[On June 1, 1951] ... a trinational meeting of intelligence agencies and academics [was held] at Montreal’s Ritz-Carlton Hotel. The subject of the meeting was growing concern in the Western intelligence community that the Communists had somehow discovered how to “brainwash” prisoners of war. The evidence was the fact that American GIs taken captive in Korea were going before cameras, seemingly willingly, and denouncing capitalism and imperialism [and confessing to engaging in acts of biological warfare].
It was ultimately determined that these experiments did not accomplish what they apparently were designed to do - determine how the Communists "brainwashed" our troops:
In fact, a large part of the scandal, when it finally broke, was that the CIA and Ewen Cameron had recklessly shattered lives with their experiments for no good reason — the research appeared useless: everyone knew by then that brainwashing was a Cold War myth. The CIA, for its part, actively encouraged this narrative, much preferring to be mocked as bumbling sci-fi buffoons than for having funded a torture laboratory at a respected university — and an effective one at that.
But I think there is a lot more to it than this. Let's approach the "false" confessions of our troops from a different point of view: what if they had not been "false" confessions at all?
There is credible evidence that the United States did in fact engage in biological warfare (BW) against North Korea and China during the Korean War. This evidence was corroborated by the murder of Frank Olson by the CIA and the suicide (possible murder) of one of his coworkers in our BW program when they became security risks to the program (i.e., when they threatened to reveal the truth about our war crimes in Korea). [See my 9/30/2012 and 11/30/2012 blog posts about Frank Olson and the wages of truth.]
So ... if the powers that be knew that the confessions were not false, the entire program of "brainwashing" research may have been hatched as a way to divert attention from what had really happened (i.e., our war crimes). And in the process, many people were tortured, many lives were wrecked, and several people (e.g., Frank Olson) died just to provide plausible deniability for our government.
This possibility suggests the following:
- I think the facts behind the "false" confessions and the outcome of the CIA experiments reveal two important things: (1) it is difficult if not impossible to get people to disavow or disbelieve things they know to be true, so (2) it is therefore much easier to manipulate the crowd than it is to manipulate the individual. That's why the government's focus has shifted to social networks and crowd control.
- A direct comparison between the Korean War BW war crimes and 9/11 can be made: (a) In both cases there is an underlying set of circumstances which the government is hiding from the public; (b) In both cases the government created red herrings to shield their culpability (e.g., "brainwashing" and the "al-Qaeda connection"), and the public readily accepted these red herrings as reality; (c) In both cases the government and the people were willing to torture, kill, or destroy entire countries to perpetuate the underlying lies; and (d) In both cases people who knew the truth and threatened to reveal it (e.g., Frank Olson, Julian Assange, Bradley Manning) were themselved threatened, imprisoned, and/or killed to shut them up.
As I mentioned in my 9/30/2012 blog post, the Biderman study report entitled "Communist Attempts To Elicit 'False' Confessions From Air Force Prisoners Of War" concluded that:
Unlike the cynical Nazis who merely perpetrated the Big Lie, the Chinese Communist personnel whom our prisoners encountered in Korea were required to live the Big Lie.
I ask you again, who actually is required to live the Big Lie: the Chinese, the North Koreans, or the citizens of the United States? Aren't we the biggest liars of all?
We have at this very moment a situation on the Korean peninsula which is in part a direct result of OUR aggression and OUR war crimes during the Korean War. We could take a BIG step toward permanently defusing that powder keg if people like President Obama ad-Dajjal would start telling the truth about what we have been doing throughout America's sordid history.
But if he did, the whole damn thing would fall apart ... and it would be bye-bye for the vicious lie known as the United States of America. No one's going to voluntarily do that, are they?
[For more about the Korean War BW, brainwashing, torture, and the concealed realities behind this story, see the article @
http://www.globalresearch.ca/u-s-pows-during-the-korean-war/10050]
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