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It’s crossed my mind many times. Enlightening reading...(and this refers to Korea, but those same interrogators and indoctrination techinques were probably shipped to Vietnam as well.)

http://www.crossroad.to/Quotes/globalism/Congress.htm

Judge for yourselves. And to be fair to McCain, maybe not “brainwashed” as much as just “broken”. Remember, these are evil people, and there are not too many human beings who can stand up to REAL torture - mental, physical, etc, that the communists were masters of - as opposed to the Gitmo underwear-on-the-head so-called “torture”.

-Hale

“This document is copied from the Congressional record. The introductory information about the Congressional Committee has been placed at the end of this page.

See also Brainwashing and “Education Reform”

MR. HUNTER: “The Communist inquisitors in the POW camps depended first of all on a screening process to provide them with the men most likely to succumb to brainwashing. They picked the ones they figured would be most useful to them from among these. Cunning was all that was needed, along with a complete disregard for ethics; no special intelligence.... They have based their technique primarily on the complete abandonment of morality.”

“..As an example of the success the Communists are achieving, Mr. Hunter cited statistics on American prisoners of war in Korea.

“Never before in history had so many captured Americans gone to the aid of the enemy.

“For 2 years the services studied the records of the prisoners. What they found was not pretty.

“A total of 7,190 Americans were captured. Of these, 6,656 were Army troops, 263 were airmen, 231 Marines, 40 Navy men.

“In every war in American history some men have managed to escape. Korea was the exception.

“Roughly 1 of every 3 American prisoners collaborated with the Communists in some way, either as informants or as propagandists.

“In the 20 prison camps, 2, 730 of the 7,190 Americans died, the highest morality rate among prisoners in United States history. Many of them died unnecessarily. They either did not know how to take care of themselves of they just lay down and quit. Some sick or wounded died of malnutrition abandoned by their comrades.

“Discipline among Americans was almost nonexistent. It was a case of dog eat dog for food, cigarettes, blankets, clothes.

“For the first time in history, Americans — 21 of them — swallowed the enemy’s propaganda line and declined to return to their own people.”

Mr. Hunter declared that in the struggle with the Soviet Union, “we are losing so fast that unless we put a very drastic end to it, the question of who is winning will be academic in a decade.”

“People at lectures and elsewhere,” he declared, “frequently ask that of me, as if begging me to say that we are winning. I wish I could, but one only has to think of the position of the United States at the end of the war and compare it to now. We only have to look at the map of the world as it was when signed the peace on the battleship Missouri and compare it to the map now. Great areas with enormous populations have fallen into the hands of the Reds, not through any approximation to the democratic process, but through sheer power pressures, by psychological warfare.”