Newsweek
Aug. 22, 1994

A Subliminal Dr. Strangelove

Mind: Using the power of hidden suggestions, this Russian scientist tries to rewire the brain

By Dorinda Elliott in Moscow with John Barry in Washington

"When branch Davidian sect members hunkered down in their Waco compound last year and threatened to commit suicide, the FBI turned to an unlikely source. Experts from the FBI Counter-Terrorism Center secretly met in Arlington, Va., with a long-haired Russian Dr. Strangelove called Igor Smirnov. His plan: piping subliminal messages from sect members’ families through the phone lines during negotiations. For David Koresh, the self-appointed prophet, the FBI had a special voice in mind: God, as played by Charlton Heston.

"The FBI backed out of Smirnov’s Waco Strategy, and the crisis ended in blazing disaster. But psychological-warfare experts on all sides still dream that they will one day control the enemy’s mind. And in a tiny, dungeonlike lab in the basement of Moscow's ominously named Institute of Psycho-Correction, Smirnov and other Russian psychiatrists are already working on schizophrenics, drug addicts and cancer patients."


An article written by a Marine who is 'deployed' in Iraq but who also seems to see through the lies and political machinations of the varied 'pundits' anxious for their own hides salvation and anxious to make 'their' mark upon a world who is sick and tired of all of Academian far fetched notions of how we should live our lives and unto whom and what we should be beholden...

What Terrorists?

by Philip Martin

Being deployed, I don't get to keep up to date on the news issues of the day very well. I can catch a few minutes of random cable news shows at the chow hall or word of mouth news about the Presidential campaigns but unfortunately, this is never enough.

I did find in this week's Stars and Stripes newspaper (the Sept. 9th issue) an interesting news article though.

Gleaned from the Washington Post the article is regarding a federal judge who ruled against the nation of Iran and awarded $2.6 billion to the families of the Marines killed in the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing.

In the decision, Judge Lamberth ruled that Iran was "legally responsible" for the 1983 Hizbollah attack in Lebanon. Iran apparently didn't contest the charges.

From nearly the first day of boot camp I was taught that this attack was a terrorist act. Perhaps it was, but since it was directed against a military target the distinction is a little less clear cut.

As a Marine I am considered a lawful combatant under the Geneva Conventions. This fact is stated on the back of my military ID card. As well were all the Marines who were killed in the tragic attack.

The family members were compensated by the Marine's servicemember's life insurance policies but I can understand why the families want more. The commanders on the ground in Beirut did not equip the Marines with the necessary rules of engagement to properly defend themselves.

However, the timing of the claim and the defendant is still worth a closer look. Iran is definitely not the only state sponsor of Hizbollah, not to mention that nearly twenty-four years after the attack makes the timing quite suspicious.

Perhaps this is an innocent reaction from families still grieving or possibly another indictment to pile on Iran to justify a future war.

It's no secret that support for the global war on terror is slipping among the American people. It's always been difficult for the administration to show progress, but what they have done a good job at is to find new targets and enemies to fight.

Many politicians, on both sides of the aisle, have misused the term "terrorist" to describe the individuals (or groups) that attack the US armed forces. But the fact is that when someone shoots at me (a legal combatant) or tries to use a roadside bomb (IED) against me while I'm on patrol they are not a terrorist.

They become enemy combatants the moment they target other legal combatants. You can call them insurgents, anti-Iraqi forces, anti-occupation forces, freedom fighters, or Ali Baba (our most easily translated term for bad guys) but "terrorist" is not the correct term.

There is probably more than one reason why these people refer to enemy combatants as terrorists. It could be simply because they don't know better and don't understand that the word means something quite specific.

Perhaps it's because it is accepted vernacular now and since we're waging a "war on terror" that would make "terrorist" the logical moniker for the enemy. Or maybe there is a more sinister reason.

Could it be that the politicians and mainstream media (and occasionally military officials) knowingly misrepresent the enemy in Iraq to achieve a political aim? If I were attacked by a terrorist while in Iraq, then that must mean that terrorists are in Iraq, which means it was a perfectly wise and logical decision to invade Iraq, right?

Now more than ever the neo-cons need to justify their actions and agenda to the American public. A clever bit of language manipulation, most likely not caught onto by the majority of unconcerned Americans, to achieve a political end. Don't forget that since the Sept. 11th attacks there is nothing an American hates more than a terrorist.

I won't say that I know why the term terrorist is so easily affixed to so many legal combatants but maybe we should be more careful in how we use the term. Words still mean things.

September 19, 2007

Philip Martin [send him mail: grimmythedog@netscape.net ] is an infantry Marine serving his second combat tour in the al Anbar Province of Iraq.

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"His plan: piping subliminal messages from sect members’ families through the phone lines during negotiations..."

Psychocorrection means controlling human condition and behaviour.

We have developed the following methods of psychocorrection:

acoustical and audiopsychocorrection - coded words and whole phrases are put into an audio stream to be listened by the patient;

videopsychocorrection - coded images, subject images and words are put into a video stream to be watched by the patient;

intensive psychocorrection - carried out in a condition of altered conscious, where the desired result can be reached by using both images and words, including uncoded ones.

From the above list, audiopsychocorrection is the most available and convenient method - it is used not only for therapeutic purposes but also for psychological prophylactic, de-stressing and relaxation.

The essence of all these methods consists in influencing the unconscious through semantic stimuli - images, words and key signs. We have already mentioned that the human unconscious can be addressed using common language, which is, however, coded in a specific way.

Here, we are talking not about a language or dialect that the person speaks, but the language used by the person inside him- or her self, which is not known and not understandable for anyone even for the closest people. As everyone knows: the same word pronounced with different intonations or in different contexts has very different meanings.

Orders, even in conditions of totalitarianism, military service or a sect, are interpreted differently by different people. Therefore, the fundamental principle consists in which words are selected for composing the ‘plot of suggestion’, the direction or guidance administered, and how they are pronounced.

However, it sometimes happens that suddenly some verbal formula fits, like a key, virtually to any person. On the basis of these universal psychocorrecting plots were composed audiocassettes and disks, which we offer for sale.

So, for the message to be "received" and functional, it is necessary, first of all, to carry out a detailed analysis of the individual. If the technology is engaged at random, the patient’s situation can be made irreversibly worse and, at the same time, the method itself can be discredited.

In unconscious psychocorrection, no prohibited commands or suggestions are used. It is essential to find the word (or image) that will destroy pathological complexes in mind and unhealthy behavior motivations. It is extremely complex. It requires not only knowledge but also inspiration and, if you wish, talent.

The ‘plot of suggestion’ composed from the words and images found in the analytical phase of treatment should be, firstly, brief, and secondly, should contain maximum information value, and, thirdly, should cause a chain of sophisticated associations.

Most important, it should agree with the patient’s innermost and deeply held principles.

First, the specialist determines those areas of mind that can be influenced with maximum efficiency. Then, the specialist forms the idea of influence, and after that the most difficult step - the specialist has to state the idea within 4-7 seconds using those specific symbols, which are close and understandable to the unconscious of the particular patient.

For further information about each method of psycocorrection please refer to the other pages of this section.

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