Brainwashing
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Brainwashing is indoctrination using torture, starvation, sleep deprivation and so on to coerce captives to make propaganda statements. The word was first used by CIA operative Edgar Hunter to describe "re-education" practices used on prisoners of war by the Communist Chinese during the Korean War[1].
An investigation by the American Psychological Associations in the 1980s ended with the conclusion that "mind control" (as applied to religious conversion of volunteers) was not a scientifically viable theory.[2]
References in popular culture
- The Manchurian Candidate - POW programmed to commit murder on signal [3]
- The Family Man - "Promise you won't kidnap me and my brother and plant stuff in our brains?" [3]
External Links
- How Brainwashing Works by Julia Layton
See Also
Notes
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ [2]
- ↑ "The story was about a joint Soviet-Chinese plot to take an American soldier captured in Korea, condition him at a special brainwashing center located in Manchuria, and create a remote-controlled assassin who was supposed to kill the President of the United States." The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control, by John Marks