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calbert at pop.tiac.net
calbert at pop.tiac.net
Tue Jul 27 10:24:41 CDT 1999
was this covered already?
if not, what does anyone on the list know about Murray. I went
looking for web info, but most entries merely celebrated Dr. Murray's
affiliation with the debating society on the charles, Harvard U.
love,
cfa
> In fact, the man experimenting on the young Kaczynski was
> Dr. Henry Murray, who died in 1988.
> Murray became preoccupied by psychoanalysis in the 1920s, drawn to
> it through a fascination with Herman Melville's "Moby Dick," which
> he gave to Sigmund Freud, who duly made the excited diagnosis that
> the whale was a father figure. After spending the 1930s developing
> personality theory, Murray was recruited to the OSS at the start of the
> war, applying his theories to the selection of agents and also
> presumably to interrogation.
> As chairman of the Department of Social Relations at Harvard,
> Murray zealously prosecuted the CIA's efforts to carry forward
> experiments in mind control conducted by Nazi doctors in the
> concentration camps.
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