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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Containment: An Overview}}  \tn
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{\bf{Definition:}} & US foreign policy doctrine articulated by George F. Kennan (1947), aimed at preventing the spread of communism. \tn 
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{\bf{Core Idea:}} & Communism should be confined to existing areas, blocked from spreading into new states. \tn 
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{\bf{Application:}} & Military (Korean War, Vietnam War). \tn 
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 & Political (alliances like NATO, Marshall Plan aid). \tn 
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 & Covert/intelligence (CIA interventions, coups, and psychological warfare). \tn 
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{\bf{Psychological Front:}} & Containment wasn't only about tanks and borders; it was about winning hearts and minds to stop ideological spread. \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{The Cold War was an ideological struggle: communism vs. capitalism.} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{US strategists feared that communism could spread through propaganda, persuasion, and psychological influence as much as by force.} \tn 
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This meant containment required: & Resisting enemy indoctrination (e.g., "brainwashing"). \tn 
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 & Developing tools of psychological warfare. \tn 
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 & Protecting US troops and citizens from communist influence. \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{MKULTRA as a Containment Strategy}}  \tn
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{\bf{Background:}} & Early CIA projects (BLUEBIRD, ARTICHOKE) explored interrogation and truth serums to fight communist subversion. \tn 
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 & MKULTRA (1953–1973) was the expansion of these efforts, led by Sidney Gottlieb under Allen Dulles. \tn 
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{\bf{Containment Logic in MKULTRA:}} & If communism could spread psychologically, then the US had to contain it at the mental level. \tn 
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 & CIA worried that the USSR and China had mastered mind control and "brainwashing." \tn 
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 & MKULTRA was framed as defensive research to prevent US personnel or societies from being "turned." \tn 
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MKULTRA also aimed to go beyond defense: & Develop techniques to weaken, confuse, or break down communist agents. \tn 
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 & Possible use in covert ops to destabilise governments leaning toward communism. \tn 
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In this way, MKULTRA paralleled military containment: & Military: stop territorial spread. \tn 
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 & Psychological: stop ideological spread. \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{Vietnam War = ultimate test of containment.} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{CIA counterinsurgency programs (e.g., Phoenix Program) drew on interrogation methods informed by MKULTRA research.} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{Psychological warfare was seen as essential to containing communism in Southeast Asia.} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{Shows how MKULTRA was part of the wider arsenal of containment tools — though covert and secretive.} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{Just as military containment led to questionable wars, MKULTRA led to unethical experiments (drugging civilians, psychological torture, hospital experiments).} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{Both justified in the name of preventing communism from spreading.} \tn 
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{\bf{Containment Successes:}} & Prevented communist spread in Western Europe; contributed to long-term survival of US-aligned states. \tn 
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{\bf{Containment Failures:}} & Vietnam, Cuban Revolution, Afghanistan. \tn 
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{\bf{MKULTRA Failures:}} & Did not produce reliable mind control methods. \tn 
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 & Left a legacy of abuse, scandal, and distrust. \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{Both illustrate how containment could push the US into morally and strategically dubious territory.} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{MKULTRA was the psychological wing of containment, aimed at countering communist influence at the level of the human mind.} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{Both demonstrate how Cold War paranoia justified extreme policies and unethical experiments.} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{MKULTRA's role in containment highlights how ideology shaped covert science.} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Public policy = Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan → Covert policy = MKULTRA experiments.} \tn 
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