Released in 1962, The Manchurian Candidate perfectly captured the Cold War climate of its time. In an era characterized by confusion and paranoia, countless people in politics and entertainment were suspected of secretly working for the communists. Over sixty years later, as politicians are still accusing each other of working for China, Russia, or a communist agenda, The Manchurian Candidate still manages to reflect the climate of our time.

But there’s another aspect of The Manchurian Candidate that makes its story truly unique, prophetic, and more relevant than ever: It was one of the first pieces of entertainment ever that directly addressed the concept of mind control, where individuals could be brainwashed and programmed to carry out high-profile assassinations.

In many ways, the movie was stunningly accurate and prophetic. One year after its release, John F. Kennedy was assassinated by a man who claimed to be a “patsy” … before being assassinated himself. Five years later, Robert F. Kennedy would be assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan, a 24-year-old Palestinian man who would later claim he was a product of mind control.

Sirhan Sirhan’s story is a movie on its own.

As years passed, the public realized that mind control was not science fiction. In 1975, the Church Committee shed some light on the CIA’s Operation MKULTRA and its controversial mind control techniques. Once again, The Manchurian Candidate was accurate and oddly prophetic.

There might be a reason for this stunning accuracy: The movie was produced by Frank Sinatra. While he’s mostly known for singing Fly Me to the Moon, some researchers argued that he was also an MK handler.

In 1958, the author Richard Condon had his novel The Manchurian Candidate published which describes an American Army sergeant, who is captured and programmed to assassinate on the cue of a Queen of Diamonds of a deck of cards. Richard Condon’s ability to think about the potential of behavior modification and hypnosis, had allowed him to stumble upon what had actually been going for over a decade. Frank Sinatra bought the movie rights for this book, let the movie out briefly and then squelched the second release of the film. Frank Sinatra has been a slave handler. He has handled Bob Hope’s slaves, when Bob Hope has lent them to the Rat Pack (which consisted of Dean Martin, Frank, Sammy Davis, Jr. Peter Lawford & Joey Bishop). Frank Sinatra spends time with the Rockefellers and the Rothschilds.
– Fritz Springmeier, The Illuminati Formula to Create a Mind Controlled Slave

Ironically enough, Sinatra is a “deprogrammer” in The Manchurian Candidate.

During the movie’s filming, Sinatra also worked with well-connected people, such as Willam Joseph Bryan Jr..

Both Frank Sinatra and CIA mind control programmer William Joseph Bryan, Jr. (aka William Joseph Bryon, and William Jenning Bryan III, etc.) were members of the Tommy Dorsey Band. Bryan programmed people while he was with the Air Force as Chief of Medical Survival Training which was the Air Force’s covert mind-control section. Later he opened up his own hypnotherapy Institute on Sunset Strip in Hollywood where he programmed some people in the Illuminati who are actors. He also was the person who programmed Sirhan Sirhan to be involved in the Robert Kennedy assassination. After Bryan died in spring 1977, the CIA cleaned out all of his files including his home files.

In William J. Bryan, Jr.’s book entitled The Chosen One The Art of Jury Selection, Bryan teaches how to use hypnosis on jury members to win one’s case. On the back of the book he states about himself, “In addition Dr. Bryan served as an Electronics Engineer in the Navy in World War II, was Director of all Medical Survival Training for the United States Air Force, and a leading expert on brainwashing.” William J. Bryan was the technical director for Frank Sinatra’s movie The Manchurian Candidate. It was hoped that the movie would scare Americans into thinking that the enemy (the communists) was carrying out mind-control.

In short, The Manchurian Candidate is more than a movie – it is a purposeful exposition of the dark side of the occult elite. Here’s a look at its story and symbolism.

Programmed

The movie revolves around Sergeant Raymond Shaw, the son of a prominent political family.

After the Korean War, Raymond Shaw returned to the United States as a hero. He received the Medal of Honor—the highest military decoration of the U.S. Armed Forces—for saving the lives of fellow soldiers in his platoon.

When asked about him, members of his platoon automatically and robotically answer:

“Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life.”

However, none of this is true. In actuality, Shaw’s platoon was captured by Soviet forces and was taken to Manchuria to be brainwashed. While they were programmed to believe that Shaw was a hero, several soldiers had recurring dreams revealing what actually happened.

The movie’s dream scenes capture rather accurately the state of mind of MK slaves.

In their dreams, soldiers in Shaw’s platoon sit in a hotel lobby where a ladies’ garden club meeting is in progress.

The soldiers were dissociated from reality and programmed to believe that old ladies were in attendance.

However, their dreams also contain flashes of clarity, where they recall what actually happened to them.

The ladies’ garden club turns into a meeting of Chinese and Soviet intelligence officials where the captured American soldiers are used to demonstrate the power of mind control.

At one point, the speaker orders Shaw to grab a gun and shoot one of his soldiers in the head. Since he’s triggered and suggestible to orders, Shaw complies immediately.

Under the watchful eyes of Chinese and Soviet officials, Shaw carries out the killing, proving that mind control is a powerful tool in the war against America. At this moment, ex-soldiers wake up from their dream while screaming.

Back in the United States, Shaw lives a normal life but remains an MK sleeper agent. To trigger him (and make him receptive to orders), Shaw’s handlers tell him:

“Why don’t you pass the time and play some solitaire.”

When Shaw encounters the Queen of Diamonds, he is fully triggered and receptive to orders. As we’ll soon see, this particular card was selected as his trigger for profound psychological reasons.

When not triggered, Shaw is a regular American citizen and is employed as an assistant of the “most respected political journalist in America.” How many mind-controlled slaves controlled by communists are working in American media today?

Two years after his original “conditioning,” Shaw’s programmers needed to ensure his programming was still functioning.

At the programming site in New York, Shaw is met with his communist handler. To keep him triggered, a Queen of Diamonds card is placed in front of him.

To avoid suspicion from the outside world, Shaw’s time in reprogramming is disguised as a “car accident.” As we’ve seen in previous articles, reprogramming is always concealed with excuses such as “hospitalization” or “rehab.”

To test out his “mechanism,” Shaw’s handlers decide that he needs to kill someone. So they order him to shoot his boss at the newspaper. By doing so, Shaw would also replace him as an influential political journalist.

When Shaw creeps into his boss’ bedroom at 4 am to murder him, he finds him wearing a women’s robe.

By having him wear a particularly frilly robe, the movie is most likely implying that this political journalist is gay. While this fact might be irrelevent nowadays, it had specific implications in the Cold War espionage context of the movie. In those days, homosexuality was illegal and those who were outed as gay suffered widespread condemnation. This rendered homosexuals working in key positions particularly vulnerable to blackmail from outside forces.

During a Congressional hearing, CIA director Roscoe Hillenkoetter stated:

“The use of homosexuals as a control mechanism over individuals recruited for espionage is a generally accepted technique which has been used at least on a limited basis for many years. While this agency will never employ homosexuals on its rolls, it might conceivably be necessary, and in the past has actually been valuable, to use known homosexuals as agents in the field. I am certain that if Joseph Stalin or a member of the Politburo or a high satellite official were known to be a homosexual, no member of this committee or of the Congress would balk against our use of any technique to penetrate their operations … after all, intelligence and espionage is, at best, an extremely dirty business.”

In other words, the movie slyly implied that outside forces compromised American journalism.

After proving to his communist handlers that he could still carry out an assassination, Shaw was handed over to his handlers in America.

The American Operators

Shaw’s stepfather is a United States senator an the vice-presidential nominee. His mother, Eleanor, controls everything behind the scenes.

Johnny Iselin is a caricature of the modern, made-for-TV politician. At one point, Eleanor tells him:

“I keep telling you not to think! You just keep shouting point of order after point of order into the television cameras and I will handle the rest.”

Throughout the movie, this power couple accuses their opponents of being communists. However, towards the film’s end, we’re in for a major plot twist: They’ve been working for communists all along. Even worse, Eleanor is Raymond Shaw’s “American operator.” In other words, she’s his mind-control handler.

Throughout the movie, Eleanor is framed with the Queen of Diamonds, hinting at her being the ultimate handler.

Shaw’s original communist chose the Queen of Diamonds as his trigger because “she is reminiscent in many ways of Raymond’s dearly loved and hated mother.”

At one point, Shaw’s mother gives him a mouth-to-mouth kiss. It was the movie’s classy way of hinting at the all-out incestual relationship that happens in the novel. MK programming often involves disturbing sexual trauma.

As Shaw’s handler, Eleanor is ruthless. She orders him to murder her political opponent and his daughter, who happens to be Shaw’s wife.

When Shaw’s future wife reappeared in his life during a costume party, she wore a Queen of Diamonds card. Shaw’s mother had arranged this whole meeting, probably to facilitate her assassination.

While this was bad, Eleanor had much bigger plans for her mind-controlled son. At the upcoming national convention of her political party, Shaw would assassinate the presidential nominee. Eleanor’s husband, the vice-presidential nominee, would automatically succeed him as President of the United States. They would then blame the assassination on communists, which would justify dictatorial powers that would make, in Eleanor’s words, “Marshall Law seem like anarchy.”

In short, Shaw would be used as a mind-controlled assassin to turn the United States into a communist puppet regime. Luckily, Major Marco came to the rescue.

Deprogrammed

Major Marco holds a deck full of Queens of Diamonds to Shaw’s face. He wants him to be super triggered.

Major Marco (played by Frank Sinatra) was in Shaw’s platoon when it got captured and programmed by communist forces. After having recurring dreams of the event, he discovers the truth about Shaw and is tasked with deprogramming him.

After triggering Shaw using cards, Marco attempts to break the link between Shaw and his handlers. He tells him:

“This is me Marco talking. Fifty two red queens and me are telling you: It’s over. The links, the beautifully conditioned links are smashed. They’re smashed as of now because we say so”.

After the deprogramming session, Marco lets Shaw go, not knowing if it worked. Shaw then proceeds to carry on the mission his mother programmed him to do.

Shaw infiltrates the political convention disguised as a priest and finds a strategic location to snipe his target to death. One year after the release of the movie, JFK was sniped to death by a man who claimed to be a patsy.

In the end, Shaw did not follow his mother’s orders. Quite to the contrary, he kills her and her husband, freeing the country from these treasonous politicians.

After the shooting, Shaw symbolically puts on his Medal of Honor because he finally believes he deserves it.

Then, Shaw kills himself. Death is the MK slave’s only true path to freedom.

The 2004 Remake

While the original movie was never re-released, its story remained relevant. In 2004, Tina Sinatra (Frank Sinatra’s daughter) co-produced a modern retelling of The Manchurian Candidate.

The DVD cover of the 2004 remake of The Manchurian Candidate. That tagline is quite clever.

Set in the early 2000s, the movie stars Denzel Washington as Major Marco, a veteran of the 1992 Persian Gulf War. Besides being darker and grittier than the 1962 movie, the remake made key changes to the original story.

First, the plot occurs within the Democratic party (with Shaw’s mother resembling Hilary Clinton) while, in the original movie, the compromised party was implied to be the Republicans. Second, the main antagonists are not Russian and Chinese communists but an international corporation named Manchurian Global.

However, the main change involves Raymond Shaw himself. In the original story, he was a programmed assassin. In the remake, he’s the vice-presidential nominee and is under mind control.

Raymond Shaw is injected with a microchip while he’s in a dissociative state.

Bizarre fact: Raymond Shaw is played by Liv Schreiber. As explained in my article titled There’s Something Terribly Wrong Happening With the Sons of Celebrities, Shreiber has been involved in some MKULTRA-type weirdness involving his sons.

In other words, the remake of The Manchurian Candidate is as accurate and prophetic as the original one.

In Conclusion

The Manchurian Candidate remains relevant to this day because it is not merely a work of fiction or entertainment. It is an exposition of the underside of American democracy created by people “in the know.” Some would describe it as a case of “predictive programming” where the dark deeds of the elite are revealed to the world (e.g., assassinations perpetrated by MK slaves) before they happen.

While the two movies have fundamental differences, they both remain relevant today. In the 2004 movie, the main threat to American democracy is a globalist entity. This remains true today. And, like in the 1962 version, that entity is working to bring about a global form of communism.

To bring about that New World Order, they rely on mind-controlled puppets to shout “point of order after point of order at the television cameras” until the masses turn themselves into Manchurian Candidates.

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