Subject: Tavistock Institute - Brainwashing Center

From: [email-masked] (Steve Crocker)
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 07:50:33 GMT

One of the difficulties in posting material originally written by someone
else is that it is difficult to respond to criticism of the piece. In 
this case, the best I am able to do is to post some additional background 
material on the Tavistock Institute, also from the LaRouche organization,
thus a tleast making it more clear exactly what they are saying about this
institution and the influence it supposedly wields. Since this does not
represent my own research, I am unable to vouch for the accuracy of the
details presented. As a long time supporter of LaRouche's political
program, I naturally tend to consider his organization a credible and
authoritative source. Your mileage may vary.

The document I am about to post presented some peculiar problems in 
preparation and editing. This is because the machine readable text I
had available was a badly edited copy of a reprint of the original.
Fortunately, I posses an original first edition of the June 1980
pamphlet "Stamp Out the Aquarian Conspiracy" from which the material
below is excerpted. The problems I ran into were several. First, the 
document is lengthy. Substantial portions of it do not deal directly
with Tavistock or its spin-offs, and these, though interesting, I have
deleted for brevity. Second, the edited version available to me deleted
(often without indication) significant passages which for our purposes
here I would prefer to have left in. I have handled both these cases
simply by indicating <material deleted> without specifying whether the
deletion was mine or was already imposed on the copy I was working from.
A further problem was editorial comments. These were inserted in such
a way as to cause the quoted material to support the particular conspiracy
hypotheses of the editor. Where these comments were identified I deleted
them without indication. The most disturbing case was where editorial
comments were inserted into the text without indication, causing them
to appear as though part of the original. In a particularly disturbing
case, text was inserted to make the original document appear to support
the contention that the Nazi Holocaust was a concocted fiction - a point
of view to which neither LaRouche, his organization, nor myself subscribe.
I tracked down the most obvious of these (fortunately, they were usually 
at the end of paragraphs), and corrected them without indication. 
Hopefully I got them all. It is my judgement that the excerpts which I
fianlly included below accurately reflect the LaRouche organization's
view of Tavistock and related institutions, and are useful background
to the Tavistock references in the TV articles.

If anybody is interested in a Xerox of the full 65 page original of
this pamphlet, Email me with your P.O address and give me a week or
two to send it to you. My resources are limited, but I expect to be
able to honor the first dozen or so requests.

Hope you find the material below useful,
-Steve Crocker
[email-masked]

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  In the late 1940's and early 1950's, the very same group of powerful 
  interests who today command the evil forces of social engineering, then 
  launched an irrational Cold War and a McCarthyite witch-hunt.  Suddenly, 
  rational argument in policy formulation disappeared from national life.  
  The traditional debate that American citizens historically conducted to 
  determine their foreign policy, the special moral and practical weight of 
  this nation among the nations of the world--all that was abandoned, to be 
  replaced by the unchallenged, axiomatic, pervasive irrationality of the 
  Cold War. The result was that the moorings of national moral purpose 
  collapsed, the citizens who make up the nation and share its moral 
  purpose surrendered to a morally indifferent irrationality.  

  Disarmed by this moral indifference and irrationality, young adults 
  entered the decade of the 1950's in pursuit of private goals and petty 
  career concerns.  And the children of this generation began growing up 
  without clear moral moorings.  What followed was the notorious 
  "generation gap" and the large-scale manipulations of the 
  social-engineering establishment, the Rand Corporation, the Stanford 
  Research Institute, and other institutions we shall meet presently.  The 
  New Left, the Vietnam War and the antiwar movement were all 
  social-engineering projects.  The Watergate scandals, environmentalism 
  and the slow and deliberate destruction of American technology were also 
  preplanned social-engineering projects.  

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  Our researches identified this powerful group with certain old 
  aristocratic families in England, the United States and Canada witch 
  control, for purposes of social manipulation, the world's $200 billion 
  drug traffic.  Those findings were published in the best-selling book, 
  DOPE, INC., which caused quite a stir among the law enforcement agencies 
  of numerous nations, and threw the governors of the U.S. Federal Reserve 
  System in Washington into turmoil for a protracted period.  

  TAVISTOCK 

  Our first systematic study of our opponents' techniques and methods in 
  psychological social control were published in April and May of 1974 in 
  the magazine The Campaigners as a series of research papers under the 
  joint title The Tavistock Grin.  

  We identified the Tavistock Clinic in London, England as the world's 
  center for mass brainwashing, social engineering programs and activities 
  in the postwar period.  During World War II, Tavistock was the 
  headquarters of the British Army's Psychological Warfare Bureau which, 
  through the arrangements of the British Special Operations Executive, 
  also dictated policy to the United States Armed Forces in matters of 
  psychological warfare.  
  Toward the end of the war, Tavistock personnel took over the World 
  Federation of Mental Health and the Psychological Warfare Division of the 
  Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) in Europe. 
  Tavistock's chief theoretician, Dr. Kurt Lewin, organized the Harvard 
  Psychological Clinic, the MIT Research Center for Group Dynamics, The 
  Institute of Social Research at the University of Michigan. Lewin also 
  played a pivotal policy role at the psychological department of the 
  Office of Strategic Services (OSS), at the Office of Naval Research, the 
  U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey and the Committee on National Morale. 
  Moreover, a large number of influential people at the top policy level 
  were trained in Dr. Lewin's theory of topological psychology, which is to 
  this day the world's most advanced method of behavior modification 
  brainwashing.  

  Other important colleagues of Kurt Lewin, including Eric Trist and John 
  Rawlings Rees of Tavistock, as well as H. V. Dicks, W. R. Bion, and 
  Richard Crossman, took the personnel from the Strategic Bombing Survey, 
  the Committee on National Morale and the National Defense Resources 
  Council, and from this pool founded the Rand Corporation, the Stanford 
  Research Institute, the Wharton School, the National Training 
  Laboratories, the National Institute of Mental Health and others.  

  The United States government started contracting multimillion-dollar 
  projects with all these outfits.  Over a period of thirty years, tens of 
  billions of dollars have been allocated by the federal government to fund 
  the work of these groups; other tens of billions of dollars found their 
  way into these institutions from private foundations.  

  Over the years, these institutions grew and the scope of projects they 
  contracted grew.  Every aspect of the mental and psychological life of 
  the American people was profiled, recorded, and stored into computer 
  memories.  The institutions, personnel and networks grew and penetrated 
  deeply into every nook and cranny of federal, state and local 
  governments.  The in-house specialists and graduates were called in to 
  develop policies for welfare departments, labor, mediation boards, trade 
  unions, the Air Force, the Navy, the Army, the National Education 
  Association, and psychiatric clinics.  

  Close cooperative relations were developed between these think-tanks and 
  the U.S.A's key polling organizations and the major media.  Gallup Polls, 
  the Yankelovich-CBS-New York Times polls, the National Opinion Research 
  Center and others are incessantly conducting psychological profiles of 
  the entire population, sharing them for evaluation and processing with 
  the ubiquitous social psychologists.  What the public sees printed in the 
  newspapers as opinion polls is only an infinitesimal portion of the work 
  that the pollsters do.  

  Above this closely cooperating grouping of social psychologists, 
  pollsters and media manipulators, presides an elite of powerful patrons, 
  "the gods of Olympus" as they delight in being called.  These are a 
  cluster of corporations and families on top of the electronics, 
  communications and related sophisticated-technology industries, etc.  
  The core cluster consists of the following: International Telephone & 
  Telegraph, American Telephone & Telegraph, Xerox, Rank Organization, 
  Bendix, Raytheon, Arthur D. Little, Eagle Star Group, RCA, Bechtel, 
  Textron, Reliance Group, Prudential Insurance, American Express, Lazard 
  Brothers, Kuhn Loeb, Blyth-Eastman Dillon, Petro-Canada, Standard 
  Telephones and Cables and their subsidiaries, affiliated and interlocking 
  corporations.  All in all, it is estimated that this group, which on 
  matters of long-term strategy tends to act in a very disciplined and 
  unified way, commands over 60 of the Fortune 500 companies in the USA.
  It has swallowed up all the other "power groups" of   earlier U.S. history,
  the Morgan Group, Rockefeller group, Cabot-Lodge group, etc.  In the deeper 
  recesses of the intelligence establishment in Washington, veteran 
  intelligence officers refer to this awesome group, in   hushed tones and 
  mysterious language as the "Committee of Three-Hundred". The group prefers 
  to be called "The Olympians". These are the real power in the land, the
  deployers of our social engineers and social psychologists.

  WHAT IS AQUARIUS

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  To top all this, in July 1980, a major international conference is being 
  held in Toronto, Canada, under the title First Global Conference on the 
  Future,
  to be attended by over 4,000 social engineers, cybernetics experts and 
  futurologists from all the think tanks.  The purpose of the conference, 
  in the words of its chairman, "The time has come to move from thinking 
  and dialogue to action.  This conference will become the launching pad 
  for that important action to occur in the 1980's." So says the 
  billionaire   Maurice Strong, chairman of Petro-Canada, high-ranking 
  British Intelligence officer during World War II, one of the chief 
  executives of Dope, Inc., and former director of the United Nations 
  Environmental Program. One of the chief speakers will be Dr. Aurelio 
  Peccei, chairman of the Club of Rome, a NATO THINK TANK about which 
  we will say more later.  

  Close investigation of the preparatory activities of the conference 
  participants and the in-house studies of the social-engineering think 
  tanks that will participate, has confirmed conclusively that the 
  "decisive action" Maurice Strong is speaking about is the brainwashing of 
  the entire human species.  All the kooks of the world are coming out in 
  the most impressive Witches Sabbath yet in Toronto.  
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  The peril this nation is imminently confronted with, in fact the peril to 
  the whole human species, is nothing less than complete elimination of 
  what mankind has historically regarded as its soul.  Our brainwashers are 
  proposing the complete extirpation of mankind's inner sense of identity, 
  and the placement, in the vacant space, of an artificial, synthetic 
  pseudo-soul.  

  Before you howl "incredible", you ought to review the technical study 
  that was prepared in May 1974 by the Stanford Research Institute, whose 
  contents were later used in popularized form in Marilyn Ferguson's book.  

  The study is entitled CHANGING IMAGES OF MAN, Contract Number 
  URH(489)-2150. Policy Research Report No. 4/4.74, prepared by SRI Center 
  for the Study of Social Policy, Willis Harman, Director. Dr. Harman later 
  personally coached Marilyn Ferguson in writing her popularized version, 
  THE AQUARIAN CONSPIRACY. The 319-page mimeographed SRI report was 
  prepared by a team of 14 researchers and supervised by supervisory panel 
  of 23 controllers, including anthropologist Margaret Mead, psychologist 
  B. F. Skinner, Ervin Laszlo of the United Nations, Sir Geoffrey Vickers 
  of British Intelligence and others.  

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  When this was published in May 1974, the authors were careful not to 
  fully reveal their direct involvement in artificially manufacturing all 
  these hideous, inhuman forms of countercultural zombie-ism.  Six years 
  later, however, in February 1980, Dr. Willis Harman, the project director 
  of the report, after lengthy collaboration with Marilyn Ferguson, induced 
  her to come out into the open to boast that all this was, from the 
  beginning, the work of a deliberate conspiracy.  

  A leaderless but powerful network is working to bring about radical 
  change in the United States. Its members have broken with certain key 
  elements of Western thought...  The great shuddering irrevocable shift 
  overtaking us is not a new political, religious or philosophical system.  
  It is a new mind--the ascendance of a startling worldview....  

  WHY? 
  
  We concede that one of the things that causes people to be incredulous 
  when this picture is presented is that they do not comprehend what kinds 
  of motivation our brainwasher social-psychologists could possibly have 
  for doing this to us.  If the motivation cannot be comprehended, then the 
  motivation "does not exist".  And if the motivation does not exist, then 
  the action that derives from it does not exist; therefore "The Aquarian 
  Conspiracy does not exist".  

  But the Aquarian Conspiracy itself proclaims that it exists!  

  Therefore, you should sit down to reason out what its motivation might 
  possibly be.  Identifying its history, both before and after the events 
  of World War II, the social experiments of H. G. Wells, Aldous and Julian 
  Huxley, Teilhard de Chardin, and others will give you some added basis 
  for understanding the motivation.  Identifying the recent history of the 
  matter, from the 1960's on, will give you a further basis.  On that basis 
  you can project into the more distant past history of this school of 
  thought that our brainwashers represent, into the period of Aristotle.  

  Meanwhile, with respect to the more recent history: the strategic 
  foundations for the current form of the Aquarian Conspiracy were laid 
  down during the 1966-67 peiod in a series of high-level NATO conferences 
  which at the time involved, among others, a famous NATO official, Aurelio 
  Peccei, the then little-known Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski in his capacity as a
   staff member of the State   Department's Policy Planning Group, and most 
  of the leaders of those   multinational corporations we mentioned earlier.

  The final decisions of those NATO deliberations were to apply a series of 
  long-term policies throughout the Western World for the purpose of 
  inducing a transition to a technologically "steady-state", "zero-growth", 
  "post-industrial society".  [H: Go back and read that again!] The Soviet 
  bloc was supposed to be skillfully induced to gradually evolve toward a 
  similar type of "steady-state" equilibrium system.  Dr. Brzezinski, in 
  the aftermath of those NATO meetings, wrote his famous essay, THE 
  TECHNETRONIC ERA and Aurelio Peccei his famous book, 
  THE CHASM AHEAD. Following that, McGeorge Bundy and the Council on 
  Foreign Relations attempted to start the "inducement process" with the 
  Soviets by jointly establishing the Vienna International Institute of 
  Applied Systems Analysis. The SALT arms control negotiation and nuclear 
  non-proliferation processes got underway.  The NASA space program was 
  gradually terminated.  A massive increase in world drug traffic 
  appeared.  Aurelio Peccei went to the Tavistock Institute in England and 
  there he launched the notorious Club of Rome jointly with Tavistock.  

  The brainwashing specialists of the Tavistock network internationally 
  went to work.  The era of government by "crisis management" had arrived.  
  Some basic things ought to be said now about the social-engineering 
  technique of "crisis management". 

 KURT LEWIN

  The technique derives from the "topological psychology" doctrine of Dr. 
  Kurt Lewin, the seminal theoretical influence in the entire field of 
  social-psychology, the patron-saint of all the Tavistock-related 
  think-tanks and the man upon whose theories the psychological warfare 
  battles of World War II were fought.  

  To summarize the matter of Lewin's doctrine in chunks manageable by the 
  layman: all psychological phenomena occur in a domain defined as 
  "psychological phase space" or "life space".  This space is composed of 
  two interdependent "fields", the "environment" and the "self". Life space 
  is the domain in which human behavior occurs.  Behavior depends on both 
  environment and self or B = F(E.P.) (Behavior is a function of 
  Environment and Person.) This is accompanied by a tremendous amount of 
  misplaced emphasis on mathematical/topological interpretations of 
  psychological relations, none of which makes any contribution to 
  scientific knowledge, but is admirably suited for transforming 
  psychological problems into computer-programmable problems.  This was 
  promptly done.  

  The concept of "controlled environment" arose from the common-sensical 
  observation that if you have a fixed personality (one susceptible to 
  being predictably profiled), and if you want to elicit from this 
  personality a particular type of behavior, then all you have to do is 
  control the third variable of the equation and thus produce the desired 
  behavior.  This was the standard social-psychology formula used for years 
  in every type of situation from labor negotiations to army 
  counterinsurgency operations, to important diplomatic maneuvers, until 
  apparently sometime in the 1960's. From that point on the greater 
  emphasis of social-psychology practice and theory was placed on the 
  problem of using the technique of controlled environment to produce not 
  the desired B (behavior) but the desired P (personality) in the 
  equation.  It can be speculated that our brainwashers found it very 
  frustrating to merely modify the behavior of the victim case-by-case and 
  once-at-a-time, and started puzzling over how to accomplish something 
  more drastic and permanent, like altering the deeper structures of human 
  personalities.  Thus, brainwashing moved from the era of "behavior 
  modification" to the era of "identity change".  

  The theory for this type of activity again relied upon the original 
  formulations of two Tavistock theoreticians, Dr. William Sargent's theory 
  in this BATTLE FOR THE MIND , and Kurt Lewin's own work on personality 
  regression.  

  Lewin observed that the inner self of the individual displays certain 
  reactions when under tension from the environment.  When there is no 
  tension, then the normal inner self of a person is well differentiated, 
  balanced, multifaceted, versative.  When a reasonable amount of tension 
  is applied, then this geometry collapses into blinded, undifferentiated 
  soup; a primitivization, a regression of the personality occurs.  The 
  person is reduced to an animal, the highly differentiated and versatile 
  abilities disappear.  The controlled environment takes over the 
  personality.  

  Or, as Marilyn Ferguson puts it, "Stress and transformation...these 
  paired ideas are a theme, a litany in the literature of the Aquarian 
  Conspiracy."  

  From this bit of nastiness emerged the theory of government by "crisis 
  management".  The social psychologists reasoned, more or less, in the 
  following fashion: "Since we are already in control of a 'controlled 
  environment', what will happen to the P (person) entrapped inside it when 
  we introduce 'social environmental turbulence'?  The deliberately 
  directed turbulence will create tensions for the P (person) and under 
  those conditions we shall examine the effects of directed tension upon 
  the personality and character structure of large populations."  

  A senior psychiatrist of the Tavistock clinic, Dr. Fred Emery, now at the 
  national University of Australia and formerly a member of President 
  Johnson's Kerner Commission, describes the following symptoms that large 
  populations display under conditions of this sort of "social 
  environmental turbulence"--the social crises that crisis management 
  causes: 

  There are three phases of reaction to social crisis.  

  The first is "Superficiality", in which the threatened population will 
  react by adopting some shallow sloganeering ideals to which, however, it 
  will not attach any serious "ego investment".  This is a passive 
  "maladaptive" response, maladaptive because it fails to identify the 
  causes of the crisis and therefore the crisis (tension) will persist.  

  The second phase of reaction, since the crisis continues, is 
  "fragmentation", in which panic begins to strike, social cohesion breaks 
  down, and small social groups try to protect themselves from the crisis 
  at the expense of other small, fragmented social groups.  This is also a 
  "passive maladaptive" reaction and, failing to identify the cause of the 
  crisis, it degenerates further into a third phase: "dissociation".  

  In the third phase, the victim turns away from the source of tension, 
  from the induced crisis, and goes into a fantasy trip of internal 
  migration, introspection, obsession with self.  This is the so-called 
  "self-realization" process of the Stanford Research Institute's report.  

  Subsequently, Dr. Emery adds that these three "passive" maladaptive 
  responses are each accompanied by an "active", but equally maladaptive 
  response.  "Superficiality" is thus paired with "synoptic idealism" as 
  its opposite; "fragmentation" with "authoritarianism", "dissociation" 
  with "evangelicism". The report then goes on to summarize the results of 
  the last thirty years [H: Thirty years?  Stop and think a moment--this 
  means that your enemy has had over half a century to perfect his deadly 
  plans.] of combined applied social psychology and crisis management.  

  In the decade of the 1960's we had the "superficiality" of the new Left 
  movement paired with the "synoptic idealism" of the Great Society.  

  In the decade of the 1970's we had the "fragmentation" of "community 
  control" movements paired with the "authoritarianism" of the Nixon era.  

  In the decade of the 1980's we have the "dissociation" of 
  "self-realization", "transcendental meditation", paired with the 
  "evangelicism" of all forms of mass religious fundamentalism.  

  So all these scenarios are in the computers of our pervasive social 
  engineering think-tanks.  The scenarios are in operation at the present 
  time.  What is supposed to emerge out of the pair of "disassociation" and 
  "evangelicism" of the present national crisis is the Age of Aquarius.  

  The snag in the whole project is that the brainwashers of our society are 
  counting on the populations responding with exclusively maladaptive 
  responses--responses to the crisis which fail to identify the causes of 
  the crisis or "environmental turbulence".  

  Should the population, or even significant minorities of the population, 
  be able to identify what the causes of the crisis are, the whole social 
  engineering operation of the last thirty years will collapse.  

  The reason we of the ICLC are putting this report in your hands is to 
  enable you to identify the causes of the crisis.  If you successfully do 
  so, then your reaction will not likely be maladaptive, because you will 
  know the causes.  If your mental abilities are within the range of the 
  national average, you will know without being told that your best 
  "active" "adaptive" response will be to get to the nearest copying 
  machine and make copies of this report for literally every citizen you 
  know, or get to the nearest telephone to contact us for further 
  mobilization.  

  If you have any notion that anything else, apart from collaborating with 
  us, will have any effect and if your behavior turns out to be 
  typical of most of your fellow citizens, then you will be acting 
  according to the way you have been profiled.  If you do so, you will not 
  be able to retain your sense of identity, that inner sense which you call 
  your soul, for more than the time between now and the year 1984. By that 
  time, if you do not succeed in producing anything but maladaptive 
  responses, you will no longer be the same person you are now.  

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  The body-snatchers of the Aquarian Conspiracy are after you. And
  among them are the President of the United States and his National
  Security Advisor.

  THE PSYCHAITRIC SHOCK TROOPS
  The Enemy's Main Army

  Over the course of the last 35 years, an invisible army has been deployed 
  into place in nearly every corner of the globe.  It is an army of 
  professionals, buried deep in the universities and think-tanks, whose 
  names and faces are unfamiliar to most citizens. They are dedicated to 
  one purpose--TO REDUCE MANKIND, THROUGH THE USE OF ADVANCED TECHNIQUES OF 
  PSYCHOLOGICAL warfare TO TAME, EASILY CONTROLLED BEASTS.  

  Topic: THE TAVISTOCK NETWORK 

  In this section, we summarize the network, indicating its evolution, its 
  general character and its leaders.  In the United States, this network, 
  which we shall call the Tavistock Network, has ten major installations, 
  an estimated four hundred medium sized installations and probably about 
  two to three thousand mini-sized spin-off groups deployed around the 
  major ones.  The total number of professionals employed in these 
  institutions is an estimated 35,000-40,000 persons. With an annual budget 
  of about $5-6 billion.  

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  NATIONAL TRAINING LABORATORIES 

  (International Institute for Applied Behavioral Science) 

  Rosslyn Station, Va.  Tel. 703-527-1500 Founded: 1947 Director: Leeland 
  Bradford Number of Employees: 500 (including regional NTL branches) Gross 
  Expenditures Per Year (1979): $23 million.  Percentage of Total Research 
  Devoted to Futurology: 10% Major Clients and Types of Contracts: NTL runs 
  "T-Groups" ("Training Groups") on Lewinite Group Behavior, including 
  "role-playing" involving plunging the participants into "artificial 
  stress situations".  NTL annually runs these T-Groups programs for the 
  entire managements of the following: U.S. Department of State U.S. Civil 
  Service Commission National Education Association: NTL is an official 
  unit of the NEA, the largest Teachers Association in the U.S. for which 
  NTL conducts most of the Leadership Training Programs.  

  NTL's clients include the following corporations: Alcoa, American 
  Cyanamid, Bell Telephone, B.F. Goodrich, Eli Lilly, Dow Chemical, U.S. 
  Steel, Westinghouse, Lockheed, DuPont, Eastman Kodak and all major oil 
  companies.
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  INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH 

  426 Thompson St., Ann Arbor, Michigan 
  Tel: 313-764-8363 Founded: 1946 (officially) Director: F.T. 
  Juster Director Emeritus: Rensis Like Survey Research Center: Director, 
  Stephen Withey Group Dynamics: Director Emeritus, Dorwin Cartwright 
  Center for Research on Utilization of Scientific Knowledge: Director 
  Emeritus, Ronald Lippitt Center for Political Studies: Director Warren 
  Miller Number of Employees: 500 Total Revenue (1978): $14 million 

  Major Clients and Types of Contracts: 

  UNESCO: "International Study on the Organization and Performance of 
  Research Units", an international study on the conditions that constitute 
  a productive organizational climate for scientific R&D.  Russell Sage 
  Foundation: "The Human Meaning of Social Change", the current state of 
  research on subjective well-being, followed by a national survey 
  supported by Russell Sage which sought to conceptualize and measure 
  people's feelings of well-being.  National Science Foundation: 
  Continuation of above, with emphasis on both individual and group change 
  in perceived well-being over 1971-78 period.  OECD: "Social Accounting 
  System", relates various data on the production of goods, household use 
  of time, and products of household production, and individual and 
  societal welfare, to establish the significance that various areas of 
  life have for people's evaluations of their well-being and how rapidly 
  these states can be disrupted.  Department of Health, Education and 
  Welfare, U.S. Office of Education: "Youth in Transition". What are the 
  major causes and consequences of dropping out of high school?  Are some 
  high schools more effective than others and why?  Various controlled 
  studies on disruptions as introduced into the settings.  National 
  Institute on Drug Abuse: "Monitoring the Future", an assessment of 
  personal lifestyles, drug use, attitudes about drugs, intergroup and 
  interpersonal attitudes, and other ethical and social issues--and, how 
  quickly groups respond to introductions of substance and activities 
  within those groups and concerning those issues.  National Institute of 
  Mental Health: "How Americans View Their Mental Health" and "Effects of 
  Introduction of Added Stress and Disease upon Populations".  National 
  Chicano Survey: "Chicano Research and Training".  U.S. Congress Office of 
  Technology Assessment: "On Learning to Plan--and Planning to Learn", the 
  use of technology assessment as a tool to guide public policy and 
  planning, as witnessed by the establishment of the OTA. Identify 
  psychological, sociological and political factors affecting the 
  utilization of technology products for public policy formation and 
  planning.  U.S. Department of Labor, Manpower Administration: An 
  analytical comparison of systems for R&D diffusion and utilization in 
  four federal agencies.  Government of PERU: ISR has helped Peruvian 
  Government establish a survey research facility. Grants and contracts have 
  also been received from: U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Department 
  of Defense, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Department of Interior, Ford 
  Foundation, International Labor Organization, U.S. Postal Service, 
  Electric Power Research Institute.  

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  ESALEN INSTITUTE 

  Big Sur, California Tel: 408-667-2335 Founded: 1962 Director: Richard 
  Price Co-Director: Michael Murphy Number of Employees: Over a 100 with 
  spin-off institutes in the U.S. numbering over 1,000, with a total staff 
  in 1979 of over 10,000.  Gross Volume of Sales Turnover Per Year (1979): 
  $4 million; $400 million estimated for total national spin-offs.  Major 
  Clients and Types of Contracts: Esalen is the popular version of National 
  Training Labs, and like NTL conducts essentially the same seminars for 
  all its clients: T-Group ego-stripping sessions, Group Therapy including 
  group sexual therapy as a form of "couples counseling", mind-expansion 
  with and without psychedelic drugs, and religious cult experiences such 
  as the chanting of Yoga mantras and Zen meditation.  More than 2.5 
  million individuals have been brainwashed through Esalen group techniques 
  since 1962. Organizations who have used Esalen for their membership in 
  institutional training include: Episcopal Church of California, San 
  Francisco State College, San Francisco Grace Episcopal Cathedral, 
  Brandeis University, UCLA, American Psychological Association, Playboy 
  Magazine, Stanford Research Institute, Journal of Transpersonal 
  Psychology, Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Western Behavioral Sciences 
  Institute (La Jolla), World Council of Churches, Mendocino State 
  Hospital, Stanford University, Santa Cruz University--and the list goes 
  on so long as to preclude re-publishing it.  [H: It has been proven and 
  re-proven that the leaders were the epitome of corruption of both 
  financial and moral attitudes of self and as practiced (taught). You who 
  have been brainwashed through Esalen need compassion for if you are 
  "screwed-up", you now know the source and where the problems REALLY 
  began.  This was among the most evil intentional brain-change programs 
  ever produced against the citizenry to gain control and mind-warp.] 

  _________ 

  MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Topic: ALFRED P. SLOAN 
  SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT 

  Cambridge, Massachusetts Tel: 617-253-7166 Senior Professor of 
  contemporary Technology: Caroll L. Wilson Systems Dynamics Group 
  Director: Jay Forrester. 617-253-1550 Industrial Relations Section 
  Director: Dr. Charles A. Myers. 617-253-2671.  Major Clients and Types of 
  Contracts: The Sloan School's professorial and magazine staff for Sloan 
  Management Review, are almost all trained Operations Research and 
  Lewinite Group Psychologists specializing in restructuring of corporate 
  and labor union management.  The Sloan School has done personnel training 
  and organizational restructuring for GTE, Sylvania, TRW, and major 
  medical administrative units.  U.S. Navy, Office of Naval Research, Group 
  Psychology Branch: Edgar H. Schein, Study on Increasing Organization 
  Effectiveness Through Better Human Resource Planning and Development, 
  1977, and psychological "fortification" of Intelligence groups.  American 
  Management Association: "Management Decisions for the Next Decade (1980's 
  and into the '90's)" by Charles A. Myers. Improvement of Management 
  productivity through better utilization of human resources in labor force 
  computer systems, urban crises (natural and constructed), and 
  multinationalization of international BUSINESS.  U.S. Department of State 
  NATIONAL COUNCIL OF CHURCHES NASA-ERC Computer Research Lab: Prof. Avery 
  R. Johnson, Consultant, Social Science Research council.  MIT Sloan 
  School Systems Dynamics Group wrote the Club of Rome's Limits to Growth 
  by Jay Forrester and Dennis Meadows. The methods of group dynamics, 
  combined with computer analysis of economic parameters deliberately 
  restricted to limited resources over which corporate management are told 
  to compete, are used to convince major U.S. industries and the U.S. 
  government of the psychological necessity of the Club of Rome's program 
  for the shutdown of U.S. industry.  [H: Remember!!--still in the 1970s.] 
  Major Sponsors of the Systems Dynamics Group "World 1, 2, 3" (Club of 
  Rome) model: The Club of Rome, The Volkswagen Foundation, The National 
  Science Foundation, The National Academy of Sciences, The American Gas 
  Association.  Systems Dynamics Group "National Dynamics Project": The 
  Sloan School SDG also carried out from 1972-77 a National Dynamics 
  Project "to better understand the behavior of the socioeconomic system of 
  the U.S. and to provide testing alternate public policies centered around 
  a computer simulation model of socioeconomic change to be test run in the 
  1980's on "live subjects".  

  THE TAVISTOCK "MOTHER" 

  The "mother" institution for this network of psychological warriors is 
  the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations located in London, England. 
  While the name of the institute is unknown to all but certain members of 
  this psychological profession and their students, it is no exaggeration 
  to say that the techniques for psychological control of "target 
  populations", the key planning for their implementation, and the training 
  of most of the "controllers" are the Institute's handiwork.  

  Tavistock was founded as a clinic in 1921, to serve as a psychological 
  think tank for the British intelligence services.  The man who shaped 
  Tavistock and who developed what is sometimes referred to as the 
  "Tavistock method" was Brigadier-General John Rawlings Rees, an intimate 
  of Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson and Kurt Lewin who became the clinic's 
  director in 1932. Rees's contribution to psychology, to put it crudely 
  but accurately, was that he recognized that the same techniques used in 
  psychotherapy to cure an individual of his neuroses or psychosis could be 
  applied to make him sicker.  Rees proposed to deliberately induce 
  controlled forms of neurosis, or even psychotic behavior.  

  First applying this to single individuals, then to groups, Rees 
  eventually proposed that this "retrogressive psychology" be applied to 
  large numbers of individuals . It is on this premise--that large numbers 
  of individuals can be driven neurotic or psychotic and therefore 
  controlled--that the entire Tavistock method rests.  

  The tool for driving a society mad--or neurotic--was repeated 
  "psychological shocks" or "stressful events".  Rees and his cothinkers 
  reasoned that if populations could be put through "stress tests" it was 
  possible to first predict a response and then, through altering the range 
  of perceived choices, to direct responses in an intended direction.  In 
  that way whole societies could be "profiled" and controlled.  In his 
  published works and private conversations, Rees reasoned that it was 
  possible to induce a population to believe almost anything, provided that 
  the dissemination of information, and therefore the population's 
  perceived choices, were rigorously controlled.  This is the essence of 
  what is called a "controlled psychological environment".  

  While some of Rees's more timid colleagues claimed that this could only 
  occur under laboratory conditions, Rees boldly asserted that the entire 
  society or parts of it could be turned into a laboratory. 

  The goal, according to Rees, is to use psychological shock troops to 
  build a society "where it is possible for people of every social group to 
  have treatment when they need it, even when they do not wish it, without 
  it being necessary to invoke law."   

  Starting in the mid-1930's, Rees began to systematically build his 
  invisible army.  

  He recruited W. R. Bion, who developed the concept of the "leaderless 
  group", to the Tavistock staff.  Eric Trist, now at the Wharton School in 
  Philadelphia and the effective head of the Tavistock operations in the 
  U.S.A., was recruited in 1940 while doing experiments on hypnosis-reduced 
  abreaction at an English hospital.  H. V. Dicks, who became Tavistock's 
  assistant director, was brought on board in 1940.  

  But it was the war that gave Tavistock its biggest boost.  It is 
  absolutely no exaggeration to say that Rees, from 1938-42, proceeded to 
  take over the effective command of the British Army. The military, 
  according to Rees, was the ideal place to test out his theories.  "The 
  army and other fighting services form rather unique experimental groups 
  since they are complete communities and it is possible to arrange 
  experiments that would be very difficult to do in civilian life."  

  Rees eventually became the consulting psychiatrist to the Army at Home 
  and later effectively ran the directorate of Army psychiatry.  From this 
  position, Rees was able to recruit from all over the British Commonwealth 
  to fill out his "first team".  Rees demanded that his "team" meet 
  regularly in informal sessions, dubbing the meetings the "invisible 
  college".  Rees managed to get his personnel assigned to the staff of 
  every British Army unit and the Allied Command itself, especially SHAEF 
  (Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force).  

  The Tavistock crew worked closely with the Special Operations Executive, 
  the British intelligence service section in charge of clandestine 
  operations.  Rees's top assistant, H. V. Dicks, was seconded to the 
  Directorate of Military Intelligence on a semipermanent basis.  Tavistock 
  personnel were responsible for training the American Office of Strategic 
  Services (the forerunner of the CIA) and the allied psychological warfare 
  division.  

  It would require pages to provide full details of Tavistock's wartime 
  exploits.  The point to be made here is that Tavistock under Rees's 
  direction used the war to both expand its staff and influence; more 
  importantly it became impossible to separate Tavistock and its personnel 
  from the Allied military command structure.  It was this structure which 
  was to evolve in the immediate postwar period into the NATO command.  

 POSTWAR NETWORK 

  At the close of the Second World War, John Rawlings Rees outlined his 
  postwar plans to a group of U.S. Army psychiatrists.  Said Rees, "If we 
  propose to come out in the open and to attack the national and social 
  problems of our day, then we must have shock troops and these cannot be 
  provided by psychiatry based wholly on institutions.  We must have mobile 
  teams of psychiatrists who are free to move around and make contacts with 
  the local situation in a particular area."  

  Rees proposed the creation of a psychological conspiracy--modeled on his 
  wartime "invisible college"--and expanded to include points of influence 
  and control in every major nation on earth.  In a world driven 
  deliberately mad, the only arbiter of sanity is psychiatry and this power 
  can only be exercised by a cabal "in every country, groups of 
  psychiatrists, linked to each other" capable of influencing the 
  "political governmental field".  

  The Tavistock network is the evolved form of this Ressian conspiracy.
  It is a multi-layered operation.
  At the center is the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, founded in 
  1947 by Rees to supersede the old clinic.  Unlike the clinic, which has 
  only informal relations with other institutions and members of the 
  "network", the Institute from its inception moved to establish direct 
  relations with like-minded individuals and institutions in other 
  countries, most notably in continental Europe and especially in the 
  United States. Funding for the project came from the British government 
  and from the Rockefeller Foundation, and a number of large corporations 
  such as Unilever.  

  For the operation to be successful, it was required that new institutions 
  be created to train social controllers in the "Tavistock method".  These 
  controllers were to create yet another layer of institutes to spread 
  Tavistock's ideas throughout the population.  

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  On the other side of the Atlantic, the Tavistock network had as its core 
  group the circle around Kurt Lewin, the German emigr psychiatrist who 
  developed the field theory of psychiatry and its corollary, the concept 
  of group dynamics.  

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  It was these credentials of the Lewin group that identified them as the 
  key American collaborator of the Tavistock crowd.  Like Rees, their 
  concern was the use of wartime psychological warfare techniques for 
  peacetime "mind control".  

  Even before the war ended, Lewin's group began planning for postwar 
  activity.  In 1944, Lewin established the Center for Research in Group 
  Dynamics at MIT while simultaneously setting up the Commission on 
  Community Interrelations for the American Jewish Congress. The former was 
  to be a base of domestic operations for the Lewin group similar to 
  Tavistock. Its key personnel, including Gordon Allport, Dorwin Cartwright 
  and Rensis Likert, were seeking to "multiply" themselves--to create a new 
  generation of controllers schooled in Lewin's small-group brainwashing 
  techniques.  The CCI, on the other hand, was one of the first 
  sophisticated projects in racial and ethnic profiling dealing with the 
  question of cultural assimilation.  While the CCI received money from the 
  AJC and similar funding conduits, the CRGD received its funding from both 
  MIT and private grants, including the U.S. Navy.  
  
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  In 1966 the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) was set up at Sussex 
  University in England. The SPRU is cited in the book the Handbook of 
  Future Research (1978) as the mother institution for all comprehensive 
  "future oriented" research in the postwar period.  The SPRU incorporated 
  Tavistock's group dynamics and related social manipulation techniques 
  into policy planning.  It quickly established itself as a principal think 
  tank and training institution for other future-oriented planning 
  centers.  As such, the SPRU was able to locate--or as referred to in 
  military parlance "second"--key Tavistock agents into planning positions 
  in major European centers.  Significantly, such planners are aided in 
  proliferating these techniques among government and corporate layers by 
  Tavistock personnel who ran seminars for SPRU.  

  By the 1970's, no major center for long-range planning, either private or 
  public, had avoided the long arm of SPRU. It is important to note that 
  the SPRU has done direct contract work for the NATO command and that this 
  relationship, while the details may be classified, is nonetheless a 
  widely acknowledged fact.  

  The parallel U.S. institution to the SPRU is the Institute for Social 
  Research at the University of Michigan. ISR is the product of the 1947 
  merger between the Survey Research Center founded in 1946 by Lewinite 
  Rensis Likert and the Center for Research in Group Dynamics headed by 
  Dorwin Cartwright which moved from MIT following Lewin's death.  The ISR, 
  along the Tavistock model, is the most "Action-oriented" psychological 
  institute in the U.S.A., conducting a myriad of project studies in every 
  aspect of social life.  Of particular significance is Rensis Likert, who 
  functions as director of the Survey Research Center, described as the 
  preeminent social profiling institution in the U.S.A. Likert and his 
  staff, through their connections to other polling services, such as the 
  Gallup Poll and Harris Poll, have the ability to get instant readings on 
  the population's response to policy intitiatives, and to reshape 
  response.  More importantly, Likert has trained or supervised the 
  training of market researchers for major corporations, including General 
  Motors and Ford, thereby playing a role in determining what products will 
  be placed on the market and when.  

  The Institute for Social Research, set up with original funding from the 
  National Institute of Mental Health, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the 
  Department of Navy now does contract work for well over a hundred of the 
  nation's "Fortune 500" firms.  In addition, the ISR has effectively taken 
  over the "education" departments of several major unions, most notably 
  the United Auto workers, drafting worker education plans and plans for 
  dealing with in-plant troublemakers, drug addicts, and alcoholics.  

  ISR exists as a key American resource for the Tavistock cabal.  

  At present the ISR command structure is in the hands of former Lewin 
  students: the institute's director is Alvin Zander, the CRGD is headed by 
  Dorwin Cartwright, while the Survey Research Center is still headed by 
  Rensis Likert. 

  The third institution is the National Training Laboratories, founded in 
  1947, by Ronald Lippett, Kenneth Danne, and Leland Bradford, all students 
  of Lewin, with funding from the Office of Naval Research, the Carnegie 
  Corporation and with direct assistance from Tavistock. Its staff comes 
  from the Michigan ISR and from Tavistock. From its inception, NTL had one 
  mission--to put as many key leaders of society as possible through 
  Lewinite small group brainwashing sessions and to guarantee that these 
  methods were applied in educational systems and in corporate 
  environments.  The NTL, which eventually became the NTL Institute of 
  Applied Behavioral Science, set out to train a new circle of 
  "controllers". This was done through a series of "workshop seminars", 
  some on site at corporate headquarters, or at the NTL mansion at Bethel 
  and later in Florida. The hallmark of NTL "training techniques" was the 
  so-called T-group sessions, which were more generally popularized towards 
  the end of the 1960's. The encounter groups stressed the development of 
  "organizational" identities, with NTL group leaders infusing values into 
  the flaccid minds of the participants.  Special emphasis is made on 
  techniques for establishing "non-coercive" small group sessions for all 
  levels of corporate management and in using "group dynamics" as a basis 
  for planning "new responses" to "discontinuous developments" in corporate 
  existence.  

  From the mid-1950's on NTL has run similar sessions for the U.S. State 
  Department, the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Civil Service Commission. Each of 
  these seminars or consulting projects has involved input from Tavistock, 
  which has drafted portions of the NTL program.  From 1964 onward, the NTL 
  became a direct part of the National Education Association, the largest 
  organization of teachers in the United States with membership of more 
  than 2 million.  The NTL institute is funded by the NEA as well as the 
  U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and drafts programs for 
  the training of the nation's primary and secondary school teachers.  
  Under the NTL's supervision, the NEA has set up "group sessions" for its 
  affiliates and pushed such educational "reforms" as the open classroom.  
  Here, as in other NTL operations, Tavistock has had its input in a 
  massive and major way.  

  The NTL has spawned literally hundreds of similar institutions around the 
  country, including the establishment of a West Coast base of operations, 
  the Western Training Laboratories in Group development.  The NTL 
  Institute has no firm figure on the number of Americans that have gone 
  through its "group dynamics" program or spin-offs at satellite 
  institutions.  All estimates place the figure at well over one million.  

  The Tavistock network does not stop here.  In another location, we show 
  the development of a California nexus.  The network goes even farther.  
  The Center for Research in Group Dynamics was set up as part of the Sloan 
  School of Business Management at MIT; Lewin operatives such as Gordon 
  Allport worked out the School of Business and its management division at 
  Harvard.  

  The point is that Tavistock controls the key business schools and related 
  think tanks around the country (world). The case of Eric Trist is 
  exemplary.  Trist came to this country from Tavistock in 1960 after first 
  heading Tavistock's management division and then its human resources 
  center.  

  Trist then proceeded to make some assigned rounds.  In 1960-61 he headed 
  for the Stanford Center for Advanced Behavioral Sciences, where he joined 
  fellow Tavistock operatives Bertram Gross, Fred Emery and Dorwin 
  Cartwright in solidifying Tavistock's West Coast operations; then he 
  headed for Case University in Cleveland where he spent 1964 establishing 
  a Tavistock management program; from 1967-71, Trist was seconded to the 
  chairmanship of the graduate business school at UCLA; and finally, in 
  1971, Trist "landed" the chairmanship of the University of Pennsylvania's 

  Wharton School's Management and Behavioral Science Institute. The Wharton 
  School, one of the leading economic think tanks in the country, is 
  effectively a branch of Tavistock.  

  Since 1965, Trist has been directly involved in establishing a network of 
  primarily corporate-linked psychological "problem solving" operations 
  that are grouped under the heading of Organizational Development. There 
  are two levels to this operation.  At one level on the shop floor in as 
  many as 500 factories, schools, etc., OD is a sophisticated 
  small-group-oriented, brainwashing project.  Through the application of 
  controlled stressful situations, workers and employees are "broken from 
  their individualism" and given a "team spirit".  They are then "allowed" 
  in "consultation with management" to set their own working rates, which 
  Trist has found are "higher" than normal.  In short, they are induced to 
  speed themselves up.  The program is coordinated directly with ISR and 
  the NTL Institute. Wharton publications speak highly of the way such 
  methods "increase productivity".  

  On a second level, OD deals with training corporate management in using 
  these techniques.  

  An NTL brochure describes a course in the Tavistock model of group 
  dynamics: "This model provides participants with opportunities for 
  increasing their understanding and awareness of group processes, with 
  particular emphasis on the covert dynamics which occur in groups with 
  regard to the issues of authority, leadership and followership.  

  "The learning focus is upon groups rather than individual personalities.  
  This perspective is emphasized in order to facilitate a new understanding 
  of institutions, organizations and communities.  The focus of the staff 
  is upon the major problems of group life--those encountered in the 
  exercise of authority based upon competence, power or both.  It is 
  assumed that people who understand something about the nature and 
  exercise of their own authority, as well as that of others, are thereby 
  equipped to deal more effectively with these issues as encountered in any 
  work setting."  

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<end of excerpted material>
-Steve Crocker

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From: [email-masked] (Frank Redington)
Date: 31 Aug 92 11:19:31 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Steve Crocker) writes:
>else is that it is difficult to respond to criticism of the piece.

fair enough, I`m merely criticising the information 
presented here

>  The 

   on what evidence.

>  drug traffic.

An interesting proposition. Actually most of England's aristocratic 
families are nowadays fairly enfeebled. The U.S. is very different.
The common bloodlines amongst almost all U.S. president up to Reagan,
I believe, are startling - sort of a family business. Drug traffic
for social manipulation ? They'd do a lot better re social manipulation
if they legalised it, but then 200 billions a pretty nice bonus.

During World War II, Tavistock was the 
>  through the arrangements of the British Special Operations Executive,

believable, probably true

>  also dictated policy to the United States Armed Forces in matters of 

dictated ? advised perhaps.

>  Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) in Europe. 

Yeah, big deal. So some people from the Tavistock switched jobs.
Happens all the time.

>  Laboratories, the National Institute of Mental Health and others.  

O.K., so the Tavistock played a role in starting the careers of
people who then went on to hold influential posts elsewhere

>  way into these institutions from private foundations.  

Evidence for this should be freely available, for those of
you lucky enough to have a F.O.I act.

>  memories.

Actually, it is the paucity of machine-readable psychological data
rather than its ubiquitousness that is surprising, especially 
considering the now easy availability of the technology.

>  newspapers as opinion polls is only an infinitesimal portion of the work 

see above. One of Psychology's problems is the lack of QUALITY data,
not it's incessant availability. The Gallup stuff is well done, for what
it is, but if you want to test any reasonably interesting hypothesis
you usually have to go and get your own, at least if you want to make
sure it's done properly.

>  In the deeper 

this is great. do they really do this ?

>  of British Intelligence and others.  

I'll get this ASAP

>  change in the United States.

How do they decide what to do ? A democratic conspiracy ?

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>  Environment and Person.) 

The jargon's a little odd, but yeah, this is the basic interactionist
position. It's just a shame that outside of the lab (and usually inside
the lab) it is very difficult to take account or measure either.

This is accompanied by a tremendous amount of 
>  scientific knowledge, 

if it was any practical use, it would make a massive contribution to
human knowledge

>  but is admirably suited for transforming 

Aha. I've got a degree in Psychology (does that make me 
one of them?) and am about to receive one in AI. This 
is rubbish. If it's been done, by whom, where are the 
references, and can I ftp it from anywhere ;-)

>  apparently sometime in the 1960's. 

Err, I don't think so. For years social psychologists argued themselves
blue in the face about whether it was the person or the environment
responsible for this or that. Social psychology theories are usually 
consideably more sophisticated than you seem to think, and a lot
more useless in practical situations (except in a statistical sense
of course)

>From that point on the greater 
>  equation. 

Did it. No-one ever told me.

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>  PSYCHOLOGICAL warfare TO TAME, EASILY CONTROLLED BEASTS.  

Wow

>  this psychological profession and their students, 

yeah, it's real secret. I decided to find out exactly where it 
was. I thought it was in the center, but I suppose that they were
originally at Tavistock square and then moved. Maybe this is just
a sub-branch

It's at 

                 120, Belsize Lane,  
                 London, NW3

                 The telephone number is 071-435-7111

I don't often dial international but I think from the states you
add 44 to the start of the number, and omit the leading 0 ?

>  controlled forms of neurosis, or even psychotic behavior.  

I'm on shakier ground here, but this all sounds dodgy. When I'm next 
down in the Smoke, I'll check it out.

>  take over the effective command of the British Army. 

I doubt that

> The military, 

yup this is true. You can do lots of things with soldiers that
you can't with volunteers - limits the validity of your results,
but you can't have everything

>  heading Tavistock's management division and then its human resources 

Howso, all that has been shown is that the Tavistock has been highly
influential. Rees sounds like a bit of a nutter, if what you claim is
true, but I don't see that Lewin or many other people are implicated.
Look at any rapidly developing field of science and you'll see that same
pattern of movements over the last 40 years. Look at the Los Alamos
crew, for example. There are much much better examples of psychological
manipulation about (Stanley Milgram's obedience stuff, for example).

Psychology, psychologists, and (especially) psychistrists have
caused their fair share of harm. But the science is not yet
advanced to the state where the sort of mass manipulation your 
talking about is viable - Do X, and you'll get Y.

Almost all the research you've discussed is useable from either
perspective - as a (fairly unreliable) guide to brainwashing,
or as a warning that it MIGHT work.

>  regard to the issues of authority, leadership and followership.  

This is psycho-speak for a course which will teach you
very little you didn't already know, or couldn't have found out
by reading an undergrad textbook, and some collected readings.

This must be a nice little earner' for whoever runs the course
What do they charge ? $200+

>  equipped to deal more effectively with these issues as encountered in any 

my proper e-mail address is [email-masked] This account
dies on October the 5th.

There are plenty of real bogeymen in the world without picking
on these poor saps. Most TV is shite, and Biased, and I think 
this matters. Maybe the people who think they're pulling the strings
did lift some techniques from communication research. Let's hope
so, because psychology right now is about where physics was before
Newton, especially where mass social manipulation is concerned.

        just my 2 cents worth,
                                  Martin.