Mind Control = conspiracy tool?

Link: http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/

This is a quote from an article published at SteveLendmanBlog February 16 2010:

'MK-ULTRA was the code name for a secret CIA mind control program, begun in 1953, under Director Allen Dulles. Its purpose was multifold, including to perfect a truth drug for interrogating suspected Soviet spies during the Cold War. It followed earlier WW II hypnosis, primitive drugs research, and the US Navy's Project Chatter, explained by its Bureau of Medicine and Surgery in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request as follows:

It began "in the fall of 1947 focusing on the identification and testing of drugs (LSD and others) in interrogations and the recruitment of agents. The research included laboratory experiments on both animal and human subjects. The program ended shortly after the Korean War in 1953."'

Link: http://suburbanjournals.stltoday.com/articles/2010/02/02/warren/opinion/0203war-opsh0.txt

This is a quote from an article published at Suburban Journals February 2 2010:

'Propaganda, the most powerful method of mind control, is a technique of using information to control people's thoughts and actions.

Few people are able to fully recognize it; even fewer are aware of how it works.

Propaganda has become so omnipresent that it doesn't attract attention. It's like your heartbeat, which you should be able to feel every waking moment without using your hand, but most people simply don't pay attention as long as their heart is beating normally.

Same thing with propaganda; as long as nothing seems out of the ordinary, nobody gives thought to what's really going on. Because they're not paying attention before something changes, few are able to realize what's happening when the source of change is outside themselves.

Edward Bernays (1891-1995), more than anybody else, pioneered the use and development of modern propaganda. Behind his many ostensible accomplishments, including a corporate takeover of a foreign government, Bernays discovered how to influence the subconscious mind.

There's no magic power required to do this. Directly influencing people on a subconscious level only involves recognizing how people truly function, and cognizance of the limits of influence.'