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The Macy Conferences:The Minds behind Mind Control
Anonymous:
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dragonfly:
Ursus:
--- Quote from: "dragonfly" ---Do you all have more of these senate hearings like this? .....
NARCOTICS RESEARCH, REHABILITATION, AND TREATMENT HEARINGS
BEFORE THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON CRIME
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
NINETY-SECOND CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION (1971)
Areba and SPAN...new to me.
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Here's another LINK for that, for anyone who had problems accessing the link in the Gerald Davidson thread... (fwiw, this is only the first page of 93; scroll down to the bottom of the page for links to the rest).
--- Quote from: "dragonfly" ---I read somewhere there were 450-500 different synanon programs by the early 1970's
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That wouldn't surprise me. There were probably many hundreds more, who only adopted certain elements of it...
Of course, most of these did not last.
georgeii:
I just came across this:
Submitting a memorandum to the Presidents Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy Richard Helms, later to become Director of the CIA (and later to burn as many MK Ultra records as possible) at the time was asked to submit a memorandum on the subject of:
“Soviet Research and Development in the Fiel d of Direction and Control of Human Behaviour”
Helms (then Deputy Director for Plans) writes that new trends include:
a. The adoption of a multidisciplinary approach integrating biologiccal, social and physical-mathemtatcial research in attempts to better understand and eventually control human behaviour in a manner consonnant with nation plans
b. The outstanding feature, in addition to the interdiscipolinary approach is a new coincern for mathematical approaches to na understnading of behaviour. Particularly notable are attemots to use modern information theory, automata theory and feedback concepts in interpreting the mechanisms by which the “second signal sytem”, i.e. speech and associated phenomena, affect human behaviour. Implied by this research was the hope for a technology for controlling behaviour via the “second signal system,” using information inputs as causative agents rather than chemical agents electrodes or other more exotic techniques applicable, perhaps to individuals rather than groups.
c. This new trend, obsrerved in the early Post-Stalin Period continues. By 1960 the word “cybernetic s” was used by the Soviets to designate this new trend. This new science is coinsidered by sum as the key to understanding the human brain and the product of its functioning - psychic activity and personality – to the development of means for controlling it and ways for molding the character if the “New Communist Man”. As one Soviet author puts it: Cybernetics can be used in “molding a child’s character, the inculcation of knowledge amd techniques, the ammassing of experience, the establishment of social behaviour patterns...all functions which can be summarized as ‘control’ of the growth process of the individual.” 1/Students of particular disciplines in the USSR, such as psychologists and social scientists, also support the general cybernetic trend.
This is an intersting summary of cybernetics. I found it in Walter Bowart’s ‘Operation Mind Control’ which is floating about in pdf on the net.
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