Journalist Edward Hunter was the first to sound the alarm.

�Brain-washing Tactics
Force Chinese Into Ranks of Communist Party,� blared his headline in the Miami
Daily News in September 1950. In the article, and later in a book, Hunter described
how Mao Zedong�s Red Army used terrifying ancient techniques to turn the Chinese
people into mindless, Communist automatons. He called this hypnotic process
�brainwashing,� a word-for-word translation from xi-nao, the Mandarin words for
wash (xi) and brain (nao), and warned about the dangerous applications it could
have. The process was meant to �change a mind radically so that its owner becomes a
living puppet�a human robot�without the atrocity being visible from the outside.�