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    The purport of this investigation assesses the significance of the CIA’s mind-control projects and its effect on espionage and counter-espionage. The investigation's goal is to pragmatically assess the experimental use of psychedelics, the results of the projects, and the conclusion of the experiments and its effects on espionage. Print and web sources will be used to evaluate the experiments’ significance. Two print sources will be used in the analysis: The Search for the "Manchurian Candidate"

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    CIA as a mind control program (“Project MKULTRA,” 2016). This program implemented a new way to interrogate by using torture and drugs such as marijuana and LSD (“Project MKULTRA,” 2016). The reason for these tactics were to weaken the individual so the agency could get a confession through mind control (“Id,”2016). Headed by Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, MK Ultra was started officially on the order of CIA director Allen Welsh Dulles on April 13, 1953 (“Id,”2016). The goal was to develop mind-controlling

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    toothpaste tube. Most people pay no attention to these advertisements as they drive by the H&M billboard on a random trip to the mall. As a result, those same people fail to realize the mind games advertisers have been playing on their subconscious minds for the past thirty years. Those same advertisers have basically taken control of people’s lives without them even having the slightest idea. Advertisers have two main goals. Their first goal is to be appealing and attract attention to a brand or company

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    victims. For example operation midnight climax. During operation midnight climax unwilling victims were lured to a CIA safe house,and unknowingly given lsd, and other mind altering substances. They were unknowingly observed thru one way glass. The goal of the experiment was to test the effects for possible mind control applications. This is not the only instance where people have been unknowingly used for some mad scientist's experiments. Project 4.1, project 4.1 was a test to see what would

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    more than a party trick, and has many uses in our society. Hypnosis is seen by the general public as a type of mind control. A common misconception about hypnosis is that you can be forced to do something you would not normally do. In reality, the subject has to allow themselves to be hypnotized or it will not work. It is vital the subject of hypnotism approach it with an open mind. Around 90% of the human population is able to be brought into a hypnotic state. (Brown,1986, p. 3) . Hypnosis is

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    Media Controls Your Mind

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    Media has an affect on the popular culture more than most people think. It is simply everywhere you go and unavoidable. So either way you look at it, the mass media occurs in a person’s life on a daily basis. Which has a severe effect on the choices you make and the morals you live by. One cannot trust everything they see on TV either. Most commercials you would see today are overly exaggerated just to persuade consumers into buying the product. For example, in the 1930’s America’s first “drug

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    Mind Control is the Foundation of Cults What are cults and what are the issues society argues about them? Many people argue over all different central issues of cults. One issue people argue is that cults cause social and personal disruption. Another issue would be that people in society dismiss the whole notion of cults completely saying that every religion can be viewed as a cult. However, when it comes down to it a cult is simply nothing other than a person using mind control over the

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    Mind Control Methods of 1984 and Today. Everyone wants more money. That's why people go to college to make more money. That's why people rob banks to get more money. That's why people do unethical business moves, to receive more money. We are living in a money-hungry society. People want more money because they know that money is power. This power allows us to change, shape and mold society into exactly what we want. This forming and shaping can make a society more productive which means more

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    technology, and the human mind that are still relevant today. One of the more interesting questions that this book brought about was about the possibility of mind control. Mind control, the ability to control another human’s thoughts and actions, is a popular topic in sci-fi. There are numerous books, movies, and television shows that depict their own form of this. Usually they show people walking around like zombies, carrying out their commander’s bidding. While this type of mind control isn’t possible,

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    Mind control is the most important purpose to controllers because once mind control completed, the power of control becomes so great that it not necessary to need violence and tight monitor. Foucault writes about the whole prison system in detail in Discipline and Punish. He divided the whole system into three stages, “the monarchial punishment, the reformer’s punishment and the modern punishment. The first one focus on the punishment of the body, which is the feels the pain of the body; the second

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