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A science fiction obsession led me to psychological war
I've spent the past three years researching and writing a book about the history of psychological warfare in the United States. It’s called Stories Are...
This guy who wrote about subversive cat women and robot cities and weapons made from angry psychic weasels and mind control sex between people who are literally floating naked inside a chamber of flames – he had also codified the U.S. military’s approach to psyops at the dawn of the Cold War? Alec Nevala-Lee, author of Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction, said that he’s heard a lot of wild speculation about UC Davis psychology professor Alan C. Elms, who spent decades writing a biography of Linebarger, but never published it for mysterious reasons. More of Paul Linebarger's identification cards -- these reflect his positions in the military and overseas.I think psyops specialists are often cast as secret agents who suppress dissent, cover up the truth, and push mindless conformity.
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