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Brainwashing: Been There, Done That

RX
Top NIRD Researcher
PLN
Monday, March 2, 2020

While doing my Neuro Interference Removal/Rejection Devices (NIRD) research,

I get to come across information that the general public doesn’t know about. Long
forgotten or completely unknown facts that are hidden away, waiting to be
revealed. One of the most interesting closed research that I have come across is
the work of Dr. Ewen Cameron. YouTube is known for its entertainment content
and the stunts of some of its outlandish creators. However, there is a more
serious side to YouTube where you could find some obscure and valuable
information. People often knock YouTube’s recommended videos but I have often
found some relevant and interesting videos that I probably wouldn’t have come
across while digging through the billions of videos available on the site. The Fifth
Estate’s episode about Dr. Cameron’s research is one of those valuable
recommendations.

Three videos documenting Canadian citizens’ lawsuit against the American

government got my attention. The backstory is that Dr. Cameron, a well
respected American psychiatrist, was researching a new treatment where he
tried to cure patients’ diseases or ailments by a series of processes called
“depatterning” and implanting looped audio recording of new healthy ideas
(psychic driving) into their freshly washed minds. Simply, he was brainwashing
them. The media even called it “beneficial brainwashing”.

In “Brainwashing's Avatar: The Curious Career of Dr. Ewen Cameron” by Rebecca

Lemov, she describes the mechanisms of brainwashing in this way, “the process
of changing people’s minds starts from the outside but seems to move inside so
successfully that the person affected will proceed to act out a role—of suicide
bomber, silent chattel, abductee, refugee, strutting revolutionary, newscaster, or
newsmaker—as if the script had not only been memorized but consumed,
internalized, and fully incorporated into the deepest weave of the psyche.” In
cases where brainwashing is forced, the “brainwashed person changes herself to
save herself, and what first occurred ‘under the gun’ no longer needs a gun to be
enforced. Acting in a new way, according to new patterns, becomes natural.”

The US government became obsessed with mind control and brain washing
during the Korean War when some prisoners of war came back to the US
denouncing the American way of life and repeating the enemy’s propaganda. The
CIA was convinced that the communist had found the key to brainwashing and
Americans had to unlock the mystery of mind control to protect against the
Communists. This explanation puts the motive for mind control or brainwashing
research as a search for defense against America’s enemies. The government also
worried that the Soviets had developed methods to brainwash people. A CIA
psychologist said that they were pressured to find any kind of means (chemical,
psychological, etc.) that could be used to influence the behavior of the people.
This explanation makes sense of why the government poured money into mind
control research and why the public was okay with it in the beginning; it was for
practical reasons. The CIA was the most involved and funded several academic
mind control research under the guise of a cover foundation. Lemov writes,
“more to the point, it was a secret program designed, in the words of its decade-
and-a-half-long head Sidney Gottlieb, ‘to investigate whether and how it was
possible to modify an individual’s behavior by covert means’—or, in the still more
direct language of an internal CIA memorandum, to pursue the goal of
“controlling an individual to the point where he will do our bidding against his
will and even against such fundamental laws of nature as self-preservation.”

Cameron received CIA funding but his research wasn’t focused on mind control.
He seemed to be more interested in finding a new way to cure a patient. However,
his patients didn’t know that much about the treatment that they would receive
under his care. He often drugged the patients and/or kept them asleep for days
while shocking them. In the YouTube videos, the patients talk about their
experience and how they can’t remember parts or most of their lives.

When talking about these types of incidents, the public usually concentrates on
the horrors of the “brainwashing” or mind manipulation experiments. Articles
talk about the atrocities committed against innocent victims and laud how it was
all stopped. While all this is commendable, it is often forgotten that new
information was found during these experiments. The experiments could be
banned but the information it gave is still in circulation. The news articles make
the general public feel good because the brainwashing monster has gone away,
supposedly failed and won’t scare anyone anymore. This article begs to differ.
The information gleaned from different scholars and researchers being funded by
the CIA cover foundation, The Human Ecology Fund, has become part of normal
society. It is even in some self help books. For example, Lemov writes that
Charles Osgood “pioneered the study of self-conversion, later labeled ‘cognitive
dissonance,’ in which a subject, in order to avoid the discomfort of incongruities
or ambiguities, embraces a more extreme opinion about an object than he or she
initially held: self-brainwashing, in effect.”

Cognitive dissonance could be used by psychopaths and narcissists to gaslight

but it has also been used by those struggling to overcome their own
shortcomings. This may sound confusing so an example will be given to show how
it can be used for self help. I read somewhere that a shy person used cognitive
dissonance to be more outgoing. The person kept telling himself that he was an
outgoing person that everybody liked. The effect was that his mind knew that
wasn’t true but since he kept saying and believing it, he was trying to force his
mind to relieve its confusion by choosing one or the other. He pretty much
gaslighted himself because if the mind went with the truth that he was shy, it
would have felt his pressure to be more outgoing and the discomfort would have
continued. To avoid the discomfort, the mind decided to go along with his lie and
behave more outgoing. He rewarded his mind with his own happiness that he was
more outgoing and the discomfort disappeared. That is also a good example of
how “brainwashing” funds led to information that is still being used today and
could be used for good or bad reasons.

To make it more up-to-date, Lemov wrote “‘a CIA document dated November 26,
1951, states,“We’re now convinced that we can maintain a subject in a controlled
state for a much longer period of time than we heretofore had believed possible.’
By playing on weakness or vulnerability, people could be turned into “controlled
sources”; that is, agents willing to do a superior’s bidding. Agency rhetoric was
often couched in of “owning” another person.” The term “owning” someone is
back in style and variations of that phrase is used often by those who “psyche”
someone out to the point of being submissive. Is it a coincidence that the CIA used
the same term during its mind control research? Probably not because the
methods by which someone today will try to “own” another person is probably
based on information that came from the mind control experiments.

Cameron may have failed to find a new psychiatric treatment but he did succeed
in finding methods to brainwash people. That’s exactly what he did, he washed
his patients minds clean of most of their memories and anyone could’ve stepped
in and filled their minds with whatever new information they wanted. Luckily,
most of his patients had loving family members around to remind them of who
they were. If those family members weren’t around, anyone could have stepped in
and told these people whatever they wanted; Thereby, virtually making the
patient into whoever they wanted the patient to be. The government was able to
check off brainwashing because that task was completed.

Introducing Behavioral Technology will explore the implications of mind and

body manipulation technologies before they emerge or as they emerge. Believe it
or not, mind manipulation experiments didn’t go away and have been advancing
quietly. It is important that the general public starts to openly discuss what has
happened in the past, what is happening in the present and the future
implications of behavioral technology. Behavioral technology is sneaking back
into public life and probably will be introduced as a “disruptive” technology once
the public has become more accommodating to the topic. Let’s start the
conversation now before delving head first into all the hoopla and gimmicks of
what is to come.
Notes:
The YouTube videos about Cameron’s experiments in Canadian.

MK Ultra: CIA mind control program in Canada (1980) - The Fifth Estate

CIA's secret brainwashing experiment: Former patients sue U.S. government

(1984) - The Fifth Estate

Brainwashed: The Secret CIA Experiments in Canada - The Fifth Estate