Read on Twitter
There's been a lot of talk about the, I guess, former CIA officials that the Democrats are putting up for Congress and I think it is more important than people realize — and perhaps not for all the reasons people realize.
In reading memoirs by CIA officers, they'll often describe the intake process and the weeding out process recruits go through. This process includes a battery of psychological tests.
This is an example from a book called 'Deadly Deceits' by a fmr officer named Ralph McGehee. Admittedly it describes the process from the 1950s, but such testing can only have become more sophisticated.
The CIA of course wants to be able to suss out people's personality types.
The CIA of course wants to be able to suss out people's personality types.
So back to the congresspeople - of course we would be concerned about CIA people being in the body that is meant to oversee the Agency.
There's also the fact that it seems to be part of the lingering battle between the new administration and some career civil servants. Fine.
There's also the fact that it seems to be part of the lingering battle between the new administration and some career civil servants. Fine.
But more than that its that these candidates have maybe already been prescreened for some personality types that — while they may be fine for a low level CIA operative — they're not exactly the sort of traits that come to mind when you think of "a representative of the people".
Here's the whole section on the testing, it's just a few paragraphs but describes it well.
McGehee btw was in left the agency after being disillusioned with Vietnam. He was critical in helping expose the CIA's role in the 1965 Indonesian massacres.
McGehee btw was in left the agency after being disillusioned with Vietnam. He was critical in helping expose the CIA's role in the 1965 Indonesian massacres.
Here's a public consumption (ie recruitment pitch) from Newsweek magazine in 1993: "A TOUR THROUGH 'HELL WEEK'" https://www.newsweek.com/tour-through-hell-week-191650
Surprisingly — or maybe not surprisingly — this whole system of psychological testing seemed to have been worked out in parallel to the CIA's drugs and hypnosis psychological manipulation programs.
From John D. Marks' "Search For the Manchurian Candidate"
https://archive.org/details/pdfy-JSKQIeR_oYTgzSjl/page/n0
From John D. Marks' "Search For the Manchurian Candidate"
https://archive.org/details/pdfy-JSKQIeR_oYTgzSjl/page/n0
Going beyond what was done w/ recruits (?), the assessment tests were given to tens of thousands of people, profiles drawn up, and those were used as ways to identify weaknesses in targets.
It's too complicated to describe, but you can read about it here: https://archive.org/stream/pdfy-JSKQIeR_oYTgzSjl/John%20Marks%20-%20The%20Search%20for%20the%20Manchurian%20Candidate%20-%20The%20CIA%20and%20Mind%20Control#page/n143
It's too complicated to describe, but you can read about it here: https://archive.org/stream/pdfy-JSKQIeR_oYTgzSjl/John%20Marks%20-%20The%20Search%20for%20the%20Manchurian%20Candidate%20-%20The%20CIA%20and%20Mind%20Control#page/n143
When CIA used these tests to train foreign spy agencies, they specifically chose people who's personalities would make them most likely be able to be recruited by the CIA at a future date.
From the CIA Inspector General in 1963: "The [clandestine services] case officer is... a practitioner of... exploiting human personality... for ulterior purposes."
Whatever your opinion of CIA, I'd say that's probably not who you want standing between you and Washington DC.
![From the CIA Inspector General in 1963: "The [clandestine services] case officer is... a practitioner of... exploiting human personality... for ulterior purposes."Whatever your opinion of CIA, I'd say that's probably not who you want standing between you and Washington DC.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DpCQK8ZX4AEWx2L.jpg "From the CIA Inspector General in 1963: \"The [clandestine services] case officer is... a practitioner of... exploiting human personality... for ulterior purposes.\"Whatever your opinion of CIA, I'd say that's probably not who you want standing between you and Washington DC.")
Whatever your opinion of CIA, I'd say that's probably not who you want standing between you and Washington DC.
McGehee's book was recently republished by @mcrispinmiller as an eBook, if you're into that. It's also easy to get used.
https://www.amazon.com/Deadly-Deceits-Years-Forbidden-Bookshelf-ebook/dp/B00S7EFYXE
https://www.amazon.com/Deadly-Deceits-Years-Forbidden-Bookshelf-ebook/dp/B00S7EFYXE
And here's an excellent talk by McGehee (though not on this particular topic of psychological testing, mostly about his time in Asia and his disillusionment).
1979 ABC News Special - "Mission: Mind Control"
I have to add this to anything tangentially MKULTRA related. Has to be watched not just for info (and aesthetics) but to recall a time when there was actual anti-intel agency material on a major network.
I have to add this to anything tangentially MKULTRA related. Has to be watched not just for info (and aesthetics) but to recall a time when there was actual anti-intel agency material on a major network.
And I probably left out what could be the most dangerous reason - the myriad of misplaced international loyalties and biases these people may bring with them.
We need representatives for the people, not intelligence agencies.
Link via @typicalrussian3 http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/10/03/ciad-o03.html
We need representatives for the people, not intelligence agencies.
Link via @typicalrussian3 http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/10/03/ciad-o03.html
