For anyone who has taken up a love of George Smiley, that being John LeCarre's primary character in about a dozen books, one has been exposed to the concept of a deep cover operative, which LeCarre coined the term as a "Mole." The term stuck and has become a primary word in literary intelligence gathering for years, though it is unknown if it is practically used by professionals.
From my experience in personality replacement, I do believe that there are ways to creatively effect in an individual specific personalities that can be triggered out of subconscious. If you haven't seen it, "The Manchurian Candidate" suggests that a person could be triggered to having diverse personalities, one that is normal, and another that is deadly, and these two could be triggered from the subconscious.
I've been considering this concept for a while, since my internet discussions with Dr. Dave Grossman, a West Point professor, who, himself, coined the term "Killology" as the study of why people kill. He has been an essential part of nearly every school shooting investigation, and he is first and foremost interested in seeing pistol targeting video games taken off the market because, as he was saying on national news, 'one child shot six people with six bullets. The best that he'd seen in the FBI is an average of one in five. Why should we be teaching our children to shoot better than the FBI?' His website can be found at "www.killology.com".
In my judgment, I believe that to create a deadly personality, the ideal candidate has...
So, now that we have a point of reference, how many personalities is a person able to contain? Actually, the human mind is driven by belief system associative memory, and people personalities are an accepted belief system. Dozens or thousands of personalities could be any person's mind at any moment, for it is how we remember people.
Let's say that we let our candidate watch a lot of specifically edited TV. We select the programs that we believe have characters of whom our candidate should become. If our programming was created specifically for this purpose, an agency could have professional actors do all the work.
To save time, let us say that there are personalities and idiosyncrasies from many characters in many situation dramas. Let the programmers for this candidate pick and choose TV shows and movies that exist at this moment.
By having the candidate watch and analyze one character at a time, as well as providing this candidate with a copy of the script, and by using Stanislavski's method, the personality of the character becomes second nature to the desired personality we are sowing. We should have many personalities from many characters fed into the data banks of the candidate so there is a wealth of associative abilities and idiosyncrasies from which to harvest.
The next step is done almost completely in a subconscious state for our candidate and uses multiple sessions. Our programmers ask the candidate to set up a series of distinct personalities, giving each a name and having each don a personality to the entitlement of those characteristics that had been analyzed and watched. Each personality is triggered to specific words set into specific order and only from a single person's voice. The reason for the specific voice is so the words could be used in the same order by any other person on the planet without triggering any response whatsoever.
Only the voice of the controller saying exact words in the exact order with the exact sub-text will be the trigger for a personality shift. So if the words were spoken by the trigger controller in a harsh or mean or frightened manner, the effects will not take place. In fact, if the candidate were set to only remember this one version, by letting it play and replay often so that the candidate would instantly know that what he or she was hearing was or was not the original recording, the candidate would have an unalterable set of keys. Then, if the operation goes south (bad), they can erase the keys, and the candidate will be essentially stuck in whatever personality he or she is currently in.
The key worded voice must be recorded and digitally encrypted. It might be sent out the web to various agents who will be working as field operatives. In this way, perhaps the candidate has five personalities in queue. The field operatives might get four keys with four voice recordings. Only master control would reserve the killer code key. One of the keys could be an abort personality, which would cause the person to do diametrically opposite behaviors to whatever norms a person might have so as to create confusion and allow the operators time to clear the ranks or to commit suicide.
The use of a telephone as trigger is out of date. With the internet, one could use "cookies" as sub-triggers:
From here, depending on the intelligence
agency, whether a civil one or a military one, the options become more
defined. However, in all successes, the agent had to agree to participate
before any of these processes could have occurred Therefore, whether
an agency wants to turn out a Mole, to absorb intelligence from an enemy,
or a Manchurian Candidate, to kill on command, the processes are plausible
when the person accepts the task, uses, adapts and participates with expert
external programming.
©2000 David I. Brager