Multiple (or Dual ) Personality had been seen at that time as a not uncommon phenomenon.

A similar cultural climate had existed during the first two decades of the 20th Century in the United States.

During the 1980s, advances in the understanding and treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder coalesced with new insights into the nature of hypnosis and dissociation and a political and cultural climate in which traumatic child abuse and particularly traumatic sexual abuse in children could be appreciated.

Such abuses were the subject of a successful suit against the CIA by a number of victims.

Ewen Cameron at the Allen Memorial Institute in the 1960s. The last two focus on abusive medical experiments conducted by J. They include John Marks The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control 1986), which gives an overview of CIA mind control research under the rubric of Projects Artichoke, Bluebird, MKULTRA and MKDELTA Journey Into Madness: The True Story of CIA Mind Control and Medical Abuse by Gordon Thomas (1989) Psychiatry and The CIA: Victims of Mind Control by Harvey Weinstein (1990).

Out of these hearings came a number of well- researched books.

These allegations against the CIA resulted in formation of the House Select Committee on Intelligence in 1978, which held hearings that uncovered evidence that the CIA in particular had engaged in experiments in 'mind control' by using unwitting US citizens and foreign nationals. Ince Victor Marchetti and John Marks first published The CIA and The Cult of Intelligence in 1980, the American public has been treated to a series of exposes that have been highly critical of CIA and military operations.

Secret Weapons: Two Sisters' Terrifying True Story of Spies and Sabotage. ISBN: 0970452519.Ĭheryl Hersha and Lynn Hersha, with Dale Griffis and Ted Schwartz. Richardson, TX: Manitou Communications, Inc., 2000. Katchen - Book Profile: Psychiatric Abuse and the Intelligence Community - JCRT 2.3 Book Profile: Psychiatric Abuse and the Intelligence CommunityĬolin Ross, Bluebird: Deliberate Creation of Multiple Personality By Psychiatrists.

Secret Weapons by Cheryl Hersha