18-02-2010, 05:11 PM
(This post was last modified: 18-02-2010, 08:57 PM by Austin Kelley.)
Chris, I think you are right about William Sargant- he is a very significant figure in all this, and he was certainly part of a British military psychology initiative that was very active during WW2. Many of his associates had history with studies of shell-shocked soldiers before the War, too. As far as the early Cold War alliance that included Britain, the United States and Canada in a secret quest to develop mind control techniques, Cameron and Sargant both loom large.
As to the MKULTRA document on truth drugs, like most of what came out of those hearings in the 70's, it conceals as much as it reveals. While I do think it catalogues some drugs of operational interest, it creates a misleading standard of a instantaneous and completely effective "truth serum" and then concludes that there is no such perfect nostrum for instant and total truth in interrogation. End of story?
In reality, what these people succeeded in developing are sophisticated combinations of techniques for varied and nuanced goals. "Hypnosis" or "narco-hypnosis" can be considered as code-words for an array of techniques centered on programming in all the possible senses which that can be applied to the human mind, albeit programming that occurs during an especially dissociated and suggestible state.
Cameron's notorious "psychic-driving" experiments point us in this direction but no doubt there is much more to the story as practiced by Orne, West, Bryan, Roquet and the many, many others of that ilk. Related technologies have also increased exponentially in the years since that early Cold War era as well, notably in the realms of psychopharmacology and virtual reality.
So what are the actual techniques of today's mind controllers?
It's difficult to know for sure, but certainly fear, trauma, physical pain, dread, drugs, mileu control, sensory deprivation, selective award of favors, "hypnosis", etc., etc., etc., all have their place. NLP, Ericksonian Hypnosis, DDD (Dependence, Debility, Dread), Learned Helplessness Theory and the more secretive methodologies all have their place in guiding the use of these techniques but this must be only the tip of the proverbial iceberg...
As to the MKULTRA document on truth drugs, like most of what came out of those hearings in the 70's, it conceals as much as it reveals. While I do think it catalogues some drugs of operational interest, it creates a misleading standard of a instantaneous and completely effective "truth serum" and then concludes that there is no such perfect nostrum for instant and total truth in interrogation. End of story?
In reality, what these people succeeded in developing are sophisticated combinations of techniques for varied and nuanced goals. "Hypnosis" or "narco-hypnosis" can be considered as code-words for an array of techniques centered on programming in all the possible senses which that can be applied to the human mind, albeit programming that occurs during an especially dissociated and suggestible state.
Cameron's notorious "psychic-driving" experiments point us in this direction but no doubt there is much more to the story as practiced by Orne, West, Bryan, Roquet and the many, many others of that ilk. Related technologies have also increased exponentially in the years since that early Cold War era as well, notably in the realms of psychopharmacology and virtual reality.
So what are the actual techniques of today's mind controllers?
It's difficult to know for sure, but certainly fear, trauma, physical pain, dread, drugs, mileu control, sensory deprivation, selective award of favors, "hypnosis", etc., etc., etc., all have their place. NLP, Ericksonian Hypnosis, DDD (Dependence, Debility, Dread), Learned Helplessness Theory and the more secretive methodologies all have their place in guiding the use of these techniques but this must be only the tip of the proverbial iceberg...