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[..] A dungeon-like room in the Psychotechnology Research Institute in Moscow is used for human testing.

The institute claims its technology can read the subconscious mind and alter behavior.

MOSCOW -- The future of U.S. anti-terrorism technology could lie near the end of a Moscow subway line

in a circular dungeon-like room with a single door and no windows.

Here, at the Psychotechnology Research Institute,

human subjects submit to experiments aimed at manipulating their subconscious minds.[...]

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has gone to many strange places in its search for ways to identify terrorists

before they attack,

but perhaps none stranger than this lab on the outskirts of Russia's capital.

The institute has for years served as the center of an obscure field of human behavior study

-- dubbed psychoecology --

that traces it roots back to Soviet-era mind control research.

What's gotten DHS' attention is the institute's work on a system called

Semantic Stimuli Response Measurements Technology, or SSRM Tek,

a software-based mind reader that supposedly tests a subject's involuntary response to subliminal messages.