Back in the 1960s, a group of scientist led by the Spaniard José Delgado discovered how to implant electrodes into human beings in order to control their feelings and their will.
When the Cold War ended, many people thought that experiments of that kind had been dropped. But then September 11, 2001 changed all that.
The West was facing fanatical terrorism. And the only way to counter it was to turn to fanatics as well – artificial fanatics: people whose minds were controlled and who would carry out any order without fear, and without remorse.
Spain, as a United States ally, launched its own research programme. The definitive experiment was ready for implementation early in 2005, in an abandoned building in Madrid’s university complex that the intelligence services had packed with concealed cameras.
The victims: a beggar, and a group of young squatters.
But the experiment didn’t work out as planned. A loose end was left. The only survivor, with no identity, was locked up in a psychiatric hospital.
Thanks to him, a TV reporter was to find out the terrible truth behind the tombstone on an unmarked grave.
The greatest attack on individual freedom in the history of human beings.