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In which the covert fringes of the Cold War see a blurring of fact and fiction, as intelligence agencies experiment with sci-fi-sounding hypnosis machines and mind-control drugs—the success or failure of which is largely a matter of opinion. The same period also saw science fiction itself exploited for propaganda purposes, while popular SF tropes like antigravity provided suitably opposition-confusing material for the Cold War disinformation specialists.

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May, A. (2018). Mind Games. In: Rockets and Ray Guns: The Sci-Fi Science of the Cold War. Science and Fiction. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89830-8_5

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