PROJECT QK-HILLTOP
Project QK-Hilltop was a human experimental program that was used in the CIA.
This project was done by the CIA the goal of this to gain entrance of the human mind and manipulating it. The CIA used ancient Chinese brainwashing techniques and tried to brainwash people.
In 1954, the CIA developed an experiment called Project QKHILLTOP to study Chinese brainwashing techniques, which they then used to develop new methods of interrogation.
Leading the research was Dr. Harold Wolff of Cornell University Medical School.
After requesting that the CIA provide him with information on imprisonment, deprivation, humiliation, torture, brainwashing, hypnoses, and more,
Wolff’s research team began to formulate a plan through which they would develop secret drugs and various brain damaging procedures.
According to a letter he wrote, in order to fully test the effects of the harmful research,
Wolff expected the CIA to “make available suitable subjects.”
“Where any of the studies involve potential harm of the subject, we expect the Agency to make available suitable subjects and a proper place for the performance of the necessary experiments.”
Wolff expected the CIA to “make available suitable subjects.”
Most of the
early studies are believed to have been performed by the Cornell University
Medical School’s human ecology study programs, under the direction of Dr.
Harold Wolff.
Wolff requested that the CIA provide him any information they could find regarding “threats, coercion, imprisonment, deprivation, humiliation, torture, ‘brainwashing’, ‘black psychiatry’, and hypnosis, or any combination of these, with or without chemical agents”.
According to Wolff, the research team would then:
Wolff requested that the CIA provide him any information they could find regarding “threats, coercion, imprisonment, deprivation, humiliation, torture, ‘brainwashing’, ‘black psychiatry’, and hypnosis, or any combination of these, with or without chemical agents”.
According to Wolff, the research team would then:
…assemble, collate, analyze and assimilate this information and will then undertake experimental investigations designed to develop new techniques of offensive/defensive intelligence use … Potentially useful secret drugs (and various brain damaging procedures) will be similarly tested in order to ascertain the fundamental effect upon human brain function and upon the subject’s mood …
“Where any of the studies involve potential harm of the subject, we expect the Agency to make available suitable subjects and a proper place for the performance of the necessary experiments.”
(Dr. Harold
Wolff, Cornell University Medical School)
Prefrontal Cortex (PFC)
Anterior part of the frontal lobes this region plans complex cognitive behavior, personality expression, decisions making, and moderating social behavior.
Essentially this is what is being washed during the experiment, however brainwashing doesn't fully take over or clean your mind you still have what you had before you would have to find your sense of self to realize you again.
The Amygdala is crucial during the experiment because it processes emotion.
From breaking down during the procedure to finding your new "self" the emotions can change but again you can get your old or "normal" emotions back.
Brainwashing Techniques
2.) Guilt
Making a person feel bad attacking constantly of sin. Ex: "Your an evil person".
3.) Self Betryal
Agreeing you are bad or not good. Once in guilt the agent, forces through physical or mental harm. To say his family and friends are doing bad also.
4.) Breaking Point
The questions of "Am I really me?" "Where am I?" "Who am I?", undergo emotional breakdown. At this point the agents makes or tries to convert them to another belief system that will save him. (His sense of self is up to the agent. They don't know anything about themselves.
The Amygdala is crucial during the experiment because it processes emotion.
From breaking down during the procedure to finding your new "self" the emotions can change but again you can get your old or "normal" emotions back.
1.) Assault on Identity
"You are not who you think you are" systematic attacks on someones sense of self. "You are not a person" "You are not a man". Under constant attack for days, weeks, and months.
Making a person feel bad attacking constantly of sin. Ex: "Your an evil person".
Agreeing you are bad or not good. Once in guilt the agent, forces through physical or mental harm. To say his family and friends are doing bad also.
The questions of "Am I really me?" "Where am I?" "Who am I?", undergo emotional breakdown. At this point the agents makes or tries to convert them to another belief system that will save him. (His sense of self is up to the agent. They don't know anything about themselves.
