Mind Control, 1965

From: Ian Goddard (Ian@Goddard.net)
Date: Sun Oct 18 1998 - 03:31:43 MDT


Remote mind control by radio-controlled brain implants
had been mastered as far back as 1964, to the point that
scientists "played" animals "like little electronic toys,"
according to the following New York Times article:

    THE NEW YORK TIMES, May 17, 1965, front page

   'Matador' With a Radio Stops Wired Bull: Modified
    Behavor in Animals Subject of Brain Study.

    By John A. Osmundsen

    Afternoon sunlight poured over the high wooden
    barriers into the ring, as the brave bull bore
    down on the unarmed "matador" -- a scientist
    who had never faced fighting bull.

    But the charging animal's horns never reached
    the man behind the heavy red cape. Moments be-
    fore that could happen, Dr. Jose Delgado, the sci-
    entist, pressed a button on a small radio trans-
    mitter in his hand and the bull braked to a halt.

    Then he pressed another button on the transmit-
    ter, and the bull obediently turned to the right
    and trotted away.

    The bull was obeying commands in his brain that
    were being called forth by electrical stimulation
    -- by the radio signals -- of certain regions in
    which fine wires had been painlessly planted."

    The experiment, conducted last year in Cordova,
    Spain, by Dr. Delgado of Yale University's School
    of Medicine, was probably the most spectacular
    demonstration ever performed of the deliberate
    modification of animal behavior through external
    control of the brain. . . .

    He has been working in this field for more than
    15 years. Techniques that he and other scientists
    have recently developed have been refined to the
    point where, he believes, "a turning point has
    been reached in the study of the mind."

    "I do believe," he said in a recent lecture,
    "that an understanding of the biological bases
    of social and antisocial behavior and of mental
    activities, which for the first time in history
    can now be explored in a conscious brain, may be
    of decisive importance in the search for intelli-
    gent solutions to some of our present anxieties,
    frustrations and conflicts."

    . . . (page 20)

    Based on His Experiment

    Dr. Delgado's contention that brain research
    has reached a stage of refinement where it can
    contribute to the solution of some...problems
    is based he said, on many of his own experiments.

    These have shown, he explained, that "functions
    traditionally related to the psyche, such as
    friendliness, pleasure or verbal expression,
    can be induced, modified and inhibited by
    direct electrical stimulation to the brain."

    For example, he has been able to "play" monkeys
    and cats "like little electronic toys" that yawn,
    hide, fight, play, mate and go to sleep on command.

    . . .

    Some of The Results Listed

    With such techniques, Dr. Delgado has shown:

    * Monkeys will learn to press a button that
    sends a stimulus to the brain of an enraged
    member of the colony and calms it down, in-
    dicating that animals can be taught to con-
    trol other's behavior.

    * A monkey, stimulated to extremely aggres-
    sive behavior will make "intelligent" attacks
    only on competitive members of the colony,
    sparing other, friendlier, ones.

    * Monkeys and cats can be triggered into se-
    quential behavior in which one might open its
    mouth, turn around, walk to a corner, climb a
    wall, jump down and return to "start," repeat-
    ing those movement in the same order every
    time they are stimulated but will modify the
    pattern if other animals get in the way or if
    they are threatened.

    The latter two experiments show that electri-
    cal brain stimulation does not simply evoke
    automatic responses but reactions that become
    integrated into the social behavior according
    to the individual's own personality or temp-
    erament, Dr. Delgado said.

    Experiments have been conducted on human beings
    by Dr. Delgado and other scientists, primarily
    during the treatment of certain types of epil-
    epsy. Stimulation of particular areas of the
    brain have produced anxiety, profound feelings
    of friendliness and, in one case, a six-fold
    increase in word output.

    The Yale neurophysiologist believes that tech-
    niques such as the one he is using can lead to
    the discovery of the cerebral basis of anxiety,
    pleasure, aggression and other mental functions
    and that "we shall be in a much better position
    to influence their development and manifestation
    (in various ways) especially by means of more
    scientifically programmed education."

Source: THE NEW YORK TIMES, 'Matador' With a Radio Stops
Wired Bull: Modified Behavor in Animals Subject of Brain
Study." By John A. Osmundsen. May 17, 1965. Page 1 & 20.

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