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oundary line at which the clinical diagnosis of "extreme
coercive influence" ends and the diagnosis of "brainwashing"
begins. Brainwashing, as we use the term here,
signifies a qualitative change in the mental processes of
an individual, as precise as the distinction between mere
neurosis and a hardened paranoid-schizophrenic
condition.
In the neurotic individual, or in the instance of the
person still fitting the diagnosis of "extreme coercive
influence," the individual's inner sense of self, his sense
Editorial: of "I-hess," controls his external or socially-manifest
behavior through a mechanism of adjustment and
disguise we term the "persona." In the specifically
brainwashed individual, the "sense of I-hess" has ef-
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Rockefeller_,, speaking, lost seeing, control hearing, of thetouching, social use tasting, of the smelling, body;
/"984- r|_' Or41" as total well control as general of an bodily internalized movements authorityare entirely under virtually alien to
the sense of "I-hess." To the extent that the "brainwashed"
individual is aware of "I-hess," his Ego is an
immobilized prisoner within the living tomb of its own
body, the body controlled almost entirely by an alien
authority.
by Marcus L • White was example, able tountil release brainwash himself victim from such Christopher control, R. he
had lost the ability to distinguish colors, to smell, and,
Hard evidence of CIA brainwashing and conspiracy to according to several simple tests conducted, had suffered
effect assassination, and equally firm evidence of a substantial impairment of use of his other perceptual
massive effort to prevent investigation of these facts, has powers. Immediately after remission from the brainenabled
the Labor Committees to detect the main washed condition, all these lost perceptual powers
features of an enormous Rockefeller-directed CIA plot to immediately returned to him.
impose 1984-style totalitarian government in the U.S.A. In the case of the individual subjected to extreme
and Great Britain during early 1974. coercive influence, but not yet clinically "brainwashed,"
We shall define what we mean by the term "brain- there is a crude symptomatic resemblance to brainwashing,"
and then present an account of the essential washing in the anxiety with which the individual adapts
evidence as we have developed it. his behavior to the actuality or tear of "aversive" conditions.
These adaptations may have even become
habitual through "conditioning;" but the adaptation
1. WHAT IS "BRAINWASHING"? still falls into the category of "protective coloration," a
form of attempted defense of the sense of "I-hess." In
"Brainwashing," as we define it here, is an in- the brainwashed individual, the Ego has become
ternationalcrime under the Nuremburg Law. This crime essentially dissociated from the criteria controlling
is today widely practiced in the U.S.A. in particular, not socially manifest activities of the body, etc.
only by the intelligence services themselves, but with the Although hypnotism was probably employed as part of
complicity of agencies ranging from the World Bank the conditioning of the cases we identify here, the writer
through the National Institute of Health, and including has no direct knowledge of hypnosis. Insothr as hypnosis
major universities and medical institutions. Fur- may be involved, the writer has accepted the account
thermore, evidence of this crime is no secret; much of the given by professional literature and more directly by
evidence needed to identify and convict these new psychiatric specialists who examined victim White. The
Nuremburg criminals is openly available in material principal features of the cases to be considered are the
published in the public domain! results of what is known as "programmed behavioral
For purposes of general definition, there is a virtual modification," of which the White case typifies the most