The Soviet Intelligence services, the GRU and the NKVD were the means used to do this. One part of their activities was espionage, stealing military, scientific and industrial secrets, but by far the larger part of their budget, 75%, was spent on subversion. They founded or subsidized magazines, newspapers, and organizations to promote their views. Their agents wrote books, plays, poetry and folk songs. The Soviets had so many American agents that they didn’t have enough intelligence officers to run them all, and American agents had to run American agents.

After 1945, according to a consensus of retired US intelligence officers, the US had no significant military or scientific secrets left to steal. Which left subversion as the focus of RU intelligence agencies and explains why 2/3 of the KGB’s budget was devoted, not to intelligence acquisition, but to subversion. Subversion was and is the most powerful and effective way to ensure that your enemy will do what you want them to do.

That’s why subversion and influence were and are, the focus of social control operations conducted today against the unwitting US civilian population, not by the Russians, by deep state criminal cultists in conjunction with CIA’s “Mockingbird” network, originally assembled by Frank Wisner for the Office of Policy Coordination (OPC) which would become CIA.

It is important to note that much of our human behavior consists of what Pavlov called “conditioned responses;” these can be complex sequences of habitual actions we perform without thinking, often behaviors we’ve learned in childhood.

Much of our human activity consists in unconscious following of these conditioned behavior patterns which were, perhaps, originally acquired by hard work, study and practice. Anyone who drives a car knows how difficult that seems to a beginner, but how with experience our conditioned responses allow most of us to negotiate crowded city streets without paying conscious attention to the complex sequences of control inputs and reactions driving requires.

COGNITIVE EXPLOITS

Contagious psychogenic illness or induced psychic epidemics

We humans imitate social behaviors and much imitated behavior is not learned but adopted unconsciously.

Social imitation is morally agnostic, imitated behavior can be a harmless mannerism or dangerous, irrational, genocidal or self-destructive worldview. Contagious self-replicating psychogenic illness can be trivially induced by common IW tactics.

Latahism is usually described as a Malaysian "culture bound" phenomena. Some social scientist believe imitative behaviors in latahs are related to the "startle response" as seen in Tourette's syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorders. Lawrence Osborne wrote in the New York Times magazine, “The startle reflex is a universal one. When we are jolted by surprise, we tend to scream, shout obscenities or make involuntary gestures. And some of us are a lot jumpier than others. But with latahs, as sufferers are known, these reactions become prolonged to an extreme degree. In Malay village life, people who are susceptible to such exaggerated reactions are deliberately provoked further – through furtive pokes in the ribs or tin pots thrown behind their backs – to induce a frenzied startle-trance. Over time, latahs become so sensitive that trances can be triggered by a falling coconut. [Source: Lawrence Osborne, New York Times magazine, May 6, 2001 ++]

While in the induced trance state, latah are extremely receptive to and obedient to suggestion. They will carry out complex tasks if so instructed. What is interesting is that the behaviors are

Stress induced:

“…Serai, a frail 75-year-old explains, she was invited to join a wood chopping team of women in the forests outside Kuching… the other women constantly TEASED AND TORMENTED their inexperienced companion. "They poked and poked me," she recalls a little mournfully, "and I became latah."

“How can latah consistently strike two people at the exact same moment? It seems that Serai and Amin must have some control, even if they are unable to acknowledge it, over their affliction. And if they can remember what happens to them while in a trance state, then is it really latah? Is Michael Kenny right – that latah is more of a ritual than an illness?

Loud noises trigger the phenomena similar to "shock induction," a mass hypnosis technique that exploits the extreme susceptibility to hypnotic suggestion in the immediate wake of a collectively traumatic event such as 9/11.

Syndromes very like latah, Geertz reported, exist in many other cultures. In rural parts of the Philippines, for instance, a nearly identical condition known as mali-mali is widespread. In Siberia, there is a hyperstartle complex known as myriachit, while in Thailand it is known as baah-ji and in Japan, imu. In the 1930's, scholars made a curious film about hyperstartling among the Ainu, an ethnic minority in northern Japan. The faded reels show Ainu women being startled, waving their arms like windmills and running around in a frenzy. A form of latah has even been recorded in medical literature, rather improbably, as with "the Jumping Frenchmen of Maine." Are these hyperstartle complexes different forms of latah, Geertz asked, or were they all unique syndromes? "

It is trivial to exploit our human propensity for imitation, as in latah-phenomena, and use it to create unconscious self-replicating social behaviors in a culture for purposes of marketing or for social control. Such phenomena, ripe for exploitation would be ignored by legions of clinical and academic ‘brain science’ researchers, by advertising agencies and by those individuals who dominate the rest by controlling the future of human scientific, social and economic development.

“Indeed, the power of culture to propagate mental illness has become a subject of increasing fascination in the West. In recent years, scholars have seen mysterious maladies proliferate in a way that echoes the spread of latah. Multiple-personality disorder, for example, flourished among white, middle-class American women in the 1980's. And more recently, American and European psychologists have begun tracking apotemnophilia – a new, disturbing condition in which sufferers desire to amputate one of their own limbs. The Internet, medical anthropologists say, is helping spread the condition globally. “

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> Michael Kenny right – that latah is more of a ritual than an illness?

This paper examines the symbolic properties and cultural relevance of latah, a behavioral state noted in Malaya and Indonesia since the 19th Century. Most interpretations of latah have been psychological, latah being perceived as a ‘mental disorder.’ In the following, it is concluded that latat is intimately related to other aspects of Malayo-Indonesian culture and that it is a well-known cultural pattern and not a mental disorder as such, though it may occur among persons, largely women, in a socially and psychologically marginal situation. Latah is a symbolic representation of marginality, and it is as appropriate to certain mythological and religious figures as to the socially marginal.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00051005