Word: brainwashing
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Dates: during 1955-1955
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...Progressive. One by one on quiet Governors Island the witnesses unfolded a forlorn panorama of windswept P.W. camps by the Yalu, with their squalid mud huts and icy compounds, and their Chinese Communist officers-"Wong" and "Ragmop" and numberless others-who were constantly seeking to brainwash the G.I.s and undermine their allegiance. Aiding the Communists, the witnesses testified, were the G.I. "progressives," and one of their leaders was Sergeant Gallagher. Opposing them in the psychological struggle were G.I. "reactionaries," led by Sergeant Lloyd W. Pate of Augusta, Ga., also a Regular, who used both oral argument and force to keep...
...serving notice that hereafter statements of our prisoners, made to the enemy, would be a bunch of fairy stories. Worldwide publication of such an Executive Order would make the Reds look ridiculous on this side of the Iron Curtain when and if they attempted to use brainwash "confessions" in the future...