Operation Mind Control

Walter H. Bowart
New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1978

Please keep fearfully in mind that the astonishing information published in this seminal work
of investigative reporting, concerning avenues taken to decision and execution by our secret
police to fracture or dissolve human minds, then to operate those minds as a small boy, might
operate a Yo-Yo, for purposes of counter-intelligence military “efficiency,” and the destruction
of democratic institutions, was drawn directly from federal records and from official laboratory
archives of the highest educational purpose—as well as from the reviving memories of those
who had already undergone the dehumanizing process. ... [p. 14]
Zombie is a quaint, old-fashioned folklore word but its meaning becomes obscene when our
children’s minds are being controlled ... [p. 17][Note:1]

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It may have been the biggest story since the atom bomb. The headline, however, was small
and ignored the larger issue. “Drug Tests by CIA Held More Extensive Than Reported in ’75,”
said the New York Times on July 16, 1977. ...
The testing of drugs by the CIA was just a part of the United States government’s top-secret
mind-control project, a project which had spanned thirty-five years and had involved tens of
thousands of individuals. It involved techniques of hypnosis, narco-hypnosis, electronic brain
stimulation, behavioral effects of ultrasonic, microwave, and low-frequency sound, aversive and
other behavior modification therapies. In fact, there was virtually no aspect of human behavioral
control that was not explored in their search for the means to control the memory and will of
both individuals and whole masses of people.
The CIA succeeded in developing a whole range of psycho-weapons to expand its already
ominous psychological warfare arsenal. With these capabilities, it was now possible to wage a
new kind of war—a war which would take place invisibly, upon the battlefield of the human
mind. ... [p. 19]
The psychological techniques described in The Manchurian Candidate were to become a
reality less than a decade after Condon saw his story set in type. As if Condon’s fiction had been
used as the blueprint, a group of hypno-programmed “zombies” were created. Some were
assassins prepared to kill on cue. Others were informers, made to remember minute details under
hypnosis. Couriers carried illegal messages outside the chain of command, their secrets secured
behind posthypnotic blocks. Knowledge of secret information was removed from the minds of
those who no longer had the “need to know”—they were given posthypnotic amnesia. ... [p. 21]
The objective of Operation Mind Control during this period has been to take human beings,
both citizens of the United States and citizens of friendly and unfriendly nations, and transform
them into unthinking, subconsciously programmed “zombies,” motivated without their
knowledge and against their wills to perform in a variety of ways in which they would not
otherwise willingly perform. This is accomplished through the use of various techniques called
by various names, including brainwashing, thought reform, behavior modification, hypnosis, and
conditioned reflex therapy. For the purpose of this book the term “mind control” will be used to
describe these techniques generically.*
 Mind control is the most terrible imaginable crime because it is committed not against the
body, but against the mind and the soul. Dr. Joost A. M. Meerloo expresses the attitude of the
majority of psychologists in calling it “mind rape,” and warns that it poses a great “danger of
destruction of the spirit” which can be “compared to the threat of total physical
destruction . . .” ... [p. 23]
“I can hypnotize a man—without his knowledge or consent—into committing treason against
the United States,” boasted Dr. George Estabrooks in the early 1940s.
Estabrooks, chairman of the Department of Psychology at Colgate University, ... [p. 58]
From one such think tank, the Rand Corporation, came a report [1949] ... [p. 67]
“... a hypnotized subject will often accept and confess to an implanted memory as a real event
in his own past life.” ...
A number of experienced hypnotists had been able to train their subjects to perform “in such a
way that observers could not tell that the subject was in a trance or that he was acting under
hypnotic suggestions.” ... [p. 69]
To induce hypnosis in an unwilling subject, the report suggested any of three possibilities
which were then well supported by research findings:

1. As part of a medical examination, talk relaxation to the subject, thus disguising the
hypnotic induction. For example, the person could be given a blood pressure test, told that he
must relax completely in order to give an adequate test record, and then be given suggestions
to go to sleep which would result in a hypnotic trance.

2. Induce hypnosis while the person is actually asleep from normal fatigue. This could be
done by simply talking softly into the sleeper’s ear.

3. Use injections of drugs to induce hypnosis. The hypnotic drugs would relax the subject and
put him in a “twilight state” where the subconscious mind is very susceptible to suggestion.

Subjects who refuse or resist the simple “talking” methods of hypnotic induction could be
given a few grams of paraldehyde or an intravenous injection of sodium pentothal or sodium
amytal. ... Subsequently the subject could be allowed to practice carrying out posthypnotic
suggestions. He could then be rehypnotized, still without his conscious cooperation, but this time
without the use of drugs. ...
Another important use of hypnosis ... the report said, would be the induction of amnesia:
“Once a deep hypnotic trance is achieved, it is possible to introduce posthypnotic amnesia so that
[a subject] . . . would not know . . . that he had been subjected to hypnosis, to drugs, or to any
other treatment.” ...
The report then said, “Conceivably, electroshock convulsions might be used as an adjunctive
device to achieve somnambulism in a very high percentage of the cases. ... It is conceivable,
therefore, that electroshock treatments might be used to weaken difficult cases in order to
produce a hypnotic trance of great depth.”
In 1958 the Bureau of Social Science Research (BSSR), a subcontractor to the Rand
Corporation, issued a “technical report” on hypnosis to the air force ...
“it is conceivable . . . that these techniques could have been used and covered up so
successfully that they might be impossible to recognize . . .” ...
All of these techniques, involving drug-induced hypnosis and electroshock convulsions, were
eventually developed and used to reduce some of our own citizens to a zombie state in which
they would blindly serve the government. Regardless of the Constitution and the laws which
supposedly protect the individual against government coercion, “zombies” were covertly created
to do the government’s more unsavory bidding. Such “zombies” asked no questions about the
legality of their assignments. Often their assignments were never consciously known. And if they
were ever questioned about their own actions, amnesia protected them from self-
incrimination. ... [pp. 70-73]
In 1951, a former naval officer described “a secret” of certain military and intelligence
organizations. He called it “Pain-Drug-Hypnosis” and said it “is a vicious war weapon ... The
extensiveness of the use of this form of hypnotism in espionage work is now so widespread that
it is long past the time when people should have become alarmed about it . . .” ... [p. 75]
Mind control arranges that “slaves” of the intelligence community—witnesses, couriers, and
assassins—are “protected” from their own memories and guilt by amnesia. These “slaves” may
be left alive, but the knowledge they possess is buried deep within the tombs of their own minds
by techniques which can keep the truth hidden even from those who have witnessed it. It is the
ultimate debriefing, the final security measure short of assassination. ... [p. 148]

José Delgado was a neurophysiologist at the Yale University School of Medicine. By 1964, ...
he had already been experimenting with electronic stimulation of the brain (ESB) for nearly two
decades. His work, supported by the Office of Naval Research, ... [p. 250]
A number of government agencies were actually at work on projects similar to Delgado’s, and
through these projects the cryptocracy had gained the technology for direct access to the control
of the brain and through it, the mind. ... [p. 251]
ESB, however, used in conjunction with psycho-surgery and behavior modification, offered
unlimited possibilities. After experiments on laboratory animals met with success, human
experimentation was enthusiastically undertaken in quest of the most reliable and absolute
method of remote control of the mind. ... [p. 253]
ESB has, meanwhile, been strikingly successful in other areas. It has been used to modify
mental mechanisms, to produce changes in mood and feelings, to reinforce behavior both
positively and negatively. It has been used to activate sensory and motor regions of the brain in
order to produce elementary or complex experiences or movements, to summon memories, and
to induce hallucinations. It also has been used to suppress or inhibit behavior and experience and
memory—outside of the conscious control of the owner of the brain. ... [p. 256]
And, in 1974, the first victim of Parkinson’s disease treated by ESB walked gracefully out of
a San Francisco hospital under his own power, thanks to portable ESB. He had a “stimoceiver”
implanted in his brain ... The “stimoceiver” which weighed only a few grams and was small
enough to implant under his scalp, permitted both remote stimulation of his brain and the
instantaneous telemetric recording of his brain waves. ... [pp. 256-257]
And by the late 1960s, the “remote control” of the human brain—accomplished without the
implantation of electrodes—was well on its way to being realized.
A research and development team at the Space and Biology Laboratory of the University of
California at the Los Angeles Brain Research Institute found a way to stimulate the brain by
creating an electrical field completely outside the head. Dr. W. Ross Adey stimulated the brain
with electric pulse levels which were far below those thought to be effectual in the old
implanting technique. ... [p. 257]
In 1975 a primitive “mind reading machine” was tested at the Stanford Research Institute.
The machine is a computer which can recognize a limited amount of words by monitoring a
person’s silent thoughts. This technique relies upon the discovery that brain wave tracings taken
with an electroencephalograph (EEG) show distinctive patterns that correlate with individual
words—whether the words are spoken aloud or merely subvocalized (thought of).
The computer initially used audio equipment to listen to the words the subject spoke. (At first
the vocabulary was limited to “up,” “down,” “left,” and “right.”) At the same time the computer
heard the words, it monitored the EEG impulses coming from electrodes pasted to the subject’s
head and responded by turning a camera in the direction indicated. After a few repetitions of the
procedure, the computer’s hearing was turned off and it responded solely to the EEG “thoughts.”
It moved a television camera in the directions ordered by the subject’s thoughts alone! ... [p. 258]
While Dr. Reed conceded that it was “conceivable that thoughts could be injected” into a
person’s mind by the government, he indicated that he did not believe it had already been
done. ... [p. 259]
Typically, the scientists have not been vigilant enough, for the cryptocracy already has
developed remote-controlled men who can be used for political assassination and other
dangerous work, ... [p. 260]
In 1967 a writer named Lincoln Lawrence published a book ... [Were We
Controlled? presented] a sophisticated technique known as RHIC–EDOM ... Radio Hypnotic
Intra-Cerebral Control–Electronic Dissolution of Memory. ...
“Under RHIC, a ‘sleeper’ can be used years later with no realization that the ‘sleeper’ is even
being controlled! He can be made to perform acts that he will have no memory of ever having
carried out. In a manipulated kind of kamikaze operation where the life of the ‘sleeper’ is
dispensable, RHIC processing makes him particularly valuable because if he is detected and
caught before he performs the act specified . . . nothing he says will implicate the group or
government which processed and controlled him.” ...
What really happened, according to Lawrence, was that during the operation a small electrode
was implanted inside Oswald's mastoid sinus. The electrode responded to a radio signal which
would make audible, inside Oswald's head, certain electronic commands to which he had already
been posthypnotically conditioned to respond. ...
In 1975 the RHIC–EDOM story surfaced again. ... The journalist, James L. Moore, said that
the papers in his possession described the details of “a military technique of mind-control called
Radio-Hypnotic Intra-Cerebral Control–Electronic Dissolution of Memory.” ...
According to Moore, in the initial (RHIC) stage of programming the ... [person] is put into a
deep hypnotic trance, and conditioned to go into trance at the sound of a specific tone. “A person
may be placed under this control with or without his knowledge, programmed to perform certain
actions and maintain certain attitudes” whenever he hears the tone. ...
The second part of the process, electronic dissolution of memory (EDOM), Moore said, “...
By electronically jamming the brain, acetylcholine creates static which blocks out sights and
sounds. You would then have no memory of what you saw or heard; your mind would be a
blank.” ...
The claims of James L. Moore would sound fantastic were it not for the abundance of
information to support the possibility of their validity. ... [pp. 261-264]
The cryptocracy has gone to absurd lengths to develop remote-controlled beings. Victor
Marchetti revealed that the CIA had once tried to create a cyborg cat. He said that the Agency
wired a live feline for sound in an attempt to use the pet for eavesdropping purposes. The cat was
first altered electronically so that it would function as a listening device in areas where potential
enemy agents would be discussing covert plots.[Note:2] ...
 After the electronic feline was at last ready for its assignment, it was turned loose on the street
and was followed by a CIA support van loaded with electronic monitoring gear. ... [p. 273]
The cryptocracy has used mind control for the past thirty years. It has used it on its own
agents and employees, on enemies and friends alike. It has used it on thousands of Americans
without their knowledge or consent. The CIA has programmed assassins and couriers by it. The
CIA has even openly confessed to its conspiracy of mind control.
Many people will believe that since the CIA has publicly disclosed its interest in mind
control, it has now ceased its activities. The earlier CIA records, however, contain a number of
termination dates for aspects of Operation Mind Control, yet evidence clearly suggests that it
continued past those dates.
In 1975, following the release of the Rockefeller Commission Report and the subsequent
investigations by Senator Church’s and Congressman Pike’s committees, a public accounting
was given and apologies were made. The intelligence community was reprimanded and small
changes made. ... [p. 275]
Recent history documents the fact that the CIA, as the whipping boy of the cryptocracy,
covers up and routinely lies about its activities, heaping one lie on another, in a labyrinthine
network of falsehood. It stretches credibility to believe, therefore, that the CIA and especially
lower-profile members of the cryptocracy have terminated the mind-control research and
development that has been going on for thirty years. ... If it has ceased, it has ceased only
because it is obsolete and the new technology of radiation and electronic brain stimulation has
given the cryptocracy a more powerful form of control. ... [p. 276]
With advancements in electronic technology—increasingly sophisticated microphones,
transmitters, and surveillance devices—the erosion of privacy becomes a mudslide. ... [p. 280]
Mind control remains above United States law, making it a most attractive tool for clandestine
operators. [p. 281]

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[Note:1] Forward by Richard Condon, author of The Manchurian Candidate (1958).
* ... The mind control examined in this book is the control of one individual’s mind by another.
[Note:2] José
Delgado, M.D., conducted experiments (circa 1961) that attached an electrode to the eardrum (middle
ear) of a cat. The device picked-up people's whispered conversations and transmitted them to a receiver for
monitoring. The CIA attached their tiny radio implant to the cat's cochlea (inner ear).