Tuesday, December 06, 2016
President's Committee on International Information Activities
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 11:26 AM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Re: Communist Interrogations
http://www.odci.gov/csi/kent_csi/docs/v02i2a06p_0003.htm
The stimulants, in general, have the effect of increasing wakefulness and alertness at the expense of creating tremulousness, feelings of anxiety and overactivity. Caffein, benzedrine, and dexedrine fall into this category. There are a number of derivatives of benzedrine which have essentially the same action. "Aktedron," a synthetic benzedrine derivative, has been used in Czechoslovakia and Southeast Europe. Coffee and Benzedrine derivatives are sometimes administered to tired or sleepy prisoners in order to wake them up enough so that the interrogation can be carried on. They have been used in this manner in Eastern Europe, in Russia, and in China. In and of themselves they have no important effect in producing confessions. Used in combination with a system of psychological and physiological pressures they will in many cases accelerate and exacerbate the profound fatigue, confusion, loss of critical judgment, and breakdown of resistance which is a consequence of the full course of control techniques.
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 11:26 AM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Re: Communist Interrogations
Kerry Burgess wrote:
So then I began to wonder the other day if maybe our spies had picked up their spies mentioning our names, taken from that expedition in 1985. I also wondered how often the Soviets had ships off our coast, especially the Gulf Coast. I remember someone saying they could easily launch a cruise missile strike on Dallas from there and I remember thinking of what that would do to those skyscrapers.
These are mean-looking mothers:
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/row/rus/slava-DNSC9400153.JPG
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/ss-n-12.htm
SS-N-12 Sandbox is a Russian supersonic speed cruise missile with a range of 550 km carrying a payload of 1,000 kg
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 11:26 AM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Re: Communist Interrogations
Kerry Burgess wrote:
I was thinking the other day, as whoever listens to me in the bathroom knows, about a situation 20 years ago when I was face-to-face with the Soviet Navy.
Ah, I remember now, it was after Bush was talking about how he thought the oceans would protect us. I thought out loud that he should have been with me in 1985 off the coast of Texas. And then that reminded me of something I read about Bush filling the role of a Soviet bomber during a training exercise with his fighter squadron. Doesn't make sense.
Anyway, I was thinking about how we had our names on our uniforms. We were close enough to them that they could probably read our names with telephoto lenses. I wonder if they would use that information to try to recruit spies, similar to the Walker spy ring that was going on back then.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paganism
Paganism
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Paganism is a term that developed among the Christian community of southern Europe during late antiquity to describe religions other than their own
Throughout Christendom, it continued to be used, typically in a derogatory sense.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 8:29 PM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Freedom from religion
[I think this may be the document I was thinking of a while back. It is the one that Thomas Jefferson wrote that established freedom from religion. In the first part, it is saying to me that man has created many false religions in the past, false religions they used to take money from other men, and that man should be free to think and believe what he wants to and that it is no other man's business what he believes.]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_myth_theory
Christ myth theory
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Christ myth theory (also known as the Jesus myth theory, Jesus mythicism or simply mythicism) is the hypothesis that Jesus of Nazareth never existed; or if he did, that he had virtually nothing to do with the founding of Christianity and the accounts in the gospels. The Christ myth theory contradicts the mainstream view in historical Jesus research, which accepts that there are events described in the gospels that are not historical but which still assumes that the gospels are founded on a basic historical core.
Different proponents espouse slightly different versions of the Christ myth theory, but many proponents of the theory use a three-fold argument first developed in the 19th century:
that the New Testament has no historical value
that there are no non-Christian references to Jesus Christ dating back to the first century
that Christianity had pagan or mythical roots.
Notable proponents
20th century
During the early 20th century, several writers published arguments against Jesus' historicity, often drawing on the work of liberal theologians, who tended to deny any value to sources for Jesus outside the New Testament, and limited their attention to Mark and the hypothetical Q source. They also made use of the growing field of religious history which found sources for Christian ideas in Greek and Oriental mystery cults, rather than Judaism. Joseph Klausner wrote that biblical scholars "tried their hardest to find in the historic Jesus something which is not Judaism; but in his actual history they have found nothing of this whatever, since this history is reduced almost to zero. It is therefore no wonder that at the beginning of this century there has been a revival of the eighteenth and nineteenth century view that Jesus never existed."
The work of social anthropologist Sir James George Frazer has had an influence on various myth theorists, although Frazer himself believed that Jesus existed. In 1890 he published the first edition of The Golden Bough which attempted to define the shared elements of religious belief. This work became the basis of many later authors who argued that the story of Jesus was a fiction created by Christians. After a number of people claimed that he was a myth theorist, in the 1913 expanded edition of The Golden Bough Frazer expressly stated that his theory assumed a historical Jesus.
In 1900, Scottish MP John Mackinnon Robertson argued that Jesus never existed but was an invention by a first-century messianic cult. In Robertson's view, religious groups invent new gods to fit the needs of the society of the time.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fairy--tale
Dictionary.com
fairy tale
a story about fairies or other mythical or magical beings, esp one of traditional origin told to children
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074751/releaseinfo
IMDb
King Kong (1976)
Release Info
USA 17 December 1976
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
To: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Fri, March 24, 2006 2:04:11 PM
[This is pretty much the kind of treatment I received in the VA and before that at UW Medical Center. I like my doctor at UW. I don't remember her name, but I saw her again at the VA. I always felt good around her. That must be a good quality in a doctor.]
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https://www.cia.gov/news-information/blog/2014/histint-the-national-security-act-of-1947.html
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Posted: Jul 24, 2014 11:10 AM
Last Updated: Jul 24, 2014 11:52 AM
#HISTINT: The National Security Act of 1947
On July 26, 1947, President Harry S. Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947 (P.L. 80-235, 61 Stat 496), which later became the charter of the U.S. national security establishment. The National Security Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of December 2004 significantly altered the National Security Act, creating the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
This landmark legislation of 1947 reorganized and modernized the U.S. armed forces, foreign policy, and the Intelligence Community apparatus. It directed a major reorganization of the foreign policy and military establishments of the US government. It also created many of the institutions that U.S. presidents would find useful when formulating and implementing foreign policy, such as the National Security Council (NSC), the US Air Force, and the National Military Establishment(renamed the Department of Defense in 1949). In the intelligence field, the act ratified President Truman's creation (in 1946) of the post of Director of Central Intelligence (DCI), and transformed the Central Intelligence Group into the statutory Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the nation’s first peacetime intelligence agency.
The proposed act generated sharp debates in the Executive Branch and Congress. Several compromises were struck in order for it to win passage. These compromises would have far-reaching implications for the Intelligence Community.
Once passed, the National Security Act established:
that CIA would be an independent agency under the supervision of the NSC;
that CIA would conduct both analysis and clandestine activities, but would have no policymaking role and no law enforcement powers;
a line between foreign and domestic intelligence and assigned these realms, in effect, to the CIA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, respectively;
that the DCI would be confirmed by the Senate and could be either a civilian or an officer on detail from his home service.
The National Security Act of 1947 went into effect on September 18, 1947.
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http://www.tv.com/shows/battlestar-galactica/scar-615261/
tv.com
Battlestar Galactica Season 2 Episode 15
Scar
Aired Friday 10:00 PM Feb 03, 2006 on Syfy
A crazed Cylon Raider attacks the Colonial fleet in a series of hit-and-run attacks. Overworked Viper pilots must defend a mining operation from this Raider that they nickname "Scar."
AIRED: 2/3/06
http://www.tv.com/shows/stargate-atlantis/the-tower-432282/
tv.com
Stargate Atlantis Season 2 Episode 15
The Tower
Aired Friday 10:00 PM Feb 03, 2006 on Syfy
The team discovers an exact replica of Atlantis on a planet they are exploring. The planet is protected by The Protector who uses the technology to keep the villagers in line and the Wraith away. The Protector is dying and Sheppard is caught up in a dispute among the heirs of the throne.
AIRED: 2/3/06
http://www.tv.com/shows/then-came-bronson/then-came-bronson-185722/
tv.com
Then Came Bronson Episode 1
Then Came Bronson
Aired Wednesday 10:00 PM Mar 24, 1969 on NBC
Jim Bronson, a newspaper writer, is heartbroken when his best friend Nick Oresko commits suicide on a local San Francisco bridge. When he submits an obituary about his friend's death his boss rebukes Bronson sternly forcing him to quit the job. Bronson decides to give up the proverbial rat race and leave San Francisco. He hits the road in the Harley Sportster he had once sold to Nick in order to find the greater meaning of life. Bronson travels south and soon meets another captivating wandering character, Temple Brooks, that decides to join him in his journey.
AIRED: 3/24/69
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslav_Wars
Yugoslav Wars
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Yugoslav Wars were a series of ethnically-based wars and insurgencies fought from 1991 to 2001 inside the territory of the former Yugoslavia. These wars accompanied and/or facilitated the breakup of the Yugoslav state, when its constituent republics declared independence, but the issues of ethnic minorities in the new countries (chiefly Serbs, Croats and Albanians) were still unresolved at the time the republics were recognized internationally. The wars are generally considered to be a series of separate but related military conflicts which occurred in, and affected, most of the former Yugoslav republics.
The wars (with some exceptions) ended through peace accords, involving full international recognition of new states, but with massive economic damage to the region. Initially the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) sought to preserve the unity of the whole of Yugoslavia by crushing the secessionist governments but it increasingly came under the influence of the Serbian government of Slobodan Milošević that evoked Serbian nationalist rhetoric and was willing to support the Yugoslav state insofar as using it to preserve the unity of Serbs in one state. As a result, the JNA began to lose Slovenes, Croats, Kosovar Albanians, Bosniaks, and ethnic Macedonians, and effectively became a Serb army. According to the 1994 United Nations report, the Serb side did not aim to restore Yugoslavia, but to create a "Greater Serbia" from parts of Croatia and Bosnia. Other irredentist movements have also been brought into connection with the wars, such as "Greater Albania" and "Greater Croatia".
Often described as Europe's deadliest conflict since World War II, the conflicts have become infamous for the war crimes involved, including ethnic cleansing, crimes against humanity and rape. These were the first European conflicts since World War II to be formally judged genocidal in character and many key individual participants were subsequently charged with war crimes. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was established by the UN to prosecute these crimes.
According to the International Center for Transitional Justice, the Yugoslav Wars resulted in the deaths of 140,000 people. The Humanitarian Law Center estimates that in the conflicts in former Yugoslav republics at least 130,000 people lost their lives.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/the-bosnia-crisis-serbs-croats-and-muslims-who-hates-who-and-why-tony-barber-in-zagreb-traces-the-1539305.html
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The Bosnia Crisis: Serbs, Croats and Muslims: who hates who and why: Tony Barber in Zagreb traces the ancient roots of a culture clash that has shattered what was Yugoslavia into warring pieces
From TONY BARBER in Zagreb Saturday 8 August 1992
ESTIMATES vary of the death toll in 13 months of civil war in what was Yugoslavia, but it certainly runs into many thousands, making the conflict the most violent in Europe since the Second World War. The immediate origins of the war lie in the collapse of the post-1945 Communist order and subsequent clashes between a variety of militant nationalisms. But the deeper roots lie far back in history.
The main rivals are the Serbs and Croats, two Slavic peoples with similar languages - though Serbian is written in Cyrillic and Croatian in Latin script - but whose histories are very different.
The Serbs are Orthodox Christians whose religion was crucial in keeping alive their national identity during almost four centuries of Ottoman Turkish occupation. Of the nations that formed Yugoslavia in 1918, the Serbs were alone in having liberated themselves from foreign rule and set up an independent state in the 19th century.
The Croats spent centuries under the Austro-Hungarian empire and their Catholicism and Central European outlook were equally important in shaping their identity. They resented the fact that the first Yugoslav state, which lasted from 1918-1941, was to a great extent Serbia writ large, with a Serbian king and army and a Serb- dominated political system.
When the Nazis dismembered Yugoslavia in 1941, they created a fascist puppet state of Croatia, which incorporated most of Bosnia. This state slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Serbs and Jews. From 1941-1945 more than a million Yugoslavs died, more than half at the hands of each other.
Tito rebuilt Yugoslavia as a Communist federation of six equal republics, but ethnic antagonisms were never far below the surface. The Serbs disliked Tito's recognition of the Macedonians and the Muslims of Bosnia-Herzegovina as distinct nationalities.
The effect of recognition of the Muslims - Slavs converted to Islam under Turkish rule - and growth in the Muslim population was to turn Bosnian Serbs into a minority in a republic where they had been the largest ethnic group.
The collapse of Communism in 1990-91 led to the election of governments in Slovenia and Croatia committed to independence. Although the Serb-led Yugoslav army tried briefly to prevent Slovenian independence, the Serbs' main concern was Croatia. Croatia had a 600,000-strong Serbian minority, descendants of Serbs who had fled Turkish rule centuries earlier. With the memory of Second World War atrocities behind them, the Serbs were unwilling to live in an independent Croatia again. For their part, the Croats viewed the Serbian minority as a group that had enjoyed special privileges under Communism.
Supported by the army and Serbia itself, the Serbs rose in armed rebellion. They now control about a quarter of Croatia and have set up two autonomous regions that are under the protection of United Nations forces sent in to keep a fragile peace. Croatia has vowed to recapture these regions, by force if necessary.
In Bosnia, three nationalities lived before the latest conflict in inextricably mixed communities: the Muslims with 44 per cent of the population, the Serbs with 32 per cent and the Croats with 17 per cent. The communities lived in relative harmony. After the European Community demanded a referendum on independence in Bosnia in February, the vote split on ethnic lines. Muslims and Croats supported independence but the Serbs boycotted the vote and, again with the army's support, began a fight for territory.
The feature of the Croatian and Bosnian wars that has caught the world's attention has been the Serbian expulsion of Croats, Muslims and smaller nationalities from their native areas in an effort to make the regions purely Serbian. This policy of 'ethnic cleansing' is responsible for the huge wave of Muslim refugees flooding into many European countries. The detention camps where Serbs are holding large numbers of Muslim prisoners are not, however, places of extermination in the Nazi sense. The primary Serbian goal is to remove Muslims from an area comprising about two-thirds of Bosnia so that this territory can be merged into one lump with the two autonomous Serbian regions of Croatia and Serbia proper. This will be 'Greater Serbia'.
At the same time, the Croatian army has helped Croats in Bosnia to take over much of the west of the republic that lies near Croatia's Adriatic coast. Just as the Serbs have declared an 'Independent Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina', so the Croats have proclaimed an autonomous region of Herzeg-Bosnia with Mostar as its capital. De facto, Croatia has colluded with Serbia in carving up Bosnia, although it has escaped with much less international censure.
The real losers, then, are the Muslims, who have been left with almost no land. Both Serbs and Croats have claimed that Muslims are not a genuine nationality but are 'really' Serbs or Croats beneath their religion.
http://www.sps-aviation.com/story_issue.asp?Article=1926
SP'S AVIATION
Hubert Latham (1883-1912)
By Joseph Noronha
During his brief flying career, Hubert Latham set three world altitude records and is credited with the first ‘landing’ on water
When Louis Blériot flew across the English Channel on the morning of July 25, 1909, Europe went wild. In these days of intercontinental journeys it may seem strange that a 36.6-km-long flight that took just 37 minutes could have aroused such feverish interest. But it showed in the words of science fiction author H.G. Wells that “England is no longer, from a military point of view, an inaccessible island.”
History recognises Blériot’s feat but has forgotten Hubert Latham who narrowly missed becoming the first person to fly across the natural boundary. During his brief flying career, Latham set three world altitude records and is credited with the first ‘landing’ on water, besides being the first pilot to shoot wild fowl from an aircraft. It is also part of aviation lore that he was the first person to smoke a cigarette while piloting an aircraft!
Hubert Latham was born in Paris on January 10, 1883, the son of wealthy parents. He grew up as something of a playboy. In 1905, he made a record-breaking balloon flight across the English Channel with his cousin Jacques Faure. A few years later, he went travelling around the world but returned to France when he heard that Wilbur Wright was there trying to sell his Wright Flyer to the French Government. Latham witnessed several of Wright’s aerial demonstrations and was intrigued by the idea of learning to fly.
He finally joined the Antoinette aircraft company in February 1909, and signed up for flying lessons. He was a slow learner and took several weeks to learn, suffering repeated mishaps. That was not unusual in those days, especially as the Antoinette was fiendishly difficult to fly. Finally, however, Latham became more proficient than any other Antoinette pilot and for the next two years he competed at aviation meets throughout Europe and the United States. He regularly set records and won prizes and became famous on both sides of the Atlantic. In May 1909, he set a European flight endurance record of 67 minutes. During the flight he took his hands off the controls and smoked a cigarette in an ivory holder, to the delight of the assembled crowds. The head of the Antoinette company saw it in a positive spirit, claiming it showed how stable the aircraft was even when flown with hands off the controls.
In October 1908, London’s Daily Mail announced a £1,000 prize for the first pilot to fly a heavier-than-air machine across the English Channel. For months no one tried. Then all of a sudden in July 1909, three French aviators reached Calais practically at the same time. Hubert Latham took off in his Antoinette IV monoplane on July 19. Its tiny 25-horsepower Anzani engine seemed barely powerful enough to take the giant butterfly like contraption through the treacherous cross-Channel weather. About 13 kilometres out to sea the engine failed and Latham made a perfect touchdown in the water – the world’s first. However the plane was severely damaged while fishing it out of the sea. Another competitor Charles De Lambert managed to wreck his Wright biplane and withdrew from the race. That left Blériot and Latham who had got a new aircraft. But now the weather turned bad again.
The rival camps were separated by a few hundred metres and both pilots waited impatiently for the weather to clear. On the night of July 24, there was hope of better weather approaching. By 2:00 a.m. the wind had slackened and the sky was clear. The Blériot team was alert and began to prepare for the attempt at dawn. There was even time for a quick test flight. At 4:41 a.m., Louis Blériot took off, set course for Dover, landed there and claimed the Daily Mail prize. Meanwhile the Latham camp slumbered peacefully. By the time they realised that the weather had improved and prepared for the crossing, a gusty wind had arisen, accompanied by heavy rain, and they decided it was too risky.
Although he had lost the prize, Latham again tried on July 27. A short distance from Dover, the engine quit and once again he found himself in the icy water. This time it was an uncontrolled descent, resulting in serious damage to the aircraft and severe lacerations to his forehead. He finally abandoned the effort and turned to record setting instead.
http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/40195
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Sargant, William Walters (1907–1988), psychiatrist
by Ann Dally
Sargant, William Walters (1907–1988), psychiatrist, was born at Bryanston, The Bank, Highgate Hill, Highgate, Middlesex, on 24 April 1907, the fifth child and second son in a family of eight. He was the son of Norman Thomas Carr Sargant, a devout Methodist and a wealthy metal broker who later lost his money, and his wife, Alice Rose Walters. Five of his uncles were Methodist preachers and his younger brother became bishop of Bangalore in India. Sargant lost his faith early but retained the evangelical zeal. He attended St Wilfrid's School, Seaford, and the Leys School, Cambridge, where he spent most of his time playing football. Academically he was above average but not outstanding. Sargant read medicine at St John's College, Cambridge, where he used his sporting talents to meet influential people. He became president of the Cambridge University Medical Society and kept a file called ‘Autograph letters of eminent medical men’. He won a ‘football’ scholarship to St Mary's Hospital, London, where he became captain of rugby and expanded his list of distinguished acquaintances.
Sargant qualified MRCS and LRCP in 1930 and obtained his Cambridge MB degree in 1933; he also held various house jobs at St Mary's. At the age of only twenty-five he was appointed medical superintendent of St Mary's with ‘complete control’ over admissions, beds, junior doctors, and nurses, and seemed likely to be appointed to the staff as a consultant physician, which was his ambition. To do this he needed to conduct research and publish papers, a venture which brought further success and then disaster. Sargant developed a largely spurious idea about the treatment of recalcitrant cases of pernicious anaemia and published papers recommending it in both The Lancet and the British Medical Journal (with both of whose editors he had become friendly). His work was praised by uncritical seniors but was eventually discredited by the real experts in the field. About 1934 Sargant became depressed to the point of being mentally ill, spent time as a patient in a mental hospital, and became unacceptable as a future teaching-hospital physician. Sargant suffered from depression all his life, and treated himself with a variety of drugs.
In the mental hospital Sargant became angry about the state of patients with chronic mental illness who were housed in the back wards of the hospital—untreated, uncared for, and ignored. He turned to psychiatry and was probably the only prominent psychiatrist in the twentieth century to express concern about the suffering of chronically mentally ill people, though he confined his interest largely to those of ‘previously good personality’; his autobiography, The Unquiet Mind (1967), reveals the zeal with which he set about his mission. He obtained a post at the Maudsley Hospital, London, under Edward Mapother, and devoted the rest of his life to trying to prove that psychiatry was a branch of clinical medicine, not a ‘metaphysical’ exercise. Sargant was enthusiastic in using the new physical treatments in psychiatry—lobotomy (leucotomy), electro-convulsive therapy (ECT), and psychoactive drugs. He always disliked and despised any form of ‘talking cure’, though he often practised psychotherapy quietly and skilfully himself. His philosophy did not include self-exploration either for himself or for his patients.
In 1938 Sargant was awarded a Rockefeller travelling fellowship to study in the United States. He returned to Britain at the outbreak of the Second World War, which he spent working on the outskirts of London at Sutton Emergency Hospital (later the Belmont Hospital), a centre for psychologically disturbed and injured servicemen. Here he used leucotomies, ECT, acute sedation with Pentothal and Amytal, and ether abreactions to treat patients. The clinical director, Eliot Slater, approved of Sargant's ideas and added many of his own. Together they wrote An Introduction to Physical Methods of Treatment in Psychiatry (1944), which became a standard textbook and ran into five editions. However ‘the early extravagant claims for the efficacy of these methods, particularly in schizophrenia, failed to be substantiated’ (BMJ, 24 Sept 1988, 789). Sargant was largely unsupervised in what he did and during these years he worked out and refined the techniques of physical treatments in mental illness for which he became both famous and infamous. On 10 August 1940 Sargant married Dorothy Margaret Katz Heriot Glen (b. 1919/20), daughter of Heriot Riddock Glen, a company director; there were no children.
After the war Sargant returned to the United States and was impressed by Walter Freeman's new modified leucotomy technique. He also became deeply and permanently interested in the ‘brainwashing techniques’ he saw in some of the churches in the south, which he related to the process of religious conversion. Over many years he made a series of films on the subject. These were later lodged in the Museum of Mankind in London. In 1948 Sargant was appointed consultant psychiatrist to St Thomas's Hospital, London, where he remained until his retirement, apart from a period of illness from tuberculosis. He spent his convalescence in Majorca, where he became friends with Robert Graves, who encouraged him to write his influential best-seller about brainwashing, Battle for the Mind (1957). Graves corrected the book and also contributed to it.
Determined to be a physician rather than a psychiatrist, Sargant called himself a ‘physician in psychological medicine’. He believed passionately that mental illness was a form of physical disorder and he promoted the cause of physical treatments in psychiatry. He always extolled the virtues of dramatic and often extreme treatments and denigrated psychoanalysis and psychotherapy: ‘an ounce of phenobarbitone, or rather some modern tranquilizers, may be worth more than a hundredweight of persuasive talk’ (BMJ, 24 Sept 1988, 789). Much of Sargant's success may be attributed more to his therapeutic fervour and dominating personality than to his methods of treatment. He boasted that he could cure cases of schizophrenia, believed strongly in ECT and leucotomy, did everything he could to ensure that psychiatry was part of general (internal) medicine, and predicted that by the year 1990 mental illness would have ceased to exist. In 1956–7 he was president of the section of psychiatry at the Royal Society of Medicine. He gave long service to the Royal Medico-Psychological Association as its registrar but was opposed to its proposed transformation into the Royal College of Psychiatrists because he wanted psychiatry to remain part of the Royal College of Physicians. However, once the establishment of the new college had become inevitable, he was eager to be its first president and was deeply disappointed when he was not elected.
Sargant was described as ‘the most important figure in post-war psychiatry … huge by any standards in stature and charisma’ (Munk, Roll). Of all twentieth-century psychiatrists he was one of the best loved and most hated. He died on 27 August 1988 at Cobley House, East Woodyates, Wiltshire, and was buried on 2 September at St Rumbold's Church, Pentridge, Salisbury. He was survived by his wife. A thanksgiving service was held at St Marylebone parish church, London, on 10 November 1988.
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Battle for the Mind
A Physiology of Conversion and Brain-Washing
by William Sargant
Baltimore, Maryland and Hammondsworth, England: Penguin Books, 1961
That Old Time Religion, or, Pavlov Methodized, or, Shake, Rattle and Roll
Any book which manages to bring under one head shell-shock, snake-handling, Methodism, psychoanalysis, possession, mescaline, New York's finest, the Greek oracles, and the near-drowning of some dogs in Leningrad in 1924 is worth reading. If the connecting threads happen to be sensible, so much the better.
Dr. Sargant's work stemmed from his experiences in treating shell-shock and other ``combat neuroses'' in Allied soldiers during the Second World War. The technique developed was to drug the soldiers into a highly suggestible state --- ether was found to be particularly effective --- in which ``an endeavour would be made to make him re-live the episode that had caused his breakdown.'' Sometimes the memories were suppressed and ``had to be brought to the surface again''; other cases ``fully remembered, but the strong emotions originally attached to [them] had since been suppressed''; sometimes ``quite imaginary situations [were used] to abreact the emotions of fear or anger... though as a rule these were in some way related to the experiences which he had undergone. Much better results could often, indeed, be obtained by stirring up emotions about such imaginary happening than by making the patient re-live actual happenings in detail.'' Sargant draws the obvious inference about psychoanalysis, but one would like to know more about those supposedly suppressed memories. ``Outbursts of fear or anger thus deliberately induced and stimulated to a crescendo by the therapist, would frequently be followed by an emotional collapse. The patient would fall back inert on the couch [where else?] --- as a result of the exhausting emotional discharge, not of the drugs --- but he would soon come round. It then often happened that he reported a dramatic disappearance of many nervous symptoms. If, however, little emotion had been released, and he had only had his intellectual memory of some horrible episode refreshed, little benefit could be expected.'' It was in the course of developing this technique that Sargant encountered, quite by chance, first Pavlov's work on inducing neuroses in dogs, and then John Wesley's Journal, in which he found ``detailed reports... of almost identical states of emotional excitement, often leading to temporary emotional collapse, which he induced by a particular sort of preaching. ... The fear of burning in hell induced by his graphic preaching could be compared to the suggestion we might force on a returned soldier, during treatment, that he was in danger of being burned alive in his tank and must fight his way out. The two techniques seemed startlingly similar.''
The relevant part of Pavlov's work was his experiments in inducing neuroses in his dogs, inspired in large part by his observations on what happened to some of them when they were very nearly drowned during the great floods in Leningrad in 1924. The results, roughly, are this: Dogs respond to stress in characteristic ways, which Pavlov identified with the four temperaments of Hippocrates (how fancifully, I am not competent to say), thus: ``weak inhibitory'' = melancholic, ``strong inhibitory'' or ``calm imperturbable'' = phlegmatic, ``strong excitatory'' = choleric and ``lively'' = sanguine. Strong-inhibitory or phlegmatic dogs remained calm and un-upset by danger; strongly excitatory or choleric dogs acted in a vigorous if random and ineffectual manner; and so on. Past a certain point, all dogs are unable to deal with stress, and break-down; these are said to be stimulated ``transmarginally,'' and their responses are, in general, inhibited. They may go into a complete inhibitory collapse, followed by a suppression of many conditioned behaviors; or into a state compared with hypnosis or hysteria in humans; or pass through a series of three phases (the equivalent, in which response is indifferent to the strength of stimuli; the paradoxical, in which weak stimuli lead to larger responses than strong ones; and the ultra-paradoxical, in which behavior patterns flip from positive to negative, so that dogs might attack attendants of whom they had previously been fond, and favor those they had avoided). Changes effected in these states, in which the dogs were particularly susceptible to conditioning, tended to be quite long-lasting. The similarities to Sargant's patients and Wesley's converts are all too obvious.
Now, such phenomena are not confined to shell-shock, eighteenth-century Methodies, and unfortunate Russian dogs. In Haitian voodoo, they are attributed to possession by the gods and demons, by the loa, and similar beliefs and practices are found in many other new-world religions. These include those North American Protestant cults which feature convulsions, speaking in tongues, and, most spectacularly, snake-handling, though whether they have any genetic connection to voodoo and its kindred I do not know. (Sargant notes that men of no great piety and virtue sometimes frequent the revivals of the Protestant cults, relying on young women coming out of them in highly suggestible states.) These practices are now rather frowned upon by the Catholic Church, except in back-waters like rural Portugal and New Jersey, but they were formerly fairly common. These phenomena, and the techniques for inducing them, are are all, of course, extremely wide-spread and ancient, and a chapter provided by Robert Graves gives a learned and well-written survey of how these matters were ordered among the Greeks and Romans, including drugs and bashing the initiate to the mysteries over the head in a dark cave. (Graves refrains from dragging in the Goddess, bless Her.) The less scrupulous police forces of the world (which is most of them, alas) use such methods to get people to break down and confess, without much regard to whether or not their confession is true. At the time Sargant was writing, the it was news that such methods would make captured American soldiers sign confessions of all sorts of things, and declare their allegiance to Communism, though it shouldn't have surprised anyone who remembered the Moscow Trials of the 1930s.
Notice, please, that whether, after the breakdown, one is inspired by the Holy Ghost to speak in the Unknown Tongue, or confesses to being a Trotskyite wrecker and an agent of British imperialism, depends very strongly on what you believe and how you are trained beforehand. (Most people who speak in tongues have heard others do it before.) So there is a certain cognitive element involved, which seems to have been lacking in the case of Pavlov's dogs; but it seems clear that the physiological trigger is similar. Notice, also, that the long-term efficacy of the change in behavior and belief depends very strongly on being an environment which supports the new behaviors and thoughts. Thus those brain-washed POWs, returned to the Goddess's Own Country, mom and apple pie, fairly quickly recanted their devotion to the cause of the international proletariat. (The fact that such recantations sometimes took place during Communist show-trials was even urged, by people I'm ashamed to call my fellow leftists, as evidence that the trials were really genuine!) Sargant has little to say about such complications, but he wrote during the behaviorist darkness; one suspects the psychologists could do better today.
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STARGATE: ATLANTIS
The Tower
EPISODE NUMBER - 215
DVD DISC - Season 2, Disc 4
ORIGINAL U.S. AIR DATE - 02.03.06
THE TOWER. The Royal Court are eating dinner. It's not a pretty sight. Unlike the villagers who have learned table manners, they are all stuffing food into their mouths with their fingers -- and there's an enormous amount of food on the table. The courtiers chat and laugh and drink and eat -- all at the same time. John sits at the table looking rather squeamish at their behaviour. Mara, the Lord Protector's daughter, is sitting beside John and now turns to talk to him flirtatiously.
MARA: I've never heard of anyone called Lieutenant Colonel before. What does it mean?
(Opposite her, Tavius breaks off from flirting with the woman sitting next to him to speak derogatively to his sister.)
TAVIUS: It's not his name, you simpleton. It's his rank.
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 14:41:06 -0800 (PST)
From: "Kerry Burgess"
Subject: domestic eavesdropping program
To: "Kerry Burgess"
On the very day I started at Microsoft, December 7, 1998, the state of South Carolina announced they were dropping out of the antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 29 July 2006 excerpt ends]
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The Tower
EPISODE NUMBER - 215
DVD DISC - Season 2, Disc 4
ORIGINAL U.S. AIR DATE - 02.03.06
TAVIUS: It's not his name, you simpleton. It's his rank.
(Mara looks embarrassed.)
MARA: My apologies.
SHEPPARD: That's alright. Don't usually stand on ceremony anyway. How about you just call me John? (He turns and smiles at her, then jumps as the woman sitting on his other side gooses him. She giggles as he turns to her with a startled look on his face. The woman attempts to look seductively at him. John turns away, appalled.)
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
To: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Friday, February 3, 2006 6:56:36 PM
Subject: Nice talking with you in the morning
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I think I am in love with Lily Jang. It seems crazy to even write that, with all things considered, but, well, what isn't crazy right now?
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 03 February 2006 excerpt ends]
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BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
2X15 - SCAR
Original Airdate (SciFi): 03/FEB/2006
Kat: Ooh, Scar's gonna smoke you like a fine cigar, my man.
BB: Who's Scar?
Duck: Not who. What. Toaster's top gun. Deadliest raider in the cylon fleet.
Jo Jo: Gimme break. Come on they're machines. one's the same as the next.
Yeah, that's what we thought till Captain thrace cut the brain out of one.
Hotdog: Scar's the best they got. Lotta pilots die going after that bastard.
BB: Why do they call him Scar?
Kat: You'll find out soon enough. He's got a taste for nuggets. Easy pickings.
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BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
2X15 - SCAR
Original Airdate (SciFi): 03/FEB/2006
Galactica - Brig
Boomer: This guy's probably died and been reborn a dozen times. You may have faced him before.
Starbuck: So what, raiders reincarnate? Just like you?
Boomer: Yeah, just like me.
Starbuck: Great. What a frakkin' world.
Boomer: A raider's much like a trained animal, with the basic consciousness and survival instinct. But with the destruction of the resurrection ship, when they die, they're really dead. So, they're not gonna mount mass attacks where they could have major casualties.
Starbuck: Raiders reincarnate?
Boomer: Makes sense, doesn't it? It takes months for you to train a nugget into an effective viper pilot. And then they get killed. And their experience, their knowledge, their skill sets. They're all lost forever. So, if you could bring 'em back and put 'em in a brand new body, wouldn't you do it? 'Cause death then becomes a learning experience. How, uh-- how many pilots have we lost? I mean, have you lost?
Starbuck: You know, there are times when I look at you and I forget what you are. All I see is that kid that pooched her landings day after day. The kid that was frakkin' the chief and thinking she was getting away with it.
Boomer: Yeah, I remember. [Crying] You were like a big sister to--
Boomer reaches out to touch Starbuck on the leg. The marines promptly cock and raise their rifles to stop her.
Boomer: Kara, um-- be careful of Scar, okay? He's filled with rage.
Starbuck: About what?
Boomer: Dying's a painful and traumatic experience. Every time he's reborn, he's filled with more bitter memories. Scar hates you every bit as much as you hate him.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
To: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Friday, February 3, 2006 5:05:57 PM
Subject: You looking at me, punk?
I'm back online and I still hate you spying bastards.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 03 February 2006 excerpt ends]
http://www.gateworld.net/atlantis/s2/transcripts/215.shtml
GateWorld
STARGATE: ATLANTIS
The Tower
EPISODE NUMBER - 215
DVD DISC - Season 2, Disc 4
ORIGINAL U.S. AIR DATE - 02.03.06
ATLANTIS. CONTROL ROOM. Doctor Elizabeth Weir is talking to John via radio through the open Stargate. He is sitting in the Puddle Jumper back on the planet.
WEIR: Do you think this Eldred is telling the truth?
SHEPPARD: There's no reason for him to lie.
WEIR: And you say the Tower looks a lot like Lantean architecture?
SHEPPARD: It was overgrown by vegetation but otherwise there was definitely something familiar about it!
WEIR: So the people in the Tower could be Ancients.
SHEPPARD: I don't know. A feudal society doesn't fit the profile. Why would the Ancients wanna lord over a bunch of simple farmers?
WEIR: I don't know. Either way, we should talk with them.
SHEPPARD: Agreed.
http://www.gateworld.net/atlantis/s2/transcripts/215.shtml
GateWorld
STARGATE: ATLANTIS
The Tower
EPISODE NUMBER - 215
DVD DISC - Season 2, Disc 4
ORIGINAL U.S. AIR DATE - 02.03.06
BECKETT: What about the villagers?
OTHO: He'll kill them all -- burn the place to the ground to make an example of them.
SHEPPARD: They had nothing to do with what happened.
OTHO: It doesn't matter. Any defiance must be crushed without mercy to keep it from spreading to the other villages.
(Carson takes a capsule out of his vest.)
BECKETT: Look, this is the gene therapy we're talking about. You can take it to the people and tell them what it means. (He hands the capsule to Otho.)
SHEPPARD: You don't have to be slaves to this Royal bloodline any more.
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