BRAINWASH: THE SECRET HISTORY OF MIND CONTROL
by STREATFEILD, DOMINIC
List Price: HK$ 280.00
ˇ@ISBN
9780340921036
ˇ@Subject
SOCIETY, POLITICS & PHILOSOPHY
ˇ@Publisher
HODDER & STOUGHTON UK
ˇ@Publication
2006
ˇ@Edition
Hardcover
ˇ@Version
Original
ˇ@Description
What would it take to turn you into a suicide bomber? Do heavy metal LPS contain subliminal messages? What was MI6 doing with LSD in the 1950s? Do religious cults Brainwash recruits? Is the Manchurian candidate fact or fiction? Is it possible to erase memories, or to implant them artificially? How would you interrogate a member of Al Qaeda? With access to formerly classified documentation and interviewees from MI5, MI6, the CIA, the US Army and British intelligence Corps, BRAINWASH traces the evolution of the worldˇ¦s most secret psychological procedure, from its origins in the Cold War to the height of todayˇ¦s war on terror.