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# Progress and harmony
# Progress and harmony
# Final confession and rebirth<ref name=Layton>Layton J, "How Brainwashing Works", HowStuffWorks.com. Accessed April 8, 2009. <http://health.howstuffworks.com/brainwashing1.htm></ref>
# Final confession and rebirth<ref name=Layton>Layton J, "How Brainwashing Works", HowStuffWorks.com. Accessed April 8, 2009. <http://health.howstuffworks.com/brainwashing1.htm></ref>
The CIA did in fact study the use of hypnosis as a technique either of interrogation or of strengthening resistance to interrogation. The CIA concluded that hypnosis was not a reliable interrogation technique. Nor did the CIA have any confidence that a hypnotized subject could perform an action under a post-hypnotic suggestion. But at the time of the writing of this paper, the authors stated that further research was indicated. Whether such research was ever conducted is unclear.<ref name=cia>"Hypnosis in Interrogation", Central Intelligence Agency. Approved for release per CIA Historical Review Program, September 22, 1993. <https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/kent-csi/vol4no1/html/v04i1a05p_0001.htm></ref>
==References in popular culture==
==References in popular culture==
*[[The Manchurian Candidate]] - POW programmed to commit murder on signal <ref>"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." [http://www.djmsp.com/feedingtrough/reading/The_Search_for_the_Manchurian_Candidate.pdf The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control], by John Marks </ref>
* The most thoroughgoing mention of brainwashing in popular culture was ''[[The Manchurian Candidate]]''.<ref name=manchuria>''The Manchurian Candidate'', dir. John Frankenheimer, with Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Angela Lansbury, and Khigh Dhiegh, United Artists, 1962.</ref><ref name=marks2>"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." [http://www.djmsp.com/feedingtrough/reading/The_Search_for_the_Manchurian_Candidate.pdf The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control], by John Marks</ref> This was also the most controversial such mention, because the theme involved inducing a person not only to confess to a crime he had not committed, but to commit murder on command and then forget that he had done so.
*[[The Family Man]] - "Promise you won't kidnap me and my brother and plant stuff in our brains?" [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218967/quotes]
* In the more modern motion picture ''[[The Family Man]]'', a young woman pleads with her father, "Promise you won't kidnap me and my brother and plant stuff in our brains?" <ref name=famimdb>''The Family Man'' at the Internet Movie Database. <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218967/quotes></ref>
==External Links==
==External Links==
*[http://people.howstuffworks.com/brainwashing1.htm How Brainwashing Works] by Julia Layton (good description of how Communists abused their prisoners of war, and some interesting speculation on "[[doomsday]]" cults)
*[http://people.howstuffworks.com/brainwashing1.htm How Brainwashing Works] by Julia Layton
==See Also==
==See Also==
*[[The Manchurian Candidate]]
*[[Barack Obama]]
*[[Barack Obama]]