PROGRAM EXAMINES PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTROL EXPERIMENTS IN USSR

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• Publication Date: September 22, 1992
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SUBJ: PROGRAM EXAMINES PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTROL EXPERIMENTS IN USSR
((EDITORIAL REPORT)) MOSCOW TELERADIOKOMPANIYA OSTANKINO
TELEVISION FIRST PROGRAM NETWORK IN RUSSIAN AT 1920 GMT ON 17
SEPTEMBER, IN ITS "NOVOSTI" NEWSCAST, BROADCASTS A 40-MINUTE PROGRAM
ENTITLED "BLACK BOX", DEALING WITH THE DEVICES AND DRUGS USED IN THE
FORMER USSR TO INFLUENCE AND BEND THE HUMAN BRAIN.
THE PROGRAM BEGINS WITH THE PRESENTER NOTING THAT APPARENTLY A
PROGRAM FOR IMPLEMENTING METHODS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL INFLUENCE WAS
SUBMITTED TO THEN PRIME MINISTER RYZHKOV IN 1987. THERE WERE PLANS
TO USE PSYCHOLOGICAL INFLUENCE FOR MILITARY AND ECONOMIC PURPOSES.
THE PROGRAMME GOES ON TO DEAL WITH THE METHODS OF INFLUENCING
PEOPLE'S PHYSICAL AND MENTAL CONDITION, AND EXERTING INFLUENCE ON
THEIR DECISIONS. AN UNIDENTIFIED MAN COMMENTS ON THE WORK WHICH WAS
CARRIED OUT TO IMPLEMENT THIS PROGRAM. HE SAYS THAT A COMMISSION,
CONSISTING OF 20 PEOPLE, WAS SET UP. THERE WERE SIX ACADEMICIANS
AMONG THEM AND A SCIENTIFIC COUNCIL, LED BY ACADEMICIAN KOTELNIKOV,
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WAS ALSO SET UP.
HE GOES TO SAY THAT THE COUNCIL DID NOT MAKE MUCH HEADWAY IN ITS
WORK DUE TO THE FACT THAT IT WAS TOTALLY REJECTED BY ACADEMIC
CIRCLES. THERE WERE SIMILAR PROGRAMS IN UKRAINE, LED BY ACADEMICIAN
TRIFILOV, AND IN MOSCOW LED BY DR ERNEST ANDRIANKIN. THE SPEAKER
SAYS ANDRIANKIN WAS THE HEAD OF A DEPARTMENT DEALING WITH
THEORETICAL PROBLEMS CONNECTED WITH DESIGNING LOGICAL LANGUAGES FOR
PROPAGANDA PURPOSES, AND HE RESEARCHED A PROGRAM FOR EXERTING
PSYCHOLOGICAL INFLUENCE ON THE ENEMY IN AFGHANISTAN. ANOTHER
UNIDENTIFIED MAN SAYS THAT HIS THEORY HAS ALWAYS BEEN THAT IT IS
BETTER TO EXERT PSYCHOLOGICAL INFLUENCE THAN TO SHOOT.
THE PROGRAM GOES ON TO DESCRIBE OTHER RESEARCH PROGRAMS WHICH
HAVE EXISTED AND STILL EXIST. THE PRESENTER DWELLS ON THE DANGER OF
THESE RESEARCH PROGRAMS ENDING UP IN THE HANDS OF THE WRONG PEOPLE.
DOCTOR OF TECHNOLOGY VALERIY KANYUKA, THE FIRST INTERVIEWEE
IDENTIFIED BY CAPTION, EMPHASIZES THAT ONE MUST BE VERY CAREFUL WITH
THESE RESEARCH PROGRAMS. "UNTIL THE WORLD'S STATES REACH SOME
AGREEMENT, UNTIL AN INTERNATIONAL LEGISLATION BANNING PSYCHOLOGICAL
AND PHYSICAL STEERING OF INTELLECT AND INFLUENCING PEOPLE, A
MORATORIUM ON THIS GROUND-WORK IS NEEDED," HE SAYS. "INSTEAD OF
NUCLEAR WEAPONS WE WILL GET A NEW FORM OF WEAPONS, A MORE
FRIGHTENING ONE, ONE WHICH HAS A FRIGHTENING NAME -- IT IS CALLED
ECOLOGICALLY PURE WEAPONS".
KANYUK THEN SAYS THAT INFLUENCING THE HUMAN BRAIN, AND
SUBSEQUENTLY GENETICS, COULD BE EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. HE THEN
RECALLS CASES OF USING DRUGS FOR POLITICAL MOTIVES. THE VIDEO SHOWS
FOOTAGE AND INFORMATION ABOUT THE ATTEMPT ON PRESIDENT MARCOS OF THE
PHILIPPINES IN MARCH 1967. THE COMMENTARY SAYS THAT GROUND WORK
DONE IN THE FORMER USSR ALLOWS THE MIND TO BE SPLIT IN TO 13
PERSONALITIES.
IGOR MOGILA, A JOURNALIST FOR THE TRUD NEWSPAPER, TALKS ABOUT A
SOVIET HYPNOTIST AND HIS INVOLVEMENT IN MILITARY ISSUES. THE VIDEO
SHOWS FOOTAGE ABOUT AN INCIDENT INVOLVING THE U.S. SUBMARINE
"NAUTILUS", WHICH TOOK PLACE ON 25 JULY 1959.
VARIOUS OTHER UNIDENTIFIED PEOPLE INVOLVED IN THE RESEARCH ARE
INTERVIEWED. ONE, IDENTIFIED BY CAPTION, IS YURIY MALIN, A BIOMEDIC
AND A FORMER CONSULTANT TO THE USSR NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL.
MALIN GIVES EXAMPLES OF SIMILAR WORK DONE IN THE UNITED STATES.
ACCORDING TO THE NEZAVISIMAYA GAZETA, HE :SAYS THE CIA AND THE KGB
AGREED IN APRIL 1990 ON JOINT RESEARCH IN THE SPHERE OF
PSYCHOLOGICAL INFLUENCE -- THE AGREEMENT NUMBER IS 174-90/16, HE
SAYS.
THE PROGRAM CONCLUDES BY SHOWING FOOTAGE AND INFORMATION ABOUT
THE INVOLVEMENT OF THE CIA IN CARTER'S INAUGURATION.
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