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    As you will learn, or recall, as you read what follows, at its root the tried and true formula for successful control of the population of any country requires few guns, prisons, and boot-stomping guards or police at the watch. No indeed. For purposes of contemporary history, since about the mid-20th Century, all that is required is to divide many, but not necessarily all, citizens of the target population. That is the ultimate goal of the ultimate weapon: divide people at the individual level, and one from the other, and they will conquer themselves; or at least participate, wittingly or unwittingly, in their own conquest.

    1. https://projectavalon.net/Mind_Contr...ayer_1960).pdf
    2. https://projectavalon.net/Mind_Contr...ayer_1960).mp3

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    As you will learn, or recall, as you read what follows, at its root the tried and true formula for successful control of the population of any country requires few guns, prisons, and boot-stomping guards or police at the watch. No indeed. For purposes of contemporary history, since about the mid-20th Century, all that is required is to divide many, but not necessarily all, citizens of the target population. That is the ultimate goal of the ultimate weapon: divide people at the individual level, and one from the other, and they will conquer themselves; or at least participate, wittingly or unwittingly, in their own conquest.

    1. https://projectavalon.net/Mind_Contr...ayer_1960).pdf
    2. https://projectavalon.net/Mind_Contr...ayer_1960).mp3

    (The PDF is a written transcript of the mp3)

    With thanks to Bill Ryan for his assistance.
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    As you will learn, or recall, as you read what follows, at its root the tried and true formula for successful control of the population of any country requires few guns, prisons, and boot-stomping guards or police at the watch. No indeed. For purposes of contemporary history, since about the mid-20th Century, all that is required is to divide many, but not necessarily all, citizens of the target population. That is the ultimate goal of the ultimate weapon: divide people at the individual level, and one from the other, and they will conquer themselves; or at least participate, wittingly or unwittingly, in their own conquest.

    1. https://projectavalon.net/Mind_Contr...ayer_1960).pdf
    2. https://projectavalon.net/Mind_Contr...ayer_1960).mp3

    (The PDF is a written transcript of the mp3)

    With thanks to Bill Ryan for his assistance.
    Endorsing this! This 1960 presentation is nowhere on the net. Satori meticulously transcribed it all himself from a CD, and then converted it to mp3 so we could make it widely available.

    Here's the PDF, embedded:

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    • Dr. William E. "Bud" Mayer (FSM47), 86, Tacoma, Wash., Feb. 10. Dr. Mayer enjoyed a long and distinguished public service career. A decorated Korean War veteran, he served as assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, responsible for the health care of nearly 10 million active duty and retired military and their families.
    Later, as assistant U.S. surgeon general, Dr. Mayer advocated for the recognition of alcoholism as a chronic disease and initiated a nationwide designated driver program to reduce alcohol-rated auto accidents involving prom partyers.

    Following the Korean War, Dr. Mayer became a leading expert on communist "brainwashing" techniques.

    He is survived by his wife, Heidi; four children; and nine grandchildren.

    William Erwin Mayer[4] (September 24, 1923 – February 10, 2010) was an American government official who served as the Alcohol, Drug Use and Mental Health Administrator[5] from 1981 to 1983 and then Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs from 1983 to 1989.[6]

    Mayer was born in 1923 and his parents where dentists. He went to school at University of Washington, Northwestern University Medical School, and the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco.[7] While still in medical school, he joined the United States Navy in 1946. Mayer served in the Navy Medical Corps and was assigned to the 1st Marine Division as a medical officer during the Korean War, receiving a bronze star with valor. He transferred to the U.S. Army Medical Corps in 1952. Mayer was then assigned as a psychiatrist to work with Korea prisoners of war and received a second bronze star.[8] After the war, he became a leading expert on communist brainwashing techniques.[3] Mayer retired from military service in 1958.[8]

    Mayer also was Director of Health, Director of the International Forum on AIDS Research at the National Academy of Sciences and was the US Assistant surgeon general of the United States.

    Before he was administrator for Alcohol, Drug use and Substance Abuse, he was the chief medical officer at the San Diego health department. Prior to that, he served as the Director of the California Department of Health from 1973 to 1975 as well as the Director of the California Department of Mental Health from 1971 to 1973. Mayer also administered public health to those in Humboldt, Contra Costa and the Del Norte counties in California.
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    During the years 1979-1989, the military services and the Department of Defense's Office of Health Affairs utilized the Board's advisory capabilities for a number of critical medical issues that were of paramount importance to the military. Some of the most important problems ever encountered by the AFEB were discussed during this decade, including:

    . Asbestosis
    . Worldwide diseases and the rapid deployment force (RDF)
    . Population-based forecasting models in health-care delivery systems
    . Health standards for military personnel
    . Health problems related to women in the armed forces
    . Malaria
    . Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS)
    . Asplenia
    . Health problems associated with the M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle (BFV)
    . Korean hemorrhagic fever
    . Cardiovascular screening for military personnel age 40 and over.
    Nomination of William E. Mayer To Be Administrator of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration
    May 12, 1981

    The President today announced his intention to nominate Dr. William E. Mayer to be Administrator of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration, Department of Health and Human Services.

    Since 1980 Dr. Mayer has been medical director, Department of Health Services, in San Diego, Calif. In 1977-80 he was Chief, U.S. Army Europe Alcoholism Treatment Facility, Stuttgart, Germany. Dr. Mayer served as associate clinical professor of psychiatry, University of California (Irvine) College of Medicine, and associate chief of staff, Veterans Administration Hospital (Long Beach). In 1973-75 he was director, California State Department of Health, and in 1971-73 was director, California State Department of Mental Hygiene. Dr. Mayer was director, Community Mental Health Programs, in Contra Costa, Humboldt, and Del Norte Counties, Calif., in 1965-71.

    Dr. Mayer served in the U.S. Navy in 1946-52 and in the U.S. Army in 1952-58 and 1960-65. He was awarded many decorations including the Bronze Star (twice) and the Army Commendation Medal. He was graduated from Northwestern University (B.S., 1943; B.M., 1946; M.D., 1947).
    Nomination of Dr. William E. Mayer To Be an Assistant Secretary of Defense

    The late Dr. William E. Mayer worthy of being remembered
    By Bonnie Bartel Latino

    In 2011 when I read in Dispatches that death was February’s word-prompt for the William E. Mayer Award for Literary or Artistic Excellence competition, I knew I had a story worth sharing. My narrative non-fictionentry, Christmas Whistles: A Swiss Duet,detailed the compounding effects of grief I suffered after my father died of cancer and his near-fiancé, my mother figure, was brutally killed the following day in a senseless car accident. I knew my story had the capacity to touch hearts if I could give it a literary bent and frame it for universal appeal.

    What I knew very little about was the man for whom MWSA’s prestigious award is named, Dr. William E. Mayer. It is my hope that this article will inspire even more of our members to enter a contest that honors a truly outstanding individual and also encourages and recognizes creative excellence within our membership.

    Christmas Whistles did indeed win for the month of February. However, after my story won the 2011 Gold Medal for the award, I became hungry for knowledge about W.E. Mayer. Our president, Joyce Faulkner, put me in touch with Mr. Mayer’s widow, Heidi, a Registered Nurse. Via email, Heidi and I experienced an immediate emotional connection. As Heidi said via email, “I don’t think it’s a coincidence that you and I crossed paths.” Those may not have been her exact words, but they portray the sentiment she expressed—before I could express the same. Bud’s death had come only one year (February 10, 2010), prior to Christmas Whistles winning MWSA’s monthly competition based on the word-prompt, death. Ultimately, Heidi graciously shared her late husband’s impressive obituary and photo.

    From our correspondence, I knew there were two things I wanted to share with our MWSA membership. Before Bud’s death, he and Heidi co-authored an e-book, Waltzing with Death. It is available on Kindle for $2.99 on Amazon. It may be found at this link: http://tinyurl.com/6nrpnmq. A sensitive work of narrative non-fiction, Waltzing with Death is the Mayers' memoir of Bud’s final months and how they handled the challenging situation. The editorial review at Amazon further describes the book as, “. . . A love story, a survivor's tale, a travelogue of sorts describing great and growing faith as we confront many challenges, and in the end, a great trip. It is, as so often true, the trip, rather than the destination, that matters most.”

    The other thing I wanted everyone to know is that MWSA’s annual award for literary or artistic excellence honors a truly fine human being who deserves never to be forgotten. Our award is named for him because Dr. Mayer encouraged writers, artists, musicians, and photographers to spontaneously tackle new short projects, a perfect fit for MWSA’s annual award that recognizes literary or artistic excellence in abbreviated format.
    According to his obituary, the late William E. Mayer was born in Chicago, IL in 1923. The son of parents who were both dentists, he was educated at the University of Washington, Northwestern University Medical School, and the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco. Considered a Renaissance man with talents in many areas, he was a medical doctor trained in neurology, psychiatry, neuropathology, and military medicine. He was also a soldier who won the Bronze Star with Valor during the Korean War and a statesman and friend/associate of Ronald Reagan, Casper Weinberger and Colin Powell.

    His obituary detailed a fascinating and lengthy life of service before self. However, I would be remiss not to include the following paragraph: “Dr. Mayer spent his entire professional life in public service, mostly in several military services but also as California Director of Mental Health and Director of Health, Director of the International Forum on AIDS Research at the National Academy of Sciences, and Health Director in several California Counties and in Hawaii. He served six years in the Pentagon as Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs), responsible for the health care of the nearly ten million active duty and retired military personnel and their families worldwide, and was Assistant Surgeon General of the United States.”

    I am truly honored to be the 2011 recipient of the William E. Mayer Award for Literary or Artistic Excellence.

    [Bonnie Bartel Latino's Vietnam era military romance, The Rush of Butterflies, won MWSA’S Gold Medal in the 2009 People’s Choice contest. A former columnist for “Stars and Stripes/Europe,” Bonnie lives in south Alabama with her husband, retired Air Force colonel, Tom Latino.]

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    Thank you Satori. This material is so perfectly ambiguous/paradoxical/contradictory that any reaction on my part is bound to sound provocative or, shall we say, full of well-meaning sarcasm. So let’s keep it as brief as possible. I fear this William Mayer has got the wrong end (the American end) of the stick. His idea of positives being turned into negatives sounds exactly right, but he would appear to have got his wires crossed.

    Let’s start with this term ‘brainwashing’: two Chinese characters denoting ‘brain’ and ‘wash’. This is what I am hearing from the Koreans: you Americans have set a (crazy) new standard for personal hygiene. You wash your hands, your teeth, your face, your hair. You shower all over and even flush out your noses. You scrub your homes and sterilize your food… But you never wash your brains?!

    In French, in addition to brainwashing (‘lavage de cerveau’), we have the expression ‘bourrage de crâne’ (literally, skull cramming). The two are synonymous in common parlance, but they use contradictory metaphors. What we are talking about is more to do with cramming propaganda into people’s skulls. The brain becomes a gloryhole where the occasional clear-out or clean-up would obviously be beneficial. If it were not, we should not bother doing it for our computer hard drives either. If the word ‘brainwashing’ is beyond repair, then braincleaning or brain maintenance might be better alternatives to describe the concept.

    We are left with the paradox whereby Mayer is complaining about the following positives: American POWs are not mistreated in any way; they are not even locked up; they have no inclination to escape or to join forces and get back to killing people. They have come under the influence of a system which in just 42 years has conquered one third of the world’s population with no physical coercion. The situation is ‘like puritan America at one time’; ‘one time’ presumably being when the country was breaking free of British imperialism: definitely not a good idea.

    Or, the POWs are receiving ‘formal education’. This is clearly bad because it includes learning about how they were fighting for ‘Wall Street warmongers’. Nowadays, this might be called independent or alternative thinking from people like Eustace Mullins or Anthony Sutton, but since it’s bad, more like communist-inspired conspiracy theory. This is where the alternative media are shooting themselves in the foot, if not much higher up.

    The paradox with this POW camp no longer behaving like the army it once was but more like a planeload of tourists, is that the collective mindset commonly associated with communism has been infecting Americans; only, this occurred back when they were drafted. What happened in Korea was the reverse of brainwashing in this pejorative sense: these POWs were exposed to a situation in many ways resembling what one might call peace, if ever one knew what the concept entails. Some people wouldn’t recognize peace if it slapped them in the face, as the saying goes; but of course, if it did that, it wouldn’t be peace, it would be Orwellian double-speak. You recognize peace precisely because it doesn’t slap you in the face.

    Or take the notion of self-criticism; obviously a bad notion (‘it was very much like church’, says Mayer, speaking for perhaps the most God-fearing nation on the planet). Self-criticism is merely (independent) critical thinking applied to oneself. You may delight in finding an error of several orders of magnitude in someone else’s calculation, but you don’t like it when the boot is on the other foot, because you would never make a mistake like that, would you? Well, yes, you might. Self-criticism is what we were taught at school to do: check your own calculations, not least to avoid the embarrassment of being caught out. Miscalculations do happen, and the only bad thing about them is what happens when they are not discovered, or not quickly enough.

    Ordinary men sacrificing their lives to fight Wall Street’s battles against Wall Street’s version of communism continues to be a miscalculation of the first order nearly seventy years after Korea started disarmingly to explain by removing them as far as possible from the war situation they were in and telling them how they were well and truly… brainwashed.


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    Thank you for your thoughtful post. I think much depends on the ends these concepts and programs of which Maj Mayer was speaking are intended to achieve. I doubt that we can conclude that the Koreans were humanitarians intent upon helping the prisoners. War is war. This was a new dimension or aspect of warfare that continues to this day, but at a much more sophisticated level and not just directed at the USA. I think that some who are qualified to speak on the subject refer to it as fourth or fifth generation warfare.

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    Thank you for your thoughtful post. I think much depends on the ends these concepts and programs of which Maj Mayer was speaking are intended to achieve. I doubt that we can conclude that the Koreans were humanitarians intent upon helping the prisoners. War is war. This was a new dimension or aspect of warfare that continues to this day, but at a much more sophisticated level and not just directed at the USA. I think that some who are qualified to speak on the subject refer to it as fourth or fifth generation warfare.
    I hear you Satori. If you talk of war in generational terms, the trend has always been towards escalation, and in ethical terms during the twentieth century towards increasingly questionable morals not only in the direction of new weapons of mass destruction notably of civilian populations, but also in the continued practice of wars of aggression. Meanwhile, ethical issues have been increasingly highlighted as well, and aggressive warfare, being the most ethically indefensible type, has to contend with higher standards of unacceptability, whereas a defensive war against an aggressor, being the least so, might find it easier to comply with them. ‘War is war’ is a little over-simplistic: war of aggression is one thing, defensive war is another. Conversely, in both cases, peace means ‘we stay at home’, but in one case that also means ‘you go home’: not the same thing.

    I agree, the Koreans were probably not humanitarians intent upon helping the prisoners. But they were surely conducting a defensive war. I don’t think a war of aggression was ever fought on one’s own soil. Sure, China was also involved and Korea was the battleground. This new type of warfare whereby less is more and for the first time we see a de-escalation, strikes me as a defensive weapon finding strength in weakness. To stop fighting, even with just prisoners of war, is a qualitatively different strategy, using brains against brawn not to win a war but to win a peace. We find the same philosophy in the unfulfilled First World War slogan, ‘the war to end all wars’; one day, this will happen. And ethically speaking, I’d have to say it is a less unacceptable approach to step back from combat and most of all to fight the war of words not with deception and disinformation but with the (perceived) truth.

    There were two ways of reacting to this novel tactic. The peaceful one would have been to seek to escalate the peace. The other one was to treat it as a new element of warfare and carry on fighting a war to keep all wars in business: we could go on for ever like this. The situation reminds me of two things. One is the CIA’s motive for killing JFK, who was making some headway with Khrushchev towards peace among the nuclear warheads. The CIA’s Robert T. Crowley summed him up in two words: ‘treacherous swine’.

    The other is the tactic employed by another man of peace, Muhammad Ali, during the big fight with Joe Frazier, as described by Norman Mailer, who was among his entourage at the time. Ali’s tactic, instead of dodging to left or right, was to lean right back on the ropes, not totally out of range, but to where the punches at the limit of Frazier’s reach were weaker and tired him out much more. So basically Ali took himself out of the ring, except for his legs, and won the contest by fighting less. He had to, he was getting too old.

    I think that maybe we need to stop listening to ‘some who are qualified to speak on the subject’ of war, whether because they have some kind of a vested interest in its continuance or simply cannot see an end to it, and listen instead to their potential victims: ordinary people.


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    Thank you for your thoughtful post. I think much depends on the ends these concepts and programs of which Maj Mayer was speaking are intended to achieve. I doubt that we can conclude that the Koreans were humanitarians intent upon helping the prisoners. War is war. This was a new dimension or aspect of warfare that continues to this day, but at a much more sophisticated level and not just directed at the USA. I think that some who are qualified to speak on the subject refer to it as fourth or fifth generation warfare.
    Yep. I completely get where you are coming from Satori. Thanks again for all your efforts. I'm most grateful.

    What Mayer was pointing a finger at is how the most subtle things can be the most powerful. Violence or coercive tactics didn't need to be used, it was all about reprogramming the mind and the undermining of faith in oneself and others. Mayors message is still relevant and maybe even more so now with what we are seeing unfold with the world.
    In the here and now, it's a complete war for our hearts and minds using neuro and bio-warfare. The technology is here and it is being used against us. Of course, there are so many other factors to take into consideration but that would be off-topic to what has been shared.
    Thank you Constance. Very well put.

    And as I read my last post again, I realized I should not have referred to Koreans, but rather, the Communist leadership in Korea and China (and the USA) at the time. I have no doubt that Korean and Chinese people (and people in the US and elsewhere) were then, as now, good and humanitarian people.

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