This page concerns the conditioning and controlling of human beings by way of hypnosis and purposely induced trauma. It has been well-known to torturers and mind manipulators, since at least the studies of Korean War prisoners in the 1950s, that inducing trauma, dependency, sleep deprivation, and guilt can be used to "turn" some people and alter their beliefs and behavior. Hypnosis is another technique which can go far beyond the public perception that hypnotized people cannot be induced to violate their basic sense of morality or belief.
- These are some excerpts from Colin Ross' book BLUEBIRD: Deliberate Creation of Multiple Personality by Psychiatrists, published in 2000. They deal with the use of hypnosis in creating multiple-personality "Manchurian Candidates." Ross concludes from BLUEBIRD and ARTICHOKE documents that such experiments were successfully carried out by physicians working for the CIA. There is also a mention of the use of subliminal voices mixed into music to induce hypnosis.
- This site at Parascope, Hypnosis in Interrogation, provides an introduction to a CIA document on hypnosis as well as a link to the document itself.
- This early MKULTRA document from 1953 discusses experiments to be conducted in hypnosis. It is also online at Parascope. Among other experiments, research on "hypnotically induced anxieties" was planned, as well as research in the recall of hypnotically acquired information triggered by "very specific signals."
- These excerpts from a 1971 Science Digest article, "Hypnosis Comes of Age" [*] by G.H. Estabrooks, appear at Tom Porter's site. Estabrooks discusses military uses of hypnosis such as creating multiple personalities in subjects for their use as couriers. (Excerpts from a 1961 book by Estabrooks [*] and Gross, discussing hypnosis in warfare, can be found in Lloyd Miller's archives.)
- This chapter in John Mark's book The Search for the Manchurian Candidate deals with hypnosis techniques.
- See also Interrogation and Torture Techniques.