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Brainwash: the secret history of mind control

By Dominic , Streatfeild

Book information

Publisher
St. Martin's Press;Thomas Dunne Books
Year
2007
ISBN
9780312325725, 031232572X, 9781466834507
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
494 kB (506006 bytes)
Pages
418 s\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Brainwashing;Brainwashing--History;Psychological w

Description

What would it take to turn you into a suicide bomber? How would you interrogate a member of Al Qaeda? With access to formerly classified documentation and interviews from the CIA, the U.S. Army, MI5, MI6, and the British Intelligence Corps, acclaimed journalist Dominic Streatfeild traces the history of the world's most secret psychological procedure. From the cold war to the height of today's war on terror, groups as dissimilar as armies, religious cults, and advertising agencies have been accused of brainwashing. But what does this mean?Is it possible to erase memories or to implant them artificially? Do heavy-metal records contain subliminal messages? Do religious cults brainwash recruits? What were the CIA and MI6 doing with LSD in the 1950s? How far have the world's militaries really gone?From the author of the definitive history of cocaine,...

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