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How hypnosis brought the CIA to Australia

How hypnosis brought the CIA to Australia

ABC Rewind vor 5 Jahren

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A deep dive into the past told by the people who lived through it. The Rewind podcast interrogates the events and characters that have shaped our world and revisits history through archives, interviews, and compelling storytelling.

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Martin Orne was one of the leading psychologists of the 20th
century, his specialty was the science of hypnosis. In the
1960s, his scientific method brought him to the University of
Sydney, and it's world respected psychology faculty.
Unbeknownst to his Australian researchers, however,
Professor Orne was being secretly funded by the CIA, in their
Cold War quest to control the human mind.