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'''William Walters Sargant''' (April 24, 1907 - August 27, 1988), was a British psychiatrist who worked with shell-shocked servicemen during World War Two, and later published a book entitled ''Battle for the Mind'' in which he discusses propaganda and 'brainwashing'. | '''William Walters Sargant''' (April 24, 1907 - August 27, 1988), was a British psychiatrist who worked with shell-shocked servicemen during World War Two, and later published a book entitled ''Battle for the Mind'' in which he discusses propaganda and 'brainwashing'. | ||
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| + | :A Harley Street psychiatrist, Dr William Sargant, now dead, was sent by the British government in the early Fifties to evaluate [[MK-ULTRA]]. On his return he told a friend, the author and former BBC television producer [[Gordon Thomas]], that what Cameron and Gottlieb were up to was as bad as anything going on in the Soviet gulags. | ||
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| + | :Thomas, whose books include a 1988 study of the CIA's forays into mind-control, Journey into Madness: Medical Torture and the Mind Controllers, says: 'Sargant told me that he had urged the British government to distance this country from it. He said it was blacker than black.' According to Thomas, Sargant told him that Olson had come to Britain from 1950 to 1953 to work on attachment at Porton Down and had also made frequent visits to 'an intelligence facility' in Sussex. This is confirmed by entries in the special passport that Olson used.<ref>[[Kevin Dowling]] 'THE OLSON FILE; A SECRET THAT COULD DESTROY THE CIA', MAIL ON SUNDAY August 23, 1998 SECTION: Pg. 10;11;12;13</ref> | ||
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== Books by William Sargant == | == Books by William Sargant == | ||
Revision as of 22:26, 10 March 2008
William Walters Sargant (April 24, 1907 - August 27, 1988), was a British psychiatrist who worked with shell-shocked servicemen during World War Two, and later published a book entitled Battle for the Mind in which he discusses propaganda and 'brainwashing'.
- A Harley Street psychiatrist, Dr William Sargant, now dead, was sent by the British government in the early Fifties to evaluate MK-ULTRA. On his return he told a friend, the author and former BBC television producer Gordon Thomas, that what Cameron and Gottlieb were up to was as bad as anything going on in the Soviet gulags.
- Thomas, whose books include a 1988 study of the CIA's forays into mind-control, Journey into Madness: Medical Torture and the Mind Controllers, says: 'Sargant told me that he had urged the British government to distance this country from it. He said it was blacker than black.' According to Thomas, Sargant told him that Olson had come to Britain from 1950 to 1953 to work on attachment at Porton Down and had also made frequent visits to 'an intelligence facility' in Sussex. This is confirmed by entries in the special passport that Olson used.[1]
Books by William Sargant
- An Introduction to Physical Methods of Treatment in Psychiatry, by William Sargant and Eliot Slater, Edinburgh : E&S Livingstone, 1944 [1st ed.]
- An Introduction to Somatic Methods of Treatment in Psychiatry, by William Sargant and Eliot Slater, Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, 1946
- Battle for the Mind: The Mechanics of Indoctrination, Brainwashing & Thought Control by William Sargant, Pan Books, 1957
- The Unquiet Mind - an autobiography, by William Sargant 1967 Heinemann ISBN 0-434-67150-9
- An Introduction to Physical Methods of Treatment in Psychiatry, by William Sargant, Eliot Slater and Desmond Kelly, Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 1972 5th edn ISBN 0-443-00868-X
- Mind Possessed, The : A Physiology of Possession, Mysticism, and Faith Healing, 1975, ISBN 0-14-004034-X
- Battle for the Mind: A Physiology of Conversion and Brainwashing , by William Sargant, Malor Books, 1997, ISBN 1-883536-06-5
See also
Notes
- ↑ Kevin Dowling 'THE OLSON FILE; A SECRET THAT COULD DESTROY THE CIA', MAIL ON SUNDAY August 23, 1998 SECTION: Pg. 10;11;12;13
