The Drugging of the Masses: Information about the Orion Process

“The government encouraged the manufacture and importation of firearms for the criminals to be able to use. This is intended to foster a feeling of insecurity and fear in the American people to which would then lead the them to voluntarily give up their arms by slowly allowing their government to pass laws restricting the use of firearms to then over all gun confiscation. Using drugs and hypnosis on mental patients in a process called Orion, the CIA inculcated the desire in these people to open fire on schoolyards and thus inflame the anti-gun lobby. This plan is well under way, however, there are still many Americans who are fighting back in order to secure their Second Amendment rights.”

Cite: http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/forum/threads/a-process-called-orion.609298/

In this article we will look further into the use of “weaponized hypnosis” by the military and intelligence agencies. In part 1 we took a look at the CIA’s “Kubark Manual”, also referred to as “The CIA Document of Human Manipulation”. The Kubark manual covered using hypnosis, often combined with drugs, to interrogate enemy prisoners. Here’s the link for that essay:

Cite: http://www.covertbookreport.com/weaponized-hypnosis-part-1-the-kubark-manual/

Now we move on to the nitty-gritty of actual techniques that were intended to build agents that could deliver messages that the enemy could not extract, or kill without remembering or understanding the event. With programming like this, it would be nearly impossible to trace any actions by the agent back to the source of the plot; it would create a “Manchurian Candidate”.

The term “Manchurian Candidate” was coined in Richard Condon’s novel by the same name, later made into a shocking movie that introduced the concept of programmed assassins to the viewing audience. The origins of the concept however, go back to the Korean war, and the troubling robotic confessions by US pow’s of committing war crimes. It turns out the American military committed many, many crimes in that war, including dropping containers of fleas infested with plague on villages.

Whether the North Koreans and Chinese had effectively “brainwashed” the American Prisoners or not, it was an opportunity for American intelligence to pull out all the stops and conduct similar experiments to catch up with “Communist mind-control” techniques.
Let’s begin by looking at the deeply researched book by John Marks called “The Search For The Manchurian Candidate”, published in 1979. While hypnosis is only one of the techniques the CIA used to bend minds, that is the subject of this article. There are at least 16 main citations regarding hypnosis, and the text eludes to deeper involvement.
Marks writes:

“Since World War 2, the United States government, led by the Central Intelligence Agency, has searched secretly for ways to control human behavior”.
Such work “touched on the fantasies of the mind- accessible, in ancient legends, to witches and wizards who used spells and potions to bring people under their sway”.
Drawing on techniques used by the Nazis, pioneers such as George Estabrooks began to unpack the human mind. Estabrooks will be the subject of a future article.
“Fearful that the communists might have used drugs and hypnosis on prisoners, a senior CIA official used exactly the same techniques on refugees and returned prisoners from Eastern Europe.”
The point man in 1950 was Sheffield Edwards, who Marks says “would personally handle joint CIA-Mafia operations..”. The project was code-named “Bluebird”. Later under the leadership of Morse Allen, the CIA was given $100,000 to develop electric shock and hypnotic techniques.
The Korean War was the catalyst that drove further research. Marks comments that “By the end of the Korean War, 70 percent of the 7,190 U.S. prisoners held in China had either made confessions or signed petitions calling for an end to the American war effort in Asia. Fifteen percent collaborated fully with the Chinese, and only 5 percent resisted”. This convinced the CIA that the soldiers had been “brainwashed”, and the agency expanded the experiments.

Cite: http://www.covertbookreport.com/weaponized-hypnosis-part-2-the-manchurian-candidate/

During the Korean War, Americans heard disturbing reports of U.S. prisoners of war being “brainwashed” by their North Korean and Chinese Communist captors. Lurid journalistic accounts described insidious “Oriental” and Pavlovian methods capable of nothing less than the annihilation of the self. Brainwashing, according to one author, could transmogrify a man into “a living puppet—a human robot.”
Some experts within the burgeoning “human sciences” were equally alarmist in their proclamations. A Columbia University psychiatrist characterized brainwashing as the “rape of the mind,” “psychic homicide,” and “menticide.” In 1953, newly appointed Director of Central Intelligence Allan Dulles reinforced the nation’s growing moral panic with his public assertions that the Communist world was waging “brain warfare” against the West.
In fact, as declassified documents and the work of scholars like John C. Marks later revealed, the Central Intelligence Agency had been at work since the earliest days of the Cold War on psychic warfare methods of its own. Closing a supposed “mind-control gap” became an urgent national priority.

Cite: http://warontherocks.com/2014/05/brainwashing-the-manchurian-candidate-and-cold-war-america/