#BehavioralControl

10 entries tagged BehavioralControl.

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Albert Biderman Air Force social scientist at the Bureau of Social Science Research whose 1957 analysis of Communist coercion methods produced the Chart of Coercion, a document later reverse-engineered into SERE training and applied directly at Guantanamo Bay by military interrogators in 2002.
Alden Sears Psychologist who conducted CIA-funded hypnosis research at the University of Minnesota and University of Denver, exploring whether subjects could be programmed with separate personalities and durable amnesia.
Josef Cardinal Mindszenty Hungarian Cardinal whose apparently coerced 1949 show-trial confession alarmed CIA analysts and directly triggered the creation of Project BLUEBIRD, the Agency's first formal behavioral control program.
Milton Kline New York psychologist and former ASCH president who served as an unpaid CIA consultant on hypnosis research, maintaining throughout his career that creating a hypnotically programmed assassin was operationally feasible.
Stanley Lovell Boston industrialist appointed by William Donovan to head OSS Research and Development, who oversaw the creation of exotic weapons, harassment substances, and assassination plots that directly prefigured the CIA's postwar behavioral programs.

Scientific Engineering Institute CIA proprietary company outside Boston that served as the behavioral research arm of the Office of Research and Development, employing scientists in advanced experiments in brain stimulation and genetic manipulation after MKULTRA's public exposure.

MKSEARCH The CIA behavioral control program that succeeded MKULTRA in 1964 under Richard Helms, retaining the most sensitive chemical and biological development activities until Gottlieb terminated it in June 1972.
Project CHATTER U.S. Navy program established in 1947 to develop a truth drug for interrogation, which ran in parallel with early CIA efforts and ended following the Wendt fiasco in 1952.

A Treatment The CIA's classified interrogation technique combining drugs, hypnosis, and psychological regression to extract information and induce amnesia, developed under the ARTICHOKE program.
Electroshock The application of electric current to the brain to produce seizures, used as both a psychiatric treatment and, in D. Ewen Cameron's depatterning protocol at the Allan Memorial Institute, as a tool to erase memories and break down personality structures.