President Donald Trump’s release of thousands of files connected to JFK’s assassination has included manuals connected to some of the most mysterious tools available in clandestine operations.
One nearly 400-page trove of documents reveals a CIA fixation on brainwashing. At some point in the late 1950s or early 1960s, the intelligence agency created a digest of nearly all the available literature in almost every language on brainwashing experiments and techniques since the 1920s.
Many of the documents have unclear origins and little context. Some manuscripts appear to be missing pages or are misplaced somewhere in the collection, leaving some incomplete or disjointed.
However, they all share a common theme and methodically dissect the practical elements of how other countries interrogated and brainwashed people.
Soviet Interrogation and Brainwashing Techniques
One document is introduced as “Dr. Bauer’s paper is directed at the question of the purported Soviet origins of Communist techniques of “brainwashing.” It is a reaction against the popularly held belief that “brainwashing” is a deliberate exploitation of Pavlovian psychology.” It is not immediately clear who this doctor is or how the CIA came to obtain his expertise. […]
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