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Brainwashing or "mind control" refers to any system of involuntary indoctrination technique. 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]. Later scientific studies found that these practices had been ineffective mind control technique. An investigation by the American Psychological Associations in the 1980s ended with the conclusion that "mind control" 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
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