Many sites point to MK-ULTRA, the code name for a covert C.I.A. mind-control and chemical interrogation program begun in the 1950s.
To identify trials with clear covert changes of mind, we used the following algorithm.
If the decoder is reliable at many time points, then these crossings would be evidence for covert changes of mind (Horwitz and Newsome, 2001; Resulaj et al., 2009; Bollimunta et al., 2012; Kiani et al., 2014; Thura and Cisek, 2014).
Klein begins her first chapter with a moving account of a conversation she had with a victim of a covert programme of mind-control experiments, carried out in Canada in the 1950s, which used people suffering from minor psychiatric ailments to try out techniques of "de-patterning" that aimed to scramble and reshape their personalities.
Reverse speech, as he calls it, can also provide covert peeks into the minds of pop stars, if one believes in this homemade science.
This is because narcissistic or antisocial abusers are masters of playing mind games and covert manipulation, are able to deny the abuse through gaslighting and present a false image to the world which supports their denial.
As I consider the changes in Iran over the last year, the people who come quickly to mind are my covert-action-loving colleague, Karl Popper and the army of pro-democracy lay and clerical Iranian intellectuals who've been transforming their country's culture and ethics.
In one of the episodes, "Black Ops Hypnosis," I reprogrammed a man's mind to become a covert operative and tasked him to do something he would never have done otherwise.
His tics suggest nothing so much as a covert division of labor that governs his mind.
For example, Smith et al. (2013) showed that if students brought information to mind without actually producing it (covert retrieval), they remembered the information just as well as if they overtly produced the retrieved information (overt retrieval).
