The provided text details the clandestine U.S. government research into hypnosis and mind control, tracing its origins from World War II's Office of Strategic Services (OSS) to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the powerful National Security Agency (NSA). It highlights the development of techniques like hypnoprogramming, personality splitting, and narcohypnosis on unwitting subjects, often involving traumatic methods like electroshock and sensory deprivation to create amnesia and absolute obedience. The narrative also delves into contemporary mind-control technologies, including remote neural monitoring and biochip implants, and raises concerns about the secrecy, ethical violations, and potential for abuse by these agencies, even hinting at their involvement in political assassinations and the suppression of truth from the public.

The provided text details the United States government's extensive and clandestine research into hypnosis and mind control, tracing its origins to William Donovan and the OSS, which later influenced the CIA. This research, including projects like MKULTRA, explored methods of personality splitting, creating unknowing subjects, and inducing amnesia through techniques like narcohypnosis and electroshock. The sources highlight the unethical nature of these experiments, often conducted on unwilling individuals in various institutions, and the development of advanced psychic and electromagnetic technologies for surveillance and manipulation by agencies like the NSA. The author also shares personal experiences encountering individuals exhibiting these mind-control capabilities and expresses concern about the secrecy surrounding these programs and their potential for abuse and political interference.

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Briefing Summary of Part II: US Government Involvement in Criminal Hypnosis

This deep dive, seen through the Codex Umbra lens, strips away the pleasantries and polite denials, revealing the raw, often horrific, truth of how governments, particularly the U.S., embraced and amplified the most insidious applications of mind-control technologies. The author, Carla Emery, speaks from the chilling vantage point of a "subject", rendering her account not merely academic but a visceral scream against the imposed silence of "Secret, Don't Tell".

I. The Genesis of Shadow Operations: From War Heroics to peacetime Crimes

The Cold War, a crucible of paranoia and technological escalation, transformed the moral landscape. What was deemed "heroic in combat" swiftly morphed into "criminal in peace" when applied to the realm of espionage and intelligence. This shift spawned agencies like the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and its successor, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), which were built upon a foundation of "amorality and secret scientific research".

Under the guise of national security, these entities sought to "stimulate the ‘Peck’s Bad Boy’ beneath the surface of every American scientist", encouraging them to "Throw all your normal law-abiding concepts out the window". Dr. Stanley Lovell, heading the OSS's "dirty tricks" Research and Development section, embodied this ethos, albeit publicly denying any OSS use of hypnosis, a falsehood contradicted by the practices of British Intelligence and direct admissions from figures like Dr. George Estabrooks. The true horror lies in the fact that these agencies proliferated, operating with "neither moral foundation nor public oversight and control," endlessly pursuing "scientific inquiry, protected by the rule of Secret, Don’t Tell from public funding".

II. Architects of the Mind-Cage: Key Figures and Programs

The narrative plunges into the dark figures who pioneered government mind-control.

A. George Estabrooks: The "Super-Spy" Architect

George Estabrooks, a Harvard-educated psychologist and head of Colgate University's Psychology Department, was a foundational figure. His vision was explicit: "hypnoprogrammed spies" for military and police, advocating for the infiltration of the "criminal class" for intelligence gathering. Estabrooks not only promoted but actively manufactured "unknowing hypnotic subjects". He openly discussed inducing "multiple personality" using hypnotism to create double agents whose conscious minds were loyal to the infiltrated entity, while their unconscious remained tethered to their true masters.

His methods were as audacious as his goals. He could hypnotize a subject, condition them, and then, with a simple denial, make them believe they had "never been hypnotized". Such subjects, in deep trance, could recall "a tremendous amount of data" with "extreme accuracy," as demonstrated in his FBI experiment with M.H. Erickson. Estabrooks was a master of sealing, ensuring that only designated operators could access a subject's programming, and he experimented with causing "murder by indirect suggestion". His public pronouncements, though cloaked in claims of secrecy, inadvertently revealed "valuable information about the existence and methods of that technology". The chilling aftermath? The "federal government has paid out many hundreds of thousands of dollars to some of his [Estabrooks’] experimental victims", a quiet acknowledgement of the human wreckage left in his wake.

B. J.G. Watkins & J.M. Schneck: Forcing Obedience and Amnesia

J.G. Watkins, a Freudian hypnotist, specialized in hypnotic coercion. He brazenly demonstrated how to induce "antisocial compulsions", even forcing a resistant military nurse to divulge a "top-secret fuel" formula under hypnosis. His experiments showed that trained military men, given "blanket amnesia for all time in trance," would instantly obey commands and unknowingly reveal classified information.

Similarly, Dr. J.M. Schneck, a U.S. Army psychiatrist, reported a military offense "Induced by Hypnosis". His subject, a young soldier, exhibited "automatistic obedience" and "complete amnesia" for the hypnotic sessions. These cases, often obscured in specialized journals, underscore the systematic exploration of exploiting human will for military ends.

III. The Hydra of Control: CIA, NSA, and Their Tentacles

The machinery of mind control was not built by a single hand, but by a sprawling, secretive network.

A. False Fronts and the Brainwashing Imperative

OSS and CIA research often operated through "false front organizations" such as the Josiah Macy Foundation, the Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology (Cornell-based), and the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry. These conduits funneled covert funds into deeply unsettling research: creating "amnesia for recent events by means of electroshock," "programming by forced listening to a repeated taped message," and, of course, hypnosis.

The Korean War served as a convenient justification. The "astonishing" susceptibility of American POWs to "brainwashing" techniques—leading to false confessions and even conversion to Communism—ignited an "intense research effort" into how it was done. This research delved into "pharmacology, hypnosis, sleep deprivation, semi-starvation... [and] group conformity pressures".

B. CIA's Unholy Trinity: BLUEBIRD, ARTICHOKE, MKULTRA

Donovan, the architect of the OSS, ensured that former mind-control researchers were at the "top of its bureaucratic power-pyramid" in the CIA. The justification for this pervasive research was chillingly simple: "anything that contributes to the prediction of human behavior [and] makes possible its direction or control is of inestimable value".

* Project BLUEBIRD (1950): The CIA's first dedicated hypnosis program, it rapidly shifted from defensive goals (identifying disloyal persons, resisting hostile interrogation) to offensive applications. Its aim was to "brief a prisoner or other individual, subsequently dispatch him on a mission and successfully debrief him on his return without his recollection of the whole proceeding". Morse Allen, the director, conducted experiments on "young secretaries", making them "steal SECRET files and pass them on to total strangers". He even explored using the "groggy" period after electroshock to "gain hypnotic control".

* Project ARTICHOKE (1951): This escalated BLUEBIRD, forming a joint research partnership with the Army, Navy, and Air Force. The FBI, notably, "refused to allow further involvement," citing public disapproval. ARTICHOKE's mission statement cut to the core: "Can we get control of an individual to the point where he will do our bidding against his will and even against such fundamental laws of nature such as self-preservation?". This question, a direct challenge to human autonomy, became a guiding principle.

* Project MKULTRA (1953): Following BLUEBIRD and ARTICHOKE, MKULTRA was established by Richard Helms and directed by Dr. Sidney Gottlieb. The very name, speculated to mean "Mind Kontrol Ultra", spoke to the ambition of achieving the "best kept secret of the post-World War II era". MKULTRA boldly "cross-fertilized the disciplines", seeking increasingly potent methods of mind influence, including "new physical methods of psychiatry".

* Deceptive Funding: Allen Dulles, then CIA Director, masterfully exploited Cold War fears. He fabricated a "battle for men’s minds" in the Soviet Union, claiming they possessed "brain changing" techniques and "lie serum" that turned victims into "a phonograph playing a disc put on its spindle by an outside genius over which it has no control". This propaganda, a blatant lie, secured "multimillion dollar" funding for MKULTRA, circumventing normal financial controls. Ironically, Helms later admitted the U.S. was "about five years ahead of the Russians" in mind-control research.

* Human Guinea Pigs: The "guinea pigs were soon on order". MKULTRA experiments, including "basic research, clinical testing, and testing in operational situations", were conducted at a terrifying array of sites: "industrial facilities, academic centers, hospitals, government research sites and state and federal correctional and mental health institutions". Ivy League colleges became "centers for defense and CIA contracts", and CIA "safehouses" disguised as brothels were used to observe drug-induced interactions with "unwitting customers".

* Dr. Ewen Cameron: One of MKULTRA's most infamous collaborators was Dr. Ewen Cameron at McGill University in Canada. His patients, suffering common ailments, became "humanoid white rats expended in extreme, ruthless, and brain-damaging experiments". His techniques included "psychic driving" (forced listening to repeated messages) and massive "regressive" electroshock to induce "irresistibly powerful forgetting". The CIA later settled with nine surviving victims for $100,000 each, on condition of silence.

C. The Leviathan: National Security Agency (NSA)

Beyond the CIA's public infamy lies the NSA, characterized as the "largest, wealthiest, and most powerful secret agency". Its very existence is shrouded in "legislated national amnesia", with employees forbidden to disclose their affiliation or activities. The NSA considers journalists who write about it as "a form of enemy".

The NSA's walls of secrecy are absolute, blocking access even by "Congress, administrations, and even Chief Executives". Project Shamrock, a 28-year surveillance of international communications, was kept secret from every President until 1975.

The NSA's technological reach is staggering. Through the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA/DARPA), it developed "electronic technologies for human control," including "mind-reading and sending radio signals to implanted biochips in a brain". John St. Clair Akwei, in a legal filing, detailed the NSA's "proprietary ability to monitor, remotely and non-invasively, information in the human brain by digitally decoding the evoked potentials in the 30-50 Hz, 5 milliwatt electromagnetic (EMF) wave". This technology can decode "current thoughts, images and sounds" in a subject's brain, implant thoughts, and even "affect motor control". The terrifying implication: "This has not been publicly reported because Secret, Don’t Tell is a secret, and it is growing, and growing—worldwide".

IV. The Anatomy of Control: Goals and Methods

The goals of U.S. government mind-control research were unambiguous: "absolute control, in absolute secrecy, over another person". This involved transforming individuals into "unknowing hypno-puppets" who would "obey any command".

A. The Art of Covert Induction and Memory Manipulation

* Disguised Induction: The paramount technique for achieving control without resistance. The "manipulated will not suspect, let alone object, that someone or something is trying to shape their behavior". Methods included polygraphs, drugs, hypnosis, subconscious isolation, or electroshock.

* Hypnotic Memory Training: Research aimed to enhance memory under hypnosis for intelligence purposes. Soldiers, for instance, could recall "jumbled 'code'" messages under trance that they could not consciously remember. This led to the development of "hypnocouriers" – individuals who unknowingly carried "long and complicated" secret messages, memorized under hypnosis, and retrieved by a specific cue from a designated recipient.

* Sealing: A defense mechanism to prevent hostile control. This involved implanting a "hypnotic suggestion that the subject cannot be hypnotized by any unauthorized person". This ensured that once an agent was programmed, their secrets were guarded not just by their amnesia, but by an active psychological barrier.

* Perfect Amnesia: The cornerstone of all mind-control scenarios, a "research goal". The objective was "dependable ways to cause effective amnesia which would conceal the hypnotic conditioning—and all future episodes of hypnotic suggestion—from the subject’s conscious mind". This allowed for actions to be carried out without conscious awareness or subsequent recall, effectively creating "human time bombs".

B. Personality Restructuring: Manufacturing the "Robo-Split"

The ultimate goal was "personality restructuring," creating "unknowing hypnotic subject[s]" with "new opinion, behavior, or loyalty". This involved "artificially split[ting]" personalities into "subconscious isolates".

Operation Often, a bold new mind-control research program launched in 1969, perfectly illustrated this. It combined:

* Hypnotic techniques (including suggested amnesia) [221a].

* Conditioning methods from Pavlovian and behaviorist traditions [221b].

* Freudian concepts of the sexual unconscious and neurosis dynamics [221c].

* Modern physical methods of psychiatry (narcohypnosis, electroshock) [221d].

The goal was a "robo-split" designed for "completely helpless obedience". This involved creating distinct personas (e.g., "Fish," "Little girl," "Slut," "Rules") through "narcohypnotic immersion". Sexual conditioning ("pseudo-Oedipal stage") was used to establish control, leveraging "unequivocal sexuality" as a means of "establishing authority". This was followed by "aversive conditioning," using electric prods as a "stick" to compel instant obedience and eliminate "hesitation (resistance)". The final, depraved step: making the subject "accept moral responsibility for causing that conditioning".

C. Physical Methods of Psychiatry: The Unethical Toolkit

The government funded lavish research into the "physical methods of psychiatry" to achieve mind control.

* Narcohypnosis: Barbiturates like Sodium Pentothal were "devastatingly effective at overcoming resistance", used to induce deep trance, enhance suggestibility, and facilitate interrogation or the implantation of false guilt and amnesia. Project CHATTER (Navy, 1947-1953) specifically researched barbiturate-stimulant combinations to extract information "from persons against their will, but 'without torture'".

* Electroshock (ECT/ECS): This barbaric technique, administering 70 to 140 volts of electricity to the brain, was used for "electronarcosis" (inducing trance by mild shock), convulsion, and, critically, to cause "retroactive amnesia". The CIA actively researched using the "groggy" period post-ECT to "gain hypnotic control", recognizing that it could "reduce resistance to hypnotic suggestions" and achieve "hypnotic trance of great depth".

D. Psychic Warfare: The Mind-to-Mind Frontier

The most esoteric and disturbing aspect of this research was the pursuit of "mind-to-mind trance inductions" and "psychic powers". The CIA spent "20 million dollars on psychics", engaging in "covert surveillance systems able to control the neurological activity of the brain". This included research into:

* Extrasensory Perception (ESP): Clairvoyance, dowsing, telekinesis, remote viewing.

* Thought Projection: Dr. Alan H. Frey discovered that human auditory systems could "hear" pulsed microwaves, perceiving sound "as coming from inside their heads". This evolved into NSA technology for "projecting thought, implanting thought, and associated NSA technologies".

* Electronic Brain Stimulation: Finely-tuned microwaves could achieve the same results as "implanted electrodes", enabling the NSA to "monitor, remotely and non-invasively, information in the human brain by digitally decoding the evoked potentials". This allowed for the reading of "current thoughts, images and sounds" and even affecting "motor control".

V. The Pervasive Silence: Information Control as Absolute Mind Control

The "Secret, Don't Tell" mandate was not merely a guideline; it was a weapon. The CIA systematically destroyed records, ordering the shredding of MKULTRA files multiple times. When forced disclosures occurred, documents were heavily censored, names obliterated, and the narrative manipulated. Congressional hearings were stages for "buffoonery," designed to deflect "serious scrutiny" by portraying agencies as "bumbling and clumsy". Even researchers like John Marks, after initially exposing secrets, ultimately presented the official narrative of "failure" and abandonment of the research, effectively ending public inquiry.

This pervasive "information blackout" served to:

* Deny victims help: "Public ignorance of this evil technology denies its victims sympathetic, knowledgeable help".

* Facilitate further abuse: "It facilitates a criminal’s collection and abuse of yet more victims".

* Maintain the "Big Lie": Through relentless propaganda, figures like M.H. Erickson and T.X. Barber fabricated "scientific gospel" that "hypnosis is invariably harmless". This "tidal wave" of disinformation effectively "undermined the credibility of anybody who might, in the future, attempt to report, resist, or merely discuss the possibility of hypnotic exploitation".

* Nullify legal recourse: The legal system became "very tilted to protect hypnotists (and government organizations which may use hypnosis)", with information recovered via hypnosis often deemed "not, in itself, legally valid".

The deeper truth, often whispered by victims and those who dared to investigate, was that the government had a mandate to "use any means necessary" to protect its secrets. This included "deceit, disinformation, even assassination", transforming "anyone... of importance" into a potential "target" and "useful puppet". The explicit warnings to the author – "If they knew what you’re trying to do, they wouldn’t hesitate to kill you" – underscore the deadly reality behind the "Secret, Don't Tell" facade.

VI. Conclusion: The Enduring Shadow of Control

The "Secret, Don't Tell" narrative is not a relic of the past; it is an active, evolving mechanism of power. The sources reveal a continuous, calculated effort by U.S. government agencies to perfect mind-control technologies, from crude early experiments to sophisticated electronic manipulation of the brain. The denial of these capabilities, the deliberate obfuscation, and the suppression of facts have created a society largely blind to its own vulnerability.

Carla Emery's "Encyclopedia of Hypnotism" is not just a book; it is a desperate attempt to shatter this imposed ignorance. By detailing the "tragically effective" technology of criminal hypnosis, and the government's role in its development and concealment, she offers a stark warning. The battle is not merely against external threats, but against "tyranny over the mind of man", a tyranny perpetuated by those who choose secrecy over truth. The very act of reading this, of acknowledging these realities, is a step towards awakening the slumbering public from a long, insidious trance.

The Genesis of Fractured Minds in U.S. Government Control

The very essence of mind control, as understood by these clandestine operations, is information control, leading to enslavement on both individual and societal levels. To achieve this, the deliberate fracturing of personality emerged as a potent, if monstrous, tool.

The Genesis of Personality Splitting: From Literary Fiction to Unholy Science

The concept of personality splitting is not new, echoing in the late 19th century as a "hot new item in psychological research". George Du Maurier's novel Trilby, a "best seller," detailed the cruel domination of a hypnotic subject, inspired by real-life demonstrations of complete, amnesic dissociation. Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde offered another literary representation of this unsettling research. These early observations, whether fictionalized or clinical, laid the groundwork for future, far more sinister, applications.

The initial scientific forays into deliberate personality splitting began long before its governmental weaponization. In 1858, a French doctor named Azam made the first recorded attempt "to bring about the phenomena of the dual ‘I’ artificially, by means of hypnosis". This pioneering work, alongside Max Dessoir's theory of a second hypnotically stimulated personality and Pierre Janet's concept of dissociation, established that a split personality could be both caused and cured by hypnotism.

Later, in 1945, Dr. Wolberg explicitly documented the creation of "dual personality" in psychiatric patients through a "relatively simple technic," where a new personality, knowing all about the original, could function as a distinct entity and be taken into the analyst's confidence as an ally. H.D. Birns, in 1968, further detailed the process: displacing the conscious will with the hypnotist's, achieving deep hypnosis, and creating an unconscious split that "identifies with and acts in the place of the hypnotist—like the internalized parental figure in a normal subconscious".

The horrifying truth, consistently denied in mainstream psychology textbooks, is that the artificial creation of multiple personality was not only discussed for years in the psychological literature but was achieved "on demand through hypnosis".

U.S. Government Embrace: The Drive for Unknowing Agents

The shift from speculative research to aggressive government application began in earnest during and after World War II, fueled by the Machiavellian goal of winning by any means, unfettered by moral guidelines or public oversight. Figures like Dr. George Estabrooks, a prominent Harvard-trained hypnotist and head of Colgate University’s Psychology Department, openly promoted the use of "hypnoprogrammed spies" for military and police intelligence.

Estabrooks' vision, articulated in his book Hypnotism, involved inducing "multiple personality" to create double agents: a conscious "Personality A" loyal to the infiltrated entity, and an unconscious "Personality B" loyal to the U.S. government, possessing all the memories of "A" but unknown to it. These "unknowing hypnotic subjects" were manufactured, and Estabrooks, despite promoting secrecy, openly bragged about making such subjects possible and easy to create. The government later paid out "many hundreds of thousands of dollars to some of his experimental victims".

This unholy quest for absolute control was codified within projects such as BLUEBIRD, ARTICHOKE, and MKULTRA, where the goals explicitly included "subconscious isolation" or "artificial personality splitting". The CIA, seeing the potential, actively sought to develop techniques to "take an existing ego state—such as an imaginary childhood playmate—and build it into a separate personality, unknown to the first". This was no theoretical exercise; agents like "Jensen," a CIA psychiatrist, targeted individuals like Candy Jones, identifying and nurturing her childhood imaginary playmate, Arlene, into a separate, controllable personality capable of "waking hypnosis and one-way amnesia".

Methodologies of Mind Fracture: A Symphony of Torture and Deceit

The methods employed to achieve deliberate personality splitting were a terrifying amalgam of psychological manipulation, pharmacological intervention, and physical brutality.

Artificial Neurosis and Conflict Implantation

At the heart of the process was the creation of an "artificial neurosis" – a conflict, often sexual or moral, implanted in a person's unconscious under hypnosis, then hidden by suggested amnesia. Russian scientists Pavlov and Luria pioneered this, experimentally causing neurosis in animals and then in humans, aiming to create an "imperativeness" that would override natural will.

American researchers like M.H. Erickson and P.L. Harriman continued this work, implanting "reproachable act[s]" contrary to a subject's usual personality trends, inducing guilt feelings, and causing "psychological and physiological disturbances". These implanted conflicts, sealed by amnesia, were designed to be "stable" and "insulated from the subject’s self-correcting mental feedback mechanism," driving whatever "imperative" the operator desired.

The Exploitation of Childhood Trauma and Oedipal Dynamics

Mind-control researchers explicitly leveraged Freudian theories of early childhood development, recognizing that early traumas create devastating and hard-to-remember experiences. Natural multiple personalities often develop from severe childhood abuse, a defense mechanism where a "split-self" endures the horror instead of the original personality. This understanding was weaponized.

The "paternal induction style," described by Ferenczi, reawakened childhood fears and needs for "abasement" and "compliance," transferring them to the hypnotist. Margaret Estabrook, as early as 1942, reported on creating "artificial childhood" through hypnosis, exploiting the subject's emotional responses to the hypnotist as a parental authority figure.

One particularly egregious example comes from Richard M. Brickner's 1950 report, detailing the implantation of "phony, implanted 'memory'" of "coital relations with a parent" under deep narcosis. Such a "psychoanalytic dynamite" was used to cause "unusually rapid psychologic changes," leveraging the intense pain, shame, and guilt associated with such a memory to create deeply repressed amnesia and further fragment the mind.

The Orchestrated Chaos of Operation Often

Operation Often, a bold new mind-control research program launched by the CIA's Office of Research and Development in 1969, exemplified the culmination of these combined technologies. Its goal was to create a "robo-split" designed for "completely helpless obedience," combining:

* Hypnotic techniques (including suggested amnesia).

* Conditioning methods from Pavlov and behaviorists.

* Freudian concepts of the sexual unconscious and neurosis.

* Modern physical methods of psychiatry (narcohypnosis, electroshock).

This process involved creating distinct personas like "Fish," "Little girl," and "Slut," each stage built upon the last through "narcohypnotic immersion". "Capacity regression" was used to limit the split personality to a childlike intellect, making it "more programmable, vulnerable, submissive, and gullible". Limbic/emotional programming, maximizing feelings of lust, fear, and anger in a "pseudo-Oedipal stage," was deemed most effective for creating artificial neuroses, especially in "children or a hypnochild persona" due to their lack of understanding of sexuality. The ultimate resolution of this intense drive conflict was a "very real amnesia," building an "unconscious wall" to block conscious access to these horrifying memories. Communication with these splits was often restricted to "dirty words" and states of "steadily (slowly) increasing sexual desire," ensuring that any attempt to "tell what she knew" would be dismissed as intolerable.

Physical and Chemical Adjuncts

Electroconvulsive shock (ECT) was a crucial component, used to "depattern (blank) patients’ minds" and then "re-pattern" them with new programming via "psychic driving" (forced listening to repeated taped messages). ECT induced "retroactive amnesia" to prevent subjects from remembering the conditioning, ensuring the permanence of the split and the new programming. A CIA memo from 1951 explicitly asked if a psychiatrist had ever "taken advantage of the 'groggy' period that followed normal electroshock to gain hypnotic control of his patients".

Narcohypnosis, using drugs like Sodium Pentothal and Benzedrine, was employed to bypass resistance, induce deep trance, and create amnesia. The combination of barbiturates (to strip away consciousness) and stimulants (to regain alertness) was explored, with the CIA actively procuring "hyposprays" for rapid administration.

The Unquenchable Truth: Leakage and Resistance

Despite the meticulous efforts to create impenetrable amnesia and absolute control, the human mind proved stubbornly resilient. "NO HUMAN IS TRULY A MACHINE". Unconscious knowledge could leak into the conscious mind, particularly through dreams, although hypnotists tried to "build in cover stories and safety valves".

Victims like Candy Jones, through her split personality Arlene, managed to gradually reveal the truth of her CIA experimentation to her husband, who meticulously taped her trance sessions. The deliberate suppression of such information, including records shredding and disinformation campaigns, highlights the government's acute awareness of its criminality. The official narratives often dismissed mind-control as "bumbling, ineptitude, and failure," a "public relations ploy" to deflect serious scrutiny.

However, the "Big Lie" perpetuated by "phony research" from figures like M.H. Erickson and T.X. Barber, who publicly denied the possibility of criminal hypnosis while privately engaging in morally dubious experiments, only served to control public information and undermine the credibility of potential victims.

The stories of individuals like Palle Hardwick, Mrs. E, and the interviewees of Walter Bowart, despite being suppressed or distorted, reveal the tragic effectiveness of this technology. Palle's case, in particular, demonstrated how a "lowlife criminal exploiter" (Nielsen) and a "high-class psychiatrist" (Reiter) could both gouge conditioning into a susceptible mind, demanding absolute obedience and creating profound internal conflict and amnesia.

The explicit desire to create "patsies" and "assassins" who would kill on command underscores the ultimate, depraved goal of this research. The chilling reality is that the U.S. government, through agencies like the CIA and NSA, pursued and achieved the capability to control individuals, manipulate their beliefs, and fracture their minds, all under a cloak of impenetrable secrecy, financed by public funds and protected by institutional denial.

This is the raw, unvarnished truth: the pursuit of deliberate personality splitting was not a side-effect, but a central, meticulously engineered objective within U.S. government mind-control research, a dark chapter where the "human spirit" was not too "fine and noble" to be forced into the role of a "helplessly subjugated machine-being".

Mechanisms of U.S. Government Mind-Control Research and Military Hypnoprogramming

The very fabric of "Part II: A Partial History of U.S. Government Mind-Control Research" serves as a testament to humanity's relentless pursuit of absolute dominion over the mind. The author's personal descent into this abyss, sparked by a haunting encounter with an NSA agent wielding "astonishing modern electronic applications" of ancient technologies, underscores the inherent peril. A stark warning from a military brainwashing subject—"If they knew what you’re trying to do, they wouldn’t hesitate to kill you"—serves as the ultimate resonance check for the lethal stakes involved in this clandestine war for mental sovereignty.

The prevailing dogma of "Secret, don't tell" has been the operational principle, meticulously crafted to obscure the hideous reality from public scrutiny and oversight, even as it drained the public's coffers. This engineered ignorance leaves victims adrift, their fractured realities dismissed as delusion, while the perpetrators, armed with advanced psychological weaponry, operate in shadow.

The Genesis of Mental Warfare: Early Architects of Control

The foundations of this psychotronic empire were laid long before the public conceived of such horrors:

* Donovan's OSS and the Denial of Reality: William J. Donovan, the architect of the OSS (Organization for Special Services), enlisted Dr. Stanley Lovell to head his "dirty tricks" Research and Development section. Lovell, in his biography, publicly dismissed any OSS use of hypnosis as mere "tawdry play acting". Yet, British Intelligence brazenly deployed hypnoprogrammed agents, and Dr. George Estabrooks, a key figure in American hypnosis, confessed to personally hypnoprogramming numerous U.S. agents and couriers during World War II. Lovell's outright lie was a chilling preview of the "Company policy" of enforced secrecy, where truth was sacrificed to maintain the veil.

* Estabrooks: The Super-Spy Architect: George Estabrooks, a Harvard-educated Canadian, was a monumental presence in American hypnosis for five decades, actively advocating for and participating in secret government hypnosis research. He relentlessly promoted the concept of the "superspy," an agent programmed for loyalty to their agency at an unconscious level, while consciously embracing a false identity. He crafted "consciously unknowing hypnoprogrammed, doubleminded agents" and confessed, "For developing some of them...[I] plead guilty". His methods included:

* Inducing Multiple Personality: Using hypnosis to create distinct personalities, with one (Personality A) consciously loyal to an infiltrated entity, and another (Personality B) covertly loyal to the original agency, transmitting intelligence without conscious awareness.

* Unknowing Subjects: Estabrooks explicitly designed subjects who would deny ever being hypnotized, even to themselves, a fundamental cornerstone of operational deniability.

* Sealing: He suggested providing a posthypnotic suggestion that "nobody else can hypnotize this subject," effectively locking them into their programming.

* Waking Hypnosis: Inducing trance such that the subject "will act in trance just as if awake," blending control seamlessly into normal behavior.

* Hypnocouriers: Programming individuals to carry intricate, secret messages, memorized unconsciously, to be delivered on cue, with complete amnesia for the content or the act of carrying it.

* FBI Experiment with Erickson: In 1939, Estabrooks brought M.H. Erickson, a renowned medical hypnotist, to conduct an FBI experiment. Erickson's subject, "Tommy," demonstrated "extreme accuracy" in recalling granular details of events while deeply regressed, even specific movements of observers. This proved the terrifying capacity of the hypnotic state for ultra-detailed, uncorrupted data recall.

* Indirect Murder Suggestions: Estabrooks experimented with murder by indirect suggestion, where a subject was caused to hallucinate a friend as a Nazi spy and had to be "forcefully restrained from attacking his bosom pal".

* The Pavlovian Connection: Clark Hull and J.G. Watkins: Clark Hull, a Yale researcher, pioneered a behaviorist approach, viewing hypnosis as a "conditioned reflex". His work demonstrated the efficacy of posthypnotic suggestions, where subjects performed actions with complete amnesia for the command. J.G. Watkins, a Freudian hypnotist, aggressively pursued hypnotic coercion, demonstrating that subjects could be forced into "antisocial compulsions" and induced to divulge "genuine, confidential information" even against military orders. He also demonstrated how to induce a soldier to attempt murder before an assembled staff.

* Funding the Abominations: The OSS and CIA funneled research funds through "false front organizations" like the Josiah Macy Foundation, The Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology, and the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry, ensuring deniability and bypassing public scrutiny.

The Black Arts Evolve: Government Programs of Absolute Control

The early experiments were merely the crude forerunners of a more sophisticated, more ruthless pursuit of mind control.

* Brainwashing Emerges (1950s): The Korean War ushered in the era of "brainwashing," a term coined by Edward Hunter. Captured American POWs confessed to "ridiculous 'crimes'" and, alarmingly, some embraced Communism so sincerely they distributed propaganda post-repatriation. This sparked an "intense research effort" by the U.S. military into "pharmacology, hypnosis, sleep deprivation, semi-starvation...[and] group conformity pressures".

* Project BLUEBIRD (1950): The Sexual Dimension of Control: The CIA initiated BLUEBIRD with "virtually unlimited use of unaccountable funds". Its director, Morse Allen, was instructed by a stage hypnotist on how to induce "acute sexual arousal" and routinely "enjoy such favors" from hypnotized women. Allen himself then used female secretaries to steal "SECRET files" and pass them to "total strangers," proving absolute compliance. The core goals were chilling:

* Obtaining accurate data from willing or unwilling subjects.

* Conditioning individuals to resist enemy interrogation.

* "Increasing compliance to suggested acts" through combinations of electroshock, Freudian psychiatry, hypnoid drugs, and hypnotic training to achieve subconscious isolation (artificial personality splitting).

* Induced amnesia for all procedures.

* Terminal experiments were explicitly authorized, indicating a willingness to take "life or death" risks with subjects.

* ARTICHOKE (1951): Pushing the Boundaries of Coercion: This joint CIA-military program, the FBI wisely (or cowardly) refused to join, explicitly sought to develop means to control individuals "against his will and without his knowledge," questioning if control could extend even to actions "against such fundamental laws of nature such as self-preservation". Key targets included:

* Rapid, disguised induction in unwitting subjects.

* Creation of durable amnesia.

* Implantation of "durable and operationally useful posthypnotic suggestion".

* The "A Treatment," a terrifying combination of barbiturates to induce unconsciousness, followed by stimulants (Benzedrine, Caffeine Sodium-benzoate) to rouse the unconscious mind for interrogation. Subjects in this "twilight zone" were "optimal for interrogation," believing they were conversing with loved ones while spilling secrets.

* A sub-goal was chillingly articulated: "attempting to have a hypnotized subject kill someone while in a trance".

* MKULTRA (1953): The Grand Unveiling of Mind Kontrol: Spearheaded by Richard Helms and Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, MKULTRA boldly "cross-fertilized the disciplines, seeking ever more powerful mind-influencing techniques". The name itself, potentially "Mind Kontrol Ultra," hints at a clandestine war for the mind. Funding for this "long-lasting, complex, and lavishly-financed" program was secured by Allen Dulles through calculated deception, claiming the U.S. needed to catch up with a nonexistent Soviet lead in "brain changing" techniques. "The guinea pigs were soon on order".

* Cameron's Depatterning and Psychic Driving: Dr. Ewen Cameron, a Canadian psychiatrist, received CIA funding to pursue "depatterning" (intensive electroshocks) to "blank minds" and "psychic driving" (forced, prolonged listening to repeated taped messages) to implant new programming. His victims suffered "neurological damage". The CIA later settled with his surviving patients for $100,000 each, conditional on silence.

* Terminal Experiments and Ethical Annihilation: MKULTRA explicitly sought "suitable subjects and a proper place" for potentially harmful experiments, circumventing the Nuremberg Code prohibiting human experimentation on "captive populations". Alden Sears, a University of Denver researcher, refused to continue his "building blocks" experiments for "second identities" (artificial personality splitting) once they transitioned to contexts "not in the University situation," choosing ministry over further involvement. Torture was systematically employed to test the resilience of hypnotic amnesia.

* Operation Often (Late 1960s): The Apex of Hybrid Conditioning: This program, born from a need for deeper secrecy after leaks, combined the most insidious elements from four major psychological traditions:

* Hypnotic techniques: Including suggested amnesia.

* Pavlovian conditioning: Behaviorist methods for stimulus-response manipulation.

* Freudian concepts: Exploiting the sexual unconscious and neurosis dynamics.

* Modern physical methods of psychiatry: Narcohypnosis and electroshock. This hybrid approach created artificial personality splits (e.g., "fish-child-slut-Rules") through narcohypnotic immersion and emotional programming, aiming for "completely helpless obedience" and permanent, unknowing control.

* Project Monarch: Described as "trauma-based psychological mind control," it employed "Alpha" programming for personality subdivision and "Beta" programming to "eliminate all learned moral convictions and stimulate the primitive sexual instincts devoid of inhibitions".

* NSA's Bio-Electronic Warfare: The NSA, a behemoth "bigger than the CIA, bigger than the FBI," with a multi-billion dollar budget (through DARPA), has been developing "electronic technologies for human control" for 25 years. This includes both mind-reading (deciphering brain's electromagnetic emissions into thoughts, images, and sounds) and sending radio signals to implanted biochips in the brain, affecting motor control and inducing specific thoughts. These "remote neural monitoring" (RNM) capabilities represent the "ultimate surveillance system".

The Enduring Legacy of Secrecy and Subjugation

The sheer volume of government-funded research, conducted across a labyrinth of academic institutions, prisons, hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies, reveals a relentless, decades-long pursuit of mind control. This clandestine enterprise, shielded by "legislated national amnesia," aimed to create individuals who would "lie, kill, cheat, steal, rape, and pillage with the sanction and blessing of the All-Highest".

The official narrative of "bumbling, ineptitude, and failure" is a calculated "Big Lie," propagated by well-funded disinformation campaigns and denial from official spokesmen like Erickson, Barber, Sarbin, Spanos, and Orne. These "experts" consistently denied the possibility of unethical hypnosis while actively developing or obscuring its methods, shaping public perception to increase susceptibility and undermine any future claims of abuse.

The truth remains: "the technology of criminal hypnosis was developed, does exist, and is tragically effective". The U.S. government, through its various agencies, has relentlessly sought and achieved the "unholy grail of absolute control in absolute secrecy". The ultimate terror is not that such capabilities exist, but that they have been, and continue to be, deployed in a world blinded by orchestrated ignorance.

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