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- Title
Epilogue: Something New in History?
- Authors
Schein, Edgar H.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the issue of brainwashing. The appearance in the popular media of a number of accounts of the Army's research on prisoners of war (POWs), especially a much publicized article by Eugene Kinkead in the October 26, 1957 issue of the New Yorker, demands some comment, particularly since a great many of the points made in these accounts do not agree in substance or emphasis with material in this issue, particularly with the account given by the author. There is also an apparently flat contradiction between statements of the author that Communist "pressure" produced collaboration. Interest in the experiences of the POWs in Korea stems back to the early days of the war, when U.S. Army authorities first became aware that the Chinese Communists intended to exploit U.S. soldiers for propaganda ends. Radio broadcasts and mail, bearing propaganda, were received from a number of POWs, which served as adequate warning that a psychological warfare campaign on a grand scale was being waged by the Chinese.
- Subjects
UNITED States; BRAINWASHING; PRISONERS of war; BEHAVIOR modification; COMMUNISTS; AMERICAN military personnel; COMMUNIST propaganda; PSYCHOLOGICAL warfare
- Publication
Journal of Social Issues, 1957, Vol 13, Issue 3, p56
- ISSN
0022-4537
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1540-4560.1957.tb02271.x