IN THE NATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000100010047-8
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 17, 1998
• Sequence Number: 47
• Publication Date: April 16, 1953
• Content Type: NSPR

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In The Nation
Allen W. Dulles Describes
`Warfare for the Brain'
Preai ..9ntellijence, J1nc.
WASHINGTON 1. D. C.
Soviet 'Improvements'
experiment which
takes two forms, is very different.
First, mass indoctrination for the pur-
pose of getting a submissive response
to any act by the rulers. This gives the
appearance of "monolithic solidarity in
the Soviet state" and the outward look
Ttv ARTHUR KROCK
WASHINGTON, April 15--- to ec -
iques and effects of organized mind
perversion of individuals by communist
Governments, which the Chinese have
given the name of "brain-washing,"
was the subject of a very informing
speech just made by the chief of thi
Government's principal unit engage
in collecting such information and de
termiriing its accuracy. To Princeto
University alumni, meeting last Frida
at Hot Springs, Va., Allen W. Dulle
Director of the Central Intelligent
Agency, reviewed the process. tho
oughly and made this comment:
The communists are now apply-
ing the brain-washing techniques
to American prisoners in Korea
and it is not beyond the range of
possibility that considearble num-
bers of our own boys there might
be so indoctrinated as to be induced,
temporarily at least, to renounce
country and family.
Soon this possibility will be tested
first-hand, after the exchange of pri
oners of war in Korea. Already t
Communists have broadcast what th
represent to be the recorded voices
a colonel and a major of the Unit
States Marine Corps, captured in Ju
giving (said Dulles) ,"in the great
detail fictitious information regardi
preparations for bacteriological w
fare in Korea."
Even those who have read the nov
of Koestler and Aldanov should f'
some new substance in the follo
quotations from and summaries
what Director Dulles said:
The human mind, "the most delic
of all instruments * * * is so finely
justed, so susceptible to the impact
outside influences, that it is prov
a malleable tool in the hands of sini
men. The Soviets are now [pervert
it] as one of their main weapons
prosecuting the cold war."
In Hitler's Germany and Fas
Italy an attempt was made to st
ardize all human thinking, a pro
called by the Germans "gleichge
tung," the leveling procedure. Its
feet, while it may not have been
manent on the German mind, c
tioned vast numbers of Germans to
low Hitler completely. Japan's tho
control seems to have had little
manent effect, though it was hi
efficient "in combating sedition"
constructing "apparent unity behi
intense nationalism "
Sanitized -
of unity. Second, such treatment of
selected individuals as to deprive them'
of the ability to state their own
thoughts. "Parrot-like, the individuals
so conditioned can merely repeat
thoughts which have been implanted
in their minds" by outside suggestion.
To apply this process it is first "nec-
essary to close off with an impenetrable
barrier the area within which the oper-
ation is to take place"-the Iron and
,,the Bamboo Curtains. The periphery
of these is now about 21,000 miles. Be-
hind it are three zones-(1) a No Man's
Land about a mile deep, mined, covered
with barbed wire and cleared to reveal
footprints; (2) an intermediate belt ten
miles deep and completely depopulated;
and (3) an area as much as 150 miles
deep which can be entered only by
those who have special passes issued
by the Frontier Troop Administration.
Maritime spaces, used by the fishing
fleets, are as carefully guarded.
own minds would operate if, say for the
only one. choice and heard only one
message. I can only assure you of my
firm belief that few of us would have
withstood such treatment and kept an
d The Perfected Technique
individuals II
911 The brain-washing of i s
mitted or to make them the mouth-
,
CPYRGHT
pieces for Soviet propaganda. The was broken down, and he went into
let el
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purge trials in Czechoslovakia are illus- I I to
aeainstione of his fellow-missionaries.
n
t
o
e i
ith
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and I and `
"confession"-rarely less than six
e Commu- ent complete confidence in its truth."
months. "This is not becaus
j nist 'justice' cannot move with rapidity The C. I. A. has a copy of a Com-
uired munist film "showing American boys -
"
The time is req
when it wants to.
their identity is beyond doubt-stand-
tion of ef-
t
ra
for an impressive demons
ing before an investigatory group of
fective brain-washing; "written confes-
ex- communists from Western Europe and
sions could be much more quickly ex- the satellites and making open confes-
acted by torture." sions, fake from beginning to end,
Few have escaped from the ordeal to ; ivin details of the alleged dropping
tell their story. But an American mis-
of bombs with bacteriological ingre-
to Dulles. China who me described it', on North Korean targets. They
to Dulles. He was interrogated for describe their indoctrination in bac-
ef-
er
di-
ol-
;ht
er-
hly
end
seventy-five days, mostly during teriological warfare, give all the details
night hours, "by relays of brutal ques- of their missions, their flight schedules,
tioners, deprived of sleep and subjected
,,.,?,, and where they claim to have dropped
I to the ettect Or origu,. -s.=,.'"b bombs. As far as one can
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