The human mind in intricate and complex. To us it's still a fairly mysterious place many have attempted to ventured upon, but most have failed. Delving within our thoughts has become a science of trial and error which has brought both failure and success, but here The Shock Doctrine presents one of the long lasting manuals of mind exploration or rather, exploitation: KUBARK: Counter Intelligence Interrogation.
The truth serum, LCD experimentation, sensory depravation, and other types of torture have flooded the world since the beginnings of the Cold War and have survived to live through the resilient 'War On Terror'. These new methods that came to life in the mid 20th century were a breakthrough from the old and crude torture methods. New CIA led investigations brought forth techniques that gave more conclusive results in the interrogation room, and so a new spy era emerged. Governments now had a successful tool in the extraction of information from POW's or enemy insurgents. But what about indoctrination? How could they lead the battle of ideas and beat the red scare of the Cold War? This was a far more complex process because they had to change the minds of the public opinion in there favor and as we've seen through history they were successful of doing so not only in the US but also abroad. The KUBARK manual had given them entry into our head for extraction of ideas, but as Hollywood has demonstrated the hardest part is Inception.
To be successful at it, the US through the CIA, collaborated with several recognized educational institutions across the country and developed scholarship programs that sent Chilean and Indonesian students to schools in the States for indoctrination. They preached free market policy to them day and night and years later both of these countries, which had been strengthening their local economies and stating high tariffs on US goods, had coup d'etats respectively. Running the newly available political offices were the "Chicago Boys" and the "Berkeley Mafia". These names derived from the institutions they had graduated from and strong right wing governments emerged from the education they had received abroad. The subtle CIA indoctrination had proved successful and for many years they continued to utilize these techniques in the favor of their interests. By their interests I mean not of the US people, but rather of the large transnational corporations which have their HQ's in the US.
Was Colombia victim to any of these methods? Are we victim to any of these today? There's always been a heavy influence from our "big brother". Looking back at our history as a country we've always been manipulated by the States, and sometimes even bullied by them into decisions that don't really benefit Colombia. On the other hand we've made it easy for them imposing very little resistance. We don't need the CIA scholarships because we walk into US colleges by ourselves. They've successfully created the illusion that anything American has a higher standard and we live with this premise still today. Did they overthrow our government at any point? No. They never had the need truthfully, and looking back we were the ones that should have thrown out or government at some point or another.
The truth serum, LCD experimentation, sensory depravation, and other types of torture have flooded the world since the beginnings of the Cold War and have survived to live through the resilient 'War On Terror'. These new methods that came to life in the mid 20th century were a breakthrough from the old and crude torture methods. New CIA led investigations brought forth techniques that gave more conclusive results in the interrogation room, and so a new spy era emerged. Governments now had a successful tool in the extraction of information from POW's or enemy insurgents. But what about indoctrination? How could they lead the battle of ideas and beat the red scare of the Cold War? This was a far more complex process because they had to change the minds of the public opinion in there favor and as we've seen through history they were successful of doing so not only in the US but also abroad. The KUBARK manual had given them entry into our head for extraction of ideas, but as Hollywood has demonstrated the hardest part is Inception.
To be successful at it, the US through the CIA, collaborated with several recognized educational institutions across the country and developed scholarship programs that sent Chilean and Indonesian students to schools in the States for indoctrination. They preached free market policy to them day and night and years later both of these countries, which had been strengthening their local economies and stating high tariffs on US goods, had coup d'etats respectively. Running the newly available political offices were the "Chicago Boys" and the "Berkeley Mafia". These names derived from the institutions they had graduated from and strong right wing governments emerged from the education they had received abroad. The subtle CIA indoctrination had proved successful and for many years they continued to utilize these techniques in the favor of their interests. By their interests I mean not of the US people, but rather of the large transnational corporations which have their HQ's in the US.
Was Colombia victim to any of these methods? Are we victim to any of these today? There's always been a heavy influence from our "big brother". Looking back at our history as a country we've always been manipulated by the States, and sometimes even bullied by them into decisions that don't really benefit Colombia. On the other hand we've made it easy for them imposing very little resistance. We don't need the CIA scholarships because we walk into US colleges by ourselves. They've successfully created the illusion that anything American has a higher standard and we live with this premise still today. Did they overthrow our government at any point? No. They never had the need truthfully, and looking back we were the ones that should have thrown out or government at some point or another.
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| Ubiquitous: (adj) Present, appearing or found everywhere. |
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| Idiosyncrasy: (noun) A mode of behavior or way of thought peculiar to an individual. |
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