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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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