THE PRISONER: Mind Control, Then and Now --  A Threat Assessment

Part Four -- AMC TV's "reimagining" of the late Patrick McGoohan's 1960s cult classic "The Prisoner" is generating renewed interest in the role of the individual in society.

The Prisoner: Mind Control Then and Now

Part one  The evolution of consumer technology since the first broadcast of "The Prisoner" has put many of the once-exotic surveillance systems into the hands of everyman, but what about the bizarre sci-fi methods predicted in 1967?

Part two  To put the role of "The Prisoner" into historical perspective, consider that revelation of CIA's nefarious covert use of drugs and mind-control experiments conducted against unwitting civilians would not be revealed until the middle of the next decade.

Part three  Here's a very curious example of a possible "rogue" intelligence operation similar to those portrayed on "The Prisoner": The strange events which allegedly took place at Skinwalker Ranch in Utah.

Part four  As the cyber threat slowly rises into the focus of our daily consciousness, it is worth reviewing the "white world" side of the mind control issue, which remains closely related, as it was in "The Prisoner."

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(STARpod.org) -- In the 1960s, a television import called "The Prisoner" painted an allegorical landscape of espionage, electronic monitoring, spy games, mind control technology, insanity, and beyond.

VISIT THE AMC TV 1960s ORIGINAL PRISONER TV SERIES HERE

The prison, superficially an idyllic seaside resort called "The Village," was under constant surveillance by "observers" who watched from their covert underground lair.

Today, the intrusive electronic web which already penetrates every modern home, is probably carried in your pocket.

In a very real sense, we are seeing the beginning of "the whole world, as The Village," to borrow a phrase from the original series.

As the cyber threat slowly rises into the focus of our daily consciousness, it is worth reviewing the "white world" side of the mind control issue, which remains closely related, as it was in "The Prisoner."

Dr. Christopher "Kit" Green is a former "very senior" person with the Central Intelligence Agency Office of Scientific and Weapons Intelligence. Dr. Green continues as a senior level adviser to the government at the National Academies of Science and consults for The Department of Defense, the CIA, the DIA, and several private contractors. He was a member of the science advisory board for Bob Bigelow's NIDS paranormal effort, which investigated phantasmagorical events at a "haunted" ranch in Utah. In the 1970s, Green represented CIA Life Sciences Division at Stanford Research Institute, during their investigation of psychic powers.

These days Green shares permanent member status on the DIA TIGER committee with Dr. John Gannon, who was tasked to launch the Department of Homeland Security, and Dr. Ruth David, former head of science and technology for CIA.

Green is also widely regarded as the source for a "core story" tale of extraterrestrial contact with the United States government, based upon rumors he has heard from "very senior persons."

(For additional background, see Ryan Dube's interview with Dr. Green: http://paranormal.lovetoknow.com/True_Stories_of_the_Paranormal  and my series Knowing the Future: CIA, 9/11, UFOs, and the Extraterrestrial Presence at the STARpod.org website.)

According to the official TIGER committee mandate:

"The global spread of science and technology, expertise and the growing commercial access to advanced technologies with possible military applications are creating potentially serious threats to the technological superiority underpinning U.S. military strength. Key to dealing with this situation is the ability of the U.S. intelligence community to be able to provide adequate and effective warning of evolving, critical technologies."

In "The Prisoner," we are exposed to a wide range of science fiction inspired technology capable of invasive penetration of the human mind: virtual reality generation using drugs in combination with electromagnetic fields beamed into the brain, personality swapping (and even the transference of the mind of one man into the body of another), the visual display of dream images, and surgical alteration of the brain (as well as the chemical simulation of the same).

Dr. Green's study on the brain-mind threat for the National Research Council presents a wide range of emerging threats to U.S. neuroscience.

The primary risk comes from nations and organizations driven to make advances without regard for ethical methods and consequences. In one sense, the report warns that American "human use" guidelines bind the arms of American research, putting the United States at risk.

The extent of intelligence collection by the United States against foreign and domestic researchers, friends, foes, and neutrals, is massive.

Based upon documents determined to be releasable by the government, researchers into "fringe science" are constantly monitored for "breakthrough" threat assessments.

My own personal experience also points to "cooperative outreach" with friendly scientific institutions in foreign nations.

Underneath the "white world" of known threats, concern slowly boils over the unknown "black world" research, there and here alike.

Some of the unknowns emerge into the light in the form of so-called "fringe" research.

"Artificial telepathy" (mind-to-mind direct communication) and the use of conscious information as a communication system remain fringe topics of great interest. As technology evolves with an accelerating pace, the impetus to access "fringe" ideas is motivated by emerging technical abilities to bring the ideas to fruition.

Imaging of human thought is another area of research: the use of functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) to "read the enemy's mind" is a well known area of interest. In 2006, ABC NEWS reported that the ACLU was investigating the use of fMRI technology to scan suspected terrorists.

Fringe topics of "psychic" remote influencing is another field pursued by the intelligence community. Evidence from government files created in the 1990s point to monitoring of "quantum mind" research.

Sources in the U.S. and the U.K. claim to have predicted the 9/11 events and to have warned elements in the American Intelligence Community, as well as the British Security Service (MI5). The psychic sources are often associated with U.S. academics who dabble in "fringe" topics.

In "The Prisoner," viewers are often left wondering where reality ends and false memory experience begins. Dr. Green's study ends with an appendix which addresses this problem for the Intelligence Community:

"In many of the real world cases, there have been attempts to get people to remember, to discuss their memories, to imagine details, and so on. Those very attempts can increase the detail and vividness of false memories -- the very characteristics that lead (or rather mislead) people to believe that the memories are real."

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