This post first appeared on Today in Alternate History.
At the Potsdam Conference President Harry S. Truman gave Joseph Stalin a deliberately vague, understated notice about the atomic bomb. He later recorded that he told Stalin the United States had "a new weapon of unusual destructive force."
19 July, 1945 -
The alien offer to harvest human experimental samples in exchange for mind control technology was given serious consideration at a top-secret conference meeting in the Cecilienhof Palace.
Approval was a momentous decision needing to be taken collectively by the leaders of the United Nations at a unique moment in human history. Supreme in their authority over worldwide affairs, they were the victors of a catastrophic global conflict that had left some 85 million people dead, approximately 4% of global population, while narrowing control to a few key humans, perfect for the alien hegemony that had long been observing the barbarous humans as a rabble too big and chaotic to control.
The opportunity was certainly appealing to human leaders as well, each for
very different reasons but all ultimately linked to the common interest
of national security in their spheres of influence. The
resource-constrained British imperialists could maintain their far-flung
empire, starting with exercising control over the recalcitrant,
independent-minded leaders of the Indian National Congress. But first,
Churchill had to win over his own left-wing-leaning voters at a general
election, the first in ten years, threatening to end Tory domination. The Soviets could cement their domination of Eastern Europe and
the upper Far East. Meanwhile, the United States could continue Dollar Diplomacy with well-placed agents operating discreetly in Banana Republics. The broad prospect of a gray-white partnership was a
long-term allied continuation of global hegemony, but despite these
different applications, they all knew they were opening a Pandora's box.
It was near-certain the great powers would also weaponize mind control
to battle against each other's strategic interests, if not cut side
deals with the grays. For these various reasons, a multilateral
agreement was absolutely needed between the Big Four at the Cecilienhof
Palace.
Just as the leaders had different potential benefits, they had different attitudes. Always seeing partners as predators, the ever-paranoid
Josef Stalin was the most reluctant because he was unwilling to trade
future sovereignty for any potential gain. Arguably, he had made this
mistake in approving the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, and he had even invited Japanese representatives
to the Victory in Europe Parade in Moscow.
Characteristically, Churchill had more of a devil-may-care attitude
about getting into bed with bad actors. Moreover, after orchestrating
the Bengal famine, Gallipoli Landings, and most recently the forced
return of Cossack officers to the Soviets, he was more than comfortable
with ruthless grandiose decisions. In fact, his only regret was not
inviting Jan Smuts to the meeting, the South African General who was the
only man to sign the peace treaties
ending both world wars, also the only person to have signed the
documents forming both the League of Nations and the United Nations. In
stark comparison, Truman, who had recently entered the Oval Office and
was not read-in on either the involvement with the "gray devils" or the
Manhattan Project, now faced an imminent decision to use the atomic bomb on
civilian targets. He was also open to the offer, continuing with the groundwork set by his legendary predecessor.
After
venturing the cynical observation that "Trust is a category error," Stalin proposed a dastardly way forward. The grays would use mind
control technology against the Imperial General Headquarters of the
Japanese government. By imposing irreversible defeatism in the minds of these
fanatical military decision-makers, the Americans would no longer need
to use the atomic bomb, and in exchange, the aliens could harvest a
comparable number of surviving victims for the Japanese home islands.
This
test case was approved as a win-win in the utmost secrecy, but the
truth was soon laid bare. The first human outside of the Allied top leadership to detect the grand
bargain was General Douglas MacArthur, the Commander in the Southwest
Pacific and Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers. He conducted the
signing ceremony of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender on the deck of USS Missouri
in Tokyo Bay. Shocked by the uncharacteristic lack of fighting spirit
in the dazed-looking Japanese representative, he had been expecting
kamikaze aircraft pilots to attack and, instead, encountered sheep rather
than wolves.
Like many elite military leaders, MacArthur would never have
approved of the use of unethical weapons, either and likely his stance
would always have been a problem for civilian leaders. However, his
loud-mouthed expression of alarmed concerns started a long-standing
struggle within the inner echelons of power. His dissent immediately
disqualified him from the opportunity to lead occupied Japan; ironically, his successor had a much easier task once armed with mind control technology.
The
belligerent General George Patton (and other diehards) believed Stalin
was a bad actor and was of a similar mind to MacArthur before his lethal Jeep accident in December that some found suspicious. By this point, it had become
increasingly clear that the United Nations would have to continue to
work closely together if it did not wish to lose control of this
incredibly dangerous situation. For the time being, the Big Four agreed
to form an oversight committee for the Japanese home islands and this
would become the model for the Security Council of the United Nations.
The ball had surely begun rolling, and as Stalin had feared, this
momentum only played into the hands of the aliens. They needed the
willing connivance of a world government to operate through in order to
colonize the planet.
Provine's Addendum
The main problem with the alien mind control technology was that there were simply too many human minds to attempt to control for wide-scale domination. The control could be used intensively on a small number of people, which was key in winning Truman reelection in 1948 that was so surprising many publications such as Life, Chicago Daily Tribune, and Newsweek had already printed Dewey as the winner. Other uses would continue throughout the years, though there always remained a resistant human suspicion of manipulation. Eisenhower, who became informed of the deal upon his election, went along with it, though he tried to give a coded public warning in his farewell address. JFK, who won his election after the mind control technology proved initially incompatible with television during the botched presidential debate and showed the golden child Richard Nixon as he really was instead of the hypnotic curation the technology provided, grew distrustful of the agreement after the technology again proved unable to restore a capitalist government in Cuba. These fires would be put out through assassinations and other covert operations, and the alien-human leadership worked to expand their control.
This problem of too many humans outpaced improvements in the control technology, demanding other strategies. Economic maneuvering and the ongoing distraction of a Cold War made for some influence while aliens applied further technology to humanity to grow human manufacturing exponentially. With human population also growing exponentially, decisions were made to begin decreasing birthrates among the most controlled populations, typically the industrialized nations. Eventually the spread of mind control technology through digital means via internet-connected smartphones will finally meet the dream of fully controlling the human populace, adding another peaceful, productive jewel to the alien interstellar collective.
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In reality, alien mind control technology is one of many conspiracy theories about humans being manipulated.
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