#KoreanWar
4 entries tagged KoreanWar.
People (2)
- 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.
- 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.
Organizations (1)
- ORO-RAC A pair of successive Army-linked research organizations at Johns Hopkins University and then McLean, Virginia, that conducted early Cold War studies on fighter selection, unit cohesion, and guerrilla psychology before the university severed the relationship and the work continued under an independent nonprofit.
Concepts (1)
- Brainwashing The coercive manipulation of beliefs and behavior through isolation and psychological pressure, studied by the CIA in the 1950s following Korean War prisoner cases, with Harold Wolff and Lawrence Hinkle concluding Soviet methods relied on police techniques rather than exotic technology.