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"Clinical responsibility for the mind control experiments lies with the

doctors, who should have been constrained by the Hippocratic Oath."

Colin A. Ross, M.D.

Bluebird, Deliberate Creation Of Multiple Personality by

Psychiatrists

In 1955, a Russian manual entitled, "Brainwashing: A Synthesis of theRussian Textbook on Psychopolitics," was translated and distributed as apublic warning by a New York professor. Psychopolitics was described bythe Soviets as the "art and science of asserting and maintaining dominionover the thoughts and loyalties of individuals, officers, bureaus, andmasses, and the effecting of the conquest of enemy nations through'mental healing.'"

The manual was based on the methods of Ivan Pavlov, a Russian

psychiatrist who developed conditioned response theories usingexperimental dogs in the early 1900s. This work laid the groundwork for afundamental psychiatric misconception that remains to this day: that, likedogs, men are basically stimulus-response mechanisms. Theseexperiments established the foundation for much of the inhumanbrainwashing techniques used by the Soviet Union and China in themid-twentieth century. Utilized by both Lenin and Stalin for political ends inthe then USSR, Pavlov's methods helped spread communist rule overalmost half the world.

The manual stated, "The tenets of rugged individualism, personaldeterminism, self-will, imagination, and personal creativeness are alike inthe masses antipathetic to the good of the Greater State."48 Further, "Theearly Russian psychiatrists, pioneering this science of psychiatry,understood thoroughly that hypnosis is induced by acute fear. Theydiscovered it could also be induced by shock of an emotional nature, andalso by extreme privation, as well as by blows and drugs."49

"By perverting the institutions of a nation," it continues, "and bringing abouta general degradation to the degree that privation and depression comeabout, only minor shocks will be necessary to produce, on the populace as

a whole, an obedient reaction or an hysteria." The mere threat of war or themere threat of aviation bombings can create this hysteria, it says.50

These are the methods studied by the likes of terrorist psychiatrist Dr. Azizal-Abub and "The Jackal" at the Patrice Lumumba campus in Russia, and

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then exported to the Middle East and elsewhere.

During the Soviet era, Patrice Lumumba and the Lenin Institute bothtrained students in social psychology, unarmed combat and guerillawarfare. From here the students were sent to specialized training centers.Between 1968 and 1975, an estimated 2,500 terrorists and guerillas weretrained there.51 Other "psychopolitics" centers include Tavistock Institute in

Britain and The Frankfurt School in Germany.

The world's major cause for concern was once the cold war between SovietRussia and America. At its height, Russia was guided by individualpsychiatrists who trained terrorists, and who were the guardians over theGulags. With the fall of Soviet Russia however, the world has a new troublespot, one that has taken that psychiatric brainwashing technology and putit to work through another brand of terrorism.

A Covert Assault On The West

"Many of the methods used by Dr. al-Abub [terrorist doctor] arestandard techniques among doctors who use behavior technology to

achieve control either within other terrorist groups or inside the

framework of state-sponsored terrorism."52

Gordon Thomas,Veteran Foreign Affairs CorrespondentJourney into Madness, 1989

The modern version of brainwashing is "Sensitivity Training," introduced

into western countries in the 1940s and 50's. It originated with Kurt Lewin,a German psychologist who migrated to the U.S. in 1933, where hebecame a professor of child psychology. With his associates he evolved theconcept of "T-groups" ("T" for training). In 1932, Lewin was the director ofTavistock, the psychological warfare department of the British government.Tavistock's pioneer work in behavioral science along Freudian linesestablished it as a world center for this ideology.

As a result of Lewin's work, the National Training Laboratories (NTL) wasestablished in 1947, and by 1950, the T-group concept had gained rapidpopularity amongst psychologists. The term "Sensitivity Training" was later

coined.

Adherents of this, such as psychologist Ed Schein, who studiedbrainwashing techniques in Korea, admit that it derives from Pavlov'sbrainwashing methods. In an introduction to one of his papers onSensitivity Training, Schein writes that this method "fits into a context ofinstitutional influence procedures which includes coercive persuasion in theform of thought reform or brainwashing as well as a multitude of lesscoercive, informal patterns."

It was defined as a three-stage process involving "unfreezing," "changing,"and "refreezing."

"Unfreezing" physically removes the person from his accustomed routines,sources of information, and social relationships, then undermines the


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normal social support structures, humiliates the individual so that he seeshis old self as unworthy and supposedly motivates him to change. Theprocess was later compared to those methods employed by the ChineseCommunists in their attempt to inculcate [instill] Communist attitudes intotheir youth or into prisoners.

"Changing" was defined as directing the person towards learning new

attitudes, quite often through coercion.

"Refreezing" was defined as "...the integration of the changed attitudes intothe rest of the personality...."53

In reality, Sensitivity Training is the invalidation of the individual through therefuting, denying, degrading or discrediting of anything he considers to bea fact or a certainty-for example, a principle of moral conduct. Thiseffectively knocks whatever props the person may have out from underhim. The inevitable disorientation that follows is then used to force anotherperson's or group's point of view or set of values onto the individual. In

practice, it destroys individualism, moral judgment and personalresponsibility.

Sensitivity Training was later described as having been "developed to studyhow people could be socially and psychologically manipulated to give uptheir souls...."54

Today its siblings comprise more than two dozen names; among them areReality Therapy, Group Therapy, Conflict Management, Gestalt Therapy,Planned Change, Mind Set, Role Playing, Human Relations Lab, SensoryAwareness Groups, Conflict Resolution, Encounter Groups and SocialPsychology.

Social Psychology was also taught at Patrice Lumumba Center and TheLenin Institute in Soviet Russia to train guerillas and the likes of Dr. al-Abuband "The Jackal." Between 1968 and 1975, an estimated 2,500 terroristsand guerillas were trained at these centers.

THE NAZIS

"The Nazi doctorshad created the beginning of whathad [been]

defined as a psychology of torture. It had enabled them to embrace awide range of evils[and] finally to exist, the Nazi doctors had

needed to virtually eliminate any capacity for normal human feelings;

it was the only way for them to kill their victims."55

Gordon ThomasJourney into Madness, 1989

Most terrorist groups today have radical political views and hold racistpositions which range from "white supremist" type views to anti-Semitism.

According to one of these groups, "blacks, oriental, and other races,"unlike "Aryans," do not have souls.56

However, behind some of the most significant terrorist activities there hasbeen a psychiatric or psychological influence, whether directly in terrorist


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training, or through a racial ideology first propagated by psychiatrists.

Nowhere is that more evident than in Nazi Germany from the 1930s to1945.

In 1999, German psychiatrists publicly admitted that psychiatry hadspawned "eugenics" and the racial "inferiority/superiority" ideology almost

three decades before the Nazis took power in 1933. Indeed, it was thisideology that turned the Nazis into mass murderers. The following is a briefhistory:

1895: German psychiatrist Alfred Ploetz and jurist, Karl Binding, publishedtheir theories about race inferiority in the book, The Fitness of Our Raceand the Protection of the Weak. In 1909, Ploetz founded the GermanSociety for Racial Hygiene. Ploetz's theory was that destroying unworthylife was "purely a healing treatment."

1920s: Psychiatrist Alfred Hoch's book, Permission to Destroy Life

Unworthy of Life, demanded euthanasia be conducted on "mentaldefectives." This, and another psychiatric text, Human Genetics and RacialHygiene, helped form the "scientific" basis for the Nazi racial purityprogram.

According to Hoche and Binding, the acceleration of the death process isnot an act of murder but "in truth a pure act of healing" and there arepeople who are "worthless" to society. Primary among these are theinmates of the "idiot institutes," who are "not only worthless, but ofabsolutely negative value." As for the "incurably dumb," "Their death willnot be missed in the least except maybe in the hearts of their mother orguardian.... When we become more advanced, we will probably be savingthose poor humans from themselves."

1933: The German psychiatric community's ideology of racial purity foundfertile ground in the new Nazified Germany. Adolf Hitler's accession topower was a major gain. Psychiatrist Ernst Rdin's Sterilization Law waspassed.

1934: The first step in psychiatry's eugenics master plan was sterilizationand castration for those deemed biologically unsound. This included the

mentally ill, intellectually handicapped, homosexuals and "colored" people.To "cleanse the nation of impure and undesirable elements," it is estimatedthat between 1934 and 1945, up to 350,000 people were sterilized.

1935: In 1935, with the enactment of the Nuremberg Laws, Jews wererelegated to sub-citizens by reason of race.

1940: The first "gassing test" was conducted at Brandenburg institution;18-20 people were exterminated while psychiatrists and staff watched. The"T4" euthanasia program was launched by German psychiatrists to furtherthe objective of a pure German nation, and the first gas chambers were

installed in mental institutions. Between 1940 and 1944, 300,000 "mental"patients were murdered by gassing, starvation or drug overdose.

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shipment of brains of 33 murdered children between the ages of seven andeighteen, were received at a brain research facility "in the interest ofscientific development."

1941: As the final solution to the Jewish "problem" was implemented, thesuccessful psychiatric euthanasia procedures were exported wholesale intothe concentration camps and extermination camps run by the Nazi SS

with eminent German psychiatrists acting as consultants. "The killing in theconcentration camps went along the same lines and with the sameregistration forms as in the insane asylums," noted one proud Germanpsychiatrist.

1946: Nuremberg Trials: Only four out of dozens of Nazi psychiatrists wereprosecuted, most escaped justice, and many returned to psychiatricpractice after the war.


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