![]() And in the aftermath, like the prisoner in the interrogation chamber, we too become child-like, and more inclined to follow leaders who claim to protect us. A collective trauma, a war, a coup, a natural disaster, a terrorist attack puts as all into a state of shock. Naomi Klein - Narrator: But these techniques don't only work on individuals. Experienced Interrogators recognize this effect when it appears and know that at this moment the subject is far more open to suggestion and far likelier to comply than he was just before he experienced the shock. Narrator: It's a fundamental hypothesis of this handbook that these techniques are in essence methods of inducing regression of the personality. Title Card: The following narration is excerpted from the CIA's 19 interrogation manuals. The key was using shock to reduce adults to a child-like state. Out of them was produced a secret handbook on how to break down prisoners. The agency funded a series of experiments. In the 1950s it caught the attention of the CIA. ![]() This is a story about that powerful idea. Naomi Klein - Narrator: Re-making people, shocking them into obediance. ![]()
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