The CIA's Secret Research on Torture: How Psychologists Helped Washington Crack the Code of Human Consciousness by Alfred W. McCoy

The CIA's Secret Research on Torture: How Psychologists Helped Washington Crack the Code of Human Consciousness

Alfred W. McCoy

48 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

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The CIA’s interest in effective methods of torture began in the 1950s, in the early years of the Cold War. At first the objective was “defensive”—to find a way to combat communist “brainwashing,” which appeared to be the cause of confessions of gu...

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