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Cold war mind games

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The Cold War - How It Becomes Extremely Feasible

The two systems competing to convince the world that they were the ones who knew the path to the glorious future. At its most extreme, it would entail experiments in mind control and fierce about brain washing. America feared that its boys in carea were being indoctrinated by the communists. The c i a was also carrying out its own experiments to test the limits of the human brain. And when the propagand ists got the psychology right, when they tlapped imto something no really deep in people's minds and prejudices and belief systems, these could be extremely powerful.

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