This is an excellent article by Cynthia Chung which goes way beyond capitalist attempts at mass persuasion techniques to intervening to change the brain structure itself. She highlights the work of William Sargant in his book Battle For The Mind along with the work of Ewen Cameron who also attempted to brainwash his psychiatrist patients in the 1950s and 1960s. Both had ties to the British secret service and the CIA.
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