Harvard's #1 Mind Control Expert Fears MK-Ultra is STILL Active | Rebecca Lemov

Harvard's #1 Mind Control Expert Fears MK-Ultra is STILL Active | Rebecca Lemov

Source: YouTube · Danny Jones · published Sep 8, 2025 · 2:46:45

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The video explores the history of behavioral control experiments and their connection to government programs, particularly MK Ultra 1:00. The discussion traces these experiments from early 20th century behaviorism through Cold War-era mind control programs and their modern implications 4:55.

Key Takeaways:
• Early behaviorists at Yale received massive funding to create a unified science of social control through conditioning experiments on animals and humans 4:35
• Chinese "thought reform" techniques on American POWs inspired US programs like MK Ultra, which began as defensive research but became offensive 15:24
• MK Ultra consisted of 149 sub-projects including bizarre experiments like remote-controlled cats with implanted microphones and dolphin assassins 23:13
• The CIA has long been involved in pattern recognition technology development, with early funding of computer research in the 1960s for surveillance purposes 21:02

The conversation reveals how these historical experiments connect to modern technology and surveillance capabilities, suggesting a continuity between past behavioral control programs and contemporary digital platforms.

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  • 1:00 Discussion of the brainwashing class and its relevance
  • 4:35 Yale behaviorists and their social engineering goals
  • 15:24 Chinese thought reform inspiring MK Ultra
  • 23:13 MK Ultra sub-projects and bizarre experiments
  • 21:02

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[Music] Thanks for coming, Rebecca. I'm excited to talk to you. >> Thanks for having me. Dan, >> you were just telling me you would show your class the beginning of Clockwork Orange. >> Yeah, I would show them a special like a specially selected >> clip of it for maybe half an hour, though. Just where he's getting conditioned. >> Oh, interesting. >> To uh where Alex is behaviorally. Let me see. trying to remember. Well, it's yeah, it's about how he's cured from his his uh >> violence by, you know, this uh by the Ludovico technique. It's all coming back to me now. >> Uh I think it was from it must have been for my brainwashing class, which I started to teach a couple decades ago, but then after a while, I felt like I couldn't really show it in class or maybe when I changed universities or s…