CIA “Brainwashing” Report Gaining Popularity
As the Director of Para-Abductalogical Research for Alien Abductions, Incorporated, I am always interested in methods though which information relevant to my chosen field of study becomes incorporated into mainstream culture.
During the 1990s, the combination of improved information access via networked computing systems (electronic bulletin boards, Gopher, the World Wide Web, and so on) and a notable shift in worldwide cultural perspectives that merits a full essay of its own at a later time (that shift being most immediately evident to the layperson in such popular culture phenomena as the television show The X-Files) led to an broad upswing in the availability of primary source materials relating to the systems underlying human belief structures.
In that vein, it is interesting to note that a CIA report on “brainwashing” has again gained popularity on the Internet. While this ca. 1960 document is no longer of any significant research value to AAI (it has been studied extensively by our research team over the course of five years), and we have reason to believe that it may actually have been part of a disinformation campaign at the time of its release, it nevertheless represents an interesting window into the United States’ government interests during a formative period for current approaches to managing moderated consciousness.
In coming months I will be writing occasional entries in this Web log covering our research, as well as analysis of relevant or interesting current news items as they occur. I hope that you will find them both interesting and useful as a basis for your own work.
Hamilton J. Symmes