A 1952 document from the CIA's MKULTRA program reports on an interview with a professional hypnotist about ideas that might be useful to the Agency. An excerpt: "An individual who has been hypnotized makes a very excellent courier. They can be given messages while under hypnosis which they themselves do not know and only an individual knowing the code can get this message from this courier. Even assuming that the post-hypnotic control could be broken or the individual hypnotized, it could still be protected perhaps as follows: A person could regressed to a certain time and date and then given the message and unless the person who subsequently gained control of the subject regressed the subject to the correct date and time set out, he could not get the message. Even more secure would be to move the individual forward. If he were moved from thirty years of age to thirty-five years of age at a given date and time and then given the message, unless the individual could guess the age, the time, and the date in the future, he could not obtain the message." A later document states that CIA pursued this idea. Qeustions: Has this technique been used in connection with protecting pass phrases for digital crypto, or for that matter has hypnosis been used to crack a person's pass phrase with amnesia that it had been done? --- Several Congressional investigations and hearings in the mid-1970s revealed the MKULTRA behavorial/mind control and assassination research program. We've been sent some 1200 digitized MKULTRA documents by IntellNet.org and are slowly wading through them for interesting items to transcribe and publish from the It appears that the collection is mostly composed of the FOIA material John Marks got for use in his 1978 book on MKULTRA, which is online: http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/lsd/marks.htm A number of documents are dated after Marks book so it is not clear where that material came from -- IntellNet claims to have got the stuff from an anonymous source.
