Word: brainwashed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your POW camp training article [Sept. 1] revived memories of similar well-meaning efforts during and after the Korean War. Hardly a base, post or station was without its "torture and brainwash" school. All carried on with the best of intentions, of course. However, when all the evidence was in as to what actually went on in the POW camps of North Korea, it transpired that extremes of physical violence were the exceptions rather than the rule, occurring, it seems, to something like less than 1% of the prisoners. Mistreatment was far more apt to take psychological rather than physical...
Schulman, who has been studying disarmament theories among scholars in Moscow for the past three weeks, was accused by the Soviet government newspaper Izvestia last Saturday of attempting to brainwash and blackmail a Soviet scholar at Harvard in 1964 into defecting to the United States. Schulman denied the charges...
...sold. What he buys is oblivion. Soon he is propped up in bed reading his own obituary. Having purchased a $30,000 first-class death (hotel fire) with a stand-in corpse from the organization's Cadaver Procurement Section, he has undergone plastic surgery and a light brainwash. When the medics start pulling the bandages off, the former middle-aged banker stares into a mirror. Who can it be, under those stitches and scar tissue? Would you believe Rock Hudson...
...IPCRESS FILE. Freed from Bondage to gags and gimmickry, this British suspense yarn plays up the honest good humor in the exploits of a secret agent (Michael Caine) who saves England's top scientists from a massive brainwash...
...IPCRESS FILE. Freed from Bondage to gags and gimmickry, this British suspense yarn plays up the honest good humor in the exploits of a secret agent (Michael Caine) who saves England's top scientists from a massive brainwash...