Dimitri and Khalid discuss the groundbreaking, unsettling hypnosis research of psychologists George Estabrooks and Milton H. Erickson, programming hypnotic operatives during World War 2, Estabrooksβs eager correspondence with J. Edgar Hoover, hypnotizing subjects without their consent, inducing multiple personalities, right-wing hypno-informants infiltrating communist movements, Estabrooksβs sublimated eugenics and proto-transhumanist beliefs, Ericksonβs experiments with automatic writing, the susness of NLP, and Scientologyβs bold claim in 2004 that Al Qaeda suicide bombers were being scientifically hypnoprogrammed by arch-sicko psychlo Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri.