The Hidden History Behind Psyops: Creating Havoc Even Today

Psyops are increasingly used by hidden forces that today control our politicians, institutions, media and thus in practice both the development of society and large parts of our lives.

Psyop is an abbreviation for psychological operation: military or governmental operations that aim to influence the emotions, motives, thinking and/or behavior of a target group to achieve a specific goal. The main goal is usually to achieve strategic or tactical advantages by influencing the information sphere and people’s perception of reality.

It was once something resorted to, not infrequently with false flag operations, to achieve major paradigm shifts. Today, however, it is a daily ongoing phenomenon in a growing flow of misinformation and disinformation. If you feel that the world has become unrecognizable, incomprehensible and confusing, you are not alone – that is one of the goals of psyops.

Have you felt in recent years that the world feels increasingly alien and that you are no longer in control of your own life or future? That the “news” and official narratives feel increasingly upsetting, unpleasant and often downright strange? That you are forced to play along in a development that goes against your own will and the best interests of your family and nation? If so, you are neither alone nor paranoid.

Behavioral Scientists’ Warning

American behavioral scientist Chase Hughes, one of the foremost in the field, explains that what we are seeing is largely part of an ongoing psyop aimed at breaking us down as humans. Ubiquitous mobile phones, tablets and computers with internet and social media are gaining an ever stronger grip on us, constantly stealing our attention while shaping our perception of reality. However, they are not the cause of what is happening, but rather new and more effective tools to convey something that has been going on for a long time and has intensified in recent years.

Chase Hughes is a well-known behavioral science expert and author specializing in person-based intelligence gathering, interrogation and persuasion techniques. He is the founder of Applied Behavior Research and the creator of the NCI system, which stands for Neuro-Cognitive Intelligence, today often called the “gold standard” in behavioral science. The US military intelligence services, the CIA and Fortune 500 Leaders (CEOs of the 500 largest US companies) are among his course participants. Hughes has 20 years of experience from the US Navy, including their intelligence service, which he left in 2019 in the face of the so-called Covid ‘pandemic’. He is trained in behavioral psychology, with postgraduate certifications in neuroscience from Harvard and Duke and neuroradiology from Oxford. The picture shows one of his quotes: “We think we know nonsense when we see it – but we don’t.” Image: Success Podcast

Hughes holds postgraduate certifications in neuroscience from Harvard and Duke and neuroradiology from Oxford.

According to Hughes, what is happening now was planned over a hundred years ago in an office in London by largely unknown men who methodically mapped the human mind. It is the product of their long and hidden work – first studying human behavior, then designing information such as news and interactive technologies that make outrage over more or less untrue news feel addictive. That scary news locks us to the screen like a hare in the spotlight. That is the underlying reason why doomscrolling has become a modern and destructive phenomenon.

Civilians were the target. Behind the facade of “helping” shell-shocked soldiers, extensive studies were underway at the Tavistock Institute on how different traumas throughout life affected and shaped people. These were largely civilian test subjects, who were often traumatized on purpose in order to then study the results and how they could be used to shape the masses. Historical images: Chase Hughes

Hughes explains that this is why “a feeling of despair” has become something of a normal state for many people – not only due to de facto negative developments in the economy and society, but also to how these are presented by establishment politicians, “experts” and media. There is a reason why you wake up with anxiety. All of this was carefully planned long ago, after extensive studies of human behavior.

“Often the decisions, the feelings, even the arguments in your head aren’t really yours,” according to Hughes.

Tavistock’s Dragon’s Teeth

Hughes explains that the plague plaguing our world today began at the Tavistock Clinic in London in 1920, later becoming the Tavistock Institute, where they studied traumatized soldiers from the First World War. They suffered from shell shock – what we now call PTSD. There was no shortage of severely traumatized soldiers after the horrors of trench warfare, giving Tavistock an enormous research base.

The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations was founded in London in 1947 and claims to be a non-profit charity and social science organisation. Officially, they are dedicated to social science research, organisational development, community planning and social policy. The institute claims to have contributed to areas such as organisational psychology, group dynamics and media studies. It was an evolution of the Tavistock Clinic which was founded in 1920 (see picture) to study traumatised soldiers immediately after the First World War (1914–1919). Here you can see The Tavistock Centre’s Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) which has a monopoly on carrying out gender reassignment surgery in England and Wales. Despite massive support from the globalist establishment, they were forced to close on 31 March 2024. This was after a public outcry when it was revealed that Tavistock had in practice tricked underage children into having themselves circumcised. They had then managed to destroy the body, mind, reproductive capacity and future of 9,000 children, 5,000 of them in the years 2021–2022 alone. Still image: The Sun

It was presented outwardly as trauma therapy, but it was just a cover, according to Hughes. When Tavistock’s behavioral scientists interacted with shock-damaged soldiers, they quickly discovered that trauma doesn’t just break people down – it “softens” them, making them docile and more or less compliant.

However, Tavistock not only conducted studies on former soldiers. They also began conducting behavioral science experiments on civilians – both adults and children, often traumatizing test subjects deliberately in order to study the results and how they could be used to shape the masses.

Shell shock was thought to be caused by nerve damage from explosions, but research now shows that it is caused by severe psychological stress from war, not physical nerve damage. Here in 1918, Private Meek, 23, suffered from complete retrograde amnesia (memory loss), hysterical paralysis, contractures (permanent muscle shortening and stiffness), mutism (inability to speak), and general anesthesia. He was said to have fully recovered two and a half years later. Still image: Science Museum

The clinic then began applying lessons learned from the psychology of war to entire populations, focusing on creating trauma by sowing sadness, confusion and fear in the information sphere. The mass media, and not least television sets that began to be mass-produced in the 1950s, became new and invaluable tools for the manipulators. After the Second World War, the Tavistock Clinic changed its focus from studying to applying what was learned. The shift was marked by a change of name to the Tavistock Institute, with focus now on manipulating consent to various agendas via media, education and political control. Their fingerprints can be found on organizations such as NATO, Cold War propaganda, mass advertising, modern PR methods and psyops in particular.

It is therefore not surprising that this institute was the driving force behind the massive campaign in the West to offer state-sanctioned sex reassignment surgery for transsexuals, with a focus on underage children. Several recent studies have shown that this leads to lifelong trauma with gender and emotional confusion, grief over lost identity, and fear of a lost future – again, the same three magic words: sadness, confusion and fear.

Three Magic Words

The clinic then began to test the lessons learned from the psychology of war that they had studied. They applied it to entire populations with a focus on creating trauma by sowing sadness, confusion and fear in the information sphere.  That is precisely sadness, confusion and fear.

The mass media, and not least through television sets that began to be mass-produced in the 1950s and were soon in everyone’s home, became new, effective and invaluable tools for the manipulators and their hidden clients. They used the new methods and tools to take control of entire populations.

Manipulated like a literal puppet. The behavioral scientist can do almost anything with the violently shaking ex-soldier with shell shock. A severely traumatized individual loses control of both his mind and then his body. That was the first part that was of interest in order to then be able to replicate, but where bombs and grenades were replaced by stimulation via the information sphere – sometimes reinforced by chemicals like fluoride (which is found in almost all toothpaste, which everyone uses daily without thinking about it). Still image: YouTube

It is therefore not surprising that this very institute was the driving force behind the massive campaign in the West in recent years to offer state-sanctioned sex reassignment surgery for transsexuals, with a focus on underage children. Several recent studies have shown that this leads to lifelong trauma with gender and emotional confusion , further grief over lost identity and social ties, and fear of harassment and a lost future. Again, the same three magic words.

Laying the Foundation for Psyops

Front row, from left: Sigmund Freud is known for his groundbreaking research in neurology, psychoanalysis, and group psychology. G. Stanley Hall focused his work on evolutionary psychology, which has influenced the education system and the way governments deal with “disruptive behavior of youth groups.” CG Jung studied the collective unconscious, which is today used by marketers and political strategists to trigger strong emotional reactions in large populations. Back row, from left: Abraham A. Brill worked as a consultant for Bernays to link products, such as cigarettes, to deep-seated psychological desires. Ernest Jones and Sandor Ferenczi focused on the treatment of trauma and neurosis, which is not “social engineering,” but is crucial to triggering the target audience for a psyop. Photo: Wikipedia

All six of the famous “Clark University group” from 1909 believed that human actions are driven by hidden, internal forces. If these can be understood and manipulated, individuals and entire populations can be controlled. They focused on studying the subconscious, work that laid the foundation for modern mass persuasion and population control through psyops. The group included Sigmund Freud, whose groundbreaking research in neurology, psychoanalysis and group psychology became foundational; G. Stanley Hall, whose work influenced the education system and how governments deal with disruptive youth behavior; and CG Jung, who studied the collective unconscious, today used by marketers and political strategists to trigger strong emotional reactions in large populations.

Both Freud and Ferenczi wrote extensively about how the mind “splits” in order to survive extreme trauma. The CIA also tortured its test subjects with drugs and extreme pain in order to plant information in parts of the brain that the person themselves could not access, with the aim of using them as unwitting couriers.

Edward Bernays: Transforming the World

One of the behind-the-scenes manipulators of the world we live in is Edward Bernays. By applying his uncle Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theories to marketing and public relations, he was able to “manipulate consent” by influencing people’s subconscious. His groundbreaking campaigns fundamentally changed American culture. He was the one who turned cigarettes into feminist “Torches of Freedom” – symbols of liberation and equality with men. Cigarettes have since killed an estimated 70 million women.

Edward Bernays (1891–1995) was born in Vienna to a Jewish family and was the nephew of the famous psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. The Austrian-American “mind control pioneer” Bernays is widely considered the father of what we call public relations. Bernays revolutionized the industry by applying psychoanalysis to mass persuasion, a technique he called “the engineering of consent,” that is, manipulated consent. The image shows one of his more famous quotes: “Propaganda is the executive branch of the invisible government.” Today we call it the Deep State. Image: X

Bernays also influenced global politics by shaping the image of American presidents and orchestrating propaganda campaigns that paved the way for CIA operations. One such example is when the CIA overthrew Guatemala’s democratically elected president Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán in 1954, to secure interests of the American company United Fruit Company. The operation involved psychological warfare and subversion – spreading disinformation and fear through false radio broadcasts giving the impression of a massive rebel invasion and popular uprising. None of this was true, but the country was paralyzed and its leadership surrendered without a fight.

Bernays further succeeded in getting the Western world to introduce sex education in schools, turning desire into a weapon, creating the culture of consumption, portraying smoking as healthy, and making war appear as a necessity for democracy.

Lucky Strike was rejected by the new target group of women and market research showed that it was because of the green color. Behavioral expert Bernays was hired to create an attractive package based on his unique knowledge of people’s minds and subconscious. However, he chose to keep the green color and instead manipulate the entire US population to perceive the color green as trendy, and therefore desire products in that color. Sales then skyrocketed, with exactly the same cigarette packs as before the seemingly unrelated PR campaign. Image: The American Tobacco Company

Perhaps his most famous achievement was when cigarette manufacturer American Tobacco Company hired him to change the design of its iconic Lucky Strike packages to make them attractive to women, who turned out to dislike the green color. He did not change the packages, but instead manipulated the entire American population’s perception of the color green, creating the illusion that green was the new optimal fashion trend. His methods involved everything from films and celebrities to massive advertising campaigns and seemingly unrelated events. The previously “ugly” cigarette packages were now highly sought after by women precisely because they were green.

“We are guided, our minds molded, our tastes created, our ideas presented, largely by men we have never heard of,” Bernays noted.

This story may seem like a curiosity, but the same methods can be used to change people’s opinions about basically anything – without them even being aware of it. And today there are significantly more advanced tools that, via social media, reach everyone around the world during almost their entire waking hours.

Fluoride

Fluoride began to be added to both drinking water and toothpaste in the 1950s, on the initiative of behavioral scientist Edward Bernays. Mass advertising and influence via media and schools meant that soon everyone began to expose themselves to fluoride daily. When asked how fluoride – which has known neurotoxicity – affects the brain, we learn that it can cause decreased cognitive capacity, a permanent decrease in IQ and the ability to process complex information; increased impulsivity, a decreased ability to regulate emotions or resist immediate reactions; and increased irritability or anxiety, a recalibration of how the brain handles stress. It is precisely the reactions that a psyop provokes that interact with and are reinforced by fluoride.

Today, there are many good alternatives, such as the family-owned company Himalaya (top image), to the fluoride toothpaste of large corporations such as Colgate-Palmolive (bottom image), which are largely owned by globalist investment giants such as BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard. Image: Advertisement for Crest fluoride toothpaste, Photo: Nya Tider

Operation Mockingbird

CIA trap. Here is one of the CIA buildings at 225 Chestnut Street in San Francisco, where MK Ultra experiments were conducted. One of them took place in 1955 in a room decorated like a brothel where hired prostitutes drugged and seduced unsuspecting men (who at the time did not know they were in a CIA building) to see how the combination of sex and various drugs could manipulate the mind and make them, for example, give out sensitive information. Behind glass, CIA behavioral scientists studied everything that took place in detail and later refined the methods. Photo: Ed Clark/The LIFE Picture Collection

The CIA launched Operation Mockingbird in the late 1940s, when Frank Wisner, a high-ranking CIA official, established a program in 1948 to influence domestic and foreign media for propaganda purposes. The Mockingbird program was a logical consequence of behavioral scientists at the CIA concluding that the easiest way to control a country was through headlines. Scary headlines about atomic bombs, threats of war or imminent attacks would keep people in check. Headlines were more important than texts, as everyone saw them and they were etched into the subconscious. The CIA therefore tailored headlines and “news” – partially or completely invented – and planted them in the media to break down the population and get people to accept prevailing narratives.

Udo Ulfkotte (1960–2017), late German former system media journalist, whistleblower and author, to RT during an interview in 2014. Collage: Lidové Noviny

They not only planted disinformation in unsuspecting journalists, but often wrote the headlines and fabricated news themselves. Some were even news anchors. By the early 1970s, over 400 journalists were already employed by the CIA, and many more were unknowingly fed with what the CIA wanted to communicate. News anchors, editors, columnists – people that almost everyone trusted – spread disinformation produced by behavioral scientists to “reprogram their brains.”

It is appropriate here to remember German journalist Udo Ulfkotte, who worked at mainstream newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. In his 2014 book, he revealed how influence operations were carried out. His and other Western journalists’ testimonies show that it is rarely the country’s own intelligence service, but directly the American CIA, that pressures journalists – sometimes via intermediaries. Ulfkotte soon suffered a series of heart attacks and died in 2017, aged just 56.

“I have been a journalist for about 25 years, and I have been trained to lie, to betray, and to not tell the truth to the public,” Udo Ulfkotte famously said in 2014.

Mental Torture: Project MKUltra

William J. Casey, Director of the CIA from 1981 to 1988.  Photo: Michael Evans – Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum

Project MKUltra was a secret, illegal CIA program that began in the 1950s and continued at least well into the 1970s. It used human subjects in unethical experiments, often without consent, to develop techniques for mind control, interrogation and behavior modification – often in combination with psychedelic drugs such as LSD given in high doses. It aimed to break down individuals, create methods for memory alteration, erase and rebuild new identities, develop truth serums, and devise various forms of psychological torture.

The project involved electric shocks, forced sleep deprivation, hypnosis, reprogramming of the subconscious, sensory deprivation or overstimulation, and psychological abuse. MKUltra essentially took the “maps of the mind” that Freud and Jung had developed and used them to break down and recreate a person’s identity. The CIA also explored whether they could “plant” specific symbols or triggers into a person’s subconscious – the goal being to create a “sleeper agent” that would function normally until it saw a certain symbol or heard a code word, which would then activate a subconscious order such as an assassination.

The once top-secret project is now one of the most notorious examples of state abuse of power. However, this was much worse than the official story suggests – not just in methods, but in the goal of applying them to entire populations, including the American one.

“We know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false,” according to former CIA director William J. Casey

CIA behavioral scientists became experts in the 1950s–1970s in everything from manipulating the subconscious to erasing people’s memories and identities. More than half a century has passed since then, with not only significantly more refined methods, but a wealth of new and groundbreaking technology. It is therefore very likely that the methods and results today are significantly more effective and far-reaching – and thus also significantly more harmful and devastating.

More modern examples of various covert programs and psyops, as well as – most importantly – methods for seeing through them, will help so that we do not continue to be fooled.