Today we are reminded that you don't have to be an occult per se to be brainwashed.

You can be brainwashed by anyone, by your parents, by a politician, or by your local neighborhood pub bartender.

Journalist Edward Hunter, the first to bring the term brainwashing into our modern vernacular, once wrote,

the intent of brainwashing is to change a mind radically so that its owner becomes a living puppet, a human robot, without the atrocity being

visible from the outside. The aim is to create a mechanism in flesh and blood with new beliefs

and new thought processes inserted into a captive body.

What that amounts to is a search for a slave race that, unlike the slaves of olden times,

can be trusted never to revolt, always to be amenable to orders like an insect to its instincts.

In September of 1950, Hunter published an article in the Miami Herald titled

Brainwashing tactics forced Chinese into ranks of Communist Party.

He then elaborated on its findings in 1951 with the publication of his book,

Brainwashing and Red China, which introduced to the American public what was a novel idea,

a supposedly scientific system for dramatically changing people's minds,

changing their core identities and personalities,

even making them love things that they once hated.

Hunter was concerned about the possibility of his fellow countrymen

being brainwashed, and he was right to be.

Just two years later, Colonel Frank Schwabble

was the highest ranking military officer to meet that fate,

and by February of 1953 he and other prisoners of war had falsely confessed to the US using germ warfare

against the Koreans, and the American public was shocked.

And then they grew even more so when 5,000 of the 7200 POWs either petition the US

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