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Brainwash: The Secret History of Mind Control Paperback – May 27, 2008

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Vivid and disturbing, Brainwash is essential insight into the modern practice of interrogation and torture.

With access to formerly classified documentation and interviews from the CIA, U.S. Army, MI5, MI6, and British Intelligence Corps, Dominic Streatfeild traces the evolution of mind control from its origins in the Cold War to the height of today's war on terror.

Behind the front lines of every war in the world, prisoners are forced to sit for interrogation: manipulated, coerced, and sometimes tortured--often without ever being touched. Brainwash is a history of the methods intended to destroy and reconstruct the minds of captives, to extract information, convert dissidents, and lead peaceful men to kill and be killed.

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May 27, 2008
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“Breathless . . . reads like a spy thriller.” ―The Guardian (UK)

“Marvelously engrossing. This book is a series of wonderfully detailed and cleverly told stories, each of which debunks the brainwashing myth. Streatfeild's narrative control cannot be faulted. His research is formidable.” ―The Sunday Times (UK)

“An expansive and multifaceted exploration of brainwashing in its multitude of forms.” ―Booklist

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"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," ""Brainwash" is required reading in an era of cutting-edge and often controversial interrogation practices. More than just an examination of the techniques used by the CIA, the KGB, and the Taliban," ""it" is also a gripping, full history of the heated efforts to master the elusive, secret techniques of mind control. Praise for "Brainwash"
" Meticulously researched and superbly readable . . . acutely observed . . . evenhanded and even-tempered." "--The Daily Telegraph" (UK)
" A gripping survey of the post-war history of interrogation techniques." --"Telegraph on Sunday" (UK)
" Vivid . . . Streatfeild does an important service by bringing [brainwashing] to our attention again. It is especially relevant in the light of AbuGhraib and the war on terror." "--Financial Times "(UK)
" Breathless . . . reads like a spy thriller." "--The Guardian "(UK)
" Gripping." "--Time Out "(UK)
" Marvelously engrossing. This book is a series of wonderfully detailed and cleverly told stories, each of which debunks the brainwashing myth. Streatfeild's narrative control cannot be faulted. His research is formidable." "--Sunday Times "(UK)

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Picador; First Edition (May 27, 2008)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 432 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0312427921
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0312427924
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.24 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.96 x 8.5 inches

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moises nadal

I recommend this book and the other ones

Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2014

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Mind control has been a forever search. That the tools for this nefarious activity exist cannot be doubted. In the early 60s Jose Manuel Delgado published his famous book, The Physical Control of the Mind. An article in the NYT dealt with his experiments. The search for the Manchurian Candidate, John D. Marks et al. attest to the fact that mind control has already been achieved. The world of the mind has changed since the 60s. This topic is too important to be ignored. I recommend this book and the other ones. I liked the quick service and fast delivery by this store. Thanks.

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Starheart

Good for the older historical info on drug experimentation......

Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2009

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Very good at covering the older information on drug, hypnosis, and group mind control.....
Lack explaining in the newer more subtle methods for conditioning individuals (NLP) and the combined uses with the new technologies used for mind control....

Controlling the Human Mind: The Technologies of Political Control or Tools for Peak Performance

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Son of Flintstone Munchausen

The 1960s drug culture began in 1948 looking for "truth serum"?

Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2018

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I picked up the book for the chapter on the Reno, Nevada, Judas Priest (product liability) trial, coming from viewing a PBS documentary, Dream Deceivers . I was looking for additional information on the lawyer at that trial, and info about Reno's own Washoe Valley one-man expert on Ritz Crackers' subliminal advertising brainwashing, Wilson Bryan Key, who was an expert witness Subliminal Seduction for that trial (low taste music as brainwashing). While perusing the chapter about that anti-rock alt-right product liability trial (to establish demonic brainwashing via the 1981 "backward masking" hoax as factual, then sue children's music off the shelf), I came across the chapter about the CIA and universities' trials with 1940s LSD, wacky Mexican 'shrooms, and other mind-altering substances (desert plants) being tested as "truth drugs" in the set up for the Cold War. In a nutshell: the grad students self-medicated for fun and went tripping, told their friends, and made it popular. Your Cold War taxes at work in the universities' psychology departments.

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I didn’t know it was a library book

Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2021

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I didn’t know it was a library book.

Had I known what it was I would’ve bought a different copy.

Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2014

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Brainwash gets into the gritty details of Behavioral Modification. Mind control isn't all about hocus pocus, it's about the systematic procedures to get human beings to alter their behavior by using coercive techniques.

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Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2012

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This book is a factual and very interesting discussion of exactly what it purports to be, which is hard to find. We loved it.

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Lumbee

This book is in poor condition

Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2023

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This book is definitely not in good condition. I knew the slip cover may be missing. The outside is dirty. The corner of the hardcover is bent, the cover is warped and the pages near the corner are folded over. This book is disgusting. The food and whatever else that is on the cover makes this copy trash, no one wants to hold a book with this grossness on it.

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Mr. Wayne

fast delivery and great item!

Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2015

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Freddie Valentine

Well written, compulsive reading.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 20, 2010

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A great book detailing this history of brainwashing from various means including military experiments with hypnosis and LSD, religious cults, hidden messages in heavy metal albums, right up to modern interrogation techniques.
No pie-in-the-sky conspiracy theories here, this book is based on factual accounts and is excellently researched.

It's written in an accessible, easy-to-read style and is what used to be deemed a "page turner".
If you have an interest in this subject, you won't be disappointed.

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Mr. S. G. Maskell

an engaging tour of the world of mind control in 20C

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 4, 2008

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very well written - never resorts to sensationalism

tours the conspiracy theories of mind control including the soviet show trials, CIA LSD Tests, the moonies, satanic cults, and Judas Priest's "Do it".

i knew bits and pieces prior from early excursions via books such as apocalypse culture - it was very rewarding finding everything in one place and the questions it raises in our current climate

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Cherryl

A very interesting and vast topic.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 5, 2019

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Truth drugs, trauma and hypnosis - I'd never heard of truth drugs before!!

Could it really be possible that the mind of a human being can be tampered with to the point that the person literally loses their mind. Tamprered with to the point that they can be somewhat programmed - e.g. programmed to believe they have committed crimes that they didn’t commit and request to be executed as punishment.

Could drugs, or induced hypnosis be responsible for this?

Or maybe operant conditioning - using unpleasant or tourturus and severely traumatic experiences to condition the mind to react to things in a certain way. Fear and trauma in animal experiments saw their learned behaviours and personalities do a complete u turn. In humans the same effects have been documented - even to the point where people have changed their religious beliefs. Psychologists refer to this type of thing as behaviourism, and it has been argued to be a means of controlling/programming and predicting human behaviour, moulding a human personality.

Pavlov did lots of reared experiments/research ( a bit of A Level Psychology is coming back to me now lol, and Bandura was another theorist who did similar experiments around operant conditioning).

If someone is brainwashed doesn't that make them a slave to the brainwasher, controlled and programmed, their freedom and liberty stolen.....

Streatfeild also goes on to explore the use of brainwashing in warfare.

Drugs that can alter your consciousness to a state between sleep man awake - a point at which the mind is less inhibited and reveals more truths and secrets and personal info that the sharp conscious mind ever would - and sticking a hypodermic needle in someone’s vein and increasing their dose as and when they seem to be shaping out of it during an ‘interrogation’ a general anaesthetic (barbiturate nembutal) research by Horsley (1931) showed women in labour under the influence of this drug started to reveal al sorts of things - inhibitions were removed in a matter of seconds.

A truth drug had been discovered. This new way of getting into an unconscious mind was termed nacroanalysis. perfect for any shadowy figures wanting to interrogate someone they just can’t seem to break!

Chemical brainwashing, which could also be done via/put in food.

Subliminal messages, electric shock therapy, interrogation methods and torture.....intrigued? Then read on.

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Smuddy

Its OK

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 13, 2014

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great story

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 31, 2013

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whether this is all true or not.....im starting to believe this HAS and IS going on....in all truth it makes me angry that these "elite devil worshippers " think we are below them, and they do as they want, are above the law......us the real people need to do something about these cretins....this is a scary read, but sadly i feel it isnt fiction, its happening

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