"[SOURCE: PARTIALLY DECLASSIFIED — Church Committee, 1977] We tried to break the coordination between a person's beliefs and their behavior. We failed. You can coerce behavior. You cannot coerce coordination. The self reconstitutes. This is either the most hopeful thing I know or the most dangerous."
[IDENTITY PROTECTED — record partially declassified under FOIA] Operator within the CIA's MKULTRA program (1953–1973), which attempted to develop techniques for behavioral control through drugs, hypnosis, electro-convulsive therapy, and sensory manipulation. The program's classified conclusion: coercive control of coordination is achievable in the short term but self-defeating — the coordinated self rebuilds around the trauma.