One of the most important documents concerning the development in the SovietUnion, drafted in connection with the assassination of President Kennedy, wassubmitted to the Warren Commission investigating if Oswald was a part of theSoviet Union's mind control system since he had lived there and also had beenadmitted to hospital for an operation. Richard Helms, director of the CIA,stated in a document dated l9th of June 1964 that it appeared quite clear thatthe Soviet Union was organising its citizenry into a computer system by whichbehaviour patterns could be controlled to conform to its political goals. Anexcerpt from this documents reads:

Commission No. 1131

This memorandum from the CIA Deputy Director for Plans, Richard Helms for theGeneral Counsel in Presidents Commission on the Assassination of PresidentKennedy, June 19, 1964 by number 1131 refer a short briefing of the SovietResearch and development in the Field of Direction and Control of HumanBehavior.

1. Reference is made to your memorandum of 19 May l 964 requesting thatmaterials relative to Soviet techniques in mind conditioning and brainwashingbe made available to the Commission.

2. At my request, experts on these subjects within the CIA have prepared abrief survey of Soviet research in the direction of control of human behavior,a copy of which is attached. The Commission may retain this document.

3. There is no evidence that the Soviets have any techniques or agents capableof producing particular behavioral patterns which are not available in theWest. Current research indicates that the Soviets are attempting to developa technology for controlling the development of behavioral patterns among thecitizenry of the USSR in accordance with politically determined requir ementsof the system. Some of the more esoteric techniques such as ESB or, as theSoviets call it, biological radio communication.

4. Particularly notable are attempts to use modern information theory,automata theory, and feedback concepts in interpreting the mechanisms by whichthe "second signal system, affect human behavior. Implied by this researchwas the hope for a technology controlling behavior via the "second signalsystem."

5. This new trend, observed in the early Post-Stalin Period, continues. By1960 the word "cybernetics" was used by the Soviets to designate this newtrend. This new science is considered by some as the key to understanding thehuman brain and the product of its functioning psychic activity andpersonality--to the development of means for controlling it and to ways formolding the character of the "New Communist Mann'. As one Soviet author putsit: Cybernetics can be used in the molding of a child's character, theinculcation of knowledge and techniques, the amassing of experience, theestablishment of social behavior patterns...all functions which can besummarized as 'control' of the growth process of the individual.