Here's some background history on this:
1950 – Behavioral psychologist John Gittinger joins the CIA under the cover of the Human Ecology Fund. Gittinger will develop his Personality Assessment System (PAS), which he had already been working on for several years, basing it on scores from the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS). With his PAS, both personality traits and predictable behaviors under specific given situations can be accurately determined. The PAS will come to be used extensively both for identifying individuals who are the best subjects for the various mind-control programs in MKULTRA, as well as for selecting and handling CIA operatives and agents, and of course, for determining how to compromise a person and take advantage of them. Gittinger will go on to develop an extensive database that will allow all phases of human behavior to be charted and individuals categorized, based on the comparison of accumulated test scores. Such categories are able to be determined for those who are good role-players, who are easy to hypnotize and who aren’t, who will be most loyal and who might become traitors, who have sexual deviancies, what a person’s greatest fears are, their greatest strengths, what motivates them, how they can best be influenced to act a certain way, etc. Almost anything is able to be determined about an individual’s personality with this system. Top CIA officials are so impressed with this system that they begin to use it in most agent-connected activities. The prime objectives for using this system are control, exploitation, or neutralization. Eventually, Gittinger’s database of test scores will become large enough that individuals who haven’t even taken the Wechsler tests can still be accurately assessed by studying their behavior in various circumstances and looking for specific patterns that correspond to the PAS. The database will eventually be implemented as a computerized program and the range of human attributes it can detect will become vastly extended.
See The Search for the Manchurian Candidate, by John Marks
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