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Manchurian Candidates

FILE DATE 1959
CROSS-REFS 04
STATUS NEVER CLOSED
SUMMARY
The programmed assassin who doesn't know he's loaded. Sirhan's lawyers still argue it.
FULL DOSSIER
The fear of the programmed assassin, named for Condon's 1959 novel. Documented: MKULTRA files show the CIA genuinely investigated hypnotic couriers and whether a subject could be made to act against will (Subproject 128 adjacent; the 1954 'ARTICHOKE' memo asking whether an individual could be made to perform an assassination is declassified and cited in Senate records). Also documented: no evidence it ever worked. The lore attaches the template to Sirhan Sirhan and others; the record supports the attempt, not the achievement.
SOURCES ON RECORD
01ARTICHOKE memo (Jan 1954), CIA FOIA
02Condon, The Manchurian Candidate (1959)
03Church Committee Book I (1976)
04Melton hypnosis program files
CROSS-REFERENCED FILES
RFK, 1968PROJECT MONARCHHYPNOTIC PROGRAMMINGTHE CATCHER PATTERN
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