Behind the front lines of every war in the world, prisoners are forced to sit for interrogation: manipulated, coerced, and sometimes tortured – often without ever being touched. Brainwash is a history of the methods intended to destroy and reconstruct the minds of captives, to extract information, convert dissidents, and lead peaceful men to kill and be killed.
在世界上所有战争前线的后方，战俘都被强迫接受痛苦的隔离审问：充斥着控制，强迫，以及无尽苦恼。洗脑是一种企图摧毁和重建战俘的思想，以便获取信息，转变持异议者，引诱和平人士暗杀或被暗杀的方法的历史。
With access to formerly classified documentation and interviews from the CIA, U.S. Army, MI5, MI6, and British Intelligence Corps, Dominic Streatfeild traces the evolution of mind control from its origins in the Cold War to the height of today”s war on terror. Vivid and disturbing, Brainwash is essential insight into the modern practice of interrogation and torture.
多米尼克·史塔菲尔德根据来自以前中央情报局、美国军队、军情5处（英）、军情6处（英）和英国情报处的机密文件和会谈，将思想控制革命从今天反恐战争高峰期追溯到冷战时期。伴着激动人心又有些不安的心情，对洗脑的研究成为了解现代审问和拷问实例的至关重要的能力。
From Dominic
多米尼克
The moment I read John Marks’ The Search for the Manchurian Candidate in the mid-1990s I was hooked. Originally I read the book with a view to making a documentary series about the CIA and brainwashing techniques. Nobody in the UK wanted it, so a pile of research notes sat in a folder for a decade.
当我初读约翰.马科斯写于1990年代中期的《寻找中国东北人候选人》是为美国情报局做一个关于洗脑技术的系列记录。在英国，没人涉足这一行，所以一大堆调查记录一直沉寂了十年之久。
When, after Cocaine came out, I was asked what I wanted to write about next, brainwashing popped up. I rang Marks and asked him what he thought about the idea of another book: I didn’t want to rewrite The Search for the Manchurian Candidate if there wasn’t anything new to say. He kindly suggested that there was likely to be a wealth of new material – then pointed me in the direction of Northern Ireland and sensory deprivation. I did a little research. Sure enough, new material poured out.
在可卡因出现后，我被要求继续写那些我想写下去的东西，洗脑研究开始兴起。我打电话给马科斯询问他对另一本书上观点的认识：如果没有什么新意，我不想去重写《寻找中国东北人候选人》。他亲切的建议，可能有大量新的材料引领我进入北爱尔兰关于感觉剥夺方向的研究。我做了一点点研究。足够多了，新材料正在不断出现。
For me, the most interesting aspect of the research was indeed the Northern Ireland issue. I contacted various sources in the British intelligence community who – forty years down the line – were willing to share their recollections of what had happened, and why, during Internment in 1971. I interviewed as many as I could find and wrote the chapter on the origins of the ’5 techniques’ (wall standing, hooding, sleep deprivation, food/water deprivation and white noise), convinced that I was onto a real scoop.
对我来说，研究最有趣的部分其实是北爱尔兰事件。在四十年内的时间我从英国情报机关搜集各种资源，谁将分享他们在1971年的拘禁中到底发生了什么，为什么发生。我对我可能找到的人进行访问并且根据五种技巧写章节（站墙，带头罩，禁止睡觉，禁止吃饭喝水和白噪音），用来确信我得到的是第一手资料。 从阿布格莱布 和关塔那摩湾曝光的消息以及这几个故事都放在书的前部分。
Then news of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay broke – and the story was all over the front pages. The book was still years away from publication.
这本书还要几年才能出版。
I suppose I was lucky, in a way: if I’d tried to look into the issues after the headlines, I would have got nowhere. Virtually all of the sources I’d spoken to shut up, or vanished, or both.
我认为我是幸运的，某方面来说：如果我在确立标题后试着调查这些事件，我将会什么也得不到。差不多我已经说过的所有资源都被封口或销毁了。
Published by: Hodder & Stoughton (2007)
出版社：霍德和斯托顿出版社（2007）
ISBN: 0340831618
国际标准图书号：034083618
Reviews
评论：1，一本精彩的图书。安德鲁.玛尔,"星期开始"，英国广播公司4频道
An extraordinary book. Andrew Marr, Start the Week, BBC Radio 4
2，激动人心的——5颗星。《超时》（英城市周刊）。
Gripping – 5 stars. Time Out
3，斯特菲尔德 做了一项重要服务，通使这个奇特时期再次吸引了人们的注意力。在这个故事中，关键时刻的生动描写与分析穿插进行。克里斯多夫.西尔维斯特，《金融时报》。
Streatfeild does an important service by bringing this curious phase to our attention again. Vivid descriptions of key moments in the story are interspersed with analysis. Christopher Sylvesters, Financial Times
4，极具吸引力...斯特菲尔德的描述控制毫无瑕疵。你知道每个故事发生在哪里，而且故事怎样发生总会产生兴奋感。他的调查令人敬畏的。布莱恩.阿普尔亚德，《星期日泰晤士报》。
Marvellously engrossing . . . Streatfield’s narrative control cannot be faulted. You know where every story is going, but how it gets there is always a thrill. His research is formidable. Bryan Appleyard, The Sunday Times
5,对一个历史永恒的主题的极有价值的论述。情报研究中心，中央情报局。
A valuable treatment of a historical and contemporary topic. Center for the Study of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency
6,从多方面对洗脑进行的全面而大量的探索。《书单》（美国图书协会创刊）。
An expansive and mutifaceted exploration of brainwashing in its multitude of forms. Booklist.
注：白噪音是指一段声音中的频率分量的功率在整个可听范围（0～20KHZ）内都是均匀的。因为人耳对高频较敏感，所以这种声音听上去是很吵耳的沙沙声，近似于电台FM频段空白处的声音。
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