Condon’s story was adapted for a Hollywood film with that title in 1962, and again in 2004. The concept was troublesome because the story strongly suggests that such agents may truly live among us. Agencies like our own CIA and the Russian KGB have had the technology to manipulate the minds of subjects. What is unknown is if they have the ability to make unwitting killers out of them by the use of a single phrase or action.

Even more alarming is that a group of military veterans in California have filed suit against the CIA for allegedly implanting remote control devices in their brains. The suit claims the agency was attempting to turn the veterans into robotic assassins at the push of a button.

Some researchers have suggested that the CIA attempted to create a Manchurian Candidate by using mind control techniques during a research program code-named MKULTRA. This was a covert human experimentation program run by the CIA’s Office of Scientific Intelligence from the early 1950s until as late as 1973 or possibly even later.

Information obtained through the Freedom of Information Act in 1977 led to Senate hearings that uncovered startling information about the MKULTRA program. What was revealed during the hearings is all that is known since CIA Director Richard Helms ordered all MKULTRA files destroyed.

What is known is that the CIA used drugs like LSD, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, isolation, and various forms of torture to control or alter human brain function.

Author John Marks in his book The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control, wrote that after World War II, “with American faith in advancing technology came the CIA’s attempts to tame hostile minds and make spy fantasies real.” He said “The CIA’s interest in controlling the human mind had to remain absolutely secret.”

That a group of military veterans in California are involved in litigation because of alleged microchips planted in their brains by the CIA supports the ugly stories that American soldiers were unknowingly subjected to mind-control experiments. Marks wrote in his book that other subjects included mental patients, prostitutes, foreigners, drug addicts and prison inmates, often selected from minority ethnic groups. He said they were the CIA’s “equivalents of the Nazis’ Jews and gypsies” used for experimentation during the war.

That veterans are claiming the CIA has experimented by planting microchips in their brains suggests that its clandestine project continues even to this day, and that great advances in mass mind control have been achieved. New discoveries and experimentation with HAARP radio signals, low frequency sound waves and nano-technology may well have led to discoveries that should make all humans on this planet leery.

An anonymous author of an article on The American Dream website recently reported that a team of researchers at the University of Buffalo have discovered a way to use nanoparticles to remotely control animal behavior.

The story said: “Clusters of heated, magnetic nanoparticles targeted to cell membranes can remotely control ion channels, neurons and even animal behavior . . . It doesn’t take a doctorate to understand the implications of such a technology.

“What if ‘nanobots’ that had the capacity to control human minds were programmed to search out and attach themselves to key areas of the human brain? Such ‘nanobots’ would be far too small to even be seen by the human eye, and people could become ‘infected’ with these creatures without even knowing it,” the writer warned.

Indeed, government leaders in the United States as well as many other nations of the world are using the so-called “War on Terror” as an excuse to watch every move we make and every word we speak and write. We have invented drones that fly over our heads with electronic cameras and listening devices, agents now track all of our electronic communications without gaining court orders and we endure extreme body searches every time we enter a government building or board an aircraft.

If our government is this fearful of its people, what would stop an agency like the CIA to use a new tool like ‘nanobots’ to try to control how people behave and what they say, do and even think?

These nanochips are so small they could be easily injected into us via a vaccination injection at the local doctor’s office. Has the whooping cough virus been planted as a means of forcing mass vaccinations of the American public? Is the real objective to implant such chips? Or has the deed already been accomplished in some other way?

Have we all become puppets of our government? Are we dancing to the strings pulled by secret puppet masters hiding behind the curtain? Would this explain the strange behavior going on all over the world?

And do we have real Manchurian candidates lurking in our midst, ready to spring another horrific terrorist attack event designed to drive us all, like cattle, into fearful submission?