- Bobby Kennedy's assassin claimed he was hypnotized to carry out killing - CIA investigated mind control between Fifties and Seventies as part of covert project known as MKUltra
A television programme is out to test whether innocent people can be brainwashed in becoming unwitting assassins as in the plot of political thriller The Manchurian Candidate. In the 1959 novel, a man is brainwashed into becoming an unwitting sleeper assassin as part of a Communist conspiracy to overthrow the U.S. government. The novel and its film adaptations have intrigued many, and related conspiracy theories have long-held that the U.S. government and others have tried to develop techniques to control the minds of individuals.
- Damien Gayle
Source: Daily Mail