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The sometimes shocking, always fascinating history of brainwashing, from the bestselling author of COCAINE

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ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0340831618
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 October 2022

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happy with the books quality

A very interesting and vast topic.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 January 2019

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Truth drugs, trauma and hypnosis - I'd never heard of truth drugs before!!

Could it really be possible that the mind of a human being can be tampered with to the point that the person literally loses their mind. Tamprered with to the point that they can be somewhat programmed - e.g. programmed to believe they have committed crimes that they didn’t commit and request to be executed as punishment.

Could drugs, or induced hypnosis be responsible for this?

Or maybe operant conditioning - using unpleasant or tourturus and severely traumatic experiences to condition the mind to react to things in a certain way. Fear and trauma in animal experiments saw their learned behaviours and personalities do a complete u turn. In humans the same effects have been documented - even to the point where people have changed their religious beliefs. Psychologists refer to this type of thing as behaviourism, and it has been argued to be a means of controlling/programming and predicting human behaviour, moulding a human personality.

Pavlov did lots of reared experiments/research ( a bit of A Level Psychology is coming back to me now lol, and Bandura was another theorist who did similar experiments around operant conditioning).

If someone is brainwashed doesn't that make them a slave to the brainwasher, controlled and programmed, their freedom and liberty stolen.....

Streatfeild also goes on to explore the use of brainwashing in warfare.

Drugs that can alter your consciousness to a state between sleep man awake - a point at which the mind is less inhibited and reveals more truths and secrets and personal info that the sharp conscious mind ever would - and sticking a hypodermic needle in someone’s vein and increasing their dose as and when they seem to be shaping out of it during an ‘interrogation’ a general anaesthetic (barbiturate nembutal) research by Horsley (1931) showed women in labour under the influence of this drug started to reveal al sorts of things - inhibitions were removed in a matter of seconds.

A truth drug had been discovered. This new way of getting into an unconscious mind was termed nacroanalysis. perfect for any shadowy figures wanting to interrogate someone they just can’t seem to break!

Chemical brainwashing, which could also be done via/put in food.

Subliminal messages, electric shock therapy, interrogation methods and torture.....intrigued? Then read on.

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Bad faith cover up of US/UK mind control but with some interesting details.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 April 2017

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This is the Establishment story of UK/US mind control and is a cover up. Very readable and has occasional variation in terms of how open it is about small elements of mind control, but a bad faith book. The positive comments about Drs Cameron and Sargant, as if they were genuinely focused on the welfare of their patients, yet using tragically dated treatments, are absurd. Compared with Karen Wetmore in 'Surviving Evil' where she quotes the CIA as admitting that Gittingers PAS was unethical and about exploiting people, the bland terms Streatfeild uses about Gittingers PAS are a giveaway. Wetmores book shows the sinister intent of Gittingers weakness database in astonishingly blunt words. Other cover ups here are of modern mind control victims 'Targeted Individuals' and the massive exploitation industry that surrounds them, making Streatfeilds apparent concern for people who could in practice be TIs absurd. Does have a lot of background and will suit people in for a good read, (as it has parts on heavy metal albums and cults) but this tries to put the word 'brainwash' in a time capsule and leave it as a Korean War dead end curio, hoping that people will similarly associate mind control with such a time capsule. Obviously, technical specifications of what is and isn't specifically 'brainwashing' can be used to bamboozle the casual reader into wrongly believing mind control is in the past. It isn't. It is in the present and its cover up is a huge non-reported story. Bizarrely, to justify cover up books like this, they regularly, (as here) have to posit 'nothing to see in the US' and simultaneous 'nothing to see in the UK', (such as brainwashing and 'FMS/SRA' controversies) at the same time, which is suspicious when multiplied enough times. Another suspicious portrayal is half-heartedly implying nothing to see in UK/Canada/Australia experiments at the same time these were linked to Sargant.

This book mentions US/UK military/intelligence branches involved, including CIA/USAF/SIS/SS/BA/RAF but doesn't mention NSA/GCHQ/RN. For a book referencing the Cold War, it misses out Lida/Moscow Signal/Pandora. It mentions some nasty interrogation techniques and at the end says if only there was another way. I think this relates to current mind control, which is plausibly deniable. In keeping secret current mind control, mind-reading and interrogation technology and know-how, this book helps keep a lid on the public analyzing whether the alleged terror attacks in the West, (foiled and successful) in the last couple of decades happened as the MSM portrayed them, especially where the alleged culprits had been allegedly already known to the intelligence agencies as 'extremists'.

This book therefore strongly implies that when ordinary people talk of mind control it can only be from wrong conspiracy theories with some mass hysteria to blame, which is codswallop. The writing on 'subliminals' is a clear feint against state mind control use of subliminals, such as NLP on the BBC scheduling. The picture on the cover is misleading about the technology involved. Interrogation can be done by remote by Electronic Warfare technology and implants.

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Mr. S. G. Maskell

an engaging tour of the world of mind control in 20C

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 May 2008

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very well written - never resorts to sensationalism

tours the conspiracy theories of mind control including the soviet show trials, CIA LSD Tests, the moonies, satanic cults, and Judas Priest's "Do it".

i knew bits and pieces prior from early excursions via books such as apocalypse culture - it was very rewarding finding everything in one place and the questions it raises in our current climate

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Freddie Valentine

Well written, compulsive reading.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 April 2010

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A great book detailing this history of brainwashing from various means including military experiments with hypnosis and LSD, religious cults, hidden messages in heavy metal albums, right up to modern interrogation techniques.
No pie-in-the-sky conspiracy theories here, this book is based on factual accounts and is excellently researched.

It's written in an accessible, easy-to-read style and is what used to be deemed a "page turner".
If you have an interest in this subject, you won't be disappointed.

21 people found this helpful

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 December 2020

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This book started off well with the first 2 chapters which seem to be showing some of the horror of this topic. It turned out to be a counter-intelligence (hope that word is used properly) of the sheer torture that is the subject of the book - brainwashing.

A complete "you are all mad sure I'm working for them too" denial of atrocities about which the author seems to have knowledge which he refuses to share.

One person found this helpful

Excellent Subject Overview

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 May 2019

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Only a small snippet of the dark side of human behaviour in the book. Absolutely brilliant to read. Interested readers should also check books on MK Ultra.

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