remote control” of the human brain—accomplished without
the implantation of electrodes—was well on its way to being realized.
A research and development team at the
Space and Biology Laboratory of the University of California at the Los Angeles
Brain Research Institute found a way to stimulate the brain by creating an
electrical field completely outside the head. Dr. W. Ross Adey
stimulated the brain with electric pulse levels which were far below those
thought to be effectual in the old implanting technique. ... [p. 257]
In
1975 a primitive “mind reading machine” was tested at the Stanford Research
Institute. The machine is a computer which can recognize a limited amount of
words by monitoring a person’s silent
thoughts. This technique relies upon the discovery that brain wave tracings
taken with an electroencephalograph (EEG) show distinctive patterns that
correlate with individual words—whether the words are spoken aloud or merely subvocalized (thought of).
The
computer initially used audio equipment to listen to the words the subject
spoke. (At first the vocabulary was limited to “up,” “down,” “left,” and
“right.”) At the same time the computer heard the words, it monitored the EEG
impulses coming from electrodes pasted to the subject’s head and responded by
turning a camera in the direction indicated. After a few repetitions of the
procedure, the computer’s hearing was turned off and it responded solely to the
EEG “thoughts.” It moved a television camera in the directions ordered by the
subject’s thoughts alone! ... [p. 258]
While
Dr. Reed conceded that it was “conceivable that thoughts could be injected”
into a person’s mind by the government, he indicated that he did not believe it
had already been done. ... [p. 259]
Typically,
the scientists have not been vigilant enough, for the cryptocracy
already has developed remote-controlled men who can be used for political
assassination and other dangerous work, ... [p. 260]
In
1967 a writer named Lincoln Lawrence published a book ... [Were We
Controlled? presented] a sophisticated technique known as RHIC—EDOM ...
Radio Hypnotic Intra-Cerebral Control—Electronic Dissolution of
Memory. ...
“Under
RHIC, a ‘sleeper’ can be used years later with no realization that the
‘sleeper’ is even being controlled! He can be made to perform acts that he will
have no memory of ever having carried out. In a manipulated kind of kamikaze
operation where the life of the ‘sleeper’ is dispensable, RHIC processing makes
him particularly valuable because if he is detected and caught before he
performs the act specified . . . nothing he says will implicate the group or
government which processed and controlled him.” ...
...
according to
In
1975 the RHIC-EDOM story surfaced again. ... The journalist, James L. Moore,
said that the papers in his possession described the details of “a military
technique of mind-control called Radio-Hypnotic Intra-Cerebral
Control—Electronic Dissolution of Memory.” ...
According
to Moore, in the initial (RHIC) stage of programming the ... [person] is put
into a deep hypnotic trance, and conditioned to go intro trance at the sound of
a specific tone. “A person may be placed under this control with or without his
knowledge, programmed to perform certain actions and maintain certain
attitudes” whenever he hears the tone. ...
The
second part of the process, electronic dissolution of memory (EDOM), Moore
said, “... By electronically jamming the brain, acetylcholine creates static
which blocks out sights and sounds. You would then have no memory of what you
saw or heard; your mind would be a blank.” ...
The
claims of James L. Moore would sound fantastic were it not for the abundance of
information to support the possibility of their validity. ... [p. 261-264]
The cryptocracy has gone to absurd lengths to develop
remote-controlled beings. Victor Marchetti revealed
that the CIA had once tried to create a cyborg cat.
He said that the Agency wired a live feline for sound in an attempt to use the
pet for eavesdropping purposes. The cat was first altered electronically so
that it would function as a listening device in areas where potential enemy
agents would be discussing covert plots.[Note:2] ...
After
the electronic feline was at last ready for its assignment, it was turned loose
on the street and was followed by a CIA support van loaded with electronic
monitoring gear. ... [p. 273]
The cryptocracy has used mind control for the past thirty
years. It has used it on its own agents and employees, on enemies and friends
alike. It has used it on thousands of Americans without their knowledge or
consent. The CIA has programmed assassins and couriers by it. The CIA has even
openly confessed to its conspiracy of mind control.
Many
people will believe that since the CIA has publicly disclosed its interest in
mind control, it has now ceased its activities. The earlier CIA records,
however, contain a number of termination dates for aspects of Operation Mind
Control, yet evidence clearly suggests that it continued past those dates.
In
1975, following the release of the Rockefeller Commission Report and the
subsequent investigations by Senator Church’s and Congressman Pike’s
committees, a public accounting was given and apologies were made. The
intelligence community was reprimanded and small changes made. ... [p. 275]
Recent
history documents the fact that the CIA, as the whipping boy of the cryptocracy, covers up and routinely lies about its
activities, heaping one lie on another, in a labyrinthine network of falsehood.
It stretches credibility to believe, therefore, that the CIA and especially
lower-profile members of the cryptocracy have
terminated the mind-control research and development that has been going on for
thirty years. ... If it has ceased, it has ceased only because it is obsolete
and the new technology of radiation and electronic brain stimulation has given
the cryptocracy a more powerful form of
control. ... [p.
276]
With
advancements in electronic technology—increasingly sophisticated microphones,
transmitters, and surveillance devices—the erosion of privacy becomes a
mudslide. ... [p.
280]
Mind control remains above
[Note:1] Richard Condon, author of The Manchurian Candidate (1958), the
forward to Operation Mind Control
(1978).
* ... The mind control examined is
this book is the control of one individual’s mind by another.
[Note:2] José Delgado, M.D., conducted
experiments (circa 1961) that attached an electrode to the eardrum (middle ear)
of a cat. The device picked-up people's whispered conversations and transmitted
them to a receiver for monitoring. The CIA attached their tiny radio implant to
the cat's cochlea (inner ear).