Mind Control in America – What the CIA Did and Why They Did It

The disturbing saga of mind control begins with the science of Ivan Pavlov early in the twentieth century – the famous Russian who tested dogs with bells and food pellets.  His goal was simple:  to understand how behavior is trained.  Derived from his work was the psychological theory of Behaviorism based upon reflex conditioning.  Pavlov’s dogs are a famous tidbit most of us recall from our high school psychology class.

However, the pertinent part of his story commences with the lesser known fact that whatever is learned can be ‘unlearned’ if the individual being trained is subjected to sufficient fear, mental anguish, and physical pain.  In essence, fear can wipe out memory.

Pavlov discovered this when his pack of well-trained laboratory dogs forgot all their learned behavior as waters rose higher and higher in his lab (rising waters caused by a local flood), creating so much anxiety in his laboratory’s canines it figuratively ‘washed their brains’.  Subsequently, Pavlov asserted (and history has shown it to be so), that fear stands as a supremely powerful force in human conditioning, both individually and collectively in our society. Read more >>