Controlled Offensive Behavior - USSR (U): Declassified DIA Report

by Defense Intelligence Agency

Controlled offensive behavior as defined within the scope of this report includes Soviet research on human vulnerability as it applies to methods of influencing or altering human behavior. There has been an ever increasing amount of information from the former USSR (samizdat or underground press) that suggests that certain authoritarian institutions in the USSR engaged in the practice of “mental reorientation” of numerous individuals who were classed as political dissenters. The Soviets were well aware of the benefits and applications of parapsychology research. The major impetus behind the Soviet drive to harness the possible capabilities of telepathic communication, telekinetics, and bionics are said to come from the Soviet military and KGB. The Soviets are said to have operated twenty or more centers for the study of parapsychological phenomena.

Contents

PART I – INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN BEHAVIOR MANIPULATION
SECTION I – Background
SECTION II – Current Events
SECTION III –Soviet Psychology and Psychiatry
SECTION IV – Psychological Phenomena/Psychological Weapons
PART II – PARAPSYCHOLOGY IN THE SOVIET UNION
SECTION I – Background
SECTION II – Significance of Parapsychology in the USSR
SECTION III – The Apport Technique
SECTION IV – ESP and Psychokinesis
SECTION V – Summary and Military Implications
PART III – MENTAL SUGGESTION AND CONTROLLED BEHAVIOR
SECTION I – Hypnosis
SECTION II – Conditioning Through Suggestion
PART IV – PROPAGANDA AND MASS MEDIA
PART V – PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY IN THE USSR
SECTION I – General
SECTION II – Main Psychotropic Substances – USSR
SECTION III – Psycho-Warfare Agents
SECTION IV – Current Research Interest in Psychopharmacology
PART VI – LIGHT AND COLOR AS A MEANS OF ALTERING HUMAN BEHAVIOR
SECTION I – Psycho-Optics
SECTION II – Color and Light
SECTION III – Concluding Remarks and Countermeasures
PART VII – ODOR AND THE ALTERING OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR
SECTION I – Background
SECTION II – Behavioral Altering Possibilities
PART VIII – SOUND AS A MEANS OF ALTERING BEHAVIOR
SECTION I – General
SECTION II – Infrasonic Noise
SECTION III – Sonic Noise
SECTION IV – Ultrasonic Noise
SECTION V – Conclusion
PART IX – SENSORY DEPRIVATION
PART X – ELECTROMAGNETIC EFFECTS

178 pages, Paperback

Published June 18, 2023

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