REMEMBER 'BRAINWASHING' IN KOREA?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000100130079-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 3, 2000
• Sequence Number: 79
• Publication Date: July 19, 1956
• Content Type: NSPR

SAN DIEGO (Calif.) JUL 19 185t
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CPYRGHT
IRENE XQUAU4-46UHN SAYS:
i
The writer is a veteran news-
paper reporter and foreign cor-
respondent.
LITTLE BUBBLES are ris-
ing in the red sea of propa-
ganda which indicate under-
surface pressure for admis-
sion of Communist China to
the United Nations. Before
the mess boils up and blinds
us with a cloud of scalding
steam, let's look with a
cool, clear eye on what's
gone before.
FIVE YEARS ago, Edward
Hunter, a veteran American
correspondednt in the Far
East, introduced a new word
and a new book. It was
"Brainwashing in Red China"
and he described for the
first time the frightening new
techniques and effects of or-
ganized mind perversion of
individuals by Communist
governments.
It was almost too horrible
to be believed. However,
about this time, a few peo-
ple began to escape from the
now- all-Red China, conquered,
utterly in 1949, and with
them came confirmation of
the sinister practices which
.the Chinese Reds had copied
from their Russian mentors
and were using to capture
the minds of men and enslave
them by repetitive indocrin-
Still, there was "little? com-
prehension or real under-
standing by the West of this
wholly foreign and complete-
ly horrible thing. The Ko-
rean War wa,s claiming the
agonized attention of Ame`i-
cans. The conflict moved
through its early stages to, a
series of brilliant vietorles
looking, to the defeat of the
Reds by the United Nations
forces under Gen. Douglas
MacArthur. Then came dls-
aster because MacArthj,tr'
was not permitted to purS' ie
the military advantage he
had won, and continue his
logical course to final, de-
cisive victory.
This was the first war the
United States lost because,
?~s we have since learned
from the tes- -
own generals
a n d fighting
men, the de-
feat was or-
dered by the
U.N. who were
giving the
battle orders
safety of their luxurious New
York headquarters.
IT WAS NOT until April
1953, however, that Allen W.
Dulle?. .tor of-the Cen-
tral I e e Agency, re-
ygg1pd; th,at the cp munists
were appayin.g the-bKainwash-
ing techniques to Amer'ica.n
prisoners of vgar in Korea.
Dulles waned the country
iderable numbers of our own
oys there might be so indoc-
pounce country and family."
The possibility was tested
at the exchange of prisoners
of war in Korea soon after;
wards, with what tragic j o ,
fir .ation of Dulles' word4
as 'we now know. American;
soldiers did go over to the
Reds.
When we came to the en
of the fighting in earli
wars, there was always as
examination of tactics . i
military experts to see whe
we went wrong, and whe
strategy was misapplied. Thus
was physical warfare, and
could be charted and studi
and measured in easily and --
stggd terms.
Unfortunately, there a
too many top men in o
country today who are sti
thinking only in terms
physical warfare, and n
enough who understand th
tactics of brainwashing an
how a delicate instrumen
like the mind can 4e mad
a malleable tool to be use
against us in the hands o
sinister men.
W '~
HUNTER DEFINES bras
washing as "a system of b
fogging the brain so a pe
son can be seduced into a
ceptance of what otherwi
would be abhorrent to him.
He describes the meaz}s th
are employed to achieve t
desired complete submissi
and "confession." The mea
are "hunger, fatigue, threat
violence and often drugs.a
hypnotism ; and always, t
endless,' dreary lessons
political indoctrination.
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