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imagine what that would mean in terms of recognizing the British have found out in their treatment of internees
the animal criminality of their lives up to this point, in Northern Ireland. Simple techniques, like depriving
Brainwashing began, as it will end, as a coun- people of food and sleep, forcing them to stand, hooded
terinsurgency operation. British psychological warfare so they can neither see, hear, nor smell are just as efexperts,
John Rees and Sargent, began to develop the fective. The trouble is this takes longer, because most
implications of Pavlov's conditioned reflex experiments human beings have a capacity to withstand simple
on dogs for human beings. Pavlov had found that under physical pain. It's the destruction of the social identity,
certain conditions of extreme stress he could induce a even the bourgeois monad-like identity, that is important
state which he called a "transparadox" in his dogs. In from their standpoint, and that crime is speeded up with
this state the dog's previous responses to stimuli were no the application of their technical gimmickry.
longer operative, and conditions were created for the We have already determined, up to a certain point,
induction of new responses. That means, he did to the who and what was responsible for this affair in Britain.
dogs what brainwashers now do to people. He put them Let's now take the U.S. end of the operation and,
in situations in which their normal "dogginess" was no starting from the people who run the CIA, namely the
longer enough to get them by. In this regard he makes Rockefeller family and their allies like Robert Macconstant
reference to the flooding of the river Neva in Namara,-continue down our trail towards those who are
Leningrad in the early 1920's. His dogs were so panicked responsible.
as flood-waters filled the laboratory cellar where they We already know that the CIA was planning to use the
were kept that all his years of experimental conditioning Labour Committees as a piece in a much wider game.
were literally washed away. We can not, by checking out the connections, from
That is what Rees and Sargeant took as their starting Rockefeller and the CIA in the brainwashing crime trail
point, and they began the educational programs first for establish what that broader game is. Rocky and his men
the OSS, then the CIA which would ensure that human were planning to institute a fascist-style economy using
applications of this barbarism were developed. The the techniques of behavior modification to secure their
brainwashing scandal at the time of the Korean war way. They were planning to bypass the need for a massprovided
the next bench-mark in the history of this filth, based fascist movement, and take over from the top.
American military specialists, counterinsurgents and How can we be sure? The answer is simple. We look at
quacks determined to find out how the Chinese were able the funding of brainwashing operations and examine the
to change the behavior of so many all-American boys. It politics of those who are doing it. I'll only establish the
was in the aftermath of that research that high-powered general outline here. New Solidarity will be publishing
gadgetry was added to the torture chamber techniques of regular organising exposes as the work proceeds.
the behavior modifiers. Neuro-surgery (brain-butchery) Philadelphia provides a good example of how the
and electro-shock techniques were refined, drugs with general operation works. The brainwashing outfit at
mind-destroying potential like LSD-25 began to be Penn State University under one Wolpe is financed by
developed. (Methedrine, interestingly enough, was Robert MacNamara's World Bank, the outfit which is
developed to speed up this process. It creates the con- bringing starvation and slave labor to millions across the
ditions in which people are willing to relive painful world, the outfit which planned Brazil. Funds are
experiences; that's known as abreaction therapy.) conduited via the National Institute for Mental Health
Then, of course, computer applications were and other foundation sources to Wolpe, whose gang
developed as von Neumann and Norbert Wiener began of torturers work in alliance with the Law Enforcethe
wild goose chase of simulating human intelligence, ment Assistance Administration and a foundation called
They were bound to fail because a computer can only "Safe Streets." The aim of the operation is literally this,
know what it is programmed to know. A machine cannot to decorticate the black and Hispanic ghettos by taking
create. But for minds which do not understand that the socially organic leaders and brainwashing them.
creativity is a human quality, accessible to all human In fact, it's already happened. Ghetto youth gangs,
beings, his rationalization had to be that the computers according to our intelligence, were established by CIAwere
not good enough. Now, as is evident from the job style operatives in the first place in the sixties. Then the
that was done on me, they obviously "think" they have usual pattern was followed. Conflict between gangs was
overcome that problem, fomented. Then "treaties" were arranged between the
In reality, all this array of technical gadgetry is un- gangs. Then conflict between gangs and friendly "oldnecessary
to their practice. The Chinese were able to style" cops on the beat was set up. The LEAA gives gang
achieve substantially the same results in the 1950's, as members weapons to help this process. Then treaties