On Sept. 24, 1950, journalist Edward Hunter published a sensational report in the Miami News about the indoctrination techniques used by Soviet and Chinese communists. In it, he coined the term “brainwashing,” a loose translation of phrasing he claimed to have heard used by Chinese prisoners of war captured in Korea. He followed the article with a 1951 book, Brain-Washing in Red China: The Calculated Destruction of Men’s Minds. Hunter’s revelations had massive reverberations in Cold War-era popular culture, in which foreign subversion by way of thought control became a standard trope. At the same time, his reporting gave further impetus to the U.S. military and intelligence agencies to up the ante in the escalating psychological arms race, spurring on the CIA’s notorious MKUltra mind-control experiments.