#Hypnosis

People (6)

• 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.
• George Estabrooks Colgate University psychology professor who advocated military and intelligence use of hypnosis to control subjects against their will and wrote the first book on creating hypnotically programmed couriers and assassins.
• Martin Orne Harvard and Penn psychologist who received CIA funding through MKULTRA Subproject 84 and the Human Ecology Fund, whose demand characteristics research dismantled hypnosis-as-mind-control claims, and who exposed Kenneth Bianchi's fraudulent multiple personality defense in the Hillside Strangler murders.
• 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.
• Richard Dwyer CIA agent present at Jonestown during the 1978 massacre who was named by Jim Jones in the final death tape, shouting 'Get Dwyer out of here' as the mass killings unfolded.
• William J. Bryan Jr. Hypnotist who claimed CIA affiliations and allegedly bragged about hypnotizing Sirhan Sirhan prior to the Robert Kennedy assassination, as well as Boston Strangler Albert DeSalvo.