An otherwise law-abiding person can be convinced through mind-control techniques to murder a complete stranger?

Blackmail, torture, drug use, all sorts of stuff exists to do this already.

But the REAL scary part is now, we can convince the perpetrators that they were the ones who wanted to do the killing.

I watched that special, yes very scary stuff.
but, not everyone can be.
if it was that special on hypnotize

As an ordinary guy who has studied NLP I can effectively hypnotize one of my buddies to chase an imaginary squirrel around the yard. And my buddies aren't dupes.

So if I can do that, then what do you think the most wealthy and powerful intelligence organization on earth is capable of.

Of course they can do it and they can do it easily.

SCOPOLAMINE

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old hat. with knowledge gained from anti-depressants very specific receptors in the central nervous system can be targeted to turn off disbelief and emotive responses. The fact that Asperger type people seem to be involved, suggests they want people with a lower level of emotive life.