Declassified Files Reveal the US Believed the Soviet Union Mastered Mind ControlCC0
Declassified documents from the 1970s have revealed the US government were certain the
Soviet Union had mastered telepathy, hypnosis and dream infiltration, a la Hollywood blockbuster
Inception.
A recently declassified Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) report documents the numerous
ways the US government believed the Soviet Union could attack or influence small groups
of people via paranormal means.
Published in 1972, "Controlled Offensive Behavior" details apparent Soviet advances in telepathy,
dream infiltration and hypnosis.
"There have been persistent reports of unusual flashing lights emanating from Soviet naval
vessels and long-range aircraft.
Such activities have coincided with US and NATO surveillance operations, conducted from
interceptor aircraft and naval vessels.
In some cases, personnel have been temporarily blinded and disorientated by various intensities
of colors of continuous or intermittently flashing lights during nocturnal missions,"
the report stated.
The authors go on to suggest such incidents indicate the Soviets "have not overlooked
the possibility of utilizing bright, flashing lights as a means of altering behavior," and
it was "interesting to note" these reports coincide with an alleged period of active
research into mind control in Soviet laboratories.
One such incident in 1968 involved a night watch officer aboard the HMS Valiant being
temporarily blinded by a blue light shone from a Kotlin destroyer.
"When his vision recovered, he reported perceiving red lights, [which] appeared to be portable.
Several pinpoint bursts of amber and amber-green light were noticed aft of the spotlight and
shined in concert with it," the report added.
The use of colorful, flashing lights to distract or disorient targets has a long-established
history in warfare � strobe lights were commonly employed by Axis and Allied militaries
alike to blind enemy pilots.
Strange but True
However, the report connects the disorientation of targets to hypnosis and other forms of
mind control, rather than conclude the events were basic surveillance disruption methods,
in a subsection titled "Psycho-optics."
"The Soviets have already experimented with the use of flashing lights for the purpose
of eliciting behavioral change in human targets, [and the] interactions of sound, light, and
olfactory stimuli in humans.
It can now be assessed that in the next 15 years, [the Soviet Union] may develop a system
that alters behavior by combining two or more systems to mask the use of the principal weapon,
e.g. the administration of a pheromone or psychotropic compound," the report alleged.
The authors note a 1957 symposium in the US concluded strobe lights and other flicker
effects can create disruptions in humans, inducing "sleep, unconsciousness, hypnotic
states, or other forms of interference with consciousness."
Other possible effects of flickering lights included eyeball and headaches, and inducement
of "visual illusions" including color sensations, patterns of movement and development of odd
shapes."
The report moreover suggested the Soviets' primary interest was red light, a hue that
would reportedly produce tension, irritability, and aggression � and presumably a greater
affinity for communism.
Inception Plot
Perhaps most notably, a separate excerpt outlines the DIA's fears of Soviet psychic abilities
� in particular "telepathic hypnosis," which allegedly allowed the USSR to telepathically
induce sleep in individuals and then rouse them from over 1,000 miles away.
"K.O.
Kotkov" � allegedly a star Soviet psychologist � was particularly intimidating to US authorities,
given his apparently ability to "telepathically obliterate an experimental subject's consciousness."
Parapsychologists in Leningrad and Moscow were said to be involved in the telepathic
manipulation of consciousness, and the authors ask what individuals might experience in their
Soviet-induced sleep � would they "simply dream their own private dreams," or "does
someone else hold sway?"
"The Soviets have not divulged details of their manipulation of consciousness.
Doctor Stefan Manczarski feels telepathy can be amplified like radio waves.
Telepathy could then become a subtle new modus for the 'influencers' of the world.
What about telepathy someday becoming a tool for influencing people?
"This new field of telepathy will open up new avenues for spreading propaganda, and
one could telepathically hypnotize an individual [to] steal classified documents or detonate
important military equipment.
The mission is accomplished and individual does not even know they have done anything,"
the report speculated.
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