The Church of Scientology is frequently accused by critics of employing brainwashing. The Federation uses mass surveillance, brainwashing and drug pacification to control its citizens. In the late 1980s, psychologists and sociologists started to abandon theories like brainwashing and mind-control. Cyclops is able to snap Rusty and the others out of Killgrave's hypnotic brainwashing. She plots to by befriending, kidnapping, and brainwashing Talia and using her to kill Ra's. They are unaware of them being cyborgs due to their brainwashing. His heroism was a false memory implanted in the platoon during their brainwashing in Manchuria. The group has been accused of "brainwashing" members and engaging in campaigns involving "dirty tricks". Both men claimed that Jackson tried pushing them away from their families and "brainwashing" them. Professional deprogrammers therefore have a financial interest in promoting the "brainwashing" explanation. Kilowog is captured by Krona, and his resistance to brainwashing overcome. Joost Meerloo, a Dutch psychiatrist, was an early proponent of the concept of brainwashing. He concludes that the concept of brainwashing has been unfairly blacklisted. They assumed we did a form of brainwashing. Weapon X employed genetic alteration, brainwashing and memory implants.