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Line 51: According to documents held at the [[National Archives in Kew]] and not made public until 2006, when Carne was released in September 1953 he told Sir [[Esler Dening]], the British ambassador in Tokyo, "an extraordinary story" of [[brainwashing]].<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/11/08/npow08.xml Daily Telegraph]{{dead link\|date=July 2021\|bot=medic}}{{cbignore\|bot=medic}}</ref> "He says that between January 1952 and August this year he was kept in solitary confinement by Chinese communists and subjected to a softening-up process including the use of drugs, [the] result of which was, as he put it, to make his brain like a sponge, capable of receiving any kind of information put into it", Sir Esler told the Foreign Office in a "top secret" category telegram. The note, which was sent straight to Sir [[Winston Churchill]], in his second term as Prime Minister, went on: "In March of this year, (i.e. about the time when the communists displayed a new interest in concluding an armistice) various thoughts were put ~~in to~~into his mind, and he remains convinced that he was meant to retain these and pass them on to Her Majesty's Government." The thoughts comprised a peace deal not just to end the war in Korea, but to reach a settlement covering the whole Pacific region. Sir Esler opined: "The whole thing might be pure fantasy except for the fact that Colonel Carne could hardly have invented it and does not strike one as that sort of person." The [[Foreign Office]] was sceptical about the plot, but suggested that perhaps its aim was to split Britain from its American ally.<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/11/08/npow08.xml ''The Daily Telegraph''{{dead link\|date=July 2021\|bot=medic}}{{cbignore\|bot=medic}} 8 November 2006]</ref> ==Popular culture==

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