#Brainwashing

People (5)

• Edward Hunter CIA propaganda operative working under journalistic cover who coined the term 'brainwashing' in 1950 to describe Chinese Communist interrogation methods, helping create the Cold War fear that justified the CIA's behavioral control programs.
• Harold Wolff Cornell University neurologist who conducted the definitive CIA study on Soviet brainwashing techniques with Lawrence Hinkle in 1956, founded the Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology as a CIA front, and proposed using unwitting hospital patients in coercion experiments.
• Lawrence Hinkle Cornell University physician who co-authored the 1956 CIA-commissioned study on Soviet brainwashing with Harold Wolff, finding that communist interrogation relied on traditional police methods rather than exotic technology.
• Patty Hearst Newspaper heiress kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army on February 4, 1974, who appeared to undergo coerced conversion, joining her captors in armed robbery before her arrest, conviction, and eventual presidential pardon.
• William Sargant British psychiatrist at St. Thomas' Hospital who built a theoretical framework linking religious conversion, political indoctrination, and interrogation compliance to identical physiological mechanisms, ran a decade-long coercive deep sleep ward at the Royal Waterloo Hospital in London that produced five documented deaths and widespread lasting harm, and served as an informal MI5 consultant while maintaining professional relationships with Ewen Cameron and other CIA-connected researchers.