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These articles were written by the people who were paid by the US government, mostly in the 1950s, to research brainwashing and interrogation techniques by giving people drugs, placing them under sensory deprivation, hypnotizing them, etc. etc. Many of these experiments essentially involve torture and are likely to be widely regarded as highly unethical. This is fundamental research, and if there was any followup research done, it has not yet been published for public consumption.

This book is of enormous historical importance, and yet is largely unavailable. If you live in the United States, this is some of what your government was up to in the fifties. I doubt that their funding of these ideas stopped with the publication of this volume.

Torture bible here (if not removed by the authorities yet). I won't comment in detail but 'Esty' mentioned in ref 22 of this book, I can certainly remember as a nice guy who did some interesting work, of value for fundamental scholarship, if at times to be read as intended.