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John Rawlings Rees [3] and his cohorts at Tavistock became key figures in developing techniques to manipulate or shape mass psychology. They shared this technology with their counterparts in Europe and the United States.

Tavistock’s founder, Dr. Crichton-Miller, was not as maverick in psychological manipulation techniques as John Rawlings Rees. Rees began a campaign to manipulate his way into leadership of the clinic. He ran a psychological terror campaign, using rumors, to force the elderly Dr. Crichton-Miller to resign after he nearly suffered a mental breakdown.

Eric Trist, who later became the director of Tavistock, described the event differently, giving insight into the nature of those associated with the clinic:

Since authoritarian government of the medical kind in a path-finding organization such as the Tavistock Clinic proved dysfunctional, a transition to a collegiate professional democracy took place in the early 1930s, when problems arising from the Depression shook many cherished beliefs and raised new questions concerning the role of social factors in psychological illness. This organizational revolution brought to the front a younger generation of clinicians with a level of ability and a maverick quality that would otherwise have been lost.[4]

Brainwashing Rees, Trist, and their Tavistock associates used various techniques of coercion, all of which applied the same basic format:

Induce massive physical or psychological stress in an individual or group, and then relieve that stress.

Through repeated vacillations between stress and relief, the target became intensely suggestible.

Charles Manson called it Helter Skelter. Stanley Milgram called it obedience to authority. Stanley Kubrick called it Subliminal Cinematics. Some call it modern life.

Tavistockians initially attempted to perfect techniques of coercion and violence, such as electroshock therapy, hypnosis, and the use of mind-altering drugs to achieve brainwashing or reprogramming for their victims. Actual consequences included Iran Contra, Manchurian Candidate, MK Ultra and Operation Condor.

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