Brainwashing
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Brainwashing refers to the idea that an individual can get someone to adopt a particular doctrine or belief using purported methods that manipulate action or thought against a person's will, desire, o
Protester in Hong Kong wearing headgear opposing "political brainwashing". The headgear containes the word "洗腦" (brainwashing) behind a prohibition symbol.
Bank robbery by Patty Hearst said to be brainwashed by the Symbionese Liberation Army.
Philip Zimbardo, psychologist and professor at Stanford University.
Joost Meerloo
MKUltra
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MKUltra was an illegal human experimentation program designed and undertaken by the United States Central Intelligence Agency to develop procedures and identify drugs that could be used in altering hu
Brainwashing
…20 years, starting in the early 1950s, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the U.S. Department of Defense conducted secret research, including Project MKUltra, in an attempt to develop practical brainwashing techniques. These experiments ranged "from electroshock therapy to high doses of LSD". The director…
Declassified MKUltra documents
Sidney Gottlieb approved of an MKUltra sub-project on LSD in this June 9, 1953, letter.
Donald Ewen Cameron, c. 1967
Frank Church headed the Church Committee, an investigation into the practices of the U.S. intelligence agencies.