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Mind Control and Brainwashing

So, there we have a case for implants based entirely on the assumption that they are carried out by races not native to this planet, or perhaps even this universe; but if not as part of an unknown programme managed by non-terrestrial beings then who? Is it possible that these implants are part of an experiment that is of entirely terrestrial origin and orchestrated by the intelligence services of various powers around the world. Let’s look at the evidence and in doing this we must not lose sight of the proven fact that intelligence agencies, especially in the United States of America and Russia, have used the hype and mystery surrounding the subject of the possibility of alien spacecraft visiting this planet to good effect in disinformation campaigns designed to conceal their own clandestine projects and cast ridicule on anyone providing perhaps genuine information. This cynical response is entirely based on the desire to conceal any military advantage from the eyes of enemies and rivals, or, conversely, hide it in plain sight.

Part of this process may have been the development of a variety of devices designed to provide information about specific people and more worryingly to induce specific responses in them by remote control. In order to understand this policy, which is not a work of the imagination, we have to look at some truly horrendous procedures carried out on human beings in the name of ‘national security’ and ‘progress’. Perhaps its most recent incarnation is the much vaunted ‘war against terror’, the results of which are seen all around us, especially with the rapid increase in the loss of personal liberty. Many slightly older people will remember the original version of a film entitled, ‘The Manchurian Candidate’, which was first released in 1962 and directed by John Frankenheimer. This film is set just after the 1948 Korean War and concerns an attempt by the North Koreans to assassinate a US politician using a ‘programmed’ former American POW. The methods used to achieve this ranged from the brutal to the highly sophisticated, but mainly relied on the tried and tested methods of long term disorientation, hypnosis and narcotic drugs. At that time, the height of the lengthy, insidious and unrelenting ‘cold war’, the concept of mind control was known simply as ‘Brainwashing’.

The term, ‘Brainwashing’, was first conceived by a journalist named Edward Hunter and originally appeared in print in a 1950’s article that appeared in the ‘Miami News’. The name of the technique, which seems to have been developed into its present form by the Sino/Soviet axis, comes from the Chinese words ‘hsi-nao’ or to ‘cleanse the mind’. Prior to this these words had no sinister overtones. The concept and viability of brainwashing came to a head during the aforementioned Korean War when the Chinese were determined to make captured US pilots confess to a range of ‘crimes’, including the use of ordinance containing chemical weapons and toxins. Curiously enough these displays of political point scoring mostly involved US combatants in this conflict. The original methods of ‘brainwashing’ involved prolonged solitary confinement, complete isolation from outside stimuli, and sleep deprivation. Of course brutalising and punishing prisoners is nothing new and has occurred in various forms since time began, the difference here is that rather than being purely designed to gather information by any means possible or mete out random brutality, this was a method to ‘re-educate’ individuals for political and propaganda purposes.

The subject was constantly pressurised, humiliated and controlled in their every thought, word and deed, and after approx six weeks was judged sufficiently ‘softened up’ to progress to the next stage. These ‘stages’ continued until the victim suddenly realised that the only way to get out was to unconditionally believe whatever they were told and act on it. The techniques were quickly absorbed and adapted by the Americans who thought that this process, which could take many months, might be speeded up and from this was born the decision taken in 1953 by Allen Dulles, the then head of the CIA, to ‘improve’ on the techniques. This fateful choice started a course of action beginning with PROJECT ARTICHOKE through MK-DELTA and culminating in the excesses of MK-ULTRA. Much of the experimentation in this evolutionary process involved the services of a Scots born Canadian psychiatrist called Dr. Ewan Cameron and took place outside the USA, which officially could not countenance such experimental medical skulduggery, in ‘The Allan Memorial Institute’ in Montreal, Canada. The methods employed by Cameron included a process called ‘depatterning’, which involved repeated electroshocks, the same as those involved in electro-convulsive therapy (ECT), coupled with extended drug induced sleep of up to thirty days and sometimes considerably more, with the later added ‘refinements’ of the hallucinogen LSD and the paralysing drug, ‘curare’, to ensure the patient remained motionless. Such was his desire to achieve results that the level of the ECT, the number of applications and the dosage of the drugs used by Cameron and his team were many times above the normal limits.

It is important to realise that Cameron was no second rate charlatan, he was the first president of the ‘World Psychiatric Association’ and considered eminent in his field. One must therefore ask why a well respected and ostensibly benevolent man such as this who had taken the Hippocratic Oath would link his work to the clandestine machinations of groups like the CIA, who, incidentally, also funded Cameron’s research to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars every year. The reason why may lie either in his misguided belief that he was ‘helping’ his patients and the additional research opportunities and funding supplied by the CIA was therefore welcome, or the even more dubious motive, that he was acting for the previously mentioned ‘greater good’ and benefiting the interests of national security in the process. The net result of this odious research reduced the unfortunate recipient to an almost vegetative and unresponsive state.

Following ‘depatterning’, Cameron then began a process he called ‘psychic driving’, which involved bombarding the patient/victim with repeated messages through ‘pillow speakers’ as they lay in bed unconscious, in one of the ‘sleep rooms’, this lasted for sixteen hours per session and could go on for months with alternately negative and positive messages relayed to the sleeper. If one considers that a variant on this technique is currently practised at a much lower level by the military during the basic training of recruits where they are in many ways ‘broken’ then ‘rebuilt’ by their instructors, then like it or not, in this context the process normally produces the desired result. In the case of Cameron’s guinea pigs, although there were (from his perspective) good results initially, the personality of the patient would eventually reassert itself over the imposed template. During the period immediately following the ‘psychic driving’, such was the emptiness created in their minds, that the patient had to relearn such basic functions as how to use the toilet and even how to dress and feed themselves. While this was all well and good, as with the earlier results it took too long and was ultimately unreliable, so something else had to be developed. With typical thoroughness, and not a little desperation, there were other projects running in parallel with Cameron’s clandestine efforts, these were concerned with the possibility of direct control over the human brain at a distance.

The Onset of Control

If one considers that the brain is at its most basic an electrochemical machine, albeit one of exquisite sophistication, then logically there should be a way of altering the electrical function by artificial means. One of the first attempts to directly influence the actions of a living organism was through the use of ‘stimoceivers’; these relatively crude implanted devices were created after a considerable amount of research during the 1950’s by Dr Jose Delgado, a neurosurgeon who also held a professorship at Yale university. The classic example of their effectiveness is depicted by Dr Delgado entering an enclosure with an adult bull that had been fitted with electrodes leading into specific centres in its brain. The bull charged straight at the doctor who was armed with nothing more than a small transmitter. Delgado pressed a button on the transmitter and the bull came to a stop and stood, rather bemused, a few feet from him. To be fair, this speaks volumes for both the confidence of the doctor and his faith in the reliability of the system. Delgado also experimented on monkeys, cats and human beings, until, in 1966, he came to the conclusion that human beings can be made to act like robots and made to carry out actions involuntarily. It also became clear that the implanted person, or animal, could not override or disobey the transmitted instruction, there was no choice, and they became a virtual observer as their body carried out its task.

Other implant research was conducted independently at Harvard University by Drs. Sweet, Mark and Ervin. At Tulane University Dr Robert Heath implanted a pleasure centre in the brain of a young human male and control of the transmission signal given to the subject. He went on to stimulate this centre more then 1,500 times in a three hour period and, despite his spirited protests, had to be ‘switched off’ for his own safety. In a prime example of art imitating real life, there was a science fiction story that involved people called ‘wireheads’, who had illegally received electrodes implanted directly into their pleasure centres. These were accessed via a plug fitted on their scalp, as with drug addicts they needed a regular ‘fix’, and as with addicts could overdose and die, literally, of pleasure. Nothing changes, it just updates. In another example of art imitating life, a 1954 film entitled, ‘The Creature with the Atom Brain’ written by the legendary and influential author Curt Siodmak, depicted human beings who had been implanted with unlikely and rather large ‘atom brains’ that allowed them to be controlled while transmitting an image of their whereabouts to their operator.

Be that as it may, it was now well established that the system worked, but there was still much work to be done on mapping specific areas of the brain, what they did and how they could be influenced. This lead to a rather gruesome project devised by Dr John Lilly of inserting more than 150 short sections of hypodermic needle, each the thickness of the skull bone, into the cranium of a test subject, the short lengths of needle acted as ‘guides’ for the electrodes as they were inserted in to the brain tissue. This lead to the insertion of an ‘electrode matrix’ that could be activated in any number of patterns to induce an infinite number of emotional and physical responses Again the system worked, but it was still unwieldy and cumbersome and the subject was still wired to the apparatus.

Independent Implants

It is at this point that the picture begins to cloud over, while there is continuing overt development of implants in the public sector dealing with, e.g. the fight against some kinds of blindness by feeding images directly into the brains of blind people or sound to the brains of the profoundly deaf, there is also the clandestine research conducted under the cloak of ‘black budgets’. It is to this research that we now turn our gaze, for it is here that the really worrying developments are taking place. Now that science of microelectronics is commonplace and well understood, the need for crude wires accessing the brain through the skull via ‘guides’ has vanished. All that is needed now is one operation to fit a processor directly into the brain, a circuit that is activated externally and control is established. One application of this idea was suggested in the last decade of the 20th century in the form of the so-called ‘Soulcatcher Chip’. The concept involved inserting a recording device into a living human brain at birth, or soon after, and removing it after death. The entire life of a person recorded in detail for posterity and possibly downloaded into a memory bank; or even another body. A form of immortality at a price, but as far as is known this idea was only a hypothesis on a scientific wish list and never came to fruition…or so we are told.

The range of obviously artificial implants, viz. the ones that actually look like tiny circuits and electronic devices, is quite extensive the only obvious common factor is that they are all small and seemingly developed in sophistication at the same rate as modern microelectronic technology, or at least the technology that is known about. It is obvious that early examples look similar to what can only be described as simple diodes encapsulated in a glass tube, although that is obviously not their sole function. Some are only a few millimetres in length and the same in cross section and their construction appears relatively crude. Some look like the tiny torroidal transformers and tuning coils used in radio receivers and transmitters, which would help define their purpose. The most recent are identical to the minute, modern circuits used in microprocessors. If one considers the processors used in computers, we find that at the heart of each one lies the actual mechanism, the rest of the device comprises connections and ‘heatsinks’, this is what make it comparatively large in relation to the actual processor and it is the physical size that is the major stumbling block to further development, that and the unavoidable heat build up that affects its performance. This is not quite such an issue when inserted into the body, as by its very nature the human body tends to maintain and regulate its own temperature. It is these more complex devices that appear to be the ones designed to act as control units.

Conclusion

From their design they do not look like anything designed on another world, they are, in fact, quite pedestrian and although functioning esoteric electronic devices it is a fair bet that they were designed and implanted right here on earth. This in a way brings us back full circle, we have to ask whether people are occasionally implanted with monitoring and control devices for reasons unknown and the answer has to be yes, they appear to be. The sole point of divergence is, of course, who is doing the implantation and why? From the available evidence and judging by the composition and design of the implants removed so far, it looks as though they are derived entirely from earthly sources. As already stated, those that are not configured as an obviously artificial device are composed of human tissue or small items of detritus that have punctured the skin at some stage. We are told that this is a cunning disguise concealing an advanced alien technology; perhaps it is, but it is more likely that it is not. The answer, as with the subject of Ufology itself, is still enigmatic, for any pro there is a con, one can only hope that at some point an answer will emerge, as was mentioned in the introduction, ‘perhaps the aliens are closer than we think’.

Posted 26th June 2008

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