Yes. It
was Science of Survival, published 1951, page 223. (Div6 gets the prize).
Relevant quote:
"There is another form of hypnotism ... This form of hypnotism has been a carefully guarded secret of certain military and intelligence organizations. It is a vicious war weapon and may be of considerably more use in conquering a society than the atom bomb. This is no exaggeration. The extensiveness of the use of this form of hypnotism in espionage work is so wide today that it is long past the time when people should have become alarmed about it. It required dianetic processing to uncover pain-drug-hypnosis. Otherwise, pain-drug-hypnosis was out of sight, unsuspected, and unknown."
Now, I am trying to unravel it.
1. We have Hubbard's Brainwashing Manual. Dated 1955.
2. We have another Manual referred to in Dominic Streatfield's book (2006:
Brainwash; the secret history of mind control), which claims PDH was developed by the KGB. Relevant quote: page 24-25:
"The public was further alarmed in 1955 by the worldwide distribution of
Brainwashing: a synthesis of the Communist textbook on psycho-politics. The booklet, which purported to be a translation of a secret speech given by KGB chief Lavrenti Beria in Moscow, detailed Soviet plans for the deployment of the new weapon. It advocated the use of severe interrogation techniques including drugs, torture and "
pain-drug-hypnosis" [
emphasis mine] which were capable of inducing anything from confessions to sexual perversions in the subject. With the right psychological techniques, said Beria, families could be broken up, interrogation victims driven insane and the careers of politicians wrecked."
3. Then we have the Scientologists claiming PDH was used by the CIA:
http://faq.scientology.org/brnwshng.htm :
"Then, too, L. Ron Hubbard was one of the first to discover and expose
actual mind control and brainwashing experimentation conducted by United States military and intelligence agencies during and after World War II. He called these techniques "pain-drug-hypnosis." (no date).
It is a lovely web to untangle, keeping me quite occupied.
- jodie