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  A Subliminal Drs Strangelove
  Mind: Using the power of hidden suggestions, this
  Russian scientist tries to rewire the brain
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  commit suicid~,.the FBI turned to an unlikel
  source. Experts from the FBI Counter-Ter-
  rorism Center secretly met in Arlington, Va.,
  with a long-haired Russian Dr. Strangelove
  called Igor Smirno His plan: ~ipmg sublim-
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       plai ues could push-people
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  into violent acts.
  cephalographs, be meas-
  ures brain waves, then uses-computers to
  create a map of the subconscious and various
  human impulses, such as anger or the sex
  drive. Then, through taped subliminal mes-
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                 as well as good. "A knife can be used to cut
  sausage," Smirnov warns cryptically, "or cut
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  For David Koresh, the self-appointed proph-
  et, the FBI had a special voice in mind: God,
  as played by Charlton Heston.