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Revision as of 19:43, April 5, 2007
Brainwashing is an involuntary indoctrination technique, developed by the Communist Chinese during the Korean War[Citation Needed] and reputedly effective as a 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.
See also
- The Manchurian Candidate - POW programmed to commit murder on signal [1]
- The Family Man - "Promise you won't kidnap me and my brother and plant stuff in our brains?" [1]
Notes
- ↑ "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