r in the individual.
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however, who have adjusted to handling their guilt internally have dif-
ficulty adapting to criticism and self-criticism. In brainwashing ,after
a sufficient sense of guilt has been created in the individual, sharing
and self-criticism permit relief. The price paid for this relief, how-
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ever, is loss of individuality and increased dependency.
8. Hypnosis and Drugs as Controls. There is no reliable evidence
that the communists are making widespread use of drugs or hypnosis in
brainwashing or elicitation. The exception to this is the use of common
stimulants or depressants in inducing fatigue and "mood swings."
9. Other methods of control, which when used in conjunction with
the
basic processes, hasten the deterioration of prisoners' sense of values
and resistance are:
a. Requiring a case history or autobiography of the prisoner
provides a mine of information for the interrogator in establishing and
"documenting" accusations.
b. Friendliness of the interrogator , when least expected,
up-
sets the prisoner's ability to maintain a critical attitude.
c. Petty demands, such as severely limiting the allotted
time
for use of toilet facilities or requiring the POW to kill hundreds of
flies, are harassment methods.
d. Prisoners are often humiliated by refusing them the use
of
toilet facilities during interrogator until they soil themselves. often
prisoners were not permitted to bathe for weeks until they felt
contempti-
ble.
e. Conviction as a war criminal appears to be a potent
factor
in creating despair in the individual. One official analysis of the
pres-
sures exerted by the ChiComs on "confessors" and "non-confessors" to
participation in bacteriological warfare in Korea showed that actual
trial
and conviction of "war crimes" was overwhelmingly associated with
breakdown
and confession.