Operation Mind Control by Walter Bowart

Author:Walter Bowart [Bowart, Walter]
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Chapter Eleven

"It's amazing," he would answer, but his interest would

diminish after Salter explained how, paralleling Pavlov and

A SCHOOL FOR ASSASSINS

Hudgins, the reader's pupil had been conditioned. "Well,"

he would say, "come back next time when you have some

real hypnotism."

"Our doctor is wrong," Salter said. "There, in the condi-

tioned reflex, he had seen the essence of hypnosis. (And

The cryptocracy recruited their assassins from among

parenthetically, when we see that the essence of hypnotism is

people who had already demonstrated a violent nature,

conditioning—or quite loosely, that the essence of the 'un-

conscious mind' is conditioning—we are in a strategic posi-

people who had few reservations about taking human life.

tion to develop a sound understanding of the deepest

No homicidal maniacs were recruited because they could

wellsprings of human behavior) ."

not be controlled. The cryptocracy needed killers who

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would not murder on impulse, but only upon command.

The cryptocracy, having discovered the wonders of hyp-

Once selected, the assassin candidates were turned over

nosis, drugs, behavior modification, and even more revolu-

to the military, where, under the guise of "combat readi-

tionary electrical and sonic manipulations of the brain,

ness" training, they underwent a complete program of con-

learned how to reliably control individual behavior.

ditioning. Graduates of the program would forever after act

Whether or not the Constitution protects the individual's

free thought and speech, and whether one regards mind

with ruthless efficiency. They would eliminate local politi-

control as bondage or a necessary tool for social engineer-

cal leaders in a foreign country, or undertake "search and

ing, one must recognize that the power to control the mind

destroy" missions in violation of national and international

exists—and is being used.

laws. They would be given the cover that would allow them

to enter the Foreign Service; or they would pose as em-

Did Philip Hilts know how close he'd come when he of-

bassy marine guards.

fered his chilling description of the crypto-behaviorists? He

In July, 1975, the Sunday Times in London quoted a

wrote: "Suppose a dozen controllers with that incurable

U.S. Navy psychologist who admitted that U.S. Naval

twitch for power are meeting, now, in some secret moun-

Intelligence had taken convicted murderers from military

tain cabin. There, amid piles of rat-behavior charts, rows of

prisons, conditioned them as political assassins, and then

cumulative recorders, and reams of human-foibles data,

placed them in American embassies around the world. This

they are designing an environment. They are creating blue-

admission came shortly after the Senate Intelligence Com-

prints for a system that would produce the most terrible,

mittee had scolded the CIA for plotting a number of politi-

violent, and antisocial people possible.'12

cal assassinations around the world. From the congres-

sional reports, however, one got the feeling that the

cryptocracy was being chastised not for the assassinations it

had successfully accomplished, but for those which it had

attempted, but failed. The attempts on the life of Fidel Cas-

O.M.C.—F

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tro drew the greatest notice from the congressional com-

ness units" to cope with the stress of killing. Later, how-

mittees and the press.

ever, during private questioning with a small group of lis-

According to the Sunday Times story, naval psy-

teners (reporter Peter Watson of the Sunday Times, a

chologist Lt. Comdr. Thomas Narut was assigned to the

former psychologist, among them), Narut unfolded the

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