[NetBehaviour] Psychological "torture bible" published in 1961 reappears online.

[marc garrett]

Psychological "torture bible" published in 1961 reappears online.

These articles were written by the people who were paid by the US 
government, mostly in the 1950s, to research brainwashing and 
interrogation techniques by giving people drugs, placing them under 
sensory deprivation, hypnotizing them, etc. etc. Many of these 
experiments essentially involve torture and are likely to be widely 
regarded as highly unethical. This is fundamental research, and if there 
was any followup research done, it has not yet been published for public 
consumption.

This book is of enormous historical importance, and yet is largely 
unavailable. If you live in the United States, this is some of what your 
government was up to in the fifties. I doubt that their funding of these 
ideas stopped with the publication of this volume.

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