“BRAIN-WASHING” EXPERIMENT
Russians Upset
(N.Z. Press Association Copyright) (Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, April 27. Two angry Russians saw a 28-year-old Australian psychologist Russell Willett, stagger last night from the cubicle in which he had undergone 25 hours** voluntary confinement in a “brain-washing” experiment. , They protested to Leonard Miall, head of television talks, the “Daily Mail” said. “Scientifically the idea was good,” they said, “but it was spoilt by propaganda. We didn’t like the references to communism.” Then they left. The Russians, Mr V. M. Borozdin, head of the English section of Moscow Radio, and Mr A. B Gan, another Moscow Radio official, had watched the programme in a private viewing room at the Lime Grove studios.
Willett was immediately given tests by two psychologists after emerging from the cell.
He conceded that after his period of silent darkness it would have been easy to “break him down.” He had lain with goggles, earplugs and cardboard cylinders over his hands to kill the senses of sight, hearing and touch.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28263, 29 April 1957, Page 6
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