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### Wartime Rejection and Fiction
After Pearl Harbor, Estabrooks offered his ideas to the [[Office of Strategic Services|OSS]], but they were not accepted by anyone in government willing to carry them to their logical conclusion. He was reduced to writing books about the potential use of hypnotism in warfare, including *Hypnotism* (1945) and the novel *Death in the Mind* (1945), co-authored with [[Richard Lockridge]]. The novel concerned a series of seemingly treasonable acts committed by Allied personnel: an American submarine captain torpedoes one of the country's own battleships, and the beautiful heroine starts acting in an irrational way which serves the enemy. After a perilous investigation, secret agent Johnny Evans learns that the Germans have been hypnotizing Allied personnel and conditioning them to obey Nazi commands. Evans and his cohorts, shaken by the many ways hypnotism can be used against them, set up elaborate countermeasures and then cannot resist going on the offensive. Objections are heard from the heroine, who by this time has been brutally and rather graphically tortured. She complains that "doing things to people's minds" is "a loathsome way to fight." Her qualms are brushed aside by Johnny Evans, her lover and boss. He sets off after the Germans "to tamper with their minds; Make them traitors; Make them work for us."[^1]
After [[Pearl Harbor]], Estabrooks offered his ideas to the [[Office of Strategic Services|OSS]], but they were not accepted by anyone in government willing to carry them to their logical conclusion. He was reduced to writing books about the potential use of hypnotism in warfare, including *Hypnotism* (1945) and the novel *Death in the Mind* (1945), co-authored with [[Richard Lockridge]]. The novel concerned a series of seemingly treasonable acts committed by Allied personnel: an American submarine captain torpedoes one of the country's own battleships, and the beautiful heroine starts acting in an irrational way which serves the enemy. After a perilous investigation, secret agent Johnny Evans learns that the Germans have been hypnotizing Allied personnel and conditioning them to obey Nazi commands. Evans and his cohorts, shaken by the many ways hypnotism can be used against them, set up elaborate countermeasures and then cannot resist going on the offensive. Objections are heard from the heroine, who by this time has been brutally and rather graphically tortured. She complains that "doing things to people's minds" is "a loathsome way to fight." Her qualms are brushed aside by Johnny Evans, her lover and boss. He sets off after the Germans "to tamper with their minds; Make them traitors; Make them work for us."[^1]
### Prophecy Fulfilled