BRAIN-WASHING

Synthesis of the Russian Textbook on Psychopolitics

PSYCHOPOLITICS - the art and
science of asserting and maintaining
dominion over the thoughts and
loyalties of individuals, officers,
bureaus, and masses, and the effecting
of the conquest of enemy
nations through "mental healing."
This book is a synthesis of information gathered through observation, discussion
,
investigation and experience over the last ten years.
I cannot entirely vouch for its authenticity. Disclosure of the sources from whi
ch it is
drawn would undoubtedly lead to great difficulties for them. And in matters of t
his kind
the Soviet is not accustomed to the issuance of validations.
Having compiled this volume I did not easily discover any method of distributing
it since
my own facilities and finances are, as is customary with professors, necessarily
limited.
Further, the placement of this volume in anyone's hands constituted to some degr
ee a
considerable risk to myself until I realized that there actually were two Americ
an groups
in the field of mental science who were entirely above suspicion, particularly s
ince they
were often mentioned as Soviet targets by my informers and were mentioned in the
actual
text of this book as being antipathetic to this Soviet programme. These two grou
ps were
the Christian Scientists and the Dianeticists. Christian Science is an American
Religion,
intensely patriotic. Dianetics is the only entirely American development in the
field of the
human mind.
Knowing from my information sources that Dianetics and Christian Science and the
ir
people have experienced years of mauling and defamation at Communist hands, I am
submitting to these organizations this work. I wish to express here my appreciat
ion for
their bold resistance to Communism through the years.
I wish also to express my confidence in the future of the free nations of earth.
Although
the soviet has found a chink in the armour of individual liberty, it is certain
that
Democratic processes can mend it. That only the individual himself can protest a
gainst
assault and injury to him before law, joined with the fact that the insane have
no rights
before law, has permitted in itself this deep ingress into our country's securit
y. So long as
this legal hole exists, there is then no law against driving anyone insane, even
though this
THE BRAINWASHING MANUAL action deals as finally with a person as does murder.
The existence today of highly
efficient drugs such as LSD, one-millionth of an ounce of which can create insan
ity,
brings this legal loophole into focus. By enacting legislation permitting a frie
nd or next of
kin to bring charges in case of assault, and by quickly placing all treatment of
and
institutions for the insane in the hands of ministers, taking it entirely out of
the hands of
European indoctrinated practitioners, the entire effort of psychopolitics can be
nullified at
once.
If you care to check this subject of psychopolitics against current occurrences
in the
American scene you will discover the urgency of such measures.
Charles Stickley, New York City, 1955.