Operation Mind Control: The CIA's Plot Against America

The book makes it clear the human race is under Mass Hypnosis, think and do as we are told. We are all the semi- living and breathing soon to be Soilent Green GMO eating Idiots....

You won't find the information in this book discussed in the mainstream media. It'll broaden your perspective and perhaps change your worldview. I imagine someday sooner than later these types of books may be disappeared from public access. Censorship seems to be blatantly more active these days.

A groundbreaking book in the field of mind control that was prophetic and is still relevant. Bowart addresses facets of the story that John Marks either missed or disregarded in "Search for the Manchurian Candidate". I would give Bowart the edge, since Bowart's conclusions about MK Ultra's success have proven to be much more accurate than John Marks'.

Chapter 8 of the Kindle version has issues with the formatting of the text. This is a glaring issue and needs to be addressed.

This is a book to be read, not to buy and put on a shelf to impress your friends. In a free society we all need to be informed. Read other reviews for more detail.

"Operation Mind Control," published in the 1970's clearly has a cold-war perspective. Keep this in mind when the author describes the ongoing tension between the USSR, China and the United States. What's really fun is that many of the concepts Bowart describes have nearly reached their full potential in this age of war on terrorism. The mere fact that our country has waged war - not on a country, but on an idea - ought to cause some pause in the populace, but many remain gung-ho.Bowart does a good job showing how well-funded research went into developing systems of desensitization, aversion therapy and operant conditioning. He states that materialist philosophy influenced behaviorism, which was then connected to hypnosis. These techniques are innocuous at the surface, but malevolent minds apply them in order to create their own sociopathic, antisocial population.Although Bowart states that the British developed espionage into a fine art form in World War 1, I would counter that it's much older and was probably perfected with the Great Game as played in Central Asian countries like India and Pakistan. Bowart states that the US based their intelligence practices on what the British had been doing for centuries; however he does not mention the absorption of German Nazi intelligence after WW2 into American agencies - very important! This is where the cold-war mentality leads Bowart astray, as it was the same vehement, reactionary, anti-communist, red-baiting perspective that led American officials to believe Nazis would provide a beneficial bulwark against the Soviet regime. JFK paid the ultimate price for standing up to those elements while in office, whose existence flourished in the post-War years.While intelligence agencies supposedly direct their efforts against some nebulous "enemy," Bowart claims it is on the general population that these techniques are first practiced. He outlines how the OSS developed into the CIA, and ties men like the Dulles brothers to the elite levels of the "cryptocracy" (Bowart's term).Bowart nails the second Hoover Commission's report to then President Eisenhower as the impetus that officially shifted the United States' core principles from being free and open to closed and enslaving. Covert action was promoted to prevent world domination by "the enemy." The Great Game went into global overdrive after this report was adopted. I liked Bowart's metaphor that the "cryptocracy" is organized and works like a computer, with a total absence of feelings, where people are but cogs in a wheel serving a specific purpose only to be discarded and replaced. The author reviews the case of an assassin named Castillo who was arrested in the Philippines and had been hypnotized into various "Zombie" states. An interesting statistic is revealed in that immediately following the publication of the Warren Commission's report, 80% of the population doubted its conclusions.Bowart gets into history with the legend of the "ashishin" described by Marco Polo. These legendary assassins were drugged and duped by the Old Man in the Mountain into performing heinous crimes so that they could be transported back to an illusory "Paradise."Later chapters focus on the research of electronic stimulation of the brain and the development of cybernetics. The conditioning process is continually enacted in order to advance society's desensitization. Cybernetic possibilities are quite ominous, and the information in this book is almost prophetic when measured against drone technology today. Supposedly there are drones being created that will be the size of a hummingbird. Eventually, they may be microscopic, and perhaps used like the canine robot from Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451."

Not the book, the fact that very few people seem to realize what is going on blows my mind. This book confirms a lot of what I've believed for years. I was in a cult called The Elan School, which practiced behavior modification in the most horrible, violent and twisted way, and that got me interested in mind control because they did it with the blessing of the stae of Maine and the federal government. To this day, no one will say that what happened to us was abuse. Google "Elan School atrocities" and you'll be awestruck by howw bad it was.I believe Doctor Gerald Davidson was working for or was a member of the CIA. I also believe that the records MKULTRA destroyed had tons of data on Elan and programs like it. I can't prove any of that, but if we can throw people in the gas chamber based on circumstantail evidence, we can use it to ask questions and investigate them.What can be done? Is my question. This entire country seems to walk around in a trance. They support legislation that hurts them and our country. Is it too late?I started by kicking the TV set to the curb. I've sought help for what Elan did to me through Rick Ross, Paul Morantz and Phillip Zimbardo, the Hip Hero, (zero, is more like it) and no one seems to know what to do.I stay off the grid and keep to myself and can't wait to die so I can get away from the new world order. This country doesn't remotely resemble the America I grew up in. The future looks pretty dim

Assumably if you're looking at this book then mind control is not a new subject to you... this is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of mind control, how it has been developed and used and who has been behind the research.The book tackles some tough subjects very well and is written in a way which is easy to read and understand. I strongly recommend getting the updated version as it is more than twice the length of the original and comes with years more detailed research and evidence to expand on the first edition.No matter how much you think you know about mind control this book will open your mind even further.