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Voh 7 No. 6 April 1974

5 THE REAL CIA -- THE ROCKEFELLERS' FASCIST ESTABLISHMENT

by L. Marcus

36 LOW INTENSITY OPERATIONS: THE REESlAN THEORY OF WAR

by M. Minnicino

4 FEATURES

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The Tavistock Grin is a term coined to connote the knowinggrin -- the smile of John Rawlings Rees. This is the grin of menwho engage in the most vicious forms of psychological warfare.These same men with that same grin commit crimes against

humanity which make Hitler look like an amateur. With this issue THISwe exhume the corpse of John Rawlings Rees, tracing the livingtrail of his followers and financiers. The Reesian method of

fascist control is analyzed in The Real ClA -- The R0ckefellers' ISSUEFascist Establishment, a polemic by L. Marcus. The history ofRees, the animal, the Tavistock Institute and the Reesians isdocumented in Low Intensity Operations: The Reesian Theory ofWar by M. Minnicino.

In the May issue The Tavistock Grin will be concluded with twoarticles completing the overview of the Tavistock network.Rockefellers' Fascist Labor Policies by R. Freeman presents anextensive history of the Rockefeller control of the labormovement. P. Cuskie in The Shaping of An Anglo-American SS

COMING by War exposes the Reesian brand plan with which Rockefeller'scabal plan to run the world.

II_k__,_llllll_' _ Future issues will include: an all-Latin American issueI W Ik=Wklk=P

featuring an analysis and programmatic recommendation forsocialist organizing under the shadow of the Brazilian "miracle,"The Miracles and Martyrdom of St. Antonio Gramsci, Part II, TheDoctrine of L'Academie, the beginning of a series on the FrenchIdeology.

The Real CIA- ,ot,e s,ages,t,enew.ep..men,w.sdeliberately designed to parallel the organization andfunctioning of the research staff of a major national

The, ,....,......,,..... new wee ,,. o..e pon eto,,,in,..,ro,"vendor" ' to and virtually appendage of the NewSolidarity editorial staff. Approximately in November-

Fascist Establishment December 1972, the basis for a second major intelli-gence activity emerged out of the need for massivecounter-intelligence concerning the imminentliquidation of the old National Welfare RightsOrganization by counterinsurgency agents working outof (principally) the U.S, Department of Health, Edu-cation and Welfai-e. Similar counter-intelligence needsemerged from our work in opposing the crushing of theAFL-CIO under Phase Two and Phase Three.

Following the August 1, 1973 breakthrough in de-programming brainwash victim Konstantin George, thework was amplified in two ultimately interconnectedways. We immediately undertook a substantial

by L Marcus investigation of Soviet and "Western" modes of• brainwashing and, parallel to this, studies of CIA-NATOand KGB operations generally.

Beginning with a rash of early-January "red scares," Hence, the events of Dec. 31, 1973 found us with overeach staged and "discovered" by the U.S. Central twoyears' a_cumulated preparatory work and experienceIntelligence Agency (CIA) [1], the Rockefeller- in intelligence work generally, and the potential fordominated faction of international finance [2] and creating a coordinated, professional-quality full-timepolitical machines [3] rapidly committed its forces to the dePartment, exceptionally skilled in political economy,establishment of fascist regimes in North America and labor, counterinsurgency research and psychologicalWestern Europe by no later than early 1975. This warfare research.

present issue of the Campaigner is devoted to presenting Two additional practical features of the organizationthe reader with an essential background briefing on both have been of extraordinary importance during the pastthe conspiracy and the far-flung interlocking financial, three months. In North America itself, we havepolitical, professional and military "establishment" maintained a twice-daily overview of the ghetto, labor,

variously participating in the leadership and support of and other key developments, through telephone linksthe Rockefeller family's fascist plot. with regional centers, which in turn keep an overview of

There should be some preliminary identification of our information gathered from local organizations and otherspecial competence in offering such an exposure, localities in which significant Labor Committee,Following remarks to that effect, we shall review the NUWRO [6] and RYM [7] organizing are occurring. We

principal questions to be examined in this present also have daily briefings in detail from Western Europearticle, and thereafter proceed to each of those points in and a flow (although less immediate) of informationturn. from various parts of Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

This provides fine-grained coverage of the world'sleading publications in addition to information from a

LABOR COMMITTEE INTELLIGENCE considerable number of primary sources.As a result, as most readers of New Solidarity may

Following the traumatic vindication of our unique have noted, our coverage of the most important breakingeconomic analyses and predictions by the mid-August news developments in Europe, North America, and the1971 collapse of the Bretton Woods monetary system [4], Middle East has been consistently better informed andseveral major organizational advances were immediately far more accurate than that usually received by mostinitiated in anticipation of the Labor Committees' elected government officials or available from leadinginevitable rapid growth and rise to hegemonyon the U.S. press sources. It is principally our intelligenceLeft. [5] One of the several notable such resolutions was department which has made New Solidarity the mostthe immediate formation of an intelligence department, authoritative news source on key developments in North

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America. Admittedly, some of this favorable distinction indispensable to abstract from economic processes toof New Solidarity over such papers as the New York determine what is essential, actual economic forces are

Times or Washington Post is the result of those not mere abstractions. (The assumption that the

competitors' frequent falsification of accounts, or their universe is governed by fixed, merely abstract principleshabit of reporting a CIA-engineered leak without "even of lawfulness is a clinical expression of the kind of

rudimentary checking for facts. [8] Certainly, most of the metaphysical epiphenomenalism arising frominformation on which the reports in this issue are based reductionism.[12]) The actuality of economic process is

was readily available to any team of reporters who had expressed in the form of specific institutions and

made the effort to pull facts together. Whatever such persons. Broad economic analysis permits one toconditional observations might be warranted, the fact of determine the necessary potential order of reality; the

the quality of our intelligence output remains, distinction between what is merely potential and whichThe critical, dynamic feature which gives our potentialities are actual influences is resolved, and

intelligence work its superior quality is that principle uniquely so, by the determination of which potentialities

emphasized in this writer's earlier Campaigner coverage are expressed or imminently to be expressed by concreteof the Rockefeller plot. [9] The application of geometry, human beings organized in more or less clearly-definedheuristically, to the question of "what is real" indicates organized forms.

the essential principle upon which interpretation of any The Labor Committees' intelligence departmentisolated sequence of events must be properly premised, represents the activity of discovering which of the wide

Any significant sequence of events implies the kind of range of potentialities, as determined by political

universe in which such a sequence could occur. It is the economic analysis, are or are becoming concrete

ability to determine the "geometry" of an evolving actualities. The quality of research into various aspectsuniverse of developments as a whole which uniquely [10] of the current process is indispensable, but remains no

enables the investigator of a particular chain of more than the indispensable expression of that more

occurrences to judge which of the apparent facts are real fundamental theoretical competence upon whichand which represent illusion, foundation the organization as a whole was built.

The world in which events presently occur is

predominantly a capitalist world flanked by the

continuing existence of the Soviet bloc, Peoples' I. THE READER'S PROBLEMS WITH THERepublic of China, North Korea, North Vietnam, and SUBJECT

Cuba. It is not a capitalist world in merely the broad,

general significance of those terms. It is a particular Before we summarize the reader's characteristic

phase of capitalist development, and presently involves a difficulties in interpreting the facts of the conspiracyvery specific form of conjunctural transition from a itself, we should dispense with an extremely significantcollapsing post-war phase of its metagenetical evolution, but more easily resolved problem: Why do we describe

The dominant and secondary capitalist interests of this the plot as one launched at the first of the present year?

conjunctural phase are rather precisely, narrowly On the surface, the point appears eminently arguable.

defined, to the extent that at the top the dominant The effort to discredit the U.S. presidency and congresssection of the capitalist class is identified by a handful of (a classic fascist precondition for takeover) is directly

controlling personalities, traced to such preparations as Daniel Ellsberg's role in

The way in which the capitalist world-economy can perpetrating the "Pentagon Papers" hoax, and moreevolve, as an economy, is more or less exactly delimited, immediately to the Spring 1972 "plumbers" operations.to the effect that a narrow range of alternative sequelae, On the British end of the Current plot, the qualifications

as consequences and alternatives presented, can be of the British military service and MIS for present "lowexactly predicted as the outcome of any attempted shift intensity" police-state operations in England, Wales and •

in policy or practice by any significant force of self- Scotland were developed by deliberate manipulation of a

interest. [11] civil rights struggle in Northern Ireland into a protracted

Consequently, the ability to judge the course of events dress rehearsal for fascist rule throughout the Unitedfrom day to day depends ji_ndamentally upon com- Kingdom.[13]

petence in economic analysis, a quality of unique The U.S. war in Vietnam, initiated and essentiallycompetence which has been shown by the Labor directed for most of its term bythe CIA [14] will turn out

Committee tendency during more than a decade of to be more of a preparation for fascism in the U.S.A.

recent studies in political economy, than any objective in Southeast Asia. The Peace CorpsEconomics by itself would not suffice. Although it is and Office of Economic Opportunity were also

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essentially preparations for creating the infrastructure insult. Once the CIA scare was unleashed, the next step

for fascist organization (i.e., the Reesian fascist principle had to be taken by the Rockefeller forces, lest the first

of "local community control"). The 1966 birth of the step backfire.Gestapo-like force legalized later as the Law The distinction between developments prior to Dec.Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA), 31, 1973 and the process unleashed in steps beginning

through Rockefeller agent and leading CIA operative, that date is essential|y that which would be madeMcGeorge Bundy, was similarly an essential between, on the one hand, deployments in anticipation

preparation of the nation for fascist police:state rule. of a possible war, and, on the other hand, the

The organization Of the "ecology movement" and subsequent tactical moves which committed deployed

"quality of life" campaigns as conditioning for John D. forces in skirmishes leading directly into an active stateRockefeller III's genocidal Zero Growth project are also of warfare.fascist preparations. The spreading of the "rock-drug The conceptual difficulty which some might

counterculture" and the spread of marijuana and LSD- experience in grasping such a distinction would generally

_25 in particular as "radical" causes were well-designed take the hysterical form of considering only isolated

preparations for fascist movements (as well as an easier details one by one, evading the distinctions which "emerge

cover for introducing significant use of "brainwashing"), once all the data in the respective fields are assimilatedThere are numerous almost innumerable- in the forms of Gestalts.

preparations in the direction of fascism through the Otherwise, we have the following more substantial1960's and beyond. Why, then, one asks, is January, objections and other difficulties to treat, each requiring

1974 so particularly significant? significantly more elaboration than sufficed for the

More immediately, we might consider the relationship minor problem whose form we have just reviewed.

of Rockefeller rigging of the October Arab-Israeli war to The most rudimentary of these more significantthe "energy shortage" hoax aspects of 1974's plot. concerns is the typically encountered resistance of

Certainly, artificially created "oil shortages" began tO be individuals to facing the obvious facts of the matter. Fear

experienced during November and December, only is the principal obstacle to recognizing an overt, massive

becoming more viciously acute during the January- CIA-centered plot against all existing governments andMarch 1974 period, populations of North America and Western Europe.

The immediate function of the staged Arab-Israeli That properly emphasized, it is fear that prompt s certainWar was to provide a cover for the formal endorsement formal arguments of skepticism. Although thoseof major price-rise agreements negotiated prior to the arguments are merely rationalizations, they do warrant

outbreak of that war. This had the accompanying effect consideration here -- if only to expose th¢ fear which

of increasing the revenues of the Rockefeller-dominated must be faced and overcome head-on.

"Seven Sisters" (the major oil cartels) at the expense of There is more complexity in analysis of a second mainespecially Western Europe, Japan, Australia and New difficulty.

Zealand, while also squeezing harder on the The wishful skeptic who recognizes our abundant

industrialization of the "developing countries." The command of evidence to support the judgement ofpoint is: the oi'l hoax did not have to. be extended into the conspiracy, characteristically resorts to the ruse of

, form it assumed after the first oftheyear, insisting that "This represents a conspiratorial view of

December 31-January 1 essentially represented an history." Since the facts do add up to proof of

implementation of the previously developed capabilities conspiracy, the hysteric's most effective quibble againstand preparatory deployments in the form of a direct the evidence .is to discredit it on the very grounds that it

attack on the democratic institutions of North America, proves conspiracy. Since the implied consoling argumentWestern Europe and Japan. Of special significance in proceeds, ."Conspiratorial theories of history are

this was the increasing difficulty the Rockefeller faction unsound," in his opinion, it must follow on that premise

would experience in attempting to call off this fascist plot that all facts proving the existence of a conspiracy arein motion without exposing itself to massive reprisals, intrinsically false.

The CIA scare in the United Kingdom is exemplary. Acknowledging the psychoneurotic basis for such an

Unless genuine terror were applied to the non-Tavistock- objection, it is useful and appropriate to settle the issue

linked sections of the Labour Party [15], the effrontery of of whether we are arguing for the sort of "conspiratorialCord Meyer et al. provided more than ample provocation theory of history" which the wishful skeptic alleges to be

for a Labour-provoked British "nationalist" hullabaloo, the case.

a tumult which would not have subsided without first The most frightening- and therefore most stronglygetting to the identity of the forces responsible for this resisted aspect of the report is the methodological basis

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for Rockefeller's Reesian fascist plot in an associated one of the several principal bastions of CIA operations

theory and practice of interconnected "social control" within the U.S. itself, nearing the completion of a

and "brainwashing" technology. Since the system of process begun with the establishment of the Office ofsocial control and brainwashing developed by that gifted Economic Opportunity under President John F.

reactionary psychopath, Brigadier Dr. John Rawlings Kennedy. The Justice Department may have an inde-Rees of the Tavistock Institute and World Federation of pendent Attorney General, but the FBI under new chief

Mental Health, premises its fascist scheme on Clarence Kelley has been taken over by the CIA at the

pathological features of the victims' existing belief top, and the more recently established Law Enforcement

system, it follows that the individual will refuse to Assistance Administration (LEAA) is nothing but theassimilate the evidence on this point unless he is also principal domestic "covert operations" arm of the CIA.

prepared to deal with those profound neurotic disorders Rockefeller's CIA operative Henry Kissinger heads up awhich render him so vulnerable to Reesian forms of State Department undergoing "reorganization" along

fascist manipulation, lines agreeable to Langley.

Even after those objections have been confronted, the Most major universities are either entirely or substant-

wishful skeptic will turn up ever new arguments for iallybranches oftheCIA. At the University of Michigan,remaining just that until he has been shown that an we have the most notorious example of the Institute for

alternative exists. This represents the most important if Social Research (ISR), which is merely the focus for

implicit objection, with whose treatment we shall general CIA infiltration and control of manyconclude this present article, departments of the university at large. Harvard's

"Russian" institute is obviously CIA, like Columbia's,

but also Harvard's so-called psychology department is a

II. WHAT IS THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE nest of suchovert CIA operatives as the pigeon-brainedAGENCY? B.F. Skinner and Reesian racist Richard Herrnstein,

while the Harvard Sociology Department's counter-

According to Federal statute and other myths insurgency work merely updates overt fascist traditionsconcocted for the edifying deception of the credulous, dating back to the 1920's.[17]the CIA is merely a key constituent of the U.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology continues its

"intelligence community," a mere appendage of the flourishing CIA activities as extension of its. earlier roleNational Security Council, vying with various as a base of OSS activities. In addition to its special-

intelligence services, the Defense Department, the izations as an anti-Soviet "think-tank," it possesses anTreasury, the FBI, et al. In the view of wishful and other assortment of the most reactionary, CIA-linked social

credulous persons, the CIA may occasionally perform sciences services in the nation. Its RLE division has been

"Mission Impossible" types of activities in dealing with a nesting place for specialized counterinsurgency

Soviet spies or in enterprising pursuit of the latest Soviet studies since the late 1940's, while also including those

missile development's details...nothing more than this. studi_s in so-called "Artificial Intelligence" which are

Only children and otherwise uninformed or hysterical nothing but the development of the use of computers forpersons believe such fables, brainwashing.

All the published accounts of the CIA written by The University of Pennsylvania's Wharton Schoolvarious experts, including former "insiders" of the houses Eric Trist, a veteran Rockefeller-sponsored

"intelligence community," may be challenged as Reesian fascist, who directs a vast network of fascist

partially faulty by virtue of particular misrepresentations social work projects (and actual brainwashing activities)or bias. Yet, sifting out such flaws, too much truth about from his offices at that location. [18] Cornel],, Berkeley,

the CIA has been exposed, and too much of that truth Stanford are notorious CIA conduits.abundantly confirmed in other ways, to entertain a In general, most of the social sciences and related

reasonable denial of the fact that the CIA as it appears in departments of major universities today are nothing butthe Federal Budget is merely the legal cover for vast CIA branch operations.

encroachments on every branch of government and Given the time that has been used to effect such a

enormous sectors of private institutions.[16] result, the outcome is hardly to be considered

In general, James Schlesinger's takeover of the astonishing. Through control of governmental and majorDefense Department merely consolidates long-time and foundations, as well as corporate and wealthy-individual

rapidly growing takeover of all military branches to the funding, it has been no great matter to control not only

point of becoming virtually mere appendages of the CIA. what programs_are funded, but to control the selection ofThe Department of Health, Education and Welfare is instructors who move into controlling positions as the

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older generation of honest academics are weeded out by Equally instructive, the so-called investigation of the

retirement (or, themselves corrupted into becoming CIA "My Lai incident" was conducted by a CIA operative,

establishment operatives or agents), who produced the basis for the "official military" reportThe CIA control of private foundations is ABC. The which whitewashed all of those actually responsible for

first major foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, was ordering the atrocity.

established by the family following the bloody Ludlow The Pentagon Papers Hoax As of this date, no

Massacre of 1914. It was the Rockefeller family which secret really has been made of the general way in which

pressured ironpants Henry Ford into creating the Ford the so-called "Pentagon Papers" were "compiled."Foundation, anti the Rockefeller family which placed its Firstly, the papers were not compiled by or for the

agent, CIA operative McGeorge Bundy (of the CIA "Pentagon," but on behalf of the CIA, with complicity ofBundy family), at the head of that institution, such CIA adjuncts'as the RAND Corporation, with the

As for governmental funding, brainwashing is funded selection and supplementary concoction of included

in part through the National Institute of Health or its documents performed by such CIA operatives as authorsubsidiary, the National Institute of Mental Health. The Daniel Ellsberg.

National Science Foundation, another conduit The essential thrust of the project was the assembly ofcontrolled by representatives of the Rockefeller-CIA selected actual documents (many initially created by the

establishment, helps out. Recently, the LEAA has been CIA or based on CIA briefings) and supplementaryacting as a CIA funding conduit on its own account. As materials whose overall intended effect was to exonerate

the Defense Department is taken over increasingly by the the CIA from responsibility for a wide variety of

CIA, its funding programs are slanted to the desired unpopular military and related developments which thegeneral effect. Through the "leverage" principle of con- CIA itself had chiefly authored. In essence, the effect of

tributory (pro rata) funding which has become rampant the "Pentagon Papers" was for anyone credulous

in Federal, state and local programs, the mass of enough to believe them m to whitewash the CIA for itsfunding controlled directly by the Rockefeller-CIA own activities!establishment, whether through the tbundations or CIA- Can it be believed that such an effort was undertaken

controlled channels of government, increasingly with the intended purpose of concealing the false reportdetermines the direction of flow of fundings from even under a "top secret" seal? The entire concoction is in thenon-CIA controlled sources, fine old tradition of the Czarist Okhrana's notorious

A few examples are sufficient to identify some general anti-semitic pioneering venture into modern "Black"dimensions of CIA takeover throughouf the society psychological warfare, the Czarist-authored "Protocolsgenerally.[19] of Zion." Such "secret" documents are written for the

The War in Vietnam -- Outdoing private CIA war purpose of affording them the widest possible publicagainst the nation of Indonesia, the U.S. war in Vietnam attention. The "top secret" classification is the fine hand

began as entirely (1955-64) a CIA war against the of the public relations specialist, who thereby assuresVietnamese peoplel with the U.S. ambassador on himself that his handiwork will receive the widest

premises nothing but a highly-placed CIA operative, circulation and simultaneously evoke the maximum awe

Actual U.S. military units were not introduced into from among the credulous.

Vietnam until 1964, and even after that, pseudo-Defense How are such hoaxes put across? Would the CIA

Department personnel (CIA operatives wearing the arrange.for its publication in a way which would be

"cover" of military rank- e.g., "General" Ed directly attributed to its sponsorship? Scarcely! ALansdale) must be credited with directing most of the devious confidence man's procedure was indicated.operations in that theater. Through Eltsberg's performance, the desired effect was

For example, the notorious My Lai War crime secured. An outright fraud was hallowed for a gulliblemassacre was merely a tiny corner of the CIA's ongoing public by representing the concoction as "a most secret

"Operation Phoenix," whose function was to identify document, filched from the most intimate files of the

and exterminate the men, women and children of the so- most all-powerful agencies at unspeakable risk by ancalled "Viet Cong infrastructure." Unable to win over astonishingly courageous, conscience-stricken"...CIAthe South Vietnamese populated by other assorted operative!

counterinsurgency tactics (e.g., the "Village Hamlet" The manner in which the desired leak was effected is

program), the CIA opted for simply butchering those only less "hairy" then the papers themselves.

families discovered to be political sympathizers of the To explain how and why a right-wing CIA operative,National Liberation Front. The "Pinkville" butchery was Ellsberg, an associate of General Ed Lansdale, could bemerely one of many similar SS-type operations, converted, the public has been told that the convenient

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"Damascus Road" transformation was accomplished mediation of Rockefeller appointees.

under the influence of Professor Noam Chomsky of MIT, By excluding almost axiomatically any effort to

an individual with a Credible standing as a leading anti- seriously probe the massive evidence leading directly to

war activist. Chomsky's role as the official dupe in the the CIA, the list of suspects for investigation was

affair grows murky when we note Chomsky's arbitrarily narrowed to the Office of the Presidencyendorsement of the hoax after its publication. As a itself. Such an artificial restriction on investigations, an

leading anti-war activist, Chomsky had abundant access hysterical fallacy of composition of all evidence and

to all the knowledge necessary to spot the whitewashing argument, meant that the more "dirt," the more

of the CIA as a blatant fraud, mystery, the more'"cover-up" was turned up, the more

The publication effected through the usual CIA press conclusive seemed the evidence against the only agencyconduits, the New York Times et al., a Rockefeller CIA permitted to be considered as a suspect.

operative, Henry Kissinger, allegedly ordered the CIA This point is emphasized at the hysteria erupting fromunit from the White House basement to investigate notorious CIA conduits, such as Jack Anderson, at the

Ellsberg...beginning to set up an even bigger CIA mere threat (e.g., Senator Baker's low:keyed inquiry)ofhoax. investigating some of the more glaring points of hitherto

The Watergate Hoax _ On a dark and probably neglected evidence. The gigantic cover-up in the

foggy night of mid-1972, a scuttling gaggle of CIA Watergate investigations, a cover-up assisted by much of

operatives crept into Washington's Watergate Hotel, the leading press, is the frantic suppression Of all in-

accompanied by half a platoon of well-known CIA vestigations leading toward the CIA.gusanos, to plant "bugging devices" in a Democratic The investigations afoot are therefore themselves

headquarters located on the premises. Mysteriously, this extremely suspect. Behind the current prosecutions is aSmall invasion force was detected -- with the aid of a Special Prosecutor, Leon Jaworski, who has a long

tip-offl. Lo and Behold/The U-hire spooks were taken history of association with CIA front organizations andwith their pay-off money on their persons! with the CIA's pet domestic project, the efforts to replace

Curiously, for over a year and a half, no one troubled lawful state and local police and prosecution agenciesto seriously investigate the CIA's involvement in this with the Gestapo-like LEAA. Obviously, an attorney is

affair. CIA officials were politely asked if they had been not necessarily prejudiced by his clients, but Jaworski's

involved. Conforming to their statutory obligation to evasion of the lush CIA aspect of the case does justifydeny everything under all circumstances, the CIA rep- suspicion of prejudice.

resentatives insisted that they were not in any way The case against the attorney for the House Judiciary

involved. Their perfunctory denial was therewith Committee processing the impeachment hearings, John

promptly treated as gospel. Doar, is much stronger. Doar was an activist supporterOnce the 1972 election campaign had ended, a pair of of CIA operative McGeorge Bundy's New York City

Washington Post reporters produced "strong evidence" "community control" counterinsurgency operations, and

m through a CIA leak m leading not to CIA infil- continues as an official of a Brooklyn organizationtration of the White House, but to the Presidency known as the "East," which is directly implicated in

and the Presidency alone, various kinds of criminal activities in collaboration withUndoubtedly, President Nixon hag some significant the CIA units (LEAA) planted in the Police Department

responsibility for the activities of the CIA. However, no of the City of New York. Doar prosecuting PresidentPresident since Harry Truman's term of office has Nixon is a case of the kettle calling the tumbler black.

exerted significant restraints on the Agency. President Not surprisingly, Doar also omits serious considerationEisenhower checked the CIA significantly less than of a CIA frame-up of the President.Truman had. President Kennedy initially almost turned HEW : Takeover -- The CIA's infiltration of the

the government over to the CIA ("Bay of Pigs," Peace Department of Health, Education and Welfare is, next

Corps, Office of Economic Opportunity, the role of the to the bestial, fascist LEAA itself, the most hideousBundy brothers, etc.), and was assassinated shortly after aspect of the Agency's U.S. domestic crimes.

he began placin_ preliminary checks in the way of HEW was inevitably a special prime target for Johncertain limited aspects of further CIA encroachments. Rawlings Rees and his followers. Apart from the mili-

: President Johnson placed no checks upon the CIA, and tary-police apparatus features of the CIA plot, thei President Nixon, although breathing down their necks at essential distinguishing features of the Anglo-American

• one point, allowed the Office of the Presidency to be held Political Intelligence operations teams is the calculatedcaptive to the CIA through Rockgfeller-linked appoint- use of coordinated sociological and psychiatric

ments and CIA intrusions made possible through the techniques of insurgency, counterinsurgency and social

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control generally. The'armed features of Reesian fascism stuck despite the prevalent transfer of loyalties to theare essentially just that; the essence of the Reesian CIA itself.

system, its fascist quality, is concentrated in its social Together with the ultra-liberals of the Americans for

and psychological operations. Democratic Action stereotype (Joseph Rauh, et al.) andRees himself was repeatedly specific and emphatic on the dupes of intelligence agent John Gardner ("Common

the point involved. The fascist society of the future, he Cause"), these SP "Third Camp" types, trade-union

envisaged, must be made possible through local bureaucrats; and a strata of liberal academics provide"community health services," including mass-appli- the overwhelming bulk of the CIA's Operatives and

cation of psychiatric treatment to populations through agents outside military-type and "Mission Impossible"these centers, whether or not those victims required or specialities as such.

desired such services. Aided by diverse fascist agents New Lef_t Strata Recent Labor Committee in-

brought under his wing during OSS days, such as telligence studies have firmly identified the founding ofGordon Allport, Kurt Lewin, Kenneth Clark, and their Students for a Democratic Society. as a CIA

collaborators, and, using both the London Tavistock establishment project, designed as an updated "Zubatov

Institute and World Federation of Mental Health as his union" or "Father Gapon movement" [21] for

personal bases of operations, Rees moved in on U.S., potentially radical campus strata. The origins in theCanadian and British governmental social services. "Third Camp" student affiliate of the League for

In Great Britain, this was accomplished chiefly with Industrial Democracy are merely suggestive; the trainingthe aid of British intelligence officers associated with of initiating SDS activists in CIA-linked Alinsky or

Brigadier Rees and General Strong, such as Richard Alinsky-type programs for operatives recruitment is_

Crossman (Labour) and Powell (Tory), with direct, open almost conclusive. Certain features of the "programs"control of those services established under Powell's pushed by those trainees are so uniquely counter-regime in the Tory MacMillan government of the early insurgency designs that the other 'circumstantial

1960's. During this same period, under first President evidence forms merely an essential part of what isKennedy .and then President Johnson, enterprises such aggregately a conclusive case.

as the Peace Corps and Office of Economic Opportunity To one familiar with the general history of the Zubatov

were merely the most publicized CIA fronts, unions and Gapon movement,, the .analogy _

More vicious are the National Institute of Health and exceptionally appropriate. Like the Czarist-police unionsNational Institute of Mental Health, which are nothing of the pre-1905 period, the attempt to spread the or-

but openly criminal organizations, openly sponsoring ganization caused matters to get fairly well out of the

Nuremburg crimes against humanity in defiance of the hands of the counterinsurgency agents operating

U.S. Constitution and international law alike.f20] (chiefly) out of Alinsky's home base in Chicago. The

Labor Committees' intervention to organize theColumbia University April 1968 strike, the 1969 Uni-

Even the Left versity of Pennsylvania sit-in, and various Progressive

Labor Party activities are the notable examples of some

Contrary to the most naive image of the CIA, which degree of successful counter-counter-insurgency whichobviously confuses the organization with the FBI, the led to the CIA establishment's orders for SDS's self-

CIA establishment is predominantly "left-liberal" (but destruction in Spring, 1969. (However, how one dealsno less passionately anti-communist) in its political variously with counterinsurgency formations is not the

complexion. A few examples here indicate the nature topic immediately under consideration at this point ofand extent of the CIA's infiltration and takeover of what our writing.)

are usually regarded as even "socialist" organizations. The primary purpose for creating the New Left of the

"State Department Socialists" -- One of the most early 1960's was to preempt the radicalization of collegeimportant of the traditional recruiting grounds for CIA youth strata to two overlapping ends. Immediately, the

operatives and agents has been the Second Internationat purpose was to prevent the established socialist parties

and its trade-union bureaucratic component. During the from effectively capturing the social ferment which hadlate 1930's, together with the Lovestoneites, the Socialist erupted beginning 1958, which had come _to. a focus

Party of America provided a significant complement of around the Cuban Revolution and Civil Rights move-operatives and agents for "Cold War" activities, both ment up through mid-1961. At the same time, with such

abroad and domestically. The appellation, "State enterprises as the Peace Corps, Office of Economic

Department Socialist," which they earned during that Opportunity and sundry foundation-sponsored_period preceding the growth of the CIA's power, has "community action projects for radicals" in development

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at that time, to drain off student radicalism into staffing "Maoist" Groups The Chinese Communists'of an expanding counterinsurgency apparatus around emphasis on austerity, anti-intellectualism, andthe Reesian fascist conception of "local community "thought purification" lends itself very well to reifying

control" or _'community action projects." Maoist doctrine as a cover for the introduction of certainNot accidentally, therefore, the Reesian fascist social principal features of Reesian fascism in a "radical"

control techniques of "leaderless group" ("participatory disguise. It is not surprising that Chinese Communistdemocracy") and "co-participation" (corporativism) leaders' psychological profiles and Chinese thought-were the chief points on which the New Left's designers purification and other social practices have enjoyed suchdifferentiated it from the so-called Old Left. "Post-in- disproportionate study-emphasis by such institutions as

dustrial society;" "quality of life" rather than "material the RAND Corporation and Reesian sociologists anddemands," '"community," and "relevance" were key psychiatrists generally.phrases by which one could identify the conscious It is obvious that the mindlessness so passionately

• pseudo-socialist fascist agents within the "movement." embraced by most self-styled Maoist groups provides an(Not everyone who was duped into regurgitating such ideal opportunity for the police-agent infiltrator andidiocy, of course, but those who played the role of provocateur, and the proliferation of such littleAlinsky-type organizers, had the "in" for funding and groupings the ideal opportunity for creating a variety ofother material goodies, and who invariably were among police-created pseudo-gangs in ultra-radical disguise.the first to push each new version of the counter- What is perhaps only less immediately apparent,insurgency policy.) outside the ranks of professionally qualified intelligence

The New Left as such collapsed with the Columbia personnel, is that with a slight perversion that sort ofStrike of !968, its constituents later either dispersing out "store-front Maoism" is an almost perfect cover forof "politics," moving directly into worki.ng-class oriented outright Reesian fascist gangs (e.g., of the Revolutionary

socialist groups, moving into professional (regularly Union type.)employed) counterinsurgency jobs, or into one of three "'Black Nationalism" -- The former LeRoi Jones,main types of fascist to proto-fascist groupings: (1) recycled by Anglo-American Intelligence into theWeatherman or Weatherman-type groupings, an zombie-form of Imamu Baraka, is a classic model of CIAoutright proto-fascist, Ford Foundation-funding-created brainwashing and "countergangs" tactics combined intoorganization; (2) "Maoist" freak groups; (3) counter- a single model operation (under the immediateculture-drug-rock cults, supervision of"former" intelligence operative Gustav

The Weatherman- The break-up of the Columbia Heningsburg). In fact, Jones's conversion into BarakaStrike organization was accomplished entirely through was done under the personal supervision of the top CIAFord Foundation intervention. Three successive actions opeative, Dr. John Rawlings Rees himselfl

Most of the so-called "black nationalist" organi-by CIA operative McGeorge Bundy's organization wereused to isolate the Labor Committees' hardq-core leader- zations formed after the (conveniently timed) assasin-

ship --- in classic Kitson-type counterinsurgency ation of Malcolm X are creations of the CIA establish-ment. (We shall outline, below, how the Rc _.sians see("infrastructure") mode. The first two were open"black nationalism" as a fascist counterinsurgency toolcounterinsurgency moves; the third was covert. ,

i . against black Working-class militancy.)First, Dr. Kenneth Clark of the Ford Foundation-funded MARC operation moved in to split off the blackstudent group from the strike. Clark, who trained underblack-hating racist Dr. John Rawlings Rees, during the The Real Central Intelligence AgencyOSS period, is a Reesian psycho[,ogist, a member of(then, Rockefeller's) State Regents, and one of the Those examples of the scope of CIA establishment

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U.S. s leading counterinsurgency agents against the activities illustrates the broad sweep of the Agency'sblack militant strata. Secondly, an open funding by Ford intervention into domestic life. Yet, unlike mostwas used to cause a significant split-off from the strike authoritative published CIA exposes, our accountorganization, forming "Students for a ReStructured poinfs more or less directly to the principal flaw in theUniversity." The third, covert move, was the funding of accounts of such experts as Wise and Ross [22] orMark Rudd et al. through a conduit created by a relative Prouty.[23] The common, glaring fault in the betterofformerCIAoperativeDr. Herbert Marcuse. It wasout exposes is the assertion or otherwise the pervasive

• of this third, covert operation that the Weatherman inference that the insidious and illegal encroachmentsgroup developed, remaining a CIA "countergang" down are essentially the outgrowth of rampant ambitionsto the present day. _ within the Agency itself.

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Without thereby descending into the bathos of way was eased by the role of brother John Foster Dulles"dictionary nominalism," it is most worthwhile to at State and as a chief confidant of President Eisen-

inquire "Agency" for what or whom? Wise, Ross, and hower. Functionally, he emphasizes, quite properly, thatProuty border on asking the right questions insofar as the forces which created the "Cold War" cult thus

they show that the CIA establishment has acquired the created the policy climate, the mystique absolutelyde facto power to act outside the legal channels and essential to cloaking illegal CIA encroachments in theoverview of duly constituted Federal Government magical cloak of "national security." (At the same time,

agencies, most notably the Congress and the courts. The Prouty properly emphasizes that the CIA is effectivelyfact that it exerts such power covertly suffices to show more a conspiracy against the U.S.A. itself than thethat the CIA establishment has not yet become the U.S.S.R.)

government, but rather represents the base of a kind of The most glaring empirical flaw in Prouty's history ofdual power, an illegal, parallel government, continuing the CIA is his over-emphasis on the military side. Heits efforts to become imminently a virtually overt power, omits that unbroken thread from OSS into CIA which,

An "Agency" for whom, and why? not incidentally, has the most direct bearing on the role

The first hypothesis suggested by such evidence is that of Winston Churchill's organization of the "Cold Warcult.. He overlooks the essential fact that, from thethe CIA is perhaps the instrument by which the

Presidency is attempting to encroach upon the powers of inception of the OSS, the modern CIA establishment wasa U.S. financier-promoted Anglo-A merican insurgency-courts and legislatures. A second, more credible

hypothesis would be the suggestion that' perhaps the counter-insurgencyproject, and that the single keystone

"military-industrial complex," acting through the figure emerging as dominant over the entirety of theOSS-CIA development is that brilliant psychopath,Pentagon, has created and uses the CIA as its secret

arm. Both of these hypotheses are discredited through ,Rockefeller-sponsored Brigadier Dr. John RawlingsRees.the sort of evidence which has appeared during the

Once that essential clue is identified, th_ pre-history of1960's and more recently. The CIA organization of the

the OSS-CIA is properly located. On the U.S. side, the"impeachment movement" against President Nixon, and

a pattern of encroachments against the regular military world-outlook leading into the modern CIAeliminate everything but the "military-industrial establishment emerges in its first institutionalized form

in the development of the Mark Hanna Civic Federationcomplex" from the array of probable suspects.

movement, in a philosophy exemplified by MarkReturning our attention to the flaws in such writings Hanna's famous (and warranted) praise for the old AFLas those of Wise and Ross or Prouty, we would locate the

leaders as '_labor lieutenants of the capitalist class."difficulty in the fact that they- in the vernacular• After the Rockefellers' bloody Ludlow Massacre of 1914,

proverbial "miss the forest for the trees." Granting the Rockefeller Foundation's establishment performs anthe usefulness and probable expertise of most of the

details in their accounts, one would rightly conclude that increasingly prominent and influential role in continuingand advancing upon the Civic Federation notions oftheir point of view is ninety degrees out of phase.

Although concrete evidence is vital to the case to be counterinsurgency, up to the point, today, that theRockefeller-controlled foundations, including the Ford

made, such evidence in itself provides only a behaviorist F'0undation, express the family's imminently dictatorialaccount of the subject under investigation. Detailhegemony among the ranks of giant finance,

enumerated by itself is mere "bad infinity," analogous to The major components of insurgency-counter-cataloguing many of the more important biochemical

constituents of an organism, missing the critical point: insurgency technology originate with and continue toWhat is the generative principle which makes the flow from the British junior partner in the Anglo-

American political intelligence establishment. This is byentirety a whole, what determines its whole existence as ano means accidental. Since the last decade of the

single organism? This included fallacy of otherwise ex-

cellent expert accounts is the fallacy of reductionism, eighteenth century, prompted by its defeat in theAmerican Revolution of 1776-1783 (note counter-

prouty verges on the proper line of investigation in his insurgency beginnings in Quebec and India) the British

efforts to approximate an historical approach to colonial services accumulated massive experience in

analyzing the creature. In addition to reviewing the well- successful methods of social control of subjecttrodden matter of the connection between the OSS and populations. • ,:

CIA, he goes so far in the right direction as to locate the Ironically, but by no means accidentally, successfulgrowth of the CIA from Truman through Kennedy in two British imperialist political and social colonial tactics

respects. On the conspiratorial side, he defines the CIA have been premised on the nostrums advocated by the

as largely the creation of a conniving Allen Dulles, whose U.S. Socialist Workers Party, playing upon the divisive

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"nationalist" sentiments of the ruled and cooptation society of the future, a special kind of fascist regi_ne inthrough "local community" forms of "self-government." which the military officers of the past have been weeded

Similarly, from the middle of the nineteenth century, out and replaced by a new type of officer corps composedbeginning with its use of philistine "clean trade of cadres trained in both regular and "low intensity"unionism" as a counterinsurgency tactic against the military operations, but also trained through educationinfluence of the International Workingmen's in economics, politics, etc., to become the government.Association, the British have learned how to exploit the (The Greek military dictatorship and the present gov-parochialist neuroses of the population in the industrial ernment of Peru are exemplary products of CIA traininghomeland to much the same desired result as appeals to programs of the late 1950's and early 1960's, programs"nationalist" and "community" sentiments have developed to prepare the way for a more or less uniformeffected continued imperialist rule of even so-called array of such governments through the capitalist world.)"independent" African nations to the present day. This is currently surfacing in the heated effort to

Despite the recent quarter century of U.S, and establish aNATO-run "Atlantic Community" to replaceCanadian contributions to the mechanics of insurgency the EEC (Common Market). The CIA scheme for fascist

and counterinsurgency, it is the products of the public world government (e.g., James Schlesinger et al.) is aschools of England who continue to provide the most "Western" military establishment under direct CIAsophisticated basic concepts upon which the RAND control, which as a whole represents what is called aCorporation and kindred CIA establishment "think "flexible response" force.tanks" work. This "flexible response" military machine is to have a

The Anglo-American (including Canadian) intell- two-fold capability. In its ostensibly purely militaryigence establishment was, from its inception, the features, it is to be organized around the Schlesinger-merging of U.S. material resources and talent for en- associated myth of a "first strike capability" against thegineering gimmickry with British counterinsurgency Soviet Union, with the U.S.A. controlling the U.S.-conceptual leadership. NATO deployment of such military capabilities. [24] The

The British approach to military problems of second capability will be directed against"secondaryimperialist rule at home and abroad has traditionally targets," which is a euphemism for the cities of one'sbeen that of solving the problem represented by limited own nation. (It is most strongly suspected that evenregular military forces in the effort to rule over nuclear-missile submarines of the U.S. fleet eitherpopulations with the implicit capability of defeating presently have or are intended to be given last-ditch,those military forces. This is expressed to the present Rockefeller-selected "secondary target" programs aimedday, by current statements, from the Whitelaw-Kitson- against the major cities of the U.S.A. itself.)

Chalfont cabal to the effect that the British Army, now In addition to the reorientation of a significant part ofsmaller than ever, is a more effective force than ever regular military units (including U.S. regular army and

before -- largely in consequence of the recent training national guard) to the special-forces tasks of conductingexperience in Northern Ireland. My Lais against U.S. cities and towns, the CIA es-

The essential solution to this problem, from the tablishment has prescribed the replacement of ordinarystandpoint of the British political intelligence stratum, is state and local police forces by a national counter-to employ an armamentarium of sociological and insurgency police force modelled on Hitler's S.D.-psychiatric weaponry to the effect of so'dividing the Gestapo, such as the LEAA is already rapidly becomingsubject population against itself that the military forces in the U.S.A. itself, and as the Royal Canadian Mountedare never confronted with more than the small material Police is becoming in Canada.force represented by a hard core resistant to a generally Significant as these military and paramilitary aspectseffective combination of sociological and psychiatric of the CIA establishment's illegal efforts may be, theweapons of conti:ol, main bulk of the establishment's work is concentrated in

The philosophy of the Anglo-American intelligence es- fascist forms of sociological and psychiatric programs, intablishment is to transform the regular military es- connection with which the names of such Nurembergtablishment along what are' now popularly known as criminals as Dr. John Rees, Dr. Kurt Lewin, Dr. Nathan"special forces" lines of training, equipment, and S. Kline [25] and similar psychopathic degenerates aredeployment, which the British call "low intensity most prominently associated. It is this latter, pre-operations" and the U.S. often prefers to term "stabifity dominant feature of the CIA establishment which theoperations." At the same time, especially Since the celebrated expert exposes omit to consider. Hence, bystudies completed during the late 1950's, the essential such a fallacy of composition in their accounts, they omittask of the CIA establishment is to lead the way to a consideration of that vital, conclusive evidence which,

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once considered, immediately answers all the important setting up the energy hoax, and the CIA responsibilityquestions of What, Who and Why? for setting up the "Pentagon Papers" and "Watergate,

In brief, then, the CIA establishment is a Rockefeller- hoaxes, as well as the CIA's unleashing of thefamily-sponsored and essentially Rockefeller-family- impeachment movement (through leaks to thecontrolled fascist Conspiracy, a conspiracy whose Washington Post from a CIA conduit), indicates that themilitary and paramilitary features are merely essential general conditions for a calculated Rockefeller dumpingadjuncts of the fascist sociological and psychiatric con- of Nixon had matured, as we had earlier foreseen, but inceptions developed by a mass of academics and a special fascist form we had not foreseen in that wayprofessionals headed up by the late Dr. John Rawlings until recent months.Rees. Abstractly, President Nixon could readily and

effectively counterattack, on almost any given morning,to send Rockefeller and the CIA reeling back. However,

The Case of Nixon apart from such abstract possibilities, a counterattackagainst Rockefeller would necessarily lead to massive

It is of secondary importance that there is absolutely "anti-trust"-type reprisals against Rockefeller et al. by ano love lost between Governor Nelson Rockefeller and jointly-enraged general public and major elements ofPresident Nixon, or that Nixon has occasionally trodden leading political machines. Even in the second rank ofupon or has threatened to tread upon the toes of the leading financial circles, the mass of wealth attached toCIA establishment. Despite those not unimportant Rockefeller bones would make most enticing pickings forsecondary aspects of the matter, since his 1960 the Wall Street vultures who either had been stung by thenomination, Nixon has functioned largely as a de facto Rockefellers or found it expedient to break from him topart of the larger CIA establishment and substantially as join the pack. This "danger" to "free enterprise,' anda tool of the Rockefeller interests per se. not-unconnected other issues of l_lixon's conservative

Certainly, Nixon knew in advance the Rockefeller- philosophy and social base box him in, massively hinder-faction backgrounds of so many of his key appointees, ing him from defending himself as an individual politicaland was sufficiently experienced to know that the figure from a crushing attack on even his entire sense ofcreation of the White House "plumbers" unit opened personal identity.the basement to direct infiltration by the CIA. He has an In essence, the CIA establishment has Nixon psycho-excellent political (if probably poorer "biological") logically profiled to be defeated, as well as surrounded byappreciation of what Henry Kissinger is. a massive concentration of Rockefeller supporters in the

Given the conditions which most of its citizens (and White House and Executive generally. They also controlforeigners) presume to be the continuing state of affairs him by controlling his briefings, which, on all criticalfor the U.S.A., Rockefeller had no ordinary reason to matters, depend substantially upon the CIA itself, Henryassume that the Nixon Administration would not carry Kissinger, or, otherwise, any number of Rockefeller es-out CIA establishment policies to approximately the tablishment stooges in Defense, Treasury, HEW,extent thatthepoliticaltrafficwouldbear. Nixon is more Justice, as well as the Federal Reserve Board ofOr less exactly what he appears to be- undoubtedly Governors.with a bit more fight in him than some Rockefellersupporters expected.

On such premises it would appear insane for the "Dissolve the ClA"?Rockefellers to permit, let alone organize, theimpeachment movement unloosed through • the It is to be doubted that a Congressional Act virtuallyWatergate hoax. Such an astonishing'turn could occur liquidating the CIA itself would do much damage to theonly if Nixon were sabotaging a vital policy, or if it were CIA establishment at this point. It is too late or,of a high order of expediency to drastically discredit the perhaps only almost too late, for such remedies. ThatPresidency and the Congress. should have been accomplished during the early 1960's.

We had foreseen the probability of Rockefeller's Typified by Schlesinger at Defense, Clarence Kelley asdumping Nixon at precisely the point that the crushing head of the FBI, Gestapo chief Santorelli ensconsed inof the organized labor movement had been accomplished Justice, McGeorge Bundy at the Ford Foundation, et al.,[26], although not then in terir_s of the specific type of the CIA establishment is not only deeply embeddedconspiracy which has become so abundantly manifest through domestic life, but perhaps the point is nowduring most recent months. Proof of Rockefeller control imminent that it no longer critically depends upon theof the CIA establishment, his essential complicity in existence of the CIA proper for coordination of its

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activities as a whole. In any case, a completed CIA maintain capitalist looting, by cannibalization in under-takeover of the military and LEAA takeover of police, developed sectors of imperialist semi-colonial rule, theprisons, and Federal, state and local key prosecutors' organic tendency for democratic institutions in advanced

offices, and a quiet transition from democratic capi- sectors renders mere police-state rule insufficient astalism to fascist terror will have been accomplished with more than a brief transition to"a more stable foti=_ ofenough veneer of pseudo-legality to stop the few feeble such economic regime: fascism.protests aroused by such events. The most notable prior model for such a modern

At the top levels of government, it is now only possible "Zero Growth" economy is Nazi Germany.to deter the CIA establishment, The CIA's fascist Under Nazi financier Hjalmar Schacht, from 1933

takeover this year can be stopped only by an enraged through 1936, German capitalists' prosperity wasmass of working people, obtained through a "chain letter" credit system of "Mefo

bills," which was propped up, in turn, by canni-balization of the German working class (speedup,

3. THE ROCKEFELLER ClA CONSPIRACY drastically reduced wages, inflation, and depletion of thequality of the diet) and existing productive capacities.

The economic-theoretical background needed to During the 1936-37 period, it became obvious to Schachtunderstand the most essential features of the Rocke- and other Nazi leaders that this autarchic system of

fellers' manifest decision to institute fascism in the ad- cannibalization was rapidly approaching a point ofvanced sector has been sufficiently outlined in Socialism depletion. In response to that problem, the NaziorFascism? [27] and various other published treatments economy obtained its stability through the looting ofof the current economic situation. [28] Not only is capi- Germany's neighbors: Austria, Czechoslovakia,talism "objectively" driven to'select fascist alternatives Scandinavia, the Low Countries, Poland, France, theby processes underlying the deepening economic break- Soviet Union, Italy, etc. Since Schacht was concerned fordown which erupted over the March 1968-August 1971 the inflationary effects of massive military budgets, heperiod; the Rockefeller family has consciously adopted was eased out of portfolio positions, but his essentialfascist economic policy under the name of "Zero economic cannibalization ("Zero Growth")program wasGrowth. "[29] extrapolated to its inevitable conclusions (slave

As early as the eighteenth century's Physiocrats, it had labor/death camps) by his successors.been formally acknowledged (in various ways) that the The slave-labor and death-camp systems of the Nazis

• available combined real absolute rent, debt-service are not quirks of Hitler and his associates, but anpayments, and profit for a capitalist economy are limited intrinsic expression of the fundamental policies of anyto the absolute margin of expansion of production of "Zero Growth" capitalist economy, Rockefeller'suseful wealth which occurs from one epoch to the next of included. It is impossible to have "Zero Growth" policiesthe totality of a society's productive development.[30] beginning today without mass genocide tomorrow.Consequently, a "Zero Growth" capitalist society is, by Rather than averaging out the rate of cannibalizationdefinition, one in which the available absolute margin of over the entire subject population, cadres of largely-"earned" rent, debt-service payments, and profits must German skilled and semi-skilled labor were maintained

be zero or less.., unless those three forms of capitalists' in a marginally functional state of productive well-beingincome are obtained by cannibalization of the essential through a policy of concentrating the thus-redoubledmeans of human existence and productive capacities rates of cannibalization upon the bodies of slave andthemselves. "guest" workers, with special emphasis on political

Since such an economic form of capitalism prohibits dissidents, Slavic peoples, gypsies and Jews. The con-

government through manipulative appeal by capitalists of the Italian, French and "Nordic" workers was inter-mediate between the German cadres and the slave-to the improvement of the self-interests of the ruled, no"Zero Growth" model of capitalist economy can tolerate workers.the persistence of traditional democratic institutions. The average rate of cannibalization of raw materialsThismeans, as a corrollary, that not 0nly must existing and productive plant was similarly differentially dis-forms of such democratic institutions be discredited and tributed to the relative enhancement of German

industries.destroyed, but that the subject population must be sointimately policed and .terrorized that the organic Contrary to the manifest wishful thinking of sometendency to reconstitute democratic institutions is Soviet spokesmen, both those of 1939-41 and today, it isefficiently prevented. Consequently, whereas mere impossible to separate the adoption of fascist: "Zeropolice-state terror by itself is traditionally sufficient to Growth" policies in the "West" from the imminence of

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early attack on the Soviet bloc itself. I he pressures which was the application of psychiatry to the refinement of

quickly build up within the fascist economy lead rapidly, then-existing fascist schemata, supplemented by actualas was the case in Nazi Germany, toward an hysterical brainwashing of even significant masses of the subjectimpulse to relieve internal looting pressures through population.looting foreign soil and populations. The object for Rees and his collaborators was to

It is also impossible to adopt a "Zero Growth" economic discover the suspectibilities (specific psychoneuroticpolicy today without a conscious policy among leading tendencies) which caused populations to join andfinancier circles to impose a fascist regime upon the support fascist organizations. On the basis of suchsubject population of the advanced sector, inquiries, packages were developed. These packages

What is Fascism? included the training of (Saul Alinsky-type) government

Neither the Soviet leadership nor its "Trotskyist" and foundation-sponsored organizers. Such organizerscritics have yet developed a scientific or even useful were disguised as "radicals," under which cover theydefinition oftheterm, fascism. (Liberal academic efforts would intervene in foci of social ferment, proposing

"radical solutions" and forms of organization of "radicalalong these lines are too wretchedly incompetent to evenconsider mention.) The analysis of this matter numbers constituencies" which would draw the dupes gradually,

among the unique achievements of the Labor step by step, into the form of an actual fascist movementCommittees. [31] around the fascist notions of "nationalism" and the

Fascism has two ultimately interdependent aspects, fascist principle of "radical" struggles for "localwhich should be considered separately at first, so that community controL"

the connection among these phases can then be properly This radical counterinsurgency organizing (Saulsorted out. As a mass-based movement, fascism is an Alinsky and his emulators are the pure type of such CIA

outgrowth of anarchosyndicalism and Papal ideology" operatives and agents) has been coupled with direct

[32]whose effect and intent is to counterpose to Marxian counterinsurgency of the sort we can trace' inor "Bolshevik" "centralization" and ,collectivism" the developments through CIA operations in the Phili-

"natural" radical impulses of the fragmented pines, Greece and Vietnam, or British operations inconstituency group. The atomization of the population Malaysia, Aden, Kenya and Northern Ireland. Theby fascism renders it the suitable last resort for a political "radical" Saul Alinsky-type organizer is the "soft cop";base of support of the ruling financiers under those the military or paramilitary counterinsurgent of

conjunctural circumstances in which capitalists' (either "Operation Phoenix" notoriety i_ the "hard cop.', The

conscious or de facto) "Zero Growth" policies destroy quasi-supportive "radical organizer" and aversive

the usefulness of democratic capitalist institutions, environment created by the military or para-military

Modern fascism unites these two interdependent boys thus represent the two essential social-controlelements of a brainwashing situation.aspects of fascism in general. By "modern fascism" we

mean specifically Rockefeller's fascism or the conscious The New Left/?local community control"/"ecology

fascist model developed for the Rockefeller-dominated movement"/"Naderism" in the recent U.S. experienceinterests by Brigadier Dr. John Rawlings Rees and his amply document the essential features of the "radical"

collaborators. By conscious, we emphasize that Rees et counterinsurgency facet of the conspiracy. "New Left"al. proceeded from Rees's close, admiring studies of the versus "Old Left," elaborated as the CIA counter-

Mussolini and Nazi fascist movements and states, to find insurgency concept of "particpatory democracy" in

there a starting-point whicl_ coincided with similar opposition to' vigorous intellectual life in policy-making,features of British colonial experience, the concept of "participatory democracy" as wilful self-

By the end of World War II, these studies had already sabotage of any potential for coordinated tactical

taken form of a long-range fascist plot. Although the deployment of masses against repressive forces. "Post-

Rockefellers have not been reluctant to dabble in use of industrial society," a Ford Foundation-sponsored bit of

such "independent" fascist organizations as the Italian nonsense whose practical point, as a counterinsurgencyMSI, the main, distinctive thrust of the Rockefeller-Rees weapon of ideology, introduced the proto-fascist notion

plot was the directed imposition of sophisticated fascist of "Zero Growth" as a "radical" ideology. Rejecting orfoi:iii of social organization from above as distinct degrading "material demands" in favor of "non-

from capitalist sponsorship of and collusion with a material demands," is another step in the "radical"

fascist movement developing a mass base somewhat counterinsurgent's attempt to brainwash the dupes heindependently of immediate financier direction of its influences. "Quality of life," "co-participation," etc.,development and operations, are further down the road, virtually reaching explicitly

The emphasis contributed by Rees et al. to this effect fascist policies. The intensification of fascist "local

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community control" ideology to the point that the dupes The "brainwashed" dissident is mentally murdered in

accept such fascist police proposals as "blockwatchers," fact; provided the Rockefeller forces control the majority

etc., represents the successful transformation of the of the psychiatric profession, especially the state°counterinsurgents' dupes into an actual fascist controlled psychiatric institutions, a fairly efficient formmovement, of murder can be perpetrated without sign(ficant risk

All the elements of the present plot -- takeover of that the fact of the crime can be exploited by the victim's

government agencies, universities, "radical" former friends and associates. Such a "brainwashee"movements, the energy hoax set-up, the conversion of can also be used to assist directly in staging frame-ups of

military forcesinto"lowintensity" operations forces, the Other dissidents, or used as members o_ a zombi_introduction of the Gestapo-like LEAA, and the massive "counter-gang" -- such as the New Alternatives Groupuse of brainwashing-- are not only all planned devel- (NAG) of brainwashed ex-Labor Committee members

opments, but the progress of this planning and its and their supervising police operatives. The threatenedimplementation i_ r. :ndantly documented in the transition from current LEAA-FBI-NAG-Iinkedpublished writings of chief exponents and practitioners operations against the Labor Committees to outright Myinvolved! Any person who denies that a fascist plot is in Lai tactics against broader strata of the U.S. population

progress is either totally uninformed, illiterate, or simply is one of degree, not involving any essential difference in

an hysterical fool. principles. The essential distinction between the two

The Conspiracy In General degrees is summed up in the phrase, "what the presentpolitical traffic will bear."

The Reesians' other principal addition to fascist In summary, the Rockefellers' Reesian fascist plot is

technology, "brainwashing," is applied as an adjunct of identified by the following principal features.

the military and paramilitary features of the Rockefeller (1) It is a classical fascist plot in the sense thatfascist conspiracy. Although the internal features of conjunctural economic-political developments ofbrainwashing methods are "genetically" only an aggravated monetary crisis have impelled the dominantintensification of fascist "radical organizing" projects, financiers' faction to opt for fascist quasi-legal over-

their application is more appropriately situated, as we throw of existing democratic institutions.have just noted, within the military/paramilitary (2) It is a classical fascist plot in the essential respect,context, that like Nazi Germany, it is the inevitable consequence

The Rockefellers' military/paramilitary counter- of a conscious decision by financiers to institute a "Zero

insurgency operations are typified by the bloody Growth" economy.

"pacification" programs used in Malaysia, Aden, (3) It is a consciously fascist plot in the respect that itVietnam, etc., for which the bloody crime of My Lai has been deliberately prepared during a period of over a

stands as the best-known example. The general point of quarter century, and consciously premises all thesuch efforts is to isolate and destroy the "hard core" , principal features of its designs on the fusion of the Nazi

political base of support of the fascists' opponents by the _and Mussolini models with the counterinsurgency

general methods borrowed from the Eastern and experiences of the British colonial office.Southern European practices of the Nazi S.S. (4) Unlike earlier fascist movements, the Rockefeller

The general principle expressed "in "Operation fascist movement is primarily initiated from above, thusPhoenix" can be and has been adapted for application attempting to short-cut the traditional road of semi-

in circumstances of political climate which do not yet independent evolutiorl of ma_s-based fascist

permit open deployment of Special Forces-type as- organizations along the lines of the Mussolini and Nazisassination teams against civilian populations gen- models.

erally. (5) The principal, consciously formulated features ofProvided that the courts, prosecutor's offices and the intended fascist political superstructure are: (a) the

police forces themselves are subverted by CIA-linked takeover of all regular military institutions by "the CIA"agencies (e.g., LEAA), and that the leading capitalist (e.g., of U.S. Defense Department, NATO, etc.); (b) thepress condones such crimes, regular CIA-infiltrated law replacement of political parties by the CIA-controlledenforcements _units can be and have been -- military officer corps, an officer corps trained to serve

extensively deployed in illegal covert operations (frame- jointly or alternatively as regular military, paramilitary,

ups, etc.) which have the same purpose and similar police, and "civilian government" operatives (if political

general effect as My Lai-type operations, parties nominally exist under this arrangement, they willIt is in this context of covert CIA police operations that exist only to the extent that their existence and

"brainwashing" serves the fascists in a two-fold fashion, functioning is chartered by the CIA junta); (c) the

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modelling of both military ("Waffen SS") and theimodynamics" [35] man has wilfully advanced, in

paramilitary police (e.g., S.D. or LEAA) on the Nazi effect, from a poor Pleistocene species of animal to a

S.S.-system, inclusive (in the USA) of transforming the succession of higher species, in such a way that generalFBI into a "Gestapo"; evolution's main dynamic has been shifted in effect from

(6) The integration of the paramilitary political police the biological domain (in the roductionist sense offorce (e.g., S.D.-like LEAA) with the fascist biological) [36] to the mental. It is not man's mental

organization of the population (e.g., "local community behavior as such which is so distinguished, but his wilful,

control," "co-participation") through such flagrant qualitative advancements in his conceptual powers to

imitations of the Nazi S.S.-system as the employment of wilfully determine whole ranges of mere behavior. It is"townwatchers" and "blockwatchers" as Gestapo that aspect of human deliberate activity through which

operatives within the pores of the population; . the historian properly studies that progress of these

(7) the integral role of large-scale brainwashing activ- conceptual powers which is the proper subject of history.ities as a routine police activity of "thought-control," It is in that restricted sense that the terms, history

with the majority of licensed psychiatrists and psychol- and conspiracy, are precise equivalents.

ogists already trained (e.g., in the U.S.A.) to function as The properly pejorative usage of the epithet "con-a criminal "thought-police" cadre force, spiratorial theory of history" is limited to those forms of

The development of the real CIA, the Anglo-American childish adults' fantasy in which the neurotic individualpolitical intelligence cabal, the CIA establishment, expresses a belief in magic. He imagines that man can

has been essentially directed to a systematic infiltration will almost any arbitrary form of existence (utopia orofall principal existing institutions, an infiltrationwhich anti-utopia) into being without regard to those real

is a deliberate, preparatory deployment aimed at the conditions which delimit both the undermining of

establishment of a "quasi-legal" fascist takeover through specific old institutions and the possibility of inducing

which a "1984" model of capitalist society would be acceptance of one or more feasible alternative sets of newimposed on all the countries of Western Europe, North institutions and modes of behavior. Man chooses: that is

America, Japan, and Oceania. the immediate content of all scientific notions of history.

"Conspiratorial Theory"? As we underlined earlier in Yet, man is not able to choose absolutely any alternativethis article, the last resort of the muddle-headed arbitrarily, as if by magic, by witchcraft. Man can

academic or journalist, when he can no longer deny the only choose, on the one hand, to end the domination ofmassive factual evidence of Rockefellers' fascist conspi- old institutions which have become vulnerable to

racy, is to insist that all such facts must be "bad, " supersession, and man can choose to supersede those bybecause to accept them would be tantamount to selections from a limited range of new alternatives.adopting a "conspiratorial theory of history. "This is the The essential choices at any critical juncture in the life

point at which to treat that matter, of the individual or society are among two spectra of

In the broadest permissible usage of the term consaoi- choices, one representing effective social-reproductiveratorial, nothing is implied but the qualitative entropy and the other effective negentropy. Essentially,distinction of man over lower forms of animal life. It is in that way, man can choose among several delimited

precisely the voluntary element of human existence types of pathways leading variously toward extinction or

which determines and is all human history. [33] In that human progress.restricted sense, the term history and conspiratorial are That is Marx's view of this problem. [37]only two different ways of expressing the same notion. There is, in opposition to Marx's view, a semi-

The academic historian who does not accept such a coherent criticism of "conspiratorial" analyses, a'jYconspiratorial" notion is by definition no historian, criticism peculiar to capitalist ideology. The kernel of the

To summarize the related point we have developed at argument employed by its proponents is inevitably

length, repeatedly, in other writings, what distinguishes cognate with the quack economists' worship of the mythman from the lower animals is his deliberate (i.e., volun- of the "invisible ,hand."[38] It is _ironical, but nottary) alteration of his mode of reproduction of the mate- accidental that such criticisms are advanced for the

rial conditions of human life. For reasons developed in stultification of the gullible chiefly by those same

our Cited writings, human history is defined by those ten- academics whose appointments are directly or indirectly

dencies in successful human innovation (as distinct from determined by capitalists. Hence the irony of a denial of

"blind alleys" of social evolution) which orders human the role of conniving by the de facto agents of personssociety as a whole according to the increase or decrease whose wealth has been amassed by the rawest conniving.of negentropy in its social-reproductive "Thermodyna- Clinically speaking, such academic criticisms have a

mics." [34] From the standpoint of such an "ecological twofold aspect. As capitalist propaganda, theseI

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criticisms rationalize the continued submission of the personal security or gain. He reports his neighbors to theruled. In that respect we meet the academic apologist for local Gestapo to enhance his personal security, but:

capitalism in his role as an agent of his employer. Yet, it refuses to consider the predictable consequence of suchmust not be denied that the propagandists for these degenerate behavior upon his society and ultimatelyviews frequently argue from the strongest "sincere" himself. His fear of prediction is his fear of being con-personal convictions. This is the second clinical feature fronted with. evidence of his own immoral nature.

of the matter: the passionately-convinced slave teaching Predicting is the characteristic concern-ofSpinozan or

the ideology of s_avery out of the need to morally justify Promethean man, who seeks and accepts personal res-his own willful self-degradation, ponsibility for the present and future well-being of

The criticism offered is itself a far cruder absurdity humanity as a whole. The fear of prediction is the

than "modern" attempts to trisect an angle with ruler morality of Uriah Heep, the hallmark of the sycophant,and compass, the schlemihl, who needs to rationalize his refusal to live

This absurdity is most flagrantly manifest whenever as a man, his refusal to accept personal responsibility tothe critic of "conspiratorial" analyses angrily opposes act as history demands of him. The schlemihl prefers to

efforts to predict the course of history. It may seem leave the making of history to "duly constituted, estab-queer, and rightly so, that those same academics who lished authorities," while he nonetheless retains his

otherwise argue for the absence of anything but a strictly philistine's self-righteous prerogative to criticize thelawful determination of historical processes should result of this with characteristic personal detachment

couple that argument against "voluntarism" with from responsibility for such outcome of his ownhysterical denunciation of the view that the course of profession.

development is largely predictable. Why this queer The academic who simultaneously derides prediction

paradox? How do they attempt to reconcile this as- and voluntarism may be logically absurd but is clinicallytensible absurdity of their views? consistent. The consistent feature of his profession is his

The motive for the fear'of predicting become clear as principle that the willful determination of the course ofour attention progresses from the crude, academic history is the exclusive prerogative of the capitalist es-

notion of prediction (i.e., "vulgarly squatfi'ng outside the tablishment. In denouncing voluntarism, he is merelyuniverse"), to a practical outlook on the question. Since insisting that the subjects must regard the will of thethe voluntary component of historical development is the rulers as divine, as a virtual law of nature. His derision of

selection of willful courses of action to altar history, pre- prediction in his sycophant's defense against the im-

dieting is clinically indistinguishable from schizophrenic position of any law upon his rulers, and corrollary tofantasies until the reality principle is incorporated in the this, his refusal to take personal responsibility for the

personal activity of predicting. For me to predict is a consequence of any act he wilfully performs on the in-meaningless gesture unless I include the requirement of structions of his master.

adducing whatI am morally obliged to do. That locates How, then, is it possible that such moral degenerates

the essential distinction between magical (e.g., schizo- of academial etc., can regard themselves as trulyphrenic) "crystal ball" predicting, mere academic human? They are not; they are infantile.

divination, and a persjsting outlook on life in which I This subhuman quality of such academics, et al., istake responsibility for farseeing the ultimate outcome of efficiently symptomized by the discovery that the ration-

my own acts and omissions. Without such prediction alizations they offer depend upon the implicit premisesthere is no personal morality. Without such personal of an infantile belief ir/ magic. [39]

commitment, no sane predicting. The "lawfulness" in which the infantile believes is the

The person who disallows prediction on principle is permanence of the power of mother's magic to maintain

simply a wilfully immoral person. His opposition to pre- his personal world order within the bounds of cir-dieting is an hysterical effort to escape viewing his res- cumstances where favorable outcomes are never

ponsible acts, to avoid knowledge of the consequences of hopelessly out of reach. In his fantasy, as in those soap-his chosen behavior. He is essentially analogous to the operas which accordingly appeal to the most pitiful

"good Germans" under Hitler, who protected their con- forms of fantasy-life, he is the "hero," for whom every-science by not looking in the direction from which a cer- thing must ultimately turn out "beautiful" in a final

tain smokestack could be noted, moment of tearful rejoicing. Danger, suffering, set-He is not simply an immoral person. Rather, he does backs are for him akin thus to the "Perils of Pauline."

act to effect a result he deems predictable enough; he "Something will turn up," "Everything will work outacts to propitiate certain established peer-group or other better in due time," "Have faith." To admit that ab-

"authorities" as a means of securing what he regards as solute catastrophes must be prevented by acts of per-

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sonal responsibility is to cease being that pathetic _ To the extent that the Friedmanites have occasionally

pseudo-adult, to cease being that Macho, that Pap- been successful in locating instances of mismanagementpagallo, thatjock, whose ability to function is dependent by Federal "intervention," it can be shown in fact that

upon hearing the friendly, warm swish of his mother's the unhappy outcome is not intervention in itself, but

skirts within his unconscious mental processes, wrong-headedness, the countervailing consequence ofThe academic disguise for such belief in magic is inherently misguided, because capitalist, efforts to act

generally cognate with Adam Smith's notion of the against the inescapable i_rinciples of capitalist contra-"invisible hand" and corresponding queer sorts-of belief dictions. Friedman's own prescriptions represent thein a "probabilistic determinism." In such superstititious very worst sort of option for the capitalists on just thisfoims of determinism, history is indeed represented as account. Friedman's "libertarian" notions. (which,

ultimately subject to some sort of lawfulness, at worst a notably, do not extend to police matters) are simply

collection of old wives' maxims of the soft made popular rampant infantilism in shoddy academic disguise.by the "Chicago School" of quack economics. In the One should properly insist that capitalism is and \more "sophisticated" classroom versions of such in- always has been intrinsically conspiratorial, at least in

fantile superstitions the causal connection among the restricted sense in which we have applied that term.successive arrays of events is determined by factors The foundations of capitalism were situated in the

involving so-called randomness. [40] connivery by which episcopal and other feudal grants to

According those views, it is morally wrong to attempt loot existing sources of wealth were secured byto directly determine the course of events in the macro- Renaissance mercantilists. The organic development ofrealm. However, in the micro-realm each "molecule" capitalism thereafter is located in the continuation of

(each individual, each isolated event) can randomly such political means (primitive accumulation of profitschoose alternatives among the minutiae, each type of against existing wealth) and in investment and pro-such choice involving what is termed a "factor." The ag- duction decisions which, in turn, have been determined

gregation of minute choices can then, sometimes, occur largely by macro-circumstances themselves substantially

as a coincidence of accumulated choices in the per- ordered by interventions of leading financial powers inceptible dimensions of the macro-realm, the policies Of states. As financial power became more

To understand that world-outlook in something more ' immediately interdependent and concentrated, the

usable than mere descriptive te_ms, it is indispensable to capricious decisions of a diminishing handful oflocate such rationalizations in clinical terms, as ex- dominant f'manciers have intensified the susceptibility ofpressing a belief in witchcraft, a witch's theology: the course of events tothe ukases of a tiny number of

The world-order in macro can not be wilfully, chief conspirators.directly determined by any witch. Yet, each in- That dismal aspect of current history is not lacking in

ch'vidual witch may magically ordain an unlawful potentially positive features. The increased con-occurrence in very small, personal matters [essen- spiratorial powers of the Rockefeller family interests and

tially the influence of the microscopic alternatives of machines reflect the acceleration of immediate inter-

good luck or bad luck presumed to affect isolated in- dependency of the underlying, world-wide productivedividuals], lf there chances to occur a cumulative co- forces, a trend which represents a successful develop-incidence in the effect of microscopic interventions ment of society to over-ripeness for more directly wilfull

by millions of such witches, then and only then could determination of the human condition. It represents ana permissible wilful ordering of the macro-realm over-ripeness of society's development for the control of

fortuitously occur through witchcraft [e.g., human._ history through a total, if open "conspiracy" ofvoluntarism], the entire working class population.

The world-outlook associated with the Friedman The case for the development of thermonuclear fusion

school in economic quackery is exemplary of the general power is dramatically illustrative of the theoretical issues

method as encountered in all professions. Warlock involved. For society as a whole, the development of such

Friedman seizes upon every undesired occurrence in the alternative power sources (and accompanying newmacro-sdale as evidence of the immorality of attempted technology in general) is the paradigm of continueddirect interventions in management of the economy, human development and existence itself. At present,

restricting the controlling role of government to its through a "Manhattan Project" scale of "brute force"

peculiar God-given essence as a regulator of fiscal and development effort, a successful breakthrough to imple-monetary aggregates. All good, he deems, must occur mentation could be obtained within five years. Thethrough the miraculous interventions of the "invisible Rockefeller interests, through their hegemony in privatehand." thermonuclear research and their indirect (CIA) control

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of the Atomic Energy Commission, have the power to .when Rees serve d as a medical officer in Churchill'seither cause or suppress such an urgent effort. It hap- British expeditionary force invading the Caucusus

pens that such a breakthrough would be inimicable to region. According to his own account, Rees spent thetheir financial interests, financial which are thus overwhelming majority of his adult years as, first, a mili-counterposed to human interests in the most funda- tary psychiatrist, and later on as the most influentialmental fashion. The real, predictable outcome of the operative of both the CIA and British Political In-

choices thus defined the absorbing chain of al- telligence.

ternative choices exemplifies the historical lawfulness His known connection to the Rockefellers begins inpermeating and delimiting choice in the voluntary (e.g., 1934, in connection with the sponsorship of the then-"conspiratorial") determination of history. Tavistock Clinic. [41] After the transformation of that

The issue before us is not whether or not the world clinic into one of the world's leading fascist "think-Should be, is, controlled by conspiracy. In the sense we: tanks," the Tavistock Institute, at the end of the war,

circumscribed the proper use of the term, modern Rees moved onward and upward, directing his.far-flungsociety is lawfully conspiratorial by nature. The only and expanding iflfluence and operations through thesane practical question arising from that reality is: CIA cover known as the World Federation of MentalWhich conspiracy shall prevail? That of the CIA Health.

establishment grouped around the fascist Rockefeller "J The theme of all of Rees's known work is the

family? Or the vast democratic institutions of the development of the uses of psychiatry as a weapon of theworld's working-class population? ruling class. There are three dominant features in this

approach. Firstly, Rees emphasized the value of the

4. THE ROLE OF JOHN R. REES military both as a model for "improvements" in civilaffairs institutions and its admirable latent potential to

provide efficient government. Secondly, Rees em-The most striking experience for our specialists, as

phasized the importance of applying First and Secondthey began to trace out the vast plot, was the persistence World War military psychiatric experience as paradigmwith which every background study of leading fascist

for a system of community mental health clinics, throughagents led quickly to Rees. Even at this relatively ad-

which counterinsurgency psychiatrists could forcibly ad-

vanced stage of our investigations, the question has yet to minister "therapy" to large populations, free of existingbe adequately resolved: for what reason did the Rocke- legal restrictions, and whether or not such populationsfeller establishment of three nations (the U.S.A., desired such "therapy." Thirdly, Rees stressed theCanada and United Kingdom) elect to place such importance of affording psychiatrists a consultative roleenormous resources and authority at the 'disposal of this in designing various kinds of administrative and social

one, admittedly gifted British psychopath? We leave the programs of government and industry. One shouid not_

ultimate answer to such questions to one side; that be astonished that the late George Orwell conceived hisparticular answer could not be of decisive importance to

1984 novel after a period of exposure to a group of Rees'sthe case under consideration. It is the question itself followers.which is most useful to us. There is no doubt of one

In general)the appellation "brilliant psychopath"thing: for whatever mysterious reason behind his aptly sums up the man and his work. Nonetheless,

selection for this role, the Rockefeller family did select something more exact is wanted on this point respectingRees¢ and in consequence he has been the principal his work.architect of the "1984" fascism which the CIA establish-

At the outset, it must seem difficult to gauge Rees's

ment is now engaged in constructing, mental abilities directly from his limited literary output.Rees's personal life as such is of little importance to

By his own emphatic admission, he was an omnivorousus, barring our being presented with sufficient clinical plagiarist. It would be extremely difficult to isolatedetail to adduce the circumstances which produced so

Rees's own foimulations in the ordinary way of deter-

hideous a creature. His writings, his position in affairs, mining such things. An indirect, but nonetheless ef-

his,enormous and indeed monstrous itinerary, and his fective approach is wanted.manifest influence are sufficient resource for what is

important for us to consider here. Rees's role was that of part-activist, pre-eminent-

Like his most famous predecessor, Adolf Hitler, and ly administrator. As an activist, he consulted to gov-

his most notorious patient, Rudolf Hess, Rees dates the ernments. He shaped the Haitian dictatorship of "Papabeginning of his political career as a fascist from the Doe" Duvalier, with assistance from Dr. Nathan S.

anti-communist atrocities of the period immediately Kline: Toward the end of his life, in 1968, he per-following the October, 1917 Bolshevik Revolution m sonally supervised the transformation of a battered,

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broken, and terrified ex-poet, LeRoi Jones, into the Nuremburg Law, Rees had little difficulty in extendingzombie Imamu Baraka. As an administrator, he advised his influence in that way. Between the Rockefellerand guided the development of his collaborators and family's long-standing control over the Americansubordinates, adding his personal touch in giving Medical Association and American Psychiatric Associ-direction to both the shaping of their contributions and ation, and the encroachments of the CIA establishmentthe coordination of wide-ranging efforts among a far- into all branches of government, various governmental,flung fascist establishment of sociologists and including military funds, were used to push the develop-psychologists, ment of brainwashing/rod to plant Rees proteges in key

The proper approach to our inquiry is implicit in the locations. As Rees OSS student, B.F. Skinner's positionuse of the slogan "England has a Reesian mission " by at Harvard was established in this way. Another ReesRees's collaborator, Enoch Powell. Reesianism is student, Dr. Kenneth Clark, moved_into Rockefeller'suniquely located in the pattern which unifies the varied New York State Board of Regents and also into the keyconceptions and activities of his innumerable collabor- black counterinsurgency post (MARC) of the Rocke-ators.[42] feller-inspired and Rockefeller-controlled Ford Foun-

The dominant "feature of Rees's work is his con- dation. Dr. Nathan S. Kline, one of the worst Reesiancentration,on those features of Anglo-Canadian military criminals, heads New York State's Rockland Stateand British colonial experience which coincide with Hospital and is in a key position at New York's Columbiafundamentals of the Nazi S.S. system. His approach to Presbyterian Hospital, where a broad and old traditionsuch studies was always to locate in the potential fascist of brain-butchery thrives.subjects those psychoneurotic susceptibilities which The list of his crimina I influences, mostly-Rockefeller-could be played upon by the ruling class to effect linked, is enormous. [43] These are being reported in"happy," willing subjugation. The Nazi "Strength detail elsewhere. We proceed here to the kernel of hisThrough Joy" and the hideous concentration-camp methodology.slogan, "Work Makes Free," are ideally Reesian catch-phrases.

For those "purists" who must insist on finding racism 5. THE KERNEL OF REESIAN FASCISMas the root of all fascist movements, Rees proves mostsatisfactory. Like his crony, racist British Nuremburg Reesian fascism and Reesian brainwashing are inter-criminal, Dr. H.J. Eysenck, and like such U.S. Reesians connected, criminal expressions of the identical method-as Shockley, Herrnstein, et al., Rees was a raving anti- ological approaches to the RocKefeller family's prol_lemsblack racialist, whose entire fascist schema revolved of maintaining control of their subjects under conditionsaroundOthe theme of the "constitutional inferiority" of of "Zero Growth" or Schachtian economic policies. All

blacks, their typical fitness only for "menial work," the --Rees's techniques proceed on the same essentialhappiness they would find only away from the strains of premises as those of Rees's most notable collaborator,literacy in happy reconciliation to intellectually un- another Rockefeller protege, Dr. Kurt Lewin.challenging drudgery. For related reasons, despite the elaborate reticulation

This is underlined rather than contradicted by the of hardware and software developed by the Anglo-work of Rees and Kline in Haiti or Rees's own key role in American CIA establishment, the central premises of all

creating the public relations myth of Imamu Baraka. For those techniques are rudimentary and the repertoire ofthe "constitutionally inferior" blacks of Duvalier's Haiti, specific techniques developed necessary permutationsRees's subcontractor, Kline, prescribed drugs and of an essentially limited variety of basic types.voodoo cults. The same triumphant racist sadism is If the kernel of Reesian psychology and sociology is

rampant in Rees's personal creation of the zombie, studied from the vantage point offered in our "new psy-Baraka. "Kawaida" and the literally mind-damaging choanalysis" series, one soon appreciates why the CIA

Baraka-run elementary school are the sort of self- was so acutely alarmed by the publication of those art-degrading "geek act" which only the most viciously icles that it is currently spending millions of dollarspsychopathic anti-black racist could propose that blacks (characteristically, of other agencies' funds!) each month

ado[at as an "ideology." in the desperate effort to discredit our work on thatThose are only isolated cases. Through his base m the account alone. Given relatively modest means to do so,

WFMH, Rees's influence soon took over within the we have the knowledge wanted to destroy what theNational Institute of Health and National Institute of Rockefeller establishment has been developing over aMental Health. Although the activities undertaken by period of over a quarter century.those U.S. government agencies were explicitly in- This point was made to us in the most striking way asdictable as crimes against humanity under the we pulled together so much of the Reesian output during

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the first weeks of this year. Our analysis of the "mother- formerly brainwashed, but who have been freed from

image" problem, of anal phobias, of schizophrenia, etc., control. It is essential to have such a clinical category be-

are although Without being developed to those speci- cause of the permanent damage accomplished. Thefic purposes -- explicit antidotes for the very kernel of victim out of control may nonetheless suffer continuous

the Reesian's professed psychiatric and sociological or recurring psych6tic symptoms. The victim who hastechniques, been remitted from both control and psychotic effects

The essential premise of the work of John R. Rees will require psychotherpeutic treatment for aggravatedand Kurt Lewin is the premise that certain kinds of neurotic difficulties as a result of the experience, inclu-

"democratic" institutions represent far more efficient ding possibly irreparable damage to those specific closeinstrumentalities for fascist dictatorship than the tradi- personal relationships (including marriage, relationships

tional, straightforwardly "authoritarian" models. Their to parents) against which the brainwashers necessarily

work pervasively emphasizes the point that if the con- operated.

trollers can succeed in structuring a stressed individual's The advantage of the restriction in meaning is mainlyor group's situation appropriately, the victim(s) can be practical. Let us address ourselves to certain widespread

induced to develop for himself a special sort of "reaction fears as a convenient way of approaching the key pointsformation" through which he "democratically" arrives to be made.

precisely at the attitudes and decisions which the dicta- It is technically possible for any trained operators totors would wish to force upon him. brainwash almost anyone of about thirty or under given

Proceeding from that point of reference, Reesian appropriate circumstances. The most obvious of these

fot.-_s of brainwashing (those practiced by the Anglo- circumstances is provided by a _prison or mental institu-American CIA establishment)and the fascist slogan of tion, in which the selected victim is helplessly con-

"local community control" are kindred products of the strained within a controlled environment twenty-four

identical "therapeutic " approach: the former explicitly hours a day, with hope of release psychologically distant

in the domain of psychiatry, the latter explicitly in the in terms of the stresses which can be applied by thosedomain of sociology, who control this environment. There are more restric-

tions upon the possibility that a private agency or group

"Brainwashing" of persons could accomplish a similar result outside of a;pecial institutional setting.

To avoid confusion and groundless forms of objection Most important in the connection, in those instancesto what we have to outline in this section, it is useful and in which the victim were brainwashed by any agency but

undoubtedly necessary to define the proper usage of the the government itself, the victim would tend to automa-

term, "brainwashing." tically remit from a controlled state within a relatively

Brainwashing is a state of induced psychosis, resem- brief period away from the institution or special private

bling paranoid schizophrenic psychosis, brought about group which had perpetrated the crime upon him. He

through procedures of so-called programmed behavioral would suffer functional damage to his mental health as amodification. In addition to being merely an induced result of the experience, might even be driven to psycho-

psychotic state, brainwashing is also what the layman sis, but he would remit from control.

usually assumes it to be, a modification of the victim's Therefore, if there are any numbers of brainwashed

state of mind to the effect that the brainwashee is under persons walking the streets, they remain brainwashedthe effective control of an agency on whose behalf he was solely because they have been brainwashed on behalf of

conditioned, the U.S. government itself. In the vernacular of the pro-By adhering strictly to the qualification of control, our fession, the diagnosis of brainwashing is inseparable

use of the term brainwashing incurs only a few, minor from the identification of controlled environment. As adifficulties, but also eliminates very efficiently a wide corollary, clinical demonstration that a person is brain-

spectrum of avoidable fears and unnecessary confusion washed, under appropriate circumstances is sufficientwhich might occur in connection with that fearful term. prima facie proof that the brainwashing was performed

We repeat, our usage of the term, brainwashing, is re- on behalf of the U.S. government. Likewise publicly dis-stricted to the cases in which the psychotic state induced band both the FBI and the LEAA, and virtually everyby programmed behavioral modification is (or was) in- brainwash victim walking the streets in the U.S.A. willcurred as a means of exerting control by an agency on automatically remit from a brainwashed state within

whose behalf the crime was perpetrated, days.

The only problem we incur by that restriction is the We do not profess to know all the possibilities of "brain

need to provide a special category for victims who were surgery" and "electronic brain stimulation" as methods

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of brainwashing, but, for functional states, whether or mulation: "The Labor Committees brainwashed me,"not assisted by psychopharmaceuticals and ECT, the which is schizophrenic shorthand for the truth, "I wasdecisive feature of brainwashing is fear or the virtual brainwashed by the police because I was a member of theomnipresence of an inhumanly aversive authority. Labor Committees."

The other qualitative feature of brainwashing, the In general, the reality principle is the basis for all theinduced psychotic state, is readily understood from the appropriate clinical observations and tests. "What colorstandpoint of our writings on the "new is this?" "What is this odor?" "What is the use of thispsychoanalysis."Essentially, the victim is first reduced object?" "Who is this?" What happened on...?" It isto a state of infantilism (e.g. as recommended by the important to get beyond the sometimes speciously -_strange Doctor Janov of the "primal scream" cult), and rational parsing of the schizoid's prose utterances to exa-is then induced to form a psychotic pseudo-personality mine whether the statements make sense by simple testson the basis of modified, mother-image-centered "ego- of the perception of sensory ancl social reality. Theideals." brainwashee's psychotic state will reveal itself quickly by'

While the pseudo-personality is operating in the hysterical little ruses, intended to divert his own atten-""safety" of a controlled environment (i.e., "protected" tion away from reality in a controlled area of behavior.by the police responsible for the brainwashing!), he or (Or, as we indicated before, if there exists the possibility,she may not appear to be brainwashed or particularly through legal powers of parents or spouse, to commit adisturbed to the untrained, uncritical observer. (Just as victim to clinical observation safely away from policevictims of an LSD-25-induced state of psychosis some- access for a term of several days, the result will be eithertimes may outwardly appear to be rational to the casual a tellingly prompt police "intervention or an abundantview of the layman.) However, competent clinical at- outpouring of the most blatant symptoms of paranoidtention will invariably evoke conclusive evidence of a schizophrenic states.)paranoid schizophrenic state. Or, 'remove the victimfrom the reach of the police for over twenty-four or

perhaps as much as forty-eight hours, and overt disasso- A Black Ghetto Case Historyciation will erupt within that period or an even brieferlapse of time.) Although we do not presently know directly whether

The schizophrenic symptoms are classical and unam- or not LeRoi Jones (Imamu Baraka) is clinically brain-biguous, however masked they might appear to the un- washed, a farly recent case of a brainwashed RYM mem-critical l_tyman. (If one has clues to the personality and ber from Newark shows why the possibility of Jones'sbelief structure of the victim before brainwashing was in- brainwashing is at least a moot question.duced, the tests are directly made.) The victim's sense of The victim, whom we shall identify as M , was a

reality is turned inside-out. "He" or "she" (the pseudo- young black male ex-prisoner, continued on probation,personality) becomes "I," and the pseudo-I now attri- who had been a committed RYM organizer for fivebutes the value attached to fozJiier beliefs and activities months prior to his brainwashing. His setup began into present activities. January, through collaboration among his probation

For example, in the near-dozen cases of NCLC, RYM, officer, the New York City FBI office, and the Newarkand NUWRO members conclusively known to have been Gestapo, the literally fascist LEAA organization domin-brainwashed for either the CIA or LEAA, the victim ating the Newark that John R. Rees created for the Pru-characteristically accused the Labor Committees of dential Life Insurance Company. Whenever he visited"brainwashing" its members (a clinical impossibility), New York City, he was hound;d back to Newark byand reflected his or her own personality by attributing a threatening visits from the FBI. In Newark, he was sub-profound personality reversal to me at approximately the jected to intensive harassment by the LEAA, including apoint in time they themselves underwent brainwashing! series of beatings performed at random in the vicinity ofEverything aversive done to them by their new "peer- his home, threats to his family, etc.group," the CIA-LEAA controllers, they attributed to This was the first step: terrorize the victim into re-the Labor Committees. garding the entire world as a police-controlled environ-

The queer sort of inverted psychological truth to all ment (with the help of the FBI), constantly houndingthis is the fact that they were brainwashed because they him back to Newark (from which the FBI ensured thatwere NCLC, RYM, or NUWRO members; therefore there would be no escape), where he was almost dailythe NCLC, RYM, or NUWRO /s responsible for their subjected to illegal beatings, imprisonment, etc., by thebrainwashing! It requires only a slight twist of tortured outlaw LEAA forces. The LEAA usually says to theschizoid "rationalization" to associate to the next for- victim, as it did in this case, "See, nigger, we can get you

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anywhere, any time, and do anything to you, and there's trol. Drugs for the Victim to use daily ("outpatient") to

not a goddamn thing you can do about it.") prevent breakout from controlled compulsion to returnDuring this period miraculously appeared the local to the next treatment-session. Drugs to induce various

NAACP, which offered him educational opportunities degrees of dissociation (e.g. psychedelics) and sug-and subsidies -- provided he get out of RYM. Suddenly, gestibility. ECT used either to destroy adjacent

"new friends" appeared from nowhere, offering parties, memories, or employed short of massive convulsion to

inducing him to resume abandoned drug habits, etc., cause other special effects. Prolixin for general control,and slipped him drugs which were strange to him at etc., etc. They are important to facilitate the crime's

parties which turned out to be diffict_lt-to-remember but accomplishment, and important for the serious damageterrifying "rap" sessions, they accomplish in the victim. Yet, it is not the drugs

Over a period Of weeks of the new friends and their that accomplish the brainwashing; they merely assist a

*drug-laced parties and strange "rap sessions," the RYM process which must be essentially understood in entirely

member underwent a pronounced personality change, non-medical reims.At first, it was his old rational self spiced with moments

of psychotic episodes of hilarity and rage alternately, "Local Community Control"during which psychotic periods he became a kind ofcombined "Holy Roller" and "black ultra-nationalist."

In a broad sense, as we have already stated, all Rees-Over a period of less than eight weeks, a solid RYM

ian methods of social amd psychiatric control of thecadre was degraded into a mindless zombie!

victims are premised on' the same essential principles_ Terror, self-degradation assisted by psychotropic drugs, directly encountered in brainwashing as such. Moreover,with the victim's mind taxed to find a way in which to any Reesian form of social organization will tend toappease the aversive psychological pressures, the sheer

cause mass brainwashing in the members of such a

terror his exhausted psyche is enduring. The psychotic group if the stress applied is sufficient and sufficientlyepisodes become more frequent; one day, his mind is

prolonged -- the members of the group will effectivelygone. He was brainwashed, an agent of the LEAA brainwash one another, using the term in its strict

fascists who have destroyed him. clinical sense. However, in considering the following ex-Needless to say, when the criminals responsible come amples of Reesian fascist forms of social control, it were

to their Nuremburg trial, there will be an accounting, as more to the point to regard the results achieved upon thethere will also be for every academic, every professional victims as merely in the general direction of brainwash-social worker, psychologist, psychiatrist, any judge who ing.plays any part in maintaining any part of this network of Rather than summarize the procedure itself at the out-criminal behavioral modification practices, set, and then illustrating the application, we shall de-

... Especially the Rockefeller family and such fascist velop two illustrations, introducing summa.ry discussiondegenerates as Jewish fascist Dr. Nathan S. Kline, men of the procedures along the way, and then summarizewhose committed and intended crimes should make the general the general case at the conclusion.ghost of Adolf Eichmann vomit.

, First, we shall consider the example of neighborhood

Brainwashing in General "community organizing," and then analyze the

example of Reesian use of "black nationalist" ideology.In effective Reesian "Pavlovian" or "Chinese" brain- Organize a group around the identification of a neigh-

washing, the controllers are usually obliged to avoid borhood group, and assign them the task of solving a

directly informing the individual victim what he or she problem identified as peculiar to people of that neigh-

must come to believe. Rather, the aversive situation is borhood. Set up the composition of the group and its ad-intensified, the controller-operator maintains a sugges- visors or source of information such that the group cantion of being won over in the future to help the victim remain united only if it adopts "actions" to solve

escape terrors, and the victim is essentially left to per- the problem within the constraints and techniques,L '' 99

slstently rework his or her biography and belief-system available to forces represented by that neighborhoodwithout ever being certain that he or she has finally hit "committee" constituted as such a narrow "interestupon exactly the "answers" that will win over the con- group." The "community organizers" assigned to this

troller and thus solve the problem of intensifying terror, counterinsurgency task must not tell the members of the

It's all done by suggestion, a hideous caricature of psy- neighborhood group (the dupes) what solution they are

chotherapy, intended to adopt (e.g. by the Ford Foundation or the

Psychopharmaceuticals are important. Drugs to faci- HEW employers .of the community organizer), but theselitate the hypnosis used to bring the victim under con- "organizers," acting as controllers of the neighborhood

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organization will accomplish the intended result by sug- or the ACTION community organizer makes known.

gestion. Certain clues will be "placed" where they will be The neighborhood still hasn't the slightest sense ofnoticed by the group, reality about the affair to date, and it has already taken

The programmed behavioral modification of that the first step to bringing fascism right up to its doorstep.

neighborhoo_i group is effected by manipulation of city "Gestapo blockwatcher? Mrs. Jones? Nonsense!" Irish,hall, etc., to create a controlled environment. "Acci- Black, Italian, Jewish, Puerto Rican, neighborhood after

dental" problems with refuse-collection, or some other neighborhood in New York, Philadelphia, etc., is being• conveniently timed small stress will be applied. Mean- transfoimed into a pack of"good Germans" through the

time, certain doors will be closed and certain other doors offices of ACTION and the fascist LEAA.

will open at municipal offices. A certain friendly channel Little actual violence. Quiet. Slick. No "Nacht und

of influence will turn up. Nebel" yet m until the people on the block face a real

The problem has been solved. The group now believes problem and try to move seriously against their actualthat it has discovered an efficient, "democratic" way to oppressors. "Nice Mrs. Jones" will then confide to the

solve local problems, totally unaware of the fact that "police community relations." Mr. Black, who wasevery part of the little drama was staged. They look at showing signs of becoming a leader is thus picked outthe "community organizer," vaguely "feeling" that he and brainwashed... Also, Mr. Williams, another activ-

has somehow contributed to the happy outcome, but un- ist, "claims it's a' frame-up, but I heard that ... Youable to see how his "non-directive" approach and re- never can tell, can you?" Fascism, hideous fascism,

peated emphasis on "participatory democracy" (or some creeps in on "democratic community ACTION" feet.equivalent, hackneyed slogan) could have permitted him

to perform such an "elitist" role. He is the self-effacing The Tactic Against the Left("I'm only an outsider; you have to decide.") friend who"never interferes." They do not suspect.that they are vir-

tually zombies (at least in the terms of the present Undoubtedly the most telling example of the potential

arrangement) and he in fact is their controller, effectiveness of Reesian methods is the process by whichFurthermore, they would absolutely deny that this the bulk of today's professedly socialist organizations in

the U.S.A. are either outrightly fascist groups or signifi-"friend" of theirs is actually a fascist." Yet, he is, even

though he might not yet have even suspected it himself, cantly influenced by Reesian fascist groups and ideology.(After all, fascism became a pejorative term after its The so-called Revolutionary Union (R.U.) is thedeeds became manifest. Until the new, Reesian fascism largest and noisiest of the outrightly police-controlled

becomes generally recognized as a specific ideology, etc., and altogether Reesian fascist groups calling themselvesmost of its dupes would be sincerely incredulous at the "socialist." The RU's current activities are highlighted

suggestion of such a name.) by direct collusion with the Parkhurst "Overdrive"Now, the first little pilot experience completed, organization, a professedly right-wing, union-busting

ACTION proceeds to the next step. The heat is applied organization modelling its tactics on the right-wingto the neighborhood. The limited forces represented by Chilean self-employed truckers, headed by an indivi-

neighborhood residents participating in the ACTION dual who has been actively engaged in union-busting

group are insufficient for this one. A quiet suggestion against Teamsters in particular since the early 1960's.from the "non-directive" controller, and passion is (Parkhurst's activities are, not miraculously, partially

applied to getting everyone in the neighborhood out. The funded by the nation's largest Teamster employers.) RUsame process is repeated, meanwhile has acquired de facto control of the editorial

policies of a formerly pro-Soviet publication, the

The LEAA arranges to have a few break-ins and mug- Guardian (the erstwhile National Guardian).

gings occur over a period of a week or so. By now, the The formerly "Trotskyist" Socialist Workers Party"grey rumor" network is organized in the apartment (SWP) has been taken over by CIA-linked police agen-

buildings of the neighborhood, perhaps through the cies, to the point that its principal public activities are

leading floor activists of the LEAA-promoted "tenants' currently exclusively supportive of counterinsurgencypatrol." A minor panic is worked up, a march on the projects, including several publicly linked to the LEAA.local police precinct station arranged, where the LEAA A large faction of the mainland branch of the Puerto

"police community relations" operative maintains a Rican Socialist Party (the faction nominally headed bysober expression (holding down his wish to let out a Ramon Arbona) has been taken over totally by the

belly-laugh at the sight of these stupid cattle who are LEAA, to the point that the Arbon faction publiclybeing so beautifully manipulated), joined with the Hartford organization of the SWP in

"Well, there is the "blockwatch' program," either he defense of an overt LEAA police recruiter, Sengali.

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Through opportunism (probably assisted by infiltra- International Committee) and the opposing faction (thering agents and brainwashing of some YWLL members), self-styled International Secretariat), the factions which

even the Communist Party has overtly allied itself with had split the old Fourth International during the 1953-54

several notorious CIA operatives since at least late period. This "unification," accomplished over the 1962-March 1973, the most flagrant and significant case being 63 period (to the inevitable accompaniment of new splits

that of Ed Schwartz, former leader of the National Stu- from each of the unifying factions), introduced the SWPdent Association. to its initial dosage of Reesian ideology through the

The largest of the classic sort of professedly socialist influence of Belgian La Gauche editor Ernest Mandel."swamp" groups, the New American Movement Mandel, spokesman for the reunification faction of the

(NAM), is riddled with known counterinsurgency oper- International Secretariat, had adapted his politics to theatives, and devotes itself (not accidentally) to pushing Reesian ideology through the influence of a notorious

Alinsky-type "projects" focused upon or4gainzed labor figure, Renard. Renard, now happily deceased, a classic

and other targets, counterinsurgency agent of tile British type, attempted

Exemplary of this state of affairs, most of the profess- (with modest success) to wreck the Belgian working-classedly socialist organizations, including the more notable movement along communalist lines in the wake of the

cases listed, violently defend such open CIA-LEAA 1960 Belgian General Strike.

"movements" as the Rees-designed Kawaida NewArk By the Summer of 1963, the SWP itself had adopted

organization of Rees-created zombie Imamu Baraka the first dosage of Reesian ideology on its own account,(Leroi Jones). To leave no doubt who is behind them, principally through the spokesmenship of a Detroit-

!_ since the first of January there has been a most remark- based, embittered old "proletarian" activist, Georgeable coincidence in timing and content in attacks on the Breitman.

i Labor Committees by these groups at the same time that Breitman, finding himself situated in the midst of a

i that exact new line and content of attack is being initi- massive counterinsurgency project figure-headed by theated by the LEAA and FBII Reverend Cleage, adapted to the extent one might have

This Reesian fascist takeover of most Left organiza- expected had he been clinically brainwashed. That is, he

tions in the U.S.A. began with the New Left's "radical produced a psychoneurotic's modification of the classic

action projects," as typified by the Tom Hayden-led "Trotskyist" belief-system, a profound attitude change

_! Alinsky-model organizing in Newark (pre-1967). In- approximately 120 degrees away from the traditionalcreasing OEO and Ford Foundation penetration and SWP policy on the class struggle. The core of this was his

control of organized ferment among ghetto and student proposing an almost wholly uncritical support of Rever-I strata confronted the existing socialist organizations of end Cleage's counterinsurgency movement, and a

the middle 1960's with a Reesian-type controlled en- Reesian attitude toward "'black nationalism. " Speakingvironment. Their eagerness to recruit from such ferment generally, if an "old Trotskyist trade-union activist" had

confronted them with strong pressures to adapt, been clinically brainwashed by present-day LEAA

methods to support Reesian counterinsurgency ghetto

The SWP Case projects, the victim would have produced more or lessexactly the result manifest in Breitman's 1963 resolution.

It is fruitless to speculate now on the question whetherThe case of the SWP is the clearest illustration, an

especially appropriate one, since the SWP was, after the or not Breitman was or was not brainwashed over theCPUSA, the only significant so-called "Old Left" Winter of 1963. Given the identity-crisis and relatedorganization left over from the 1930's during the early stresses upon him at that time, the situation itself would1960's. have sufficed to produce such a fundamental modifi-

The collapse of the SWP's attempted united fronts cation in his "belief structure." Brainwashing was

with the CP (the 1957-59 "Regroupment" tactic), and developed by Rees as a deliberate exploitation of the

the ebb in the SWP's recruiting prospects from the Civil kinds of psychopathological personality changesRights and Cuban Revolution upsurges of the turn of the classically associated with "battle neurosis." In that

decade, produced a cannibalistic orgy of cliquist frenzy respect, brainwashing replicates among a larger numberwithin the group over the Winter and Spring of 1961, of people what might have occurred "accidentally"after which the organization slid into demoralization for among a relatively tiny number of persons.

over a year. More the the Same point is obtained from the fact that

Following that period, the SWP leadership entered Breitman's proposal was adopted by the SWP's 1963into support of a "reunification" between most of the convention. Certainly, the majority of those delegates

supporters of its international faction (the self-styled were not clinically brainwashed. Rather, as a small

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group (the SWP had only several hundred members at The principal sources of new recruits to the anti-warthat time), the organization was being subjected to the movement and the SWP-YSA were "community-same sort of manipulation as a whole as we outlined for action"-oriented "constituency" movements and Newthe caseoftheACTION-sponsored neighborhood group. Left campus youth were thus reinforced in theirA small group, for which membership identity already tendency to adapt to OEO and Ford Foundation-spon-existed, which had been demoralized over the Winter- sored "constituency" political movements.Spring 1961 period, lacking the least perspective of (This is not the location in which to detail the various

actual socialist or even mass-labor struggles, was con- counterinsurgency ins and outs of the anti-was move-fronted with the problem of obtaining the material ment as a whole e.g., the interplay among the SWP-essentials of its existence per se (members, money, linked right-wing, the anarchist factions, the CP forcesprestige) within its tactical resources as a small group in in between, and the small socialist grouplets scuttlinga manipulated environment. Breitman's "de facto brain- ineffectually around the fringes of each of these three.)washee's" profession of new attitudes corresponded to The measure and testing of this process of counter-the potential clinical disorientation of a majority of SWP insurgency conditioning of the SWP (and many othermembers. Left groups) occurred throughout the Summer and Fall

During the 1963-64 period, the SWP and its youth of 1968. The 1968 New York City Teachers' Strike wasaffiliate, the YSA, maintained its hand-to-mouth the point of inflection at which the SWP-YSA rapidlyorganizational existence largely in a milieu controlled by lost its vestigial connections to socialism, and proceeded,the Office of Economic Opportunity (e.g., Lower East rather rapidly, to become the fascist organization it isSide "Mobilization for Youth"). Its conditioning thus today.proceeded, pushing it deeper into proto-Reesian ideology The collusion of the Ford Foundation, the Office of

from the starting-point articulated by Breitman. Economic Opportunity, and New York's Mayor JohnThe next qualitative degeneration of the SWP was Lindsay, in setting up the 1968 Teachers' Strike can be

accomplished on the initiatives of agent Jack Barnes. regarded as one of the decisive national events of the pastBarnes, who never showed the slightest inclination of quarter century. In short, it represented the firs_t of acapacity for articulating a political or any other theoreti- series of efforts to weaken and break the organized laborcal conception[S2], had been a fast-rising young movement with the aid of fascist organizations...withhuckster within the YSA, attaining de facto leadership of most of the existing Left organizations in the city oppor-the youth group by late 1964. Over the Winter of 1964- tunistically duping themselves into supporting such a65, after almost six months of stagnation of SWP-YSA fascist action.gate-receipts[53], Barnes returned from a national tourwith a proposal to plunge into the SDS-sponsored anti- The NCLC Casewar protest project.

It does not follow from the SWP's case that ReesianBarnes did not merely propose engagement in that

methods necessarily succeed. The NCLC's hegemony inproject, he proposed adaptation to the counter-the U.S. socialist movement today proves the point to be

insurgency aspects of SDS ideology, touring to indoctri-made. The Labor Committees, which were initiated in a

nate SWP and YSA members in employment of "non-directive" adaptations to the principles of "participatory preliminary fashion in mid-1966 and founded on the evedemocracy," etc. of the 1968 Columbia University strike, have had a rate

The first anti-war project Barnes led was the calcu- of growth in numbers and influence which is absolutelylated splitting of the SDS anti-war formation, pandering spectacular when contrasted with the expansion of theto New Left anti-CP ideology to accomplish this. There- SWP-YSA or CPUSA-YWLL, or the collapse of theafter, appropriate doors magically becoming open to the Progressive Labor Party (PLP) over the same period. InSWP-YSA during the ensuing period, Barnes et al. point of fact, the SWP had the same alternative mode of

success available to it as the NCLC has enjoyed, even aperformed a key role in policing the anti-war movement decade before the Labor Committees themselves were

with an alternately hot and cold role in including andexcluding the CP forces. So, with the help of others, the actually formed. There was therefore nothing in thecircumstances of the SWP or the limits of humanSWP made the anti-war movement what the CIA in-

tended it to become: i.e., a "countergang" operation capacity which justifies the SWP degeneration into theagainst potential pro-socialist political ferment. Essenti- fascist organization it has become today.

ally, this meant using the prospect of "new forces" to the The same particular point can be made emphaticallypolitical right to become a lever of pulling the entire anti- with respect to the 1968 Teachers' Strike. The Laborwar left itself to the right. Committees led a counterattack against McGeorge

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Bundy'sReesianfascist organization which significantly French, Italian, German, or Irish immigrants aresabotaged certain intended gains of the Ford Founda- "European." The black American has four hundredtion's efforts (thereby becoming the only well-known years of the development of an advanced industrial

U.S. socialist organization which does not have an ugly society's culture in his bones and blood, and thus is far,lu'story of strike-breaking and union-busting on its far closer to Western Europe in his cultural tendenciesrecord). Our organization's present moral strength and than to any sector of Black Africa.consequent accomplishments flow rather directly from Hence, any form of Black Nationalism represents thethe strengthening of the moral and intellectual qualities product of social or psychologicalpathology. It makes noof its cadres during the 1968 period, sense either from the four-hundred year history of the

In general, a parallel observation can be made with b_ack American population or the tactical advantage ofrespect to the February fascist atrocities of Parkhurst & those citizens.Company. The same Left organizations (and more However...added) which supported the fascist strike-breaking effort At the first blush of conscious counterinsurgency in

against the teachers in 1968 rallied around the rump of the ranks of the U.S. ruling class, a hideous socialcounterinsurgency, union-busting operative Parkhurst. pathology was imposed upon the black American: Jim(Even the fact that Parkhurst motivated the "strike" as Crow. More or les_ consciously adapting the implicit

modelled upon the successful efforts to organize a bloody fascism of the papal corporativist doctrine, through thecounterrevolution against Chilean President Allende did Democratic Party, the ruling circles intervened in thenot deter some CPers from enthusiastically supporting Populist movement to block efforts to transform thethat known government, agent in a fascist action.) movement into a labor party, and simultaneously to

The contrast between the Labor Committees and other institute the racialist doctrine of Jim Crow. This was not

professedly socialist U.S. groups on such issues under- a product of unbroken slavery traditions, as some unin-line the central principle of Reesian fascism and brain- formed people "explain," nor was it an outgrowth of thewashing. Rees and Lewin premised their model of Anglo- 1877 counter-Reconstruction turn, as at least one loud-American fascism not only upon studies of successful mouthed ignorant spokesman for the SWP alleges. ItNazi models, but on the improvements in'effectiveness of was a specific counterinsurgency tactic of the 1890's andthose models which could be realized (in Rockefellers' early 1900's.behalf) through expert exploitation of the psyCho- The chief agent of the racists within the black leader-neurotic susceptibilities of the intended victim, ship of that period was the infamous Booker T.

It is not necessary, Rees and Lewin emphasize, to Washington, the black-faced spokesman of the capital-

impose fascism essentially by police force. Gestapo terror ists' plan to "keep the niggers in their place." (As foris only a necessary subordinate feature of the Rockefeller that other "hero" of Ford Foundation liturgy, Marcusprogram. By structuring the situation, chiefly by induc- Garvey, it is sufficient to directly compare his activitiesing the victims to base their self-interests and identities with those of his Italian soul-brother, Ponzi of Eastin impotently small constituency groupings, the appli- Boston, to properly place him among that special breedcation of controlled aversive environments and "token of 1920's confidence-men who gained money and

economy" rewards can induce the victims to develop self- prestige by swindling the most oppressed masses ofpolicing fascist ideals and attitudes on the basis of their urban culture in that period.)own psychoneurotic ego-ideals. However...

The individuals and groups which reject the very Retroactively, Jim Crow was a Reesian tactic. This isnotion of constituency (e.g., "nationalism," "commun- not accidental or otherwise miraculous. Jim Crow was

invented by the British colonial office, set forth with aity") and locate their self-interests and identities as

considerable degree of refinement in British Quebecworld-historical members of a world-side working class,have to that extent located their identity in a different policy of the 1790's, and elaborated in appropriate

sort of non-neurotic ego-ideal. They can be individually fashion in India during the immediately ensuing period.broken by sufficient terror, but they cannot be induced Jim Crow, in all its "community action" equivalentto corrupt and betray themselves into fascist roles by forms [54], was the essence of developing British policyReesian methods of group manipulation, for its colonial subjects in Africa and Asia -- and

reapplied, in the CIA-assisted sponsorship of Forbes

Black Nationalism Burnham in Guyana, to eliminate the socialist-lednational independence of that small country.

Objectively, the black American is far less "African" Jim Crow placed the black citizens of the USA in athan the third or fourth generation descendants of Reesian-type controlled environment (segregation), with

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the resulting de facto brainwashing symptomized by the tion is expressed. The revolutionary treats those positivepsychoneurosis of "shuffling." results as progress toward working-class unity among

Within respect to the given Segregation, black specifically black and other formations of the classnationalism was the furthest point of advance of the struggle.resulting mass psychoneurotic reaction formation, However, this does not mean that the revolutionaryespecially among those lumpenized strata upon which therefore proposes that capitalism's black victims passthe stress was most cruelly imposed by the three P's of through the phase of black nationalism. The revolu-povert2,; police, and pimps, tionary is obliged to provide the potential black revolu-

To the revolutionary, black nationalism is not a formal tionary with a direct, non-neurotic means for freedomquestion but a practical question. In short, what does from the oppression (and oppressed personal state ofone do about it? being). There is a qualitative difference between the two

The black nationalists, as victimized human beings, approaches. The former, aptly termed Crow-Jim, is

must be practically approached as one would approach poorly disguised racism.any other group of workers suffering the neurotic's reac- Strangely -- or, perhaps not so strangely, after alltion formations arising from the conditions imposed in the period following the assassination of Malcolm X,upon them. One must support theperson(s) to the end of black nationalism broke out among the petit-bourgeoisfreeing them from their neurosis. However, to rid the educated strata of the Civil Rights movement. In effect,mass of victims of a neurosis of the mental disorder, it is the petit-bourgeois spokesmen of those organizationsnecessary to remove the material conditions which cause funded by counterinsurgency conduits entered thethe sickness. To eliminate black nationalism it is process of herding black workers and lumpens into notnecessary to eliminate the ghetto. Not merely segregation the Nation oflslam or a Malcolm X-type mass movementin housing and schools, etc., but segregation in terms of scheme (i.e., not a Panther-type organization), but intohuman rights as expressed through organized move- "projects" of an exactly counterinsurgency form.ments of working people. The publication of the resolution of the Triple Revolu-

tion Committee, and the adoption of its silly ideology byThe cleverest and most vicious racist trick to play uponblack nationalists is to support black nationalisrn_ to the new rash of petit-bourgeois-led "black constituency"

•support the person on the condition that he self-perpetu- groups confirmed suspicions concerning the actualate his segregation. That is precisely the trick proposed origins of the new rash of such converts to blackby the viciously anti-black Rees. That is an example of nationalism. The new CIA-conduit sponsored blackthe Reesian methods of brainwashing and fascist social "nationalists" (more accurately, black small-communi-control. Find the psychoneurotic weak points Jin the tarians) adopted a fascist economic policy (" post-indus-intended victim and play upon those weaknesses to trial society"), a social philosophy of recycling ofproduce the brainwashing. Situate the victim such that "resources" (e.g., Brazilian model). The kind of blackthose weaknesses will tend to be most activated, using "nationalism" introduced by the Stokeley Carmichaels"token economy" methods of rewards (conditioning) to and other subsidized petit-bourgeois "communitymake self-destructive neurotic impulses appear to be organizers" was nothing but -- it is now retrospectivelymethods of survival. (In one known case, the formulation clear -- Reesian fascism, black ghetto version.

was used to the brainwash victim by his tormentors: See, Since approximately 1967, the funded spread of thethis is the way niggers know how to survive in the jungle.) fascist "black communitarianism" has coincided with

Historically, black natiot_alism has appeared as a the rapid growth of clinical brainwashing directed chieflytendency among the most-oppressed strata of lumpen- against black ghetto victims (other ethnic oppressedized black ghetto victims. For "obvious reasons. Its minorities and radical youth generally a far second), withappearance from among those strata is hence more or the black community organizations themselves contri-less "natural" and does represent (as against frag- buting an increasing portion of their resources andmentation) a positive thrust within the Context of segre- efforts to this criminal practice. Using prisons as thegation. On such premises, the revolutionary will properly initial place of creating cadres of brainwashed zombiessupport the working-class struggles of black nationalists to be released into black ghetto communities, andwithout supporting black nationalism as such. To the working through local "community medical" and drug-extent that black nationalism is associated with mass- therapy facilities in particular, brainwashing today is

organization (not "community" organization), with spreading through black ghettoes like a plague, eachliteracy, and a general breaking-away from lumpenized new batch of victims making possible the establishmentasocial and anti-social habits, the psychological aspect of of new "training" "attack therapy" groups to be used inthe positive side of the black nationalist reaction forma- brainwashing new victims.

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The massive brainwashing of black ghetto youth These Rockefeller-sponsored fascist methods of socialoccurs asa by-product of now-classical British models of control and brainwashing are the outcome of Rees's

counterinsurgency, operations, conducted principally by World War II period proposal to mobilize the psychi-

the LEAA with assistance from the CIA-LEAA con- attic and psychologist professions to accomplish thetrolled FBI. specific main purposes we have already cited. (1)

This operation began about 1966, with the initiation of Generally place psychiatric skills and knowledge at the

the Gestapo-like LEAA through CIA operative disposal of governmental and industrial authorities forMcGeorge Bundy. To the present day, Bundy's Ford the principal purpose of giving assistance in the controlFoundation has continued as the chief private conduit of strbject populations. (2) Massively concentrate on

for direction and development of LEAA policies and discovering those psychoneurotic susceptibilities of thepilot operations. At about the same time, CIA control of subject populations by which they can be manipulated

the Chicago super-gang, the Black P. Stone Rangers, into fascist forms of organization which are "improve-through Saul Alinsky and related "community ments" upon the crude pragmatism of Mussolini and

organizer" training and brainwashing conduits, was Nazi models. (3) Increase the employment of psychia-converted rapidly into a base of operations for CIA- trists in "community health" social services programs,

controlled ghetto youth-gang organizing -- a classical through which to administer "therapeutic" pacificationBritish intelligence counterinsurgency tactic since the of the population in its communities, with or without the

immediate post-war Mountbatten-directed operations in consent of the victims.

such places as Malaysia. [55] The literature of the Reesians emphasizes three linesof psychiatric knowledge deemed most useful to the

Later, through Ford Foundation, Alinsky, LEAA and fascist ends Rockefeller desires. (1) The example of "war

allied undercover operations, a "community control of neurosis" as a model for developing sophisticated

the police" demogogic project was pushed through methods of inducing desired forms of neurotic and"radical organizer" agents at the same time that the psychotic states in both individuals (brainwashing) and

LEAA, pushing a model developed under "Rees's per- controlled groups. (2) The use of the basic neuroticsonal supervision (!), were proposing the Gestapo system mechanism of mother-image domination and "mother's

of "auxiliary police," "townwatchers," "blockwatch- fears" as the key to the dynamic approach to stress-ers," not accidentally along essentially the same lines of induced neurotic or psychotic forms of "belief system"

design as the CIA's "Vietnam Hamlet" and "Operation modification and "attitude change." (3) The concentra-Phoenix" models, tion of psychological terror in "attack therapy" itself

upon those particular forms of"anal fears" identified asThrough such a massive LEAA-controUed Gestapo- characteristic of each national-cultural grouping.

imitating penetration of the ghettos, with the help of The general applicability of each of these aspects of

some NAACP branches, the Socialist Workers Party, the approach to the fascist result can be summarilyetc., the ghettos were efficiently turned into a controlled described as follows.

environment, in which there was no longer any possi- "'WarNeurosis. " Under the strain of what appearsbility for a hiding-place from the massive system of to be "infinitely extended" pain or stress[56], the victimLEAA para-police forces and informers. Only the tends to make the unendurable tolerable by what can beGestapo's block informer system in Nazi Germany can broadly termed disassociation. The mind retreats, by one

be directly compared with these features of the LEAA"s trick or another, from knowledge of the stress or pain"community relations" and "high impact crime area" which it regards as otherwise unendurable. (Psycho-

operations, tropic types of pain-ameliorating drugs work on this

With illegal LEAA terror thus able to seize him (and principle.)

even capriciously murder him) with impunity in the The primary neurotic mechanism for so disassociatingghetto, and FBI assistance in herding the selected victim the victims's self-awareness from the stress is reaction

of "black nationalism" back to his "native ghetto formation. This is crudely illustrated for our present

jungle" if he attempts to move away from it, most black purposes by reference to what might be termed the

ghetto youth today have no hope of escaping brain- "Bettelheim syndrome," the common experience fromwashing unless the criminals of the New York Times, the inmate of the Nazi concentration camp in which the

the criminals of the liberal community generally, and the victim of psychological stress identified with the SS

criminals of most of the U.S. left, stop covering up the guards. For example, a brainwashed ex-socialist, whoseLEAA's systematic terrorizing and brainwashing of induced psychotic state has been brought on through

those victims in the name of "local community control." terror of illegal police action, will reflect this terror as a

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psychotic's reaction formation by telephoning the police operating neurotic fears unwittingly exploited by the SSor FBI (or both) for rescue from the company of his or system as the type of anal fears most common in Germanher former comrades! (In fact, such appeals to police culture. The post-war British and U.S. administration of

-agencies are among the most conclusive clinical proofs occupied and post-occupation West Germany was in-that the induced psychotic state is -- in the USA -- creasingly premised upon the Tavistock designs for play-LEAA-performed or directed brainwashing.) ing upon those neurotic susceptibilities of Germans.

In this induced state, the individual's developed sense Similar studies were made of the French ideology's

of identity is in effect "turned off," and a pseudo- preoccupations with anal fears. Etc.iderttity is Iormed. The time required for brainwashing There is no doubt of the clinical competence of thean individual is determined by the lapsed time required, Tavistock researches in this respect. Independent clin-

in that particular case for the particular program used, ieal work by the Labor Committees confirms both thatto accumulate a nest of individual reaction formations to anal-related fears are among the most fundamental to be

the point that a pseudo-identity based on such a nested overcome by the individual, and that the dynamic formssystem leaps into being. Up to that point, the effect of of these fears to tend to vary significantly among so-brainwashing will be essentially an increasing number of called national cultures and their sub-cultures. Analreaction-formation-type disturbances. These may be fears are not only explicably most intense among U.S.manifest or semi-repressed; as the brainwashed state blacks (who are certainly often enough treated like shit

approaches, through successive treatments, the restive- by both the society generally and the black ghettoness of repressed reaction-formations bursts out as a community itself), but the inhuman monsters of U.S.complete system of pseudo-identity, behavioral modification programs have spared no effect

In the use of "genetically-allied" methods for beha- to play upon those fears in the "nigger in the jungle"vioral modification and attitude change among small themes of brainwashing directed against black ghetto

groups (all "small-group" sociologists are suspect until youth.

proven otherwise --7 for the strongest prima facie In short, it is the Tavistock fascists' concentrationreasons), it is the shared reaction formation trait among upon the fears associated with the pseudo-mother withinthe members of the group which makes the induced the neurotic victim, and playing upon anal psycho!ogicalbehavioral response mutually reinforcing without the fears most emphatically, which is the main thrust of theneed for individual brainwashing per se to accomplish brainwasher's "attack therapy" within the police-createdthat control. In all instances, individual brainwashing or aversive controlled environment. In this matter, there is

Reesian "small group" control, the essential method only a difference of degree between the specific quali-employed is measured use of the techniques adduced tative result known as brainwashing and the ideologicalfrom clinical studies of the inducing of "war neurosis" molding of the imminently or actually fascist "local

among victims, community control."Mother's Fears. The essential psychoneurotic

susceptibility upon which all Reesian fascist methods

play most emphatically is the direct correspondence 6. THE CIA ESTABLISHMENT ASANAZI S.S.between an infantile intensification of mother's fears [57]and the victim's increased proclivity to locate his social The Rockefeller-dominated CIA establishment weidentity in immediate small-group surrogates for a have outlined here is a creation of the Tavistock Insti-mother-centered "family." tute, under the direction of Brigadier Dr. John Rawlings

Ironically, unless the victim's actual mother is a Rees. It is not accidental that the emerging result of apsychotic or vicious psychopath, the result of behavioral quarter-century's development of this establishmentmodification brainwashing programs must be to break coincides so exactly with the shape of the Nazi SS wasoff active relations with the natural mother. The control assuming during the last years of the Hitler regime. Rees

of the brainwashed individual's personality (the pseudo- et al. consciously adopted the SS as their reference model

identity) is not located in the relationship to the natural for construction of the presently emerging Anglo-Ameri-mother, but in the dependency upon a fictitious "mother can Rockefeller brand Mark II version.who is not a mother" the Old Lady of Langley. This The principle features to be noted for immediate

pseudo-mother is a modified version of the mother- comparison of the two models, the Nazi Mark I andimage of the victim's pre-brainwashed state, a witch- Rockefeller Mark II, are as follows:figure made more horrible than that of the worst night-mare images of most ordinary mere neurotics.[S8] (1) Anti-collect&ism: cultural relativist counterposi-

Anal Fears. The Tavistock studies of the Nazi SS by tion of the distinct"natural" belief system and prop-

Dicks and others [59] located the most important of the erly autonomous self-interests of the small com-

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munity group to any "elitist" effort to "super, fascism,mustbe asserted. The Labor Committees, as theimpose" a common material and class interest upon only conscious force in North America thus far aware ofthe masses. I.e., the fascist sociological practice and the truth of the situation, provide this objective, poSen-ideology of "local community control." tial reality of the masses its only available means for con-

(2) "Back To Nature:" Rejection of an industrial scious self-organization and self-expression. If the Labordevelopment-correlated expansion of the material Committees succeed in performing that role, Rocke-conditions of life in favor of a "Volksgemeinschaft" feller's plot is doomed and humanity saved. If the Laborreturn to the "natural, good way of life" of the small Committees are crushed, that critical, if seemingly smallvillage of our "urban stress-free" forefathers (e.g., event, is the appropriate moment for the rest ofthe fascist ideology of "post-industrial society"), humanity to shoot itself: if we are crushed there will be

no huma_a race during the remaining last decades of the(3) Replacement of the Wehrmacht by the Warren present century.SS: The "Special Forces" takeover of regular mili-tary operations and Organization. The Rockefeller fascist CIA establishment is no myth.

It is a hideous reality, which if faced as reality, can be/ (4) The SS As a Flexible Response Force (e.g., wipedoffthefaceoftheearth. Ifthatrealityisnotfaced,

Waffen SS, SD Gestapo) subsuming the tasks ofand soon, everything else you do, everything you aspire

political administration and economic management.to, every hope of human happiness, every hope for your

(5) Mobilization for Clean-Cut Disciplined, Elite children, is all stinking dishwater. It is the RockefellerForce to Replace ',Corruption-Ridden" Elective family or you; there is no sane Third Camp.Agencies (Presidency, Congress, etc.) and "Corrupt"

Traditional Police Forces: This is, of course, the It is not really to be considered remarkable that theclassical fascist rationale for police-state rule. Labor Committees are the first, and so far the only

organization to either recognize the current world situa-Most of the apparatus Rockefeller has developed to tion or to competently assess the mechanisms and anti-

accomplish this fascist takeover of the United Kingdom dotes respecting Reesian psychodynamics. The essentialand North America is in place, virtually prepared to take distinction between a psychoneurotic and sane individualover. In both the USA and Great Britain, the nominal under capitalism is the distinction between the diseasedpotential major force of resistance to fascism, the class-in-itself ideology of the worker as a willing, if some-organized labor movement, is not only demoralized by times militant capitalist subject, and the class-for-itselfsuch antics as Phases I, II, III, and IV, but the majority outlook of the sane revolutionary. [60] It is the Laborof trade-union leaders is firmly entrenched inside Rocke- Committees' self-organization around the class-for-itself

feller's fascist establishment, as the result of the success- outlook, the location of personal identity in that outlook,ful conduct Of the "Cold War" witchhunt conducted in which has both given our organization the unusual powerthis country, to reject and resist Reesian tactics and to develop that

Reali_, as objectively expressed by the masses of overview in the realm of sanity from which vantage-pointworking people and their self-interests, and the fact that to analyze the Reesian outlook (and the general class-in-"the masses of others also do not wish to be subject to itself outlook) for the insanity it represents in its victims.

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Low Intensity Operations: by M MinnicinoThe ReesianTheory of War

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Rockefeller-CIA and the Rees network have spent overthit'ty years completely re-shaping capitalist armies tomake them capable of such naked rule, knowing that it 'is, finally, "the armed body of men" upon which class

rule depends, and realizing that someday such armies

would have to exercise their true function openly.

I. INTRODUCTION The Rockefeller forces, because they have made theReesian method and network the major portion of their

With the discovery and extensive de-programming of arsenal, must now be fully committed to that method

Christopher White during the first week of this year, the and network if they are to survive in much the same wayLabor Committees picked up the threads of a conspiracy a section of German capital had to move (with the un-

against the working class, led by the Rockefeller faction pleasant contingency of Hitlerism) if it was to obtainof international capital and using the techniques necessary economic measures proposed by the formerdeveloped by Dr. John Rawlings Rees of the Tavistock Weimar banker Schacht.Clinic in Britain. Since that time, the Labor Committees Unlike Hitlerism, Reesian methods rely, completely ._

internationally have been primarily engaged in exposing and consciously, on the destruction of the mental life of

the capabilities and extent of this network, and in world society and a forced march into universal sadism.building the working-class forces necessary for its syste- And from this, there can be no further contingency.matic destruction. To refuse to completely neutralize this Our purpose here is to expose the development of the :

network, which is in this period the conspiratorial Reesianmethod, the formation of the Tavistock network

vanguard of capitalist fighting forces, is to ensure the and its takeover of the British armed forces. Thefinal defeat of the working class, complete deployment of the Tavistock network, and the

This network is designed, fundamentally, to maintain story of the full utilization of it by the Rockefeller forcesclass rule, to whatever level of viciousness demanded by and their CIA is demonstrated elsewhere. [2] Since the

capitalist economic necessity, by means of mass persua- war, the British military, under the direction of the Tavi-

sive techniques capable of the irreversible destruction of stock network and the CIA, have been in the forefront ofthe creativity of the working class and the re-shaping of refining the Reesian theory of war, for years known asworkers' behavior into the appropriate machine-like _ "counter-insurgency," and are now using those refine-

patterns, without the development of new ideological ments to bring fascist military rule to England. As wefoii_,s such as fascism. Since the 1930's, John Rees and shall show, under Rees counter-insurgency became not a

the small circle of psychiatrists around him, with Rocke- fight against "insurgents," but a testing ground for newfeller money, had consciously developed that capability, forms of institutionalized psychological control at the

and, by 1946, had sold, literally, that capability and the behest of the Rockefellers. The most advanced of these

growing network to implement it to the Rockefeller forms, now known by the "more appropriate, morefaction of American capital, positive title, "low intensity operations," is now being

The Tavistock network and the Reesian method -- brought home to Western Europe and North America.

that the class war should be waged with "weapons [that] _

affect morale more than they take life"[1] u has II. THE SHAPING OF JOHN REES t

become, in the post-war period, the primary "weaponssystem" of the Rockefeller forces, including their own The genesis of John Rees' ideas and his motivation for

covert arm, the Central Intelligence Agency. With the building the Tavistock network was, like Hitler's, not irecognition of the beginning of a capitalist breakdown profound. It would be an injustice to even say that such

cycle, the Rockefeller-CIA faction has mobilized the ideas sprang from some perversion of the science of psy-

Rees network along with all its other forces to implement chology, in spite of the fact that Rees would use therates of accumulation, at least on the order of those psychological profession to build his conspiracy. Rees'

implemented by Nazi Finance Minister Hjalmar sociology never transcended the gutter variety peddled bySchacht, globally, under direct military rule. the turn-of-the-century academic apologists for British

That is the capitalist economic necessity. There will be imperialism, who had gained a short period of hegemony _i

no ideological cover like Hitlerism to soften the horrors at universities like Cambridge where Rees had studied.

of direct military takeover in the advanced capitalist These men had sought to justify English colonialism withsector, for it is believed that if the psychological on- weird mistures of scientific fact and inane eighteenth-

slaught that Rees has prescribed is successful, then none century stereotype, claiming, in short, that it waswill be necessary. It is in part for this reason, that the "genetically" necessary that sturdy English stock rule_

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i_over the congenitally helpless, darker races. Such The Rockefellers and the Fords, particularly, becametht_xrics, like eugenics, and the other so-called "race masters at the controlled development of the "new"

_iel_,S" had dropped out of academic prominence by working class, _'mobilizing and funding a number of

the 1930's, but were kept alive, somewhat artificially, by scientific initiatives for their purposes. This process wasthe Nazi theoreticians and the numerous ruling class not unknown to many Marxist theorists of the period.

sympathize_ of the British fascist, Sir Oswald Moseley. The Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci, reflecting onhi 1945, in the fullest single statement of his world the ravages against the American worker caused by the

presented in his book, The Shaping of Psychiatry By methods of one of these Ford and Rockefeller-funded

War, Rees indicates that he had not dropped this "scientists," the speed-up specialist Frederick Taylor,Imt_ldo-xlentific racialism to which he had been ex- claimed that the very purpose of American society had

jmsed. Rather, he had made it fundamental. Society, becomestates Recs in 1945, is composed of layers, starting at thebottom with a "psychopathological tenth" of the popula- developing in the worker to the highest degree automatictkm which is "constitutionally inferior," with the rest of mechanical attitudes, breaking up the old psycho-physical

the htyers differentiated functionally by increasing levels nexus of qualified professional work, which demands aOf talent and lack of neurosis. This bottom, neurotic certain active participation of intelligence, fantasy, and

initiative on the.part of the worker, and reducing produc-_,tenth is made up of what Rees calls, simply, "dullards," tive operations exclusively to the mechanical, physical_alld includes, unfortunately, a large percentage of the aspect. But these things, in reality, are not original nor"coloured" population. [3] noveh they represent simply the most recent phase of a long

"Aklous Huxley in his _book The Brave New World was process which began with industrialism itself. This phase ispinning to produce a section of subnormal men who more intense than preceding phases, and manifests itself inwould do the dull jobs of the community: we really don't more brutal forms... A forced selection will ineluctably

to produce them for there are too many already." [4] take place; a part of the old working class will be pitilesslyeliminated from the world of labor, and perhaps from the

Obviously, such beliefs had nothing to do with the world. [Emphasis added] [5]' psychiatric methods that Rees would study after his/iKrvice as a medical officer in the First World War. Our It has been demonstrated elsewhere that the Rocke-

!i_problem is that Rees used his understanding of psychi- " feller family took the lead in fostering the growth of such:latch: methods to formulate and implement an action selection procedures, •particularly in the so-called child

i!:Pr°gram based upon such beliefs. The task of psychi- guidance, and industrial health movements. There musti_:atry, if it is to be practical for Rees, is the "proper have been a fairly deep collaboration between Rees and_ollneation of skills." Psychiatrists, he suggests, are the Rockefeller Foundation in this area by the 1930's.[6]

capable of dete_iiiining the neurotic "map" of each What Rees developed over and above the other scientific

i :liational sector, and, based on this study, can set up a collaborators of Rockefeller was the logical organi-

_"flitering" mechanism to select out the various neurotic zational correlative of his bestialized, psychological!:t'_ and place them in their appropriate skill, practice._: With such selection techniques, dullards, who are only "If we propose to come out into the open," he said to a

i_i_strated because of their consistent failure, can be group of U.S. Army psychiatrists in 1945, "and to attack

Channelled into simple tasks and the happy fellowship of the social and national problems of our day, then we_hcr dullards. Those who are capable of the highest must have shock troops and these cannot be provided byhltell_'tual functions will be allowed to do so unen- psychiatry based wholly in institutions. We must have

cumbered with inferior types-- a truly happy mental life mobile teams of psychiatrists who are free to move

for sneiety.• around and make contacts with the local situation inIt sh0uld be noted that even Rees' broad psycho-social their particular area."[7]

theories were not terribly new. Since the pre-World War Rees' logic is tortured but clear. For true mental

i ! period, capitalists, particularly the Americans, had health, there must be a complete transfottiiation of

understood,_that if re.ore profit was to be had from the society along the lines of rational selection. Unfortu-_ modes _productlon of the Twentieth Century, then nately, many don't see reality this way, including most

! prolo_sive reforms which capital could then afford had workers who believe that "any method of selection is a

to b¢ used to upgrade the standard of living of the mechanism by which the wicked capitalist aims to get? Wolrkittgclass. However, it was quickly realized that the more Work out of the worker, and that argument dies

wprodtbe of such rcfoii_is could easily let loose revolu- hard."[8] In the Reesian world-view, such nay-sayers,_ tio_ry potential within the working class, and, there- along with anyone who engages in "strikes" or "Subver-

_fore, such initiatives would have to be tightly controll_l, sive activity," are themselves neurotic, desperately in

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need of treatment, but unfortunately unable to see that niques here to prelude the discussion of his wartimethey are ill. In such a world of unwitting neurotics, activities. As one of Rees' collaborators slyly put it: "Ifpsychiatry, the only arbiter of sanity, can be exercised J.R. Rees was not a giant in original contribution .... heonly by a cabal "in every country, groups of psychi- was certainly a man keenly and generously interested inatrists, linked to each other" prepared to muster all their applying the results of other peoples' work." [1i] Underweapons and influence for a move "into the political and Rees, the Tavistock Clinic pioneered work in abreactiongovernmental field." theory using electroconvulsive shock and barbiturates.

Only a conspiracy of psychiatrists -- as Rees meant The clinical evidence from the de-programming of Chriswhen he spoke of his "mission" could build a society White indicated that the reversal of abreaetion -- the use"where it is possible for people of every social group to of shock, hypnosis, and drugs to induce new, perhapshave treatment when they need it, even when they do not traumatic, memories -- is the technique needed towish it, without the necessity to invoke the law [emphasis perform a first-class "Pavlovian' I : brainwashing job.added]."[9] The construction of that cabal became what Rees' praise for abreactive techniques remained bound-Rees himself would call his lifelong "mission." less, and he later referred to abreaction with shock as

It should thus be clear that Rees' view of psychiatry being as effective as "psychosurgery."is itself essentially uninvolved with actual psychiatric This would also suggest why Rees recruited the youngmethod of therapy. The Reesian world-view is in fact no Eric Trist to Tavistock and quickly catapulted him intodifferent from that of the psychopathological bourgeois the highest echelons of that institution. Trist, presentlydesperately in need of a magical "handle" with which to head of the Tavistock operation on the East Coast of themanipulate the terrifying forces of the outside world. U.S., was picked up by Rees in 1940 while the formerRees' not-so-fundamental discovery was, crudely put, was researching drug and hypnosis-induced abreactionthat psychiatric methods could be reversed, to the effect at an English hospital as a Rockefeller Foundationthat techniques used to liberate the mind from the para- Medical Fellow.site of psychosis could be used to induce controllable The other work that "keenly and generously in-

forms of neurotic or psychotic behavior. [10] terested" Rees was the, then new, developments in group

The history of the Tavistock network details Rees' therapy. It is clear that Rees exploited the work of W.R.overwhelming need to manipulate. Even before Rees had Bion, whom Rees brought to Tavistock to personallyfully articulated conspiratorial theory, the evidence of his supervise the group sessions that Rees made mandatoryneurosis is rich. In the early 1930's, he flexed his growing for the staff, for all its potential for manipulation.powers in psychological manipulation to obtain his first As a specialist in family welfare for the British govern-coup, the directorship of the Tavistock Clinic. Hugh merit in the 1920's and 1930's, Rees had understood thatCritchton-Miller, the founder of the Tavistock Clinic in the family was the most powerful psycho-active agent

1921, and the doctor who taught the young Rees psychi- this side of electroshock. Indeed, in the so-called Rocke-atry, had, by 1931, become too resistent to Rees' ideas feller Memorandum of 1946 in which Rees offered theabout "practical" psychiatry. In retaliation Rees started Tavistock network to Rockefeller as his psywar brain-a rumor campaign throughout the younger doctors at the trust, Rees' sales pitch revolves around the claim that theclinic about Critchton-Miller's methods until the staff network was able to determine "the relations of domestic

was calling Critchton-Miller a "butcher" to his face. In and nursery culture to later political and economic1932, the older doctor had a breakdown and was unani- behaviour on a large scale."[12] Bion's "therapeutic

mously replaced as Medical Director by John Rees. groups" provided the opportunity to tap the power of theTo cement his hold over the Clinic in preparation for family.

the changes he would make, Rees introduced "collec- A skilled group leader (even in the so-called "leader-tivism," demanding that publications by staff members less" variefy) can use the group to create a powerful,had to be collectively approved, and, at one point, that albeit artificial, "family" environment. Once this en-the physicians actually pool their salaries. This from a vironment is induced, it is possible for the therapist, forman who readily stated that his view of socialism had not example, to manipulate a member of the group, not by achanged appreciably since his service as the chief direct attack, but by subtly manipulating (with "sugges-medical officer for the British Army anti-Bolshevik tions," perhaps)the other members of the group, If theexpedition to Baku after the First World Warl victim has been sucked into thinking of the g_oup as

By the second half of the 1930's, Rees had put such some'thing warm and helpful (motherly), then, when thatvicious parlor games on a rigorous basis. While we in- environment has been manipulated to turn against him,tend to explore Reesian psywar theories in depth in the it will tend to have the impact of deep motherly rejection.final section, it will be necessary to outline Rees' tech- Furthermore, if the victim is not completelY aware of the

Chart A TAVISTOCK CLINIC

• I J.R. Rees(Director) IIH.V.Dicks (Assistant) I 'JM. Luff (Assistant) J

Caldliql hyddetrbt, tud_, ReesbecomesComultlql hyc_t G.R. Hargreavesbecomescommend Tovistockerimakeupmast of Staff ofC_ (1939) -- H.V. Dicks to the Amy At Heale (1938) psychiatristto GeneralAdam. 41d General geal_lof (1939)

I experiments in pentothal and

hypnosis.

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therapists' chain of manipulations, he will tend to inter- persuaded to take Hargreaves on as his Command

nalize their result, thinking that he himself is responsible Psychiatrist.. Rees used his new leverage to have Adamfor this new awareness about himself, create the Directorate of A[my Psychiatry, which Rees

As we shall demonstrate later, the essence of Reesian ran through a transparent front man, Hugh Sandiford,psywar techniques on a mass scale is to rely upon the sel- an old army buddy of Rees.ective manipulation of key factors in the environment, With one foot in the British General Staff, Rees began

such that the individual tends to believe that the "whole recruiting the hand-picked, first squad of his cabal fromworld is falling apart" and there is only himself to blame, around the Commonwealth. Rees demanded that "the

It will suffice for now to note that Rees understood team" meet regularly for informal sessions at which Reesthrough his group work that manipulation based upon and Bion were usually present. In characteristic Tavi-

bourgeois conception of the outside world as magical stock cover-story style, a member of the "invisible

(what Marcus identified as "mother's fears"[13],) was college" -- as Rees dubbed the team -- described thefundamental to mass control, course of the sessions:

It should be noted, collaterally, that Rees deeply culti-vated his image as a warm, plump, smiling mother (as all It was remarkable how, without my design, our interest

of his devoted biographers portray him), especially in the seemed to shift from reporting on individual morbid condi-mandatory group situations. Rees' incessant use of these tions or cases to considering the larger problems of war and

of human relations, and nature of hostility, the state oftechniques at all levels may explain the savage "team civilization...which were to be very much reflected in thespirit" (not unlike the present CIA's) of Rees' Tavistock philosophy, first of the army psychiatric service, anti latercollaborators. In any case, it is confirmed that Tavistock on in our post-war planning and policies. [Emphasisused these group techniques as the basis for their work added] [16]against industrial workers. (See Freem_in article nextissue.) As our schematic shows, Rees deployed members of

By 1938, Rees began to build his cabal in earnest, the "invisible college" as Command Psychiatrists to the

realizing that England was being put on a military foot- Commanding Officers of every major British Army Unit.

ing and that the "army and the other fighting services Rees relates with undisguised glee how his men overcameform rather unique experimental groups since they are the "anxiety" of commanders who suddenly found

complete communities, and it is possible to arrange medical men assigned to their staffs and in charge of theexperiments in a way that would be very difficult in morale of their men. "I have no difficulties," said acivilian life." [14] To seriously test its ideas in social Corps General in Burma who the Reesians had "over-

control, Rees proposed, Tavistock would simply have to come." "If anything disturbing arises I send my psychi-

take over the British Army. Rees' successful attempt at atfist down there and he puts it all fight. He is one of thethis takeover was so methodical, that it is reproduceabie busiest men on my staff."[17] The "morale" work of thein schematic form (see Chart A). "college" was largely a cover for the initial work in the

Rees used his connections with certain "foremost areas to which they were assigned on the national

sound men of finance" whom he had studiously flattered ideologies that Rees had demanded as a preliminary for

with Honorary Treasurerships at Tavistock, to obtain the competent world selection.position of Consulting Psychiatrist to the Aimy at Home Throughout the war, Rees and his team pushed in-

in 1938, itself a somewhat honorific position with the cessantly for selection techniques, and through his influ-Army Medical College carrying little power. "It was no ence over General Adam and an increasing number of

good being based in the Ai:my Medical College," notes General officers he was largely successful. By 1942, ReesRees. "I had to be in the War Office itself, where I could had induced the British General Staff and the War

have readier access to key people and to the Adjutant- Office to begin an Experimental War Office SelectionGeneral's department, which was concerned with man- Board to screen a small number of officer candidates.

power and the other branches of the central organiza- While the Board was nominally run by Regular Army

tion."[15] How Rees gained entrance to the Adjutant- officers (both of whom, incidently, began to go toGeneralcy is illustrative of his scientific method. "invisible college" meetings), Tavistockers held firm

Knowing from the honorary Chairman of the Tavistock control including Bion, a tank officer in the First War,

Council, Lord Alness, then Emergency Regional J.D. Sutherland, and young "Rocky" Trist.Commissioner for Scotland, that a certain Sir Ronald By late that year, the Experimental Board became theAdam was soon to be posted as Adjutant-General, Rees Research and Training Centre as War Office Selection

had a close Tavistock associate, G.R. Hargreaves, bone Boards proliferated throughout England and the rest ofup on military history sufficient for bantering with the the Commonwealth. Almost all the boards included

stodgy Adam. The impressed General Adam was then heavy Tavistock representation. By the end of the war,

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most British officer candidates and many enlisted men there began after 1940 a close working relationshiphad their psychological profiles noted by Reesian psychi- between the Tavistock crew and SOE H.V. Dicks, Rees'

atrists in the Boards. aide de camp at Tavistock and assistant on the HessIn Canada, Rees' selection techniques were made uni- case, was seconded to the Directorate of Military Intelli-

versal under the Canadian Army Director of Personnel, gence on a semi-permanent basis. It was through DicksBrigadier Brock Chisholm, a close personal friend of that Reesian methods of selection and of psychological

Rees. Chisholm, later to be the first Director-General of warfare became hegemonic in the American Office ofthe UN's World Health Organization, was also the first Strategic Services (OSS), and eventually in all Allied

to implement Rees' idea that infantry squads should be psychological warfare and intelligence planninggrouped by intelligence. Chisholm's and Rees' work in bodies. (See Cuskie article, next issue.)

Canada was successful enough for Rees to later hope that What is of importance is that Rees used Military"perhaps the Canadian reception centres stand out as Intelligence to further his selection techniques. Throughthe most interesting foretaste of what might be done in SOE Rees had units called British Collecting Centres

civilian life." [18] attached to German POW camps in Britain and Canada.Rees used every possibility to extend and deepen the Using the original work done on Hess, Dicks, wllo

hegemony of selection. As the war ground down after commanded the Centres, developed a set of psychiatric

1944, Rees began shifting personnel from the Selection criteria to screen incoming prisoners. While the CentresBoards to another of his projects, the Civil Resettlement did perform their nominal function of gathering data to

Scheme (sic). With the Resettlement Scheme, Rees be later used in propaganda against German troops,

began testing what he hoped selection might lead to. All Dicks' actual purpose was to test the control aspect ofEnglish prisoners of war returning from liberated POW the selection criteria. [21] Dicks used his system to select

camps in Europe were ordered to volunteer for a short out "weak ego" types, who were then subjected to Bion-stay in centers staffed exclusively by Tavistockers before style group indoctrination. The best were parachuted

being discharged. In addition to having their psycho- back into Germany as agents of the SOE, the rest were

logical profiles typed, these men underwent Bion's group used as infoh_ers and operators to maintain control oftherapy, where suggestions were made as to where each the rest of the POW's for the British.should live and what line of work each should take up. The Collecting Centres were themselves only a test

Aftercare was provided to monitor if thesuggestionswere phase for the work Military Intelligence would later

followed.J19] Rees planned to have the Scheme ex- perform at the Selection Center in Bad Oeyenhausen inpanded to all returning army personnel under the aegis the British Zone of Occupied Get_any. Advised byof the Ministry of Labour, but with the end of the war Dicks and commanded by Col. Dick Rendal, a long-time

and the new Labour Party government, his influence member of the "invisible college" at Tavistock, thewaned a lesson that Rees would not forget -- and the Selection Centre used "De-nazification" as the cover to

program was scrapped. "pick non-Nazi future leaders and administrators amongRees' British resettlement work, though mildly un- Germans."[22] We must assume that by 1947, British

democratic, looks hardly ominous. The nature of Intelligence and its American counterpart had Reesian

Reesian selection and resettlement as a control function psychological profiles of most if not all P0tentia! politicalis more striking in Tavistock's work on the German and trade union leaders of the post-war generation of

ideology. Rees himself took up the German work in Germans. What _"shaping" went on at the Centre andearnest in 1940, when he was invited to head the psychi- who the "informants" were is not yet known, but a major

attic examination of Rudolf Hess, Hitler's Deputy Labor Committee research project has been launched inFuehrer, for the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI- this area which, when the details are clear, should make

6). Not without irony, Rees notes that his patient's for an interesting re-write of German post-war history.ideology stemmed from his university study of the very The question whether the Rees network controlled therace science and geo-political theories that had so shaped British Army is, by 1945, to a certain extent immaterial.

Rees himself. Hess, though definitely insane by this The subsuming features of the history of the Secondtime, was dimly aware of his doctor's proclivities. The World War were determined by the interplay of class

ghost writer of Hitler's theory book, Mein Kampf, Hess forces, and this is brightly reflected in the manner in

pleaded that Brigadier Rees was the only psychiatrist which the decisions of the Allied policy-makers werewho understood him. [20] based overwhelmingly on their fear of the European and

The Special Operations Executive (SOE), the section American working class, and the energizing effect that

of British intelligence in charge of clandestine opera- the Soviet Union might have on these workers. But it istions, was sufficiently impressed with Rees' work that equally undeniable that John Rees was seriousl, organiz-

"If anything disturbing arises I send mypsychiatrist down there and he puts itright. He is one of the busiest men onmy staff."

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...._' Dr. Nathan Kline pauses at the pyramids during a 1962Middle East "trip".

ing a cabal to take over "the counciis of those who are "Fortunately," says Rees in 1945, "the concepts of aattempting to re-establish the world" after the police war and of killing as an almost 'surgical' necessity

war.[23] Rees organized his cabal according to his have been accepted very much more widely than in

public dictum: we are not large but well-placed. [24] earlier days." And later: "Wars are not won by killing

That is, Rees had a rudimentary understanding of the one's opponents but by undermining or destroying hisorganizing principle of "hegemony" -- organizing key morale whilst maintaining one's own."[25]

individuals who will in turn spread ideas and influence. While it is probable that the RockefeUers had a rudi-The way in which Rees took complete hegemony over the mentary understanding of psychological war which theymental health profession after the war, without recruit- inherited from their wily father John, their modern

ing more than a handful of its many thousands of prac- concept of it came from Rees by way of Tavistock'stitioners, is exemplary. We have also demonstrated, responsibility for training OSS and the Allied Psywarespecially in the case of the army, how Rees was not Division. In 1946, this relationship was formalized in the

bothered with scruples when he needed to capture a key "Rockefeller Memorandum," in which Rees exposed the

individual. Indeed, he rather thrived on manipulation, full depths of his cabal and offered it to the family. The

and was not above actual clinical foiJ_s of psychosomatic Rockefeller Foundation, which had been heavily funding

"brainwashing." Tavistock and Tavistock members since 1934, readilyWe know from Cuskie's work (nextissue) that during accepted, and the Tavistock Clinic was transformed into

the same period a similar cabal formation was beginning the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations. After he

to coalesce around the Rockefeller faction of American accomplished a couple of purges at Tavistock to clear thecapital and that faction's covert apparatus within the way for the Institute, Rees, in classic espionage style,OSS. What that faction and its OSS turned into is now engineered a disagreement with the staff to have a pre-cl_ar, as is the fact that they scrupulously used Rees'

text for resigning.ideas almost as soon as they were expostulated. Bluntly,both the Rockefeller forces and the Rees network formu- By 1948, Rees had developed a new cover story as

lated plans during the war years to maximize their president of the World Federation of Mental Health, acontrol of the world. The former saw these plans as a United Nations pressure group which he built upon the

matter of capitalist necessity, and made ready to wage an remains of an old Rockefeller front group, the Inter-

unceasing economic war capable of enthralling Europe national Committee for Mental Hygiene, and used it toand the Third World to the post-war Dollar Empire. travel around the world setting up covert operations for

Rees, as we have shown, was motivated by a more the Rockefellers and their CIA.[26]

vicious, neurotic ideological reflection of that capitalist It is possible for us to'break off here the discussion ofnecessity, and approached the coming battles from a the formal development of the Rees network. Its hideous

slightly different angle, deployment at the hands of the Rockefellers and the

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CIA in the subversion of the world labor movement is provides us with evidence of the growing hegemony of

adequately handled elsewhere (see Cuskie, Freeman), as Reesian methods among Rockefeller planners, and how

is the clinical brainwashing network which is its those methods themselves were shaped by capitalist"medical" corps. [27] We shall now confne ourselves to circumstances.

key points of development of the Rees-Rockefeller theory By that year the sides were beginning to form aroundof psychological control, the question of what would be done with the soon-to-be-

As we have noted, Rees realized that war and other defeated Germany. Henry Morgenthau, Jr., the vora-

crises easily provided him with both the leverage and the ciously anti-communist Secretary of the Treasury under

opportunity to test, and in some cases, implement his FDR, was the first to articulate a position. The Morgen-control mechanisms. Indeed, it was and is standard tlaau Plan, in outline, called for the expansion of the

operating procedure at post-war Tavistock to send concentration camp system to include the whole country!

"flying squads" to war-torn areas and disaster sites, in Germany must be "pastoralized," he demanded its

hopes of gleaning a little more knowledge of how people industrial capacity in the Ruhr and Rhine regions mustcan be manipulated while under stress. This cohered be either dismantled or internationalized under the aegisquickly with the theory of the Rockefeller faction of the of the UN, and German workers must be forced to work

American policy-makers and their CIA. Wherever class under starvation wages at light industry and agri-forces made it feasible, they would attempt a military culture. [28] Only in this way, Morgenthau reasoned,

solution short of world war to stop the Soviet Union and would the Allies.be able to stop the Soviet Union.

"the spread of communism." Germany, for Morgenthau, posed a two-fold problem:During the war, under the direct influence of Rees, if Germany was allowed to re-grow into a mighty indus-

these policy-makers were coming to understand that this trial power not only would she be in competition for the

military solution should be of a covertj.type if possible. Dollar Empire, but she would also necessarily give rise to(See Cuskie.) By the early post-war years, Rockefeller an equally mighty industrial proletariat and a concomi-

and the CIA understood that this covert "uncon- tantly high potential for socialist revolution. The formerventional" or "counterinsurgency" warfare need not be meant that the Soviet Union might be able to break the

limited to countering communist "insurgency," but Dollar stranglehold that Morgenthau hoped would keepcould be used positively to develop governments in the Russians in check, the latter's significance is ob-complete thralldom to the CIA, especially if Reesian vious. Certain that no capitalist could disagree with such

techniques were used. sentiments, Morgenthau convinced Roosevelt, and,

In the post-war period, every major war and social through him, Churchill, of the efficacy oftheplan.

crisis has been used by the Rockefeller-CIA, to whatever By 1947, poor Henry found his plan discarded andextent possible, to refine and implement Reesian control himself in disgrace under a combined attack by the

methods. In the first twenty years after the war, the Departments of War and State, the Supreme Head-

British led this thrust on behalf of American capital, quarters of the Allied Expeditionary Forces (SHAEF),They were placed in this position not only because of the and the Rockefeller faction in the Legislature. [29] As we

deep infiltration and hegemony of Rees in British mill- know from Marcus and Syvriotis [30], the Dollar Empire

tary and ruling circles, but also because the debt-service that Henry envisioned was built, and the Germanof their completely untenable colonial empire could not working class was devastated to the extent that Morgen-

be lost to communism especially as the whole island thau had thought necessary, so much so that there wouldwas already hopelessly in hock to the Americans. The be no significant strike activity in Germany until wellRees and CIA sympathizers within the military provided into the second half of the 1960's. While, admittedly,

an acceptable solution. As we shall show, by the early there was no quarrel with Morgenthau's anti-1960's the locus of the development of psywar control communism in capitalist circles, Henry's view that

had shifted back to its ultimate target, the United States. workers could only be beaten with crude, physical

" weapons was myopic, given the developments of the war.iii. The Shaping of" War By Psychiatry ' The Rocket_ller forces exacted the price for that myopia

from Morgenthau.

As the current war against the working class in the As already notorious, the corporate men that Rocke-Third World, particularly in Brazil, implies; Auschwitz feller and Mellon had seconded to the government as

as an economic concept has never really been discarded, economic warfare specialists for the OSS and the Strate-

In 1944, its utility as a means of accumulation was being gic Bombing Survey had scrupulously avoided the/

debated much more hotly in Allied circles than among destruction of Germany's industrial capacity, in anxiousGerman capitalists and Nazis. The debate actually anticipation of post:war looting. At the same time they

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had made quite sure that the port facilities and transport had imported), supplied them with rot-gut liquor, and'network m that is, the food and materials supply system urged gangs of them to loot and murder Germans. When

m of both the Axis and Getiiian-occupied countries was this phase was sufficiently embedded in workers' minds,

obliterated. It was clear that the purpose was to reduce the refugees themselves were herded back into camps by

the population, not the plants, to rubble. Occupation Forces, and told that they would be shot if,A significant part of the decision to dump Morgen- they tried to escape. After these ex-slaves were suffi-

thau's plan was the understanding of enlightened ciently re-broken, they were allowed to trickle back into

capita_st planners that if this abject condition of a their homelands over the next ten years, though many,quarter of the world's workers was maintained and particularly the Poles, were sent to French and Belgian

manipulated, then their revolutionary potential might be coal mines after they "willingly volunteered to work inbroken in a few short years, and industrial capacity order to eat."[32]

could be maintained. Not only did Rees have input into It was under these conditions that the strike wave that

the monstrous bombing strategists through Kurt Lewin passed through Germany soon after the war -- the last(see Richard Freeman's article in this issue), but Tavi- for many years m was broken. Also contributory to the

stock was also responsible for planning the psychological upsurge's defeat was the Occupation Forces' manipu-

manipulations that the European workers were forced to lation of the food supply, such that workers' caloricendure, intake dropped below the abysmal wartime levels.

The case of Germany is particularly telling. Ger- Generous estimates state that most European workersman workers who had for twelve years endured Nazi were receiving between 1000-2000 calories per day. In

propaganda about the inferiority of Eastern Europeans, some cases, for instance, sections of Greece, an intake ofwere treated to a barrage much more shrill than only 600 calories (the sentence of death within a coupleGoebbels. "The conditions of living of these United of weeks) was imposed.

Nations nationals [Eastern European refugees] shall be After key sections of Europe had been reduced to this

raised to a standard as high as resources allow, without status, military control over food and the resettlement of

consideration of any adverse effect on the living concH- refugees was handed over to the United Nations Relief

tions of the German people" (emphasis added), the ,and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA). Dangling

German people were incessantly told. "Arrangements food in front of desperate workers, UNRRA in somefor alternate accomodations at the earliest possible areas had more power than the military authorities, and

moment, if necessary by transferring Get,_ans from was able to set wages and prices, settle strikes, control

neighboring villages to the concentration camps, should news media. Cabinet member Harriman gleefullybe made."[31] described UNRRA as "one of the most effective weapons

To exacerbate the terror, SHAEF took these refugees at our disposal to influence European political events in

(most of them ex-slave laborers that Schacht's successors the direction we desire and to avoid the development of a

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sphere of influence of the Soviet Union over Eastern period, the Reesian theory of war reached its matureEurope and the Balkans." [42] It is unnecessary that we loire. In addition to being able to perform psychological

go into UNRRA's replacement, in essence, by the profile experiments on a good part of the worldMarshall Plan. especially in the crucial Eastern Bloc, before those

What is important to note is that the Rockefeller countries would be closed to clinicians such as Reesforces that pushed UNRRA, and later the Marshall the Tavistock network was able to make large-scale tests

Pla n, had more than Harriman's simplistic notion of of selection and resettlement methods of mass persua-

su_ programs. Much'ofUNRRA aid, for instance, was sion. Rees hoped it would never end. "The resettlement

•go!ng to countries that had already been ceded to the of the worm and the constant flow of social problems willSoviet Union at the Summit Conferences with Stalin, provide us with unlimited opportunities for attemptinganal "influence" in the form of good will could not have wiser direction [emphasis added]."[37] In fact, Rees

been the only goal. UNRRA's activities in the so-called helped the CIA continue .to select agents out of the"Iron Curtain" countries were, to a large extent, refugee camps until as late as 1959.[38] -

directed at gathering a psychological profile of those In addition, the German occupation experimentscountries under stress. Every bit of contextual evidence under SHAEF and the UNRRA experience helped the

suggests that wherever possible, UNRRA administrators Tavistock and CIA planners add a new weapon to their

manipulated food supplies to select areas not simply for repertoire, food control. The weapon itself was not new.

"disciplinary" purposes, but to test stress factors as Rees As a historian of the post-war period has noted, "Foodha d prescribed, had proven to be a critical political weapon after World

_Rees himself only mentions in 1945, that perhaps ' _ War I, and during the discussions leading to the forma-UNRRA units were pre-eminently suited to gather tion of UNRRA the obvious utility of its serving the same

psychiatric material on national ideologies for later use function came up again."[39] But it would take the

in:b0th selection and psychological warfare[M]. But we Reesian psywar specialists in SHAEF and the OSS-CIA,

aware that he was in a position to do more than who actually programmed the supply of food to exacer- ,suggest. By that time Rees had already sent two Tavi- bate psychological tensions of European workers, to putstockers on'leave to the UNRRA psychological section.. ' food control on a rigorous basis.

UNRR_ executive was itself advised by the Inter, . ,, The post-war European experience had proven to theAllied Study Group which Rees set up immediately after Rockefeller forces and their faction within the CIA, and _'

the war_ The IASG was headed by Dicks, the ranking to most of the British Military Establishment, that eco-

psychiatrist in British Intelligence, and Ed Shils, the top nomic warfare subsumed within a Reesian psywar profile

psywar specialist for the OSS and the OSS's liason man and concerted with other mass persuasion techniques

with the SHAEF Psychological Warfare Division. Not : Was likely the most effective, not to mention eco,

coincidentally0 Dicks was responsible for training Shils nomicaI, form of war. Unfortunately, for these planners,and the rest of SHAEF Psywar in Reesian methods such _[echniques could not be taken to their logical exten-ddring the war. [35] sion in Europe at the time. Attempts 'at full control

_That: UNRRA was deeply involved in testing and would have undoubtedly met with serious resistance

irfiplementing Reesian control techniques is illustrated _ i from the working class, psychologically blasted as it was,readily by the case of Richard Hauser, UNRRA admini- and probably from the Soviet Union. Thus, in the 1950's

strator in Italy in charge of Displaced Persons. most of the Tavistock field agents returned to EnglandHauser, though nominally unconnected with Rees and .... where !hey wrote up their reports of the psychological

the_,Tavistock network, set up a unit in 1945 for ex-fascist capacities of the Eastern l)loc for the CIA think tank, thearmy officers modeled precisely on the selection and RAND Corporation[40], and began testing their

resettlement camp that Rees had developed. Using _methOds on the British labor movement.[41]Bzon's "leaderless group" techniques, he was assigned . Thedynamic of Reesian control techniques was in noto convince the ex-fascists that democracy was an way blunted after the war, but the location of their area

inherently better system than fascism. He was so suc- of operations was shifted to an area more politicallycessful that by 1945, the officers were assigned to be suited to their implementation in fulll War, even psywar,"_structors in democracy" for the Italian Army and is incompetent if it is not aiming for complete victory

Civil Service! [36] For the incredulous, it might be noted, over the enemy. While such victories could not be had in

an_cdotally, that one of Hauser's more recent_pupils was Europe immediately, the weakness of the working class

t_ Kawaida hit-man, Ron Karenga, whom he trained at and the indecisive position of the Soviets in SoutheastSaul Alinsky's Urban Training Center, where he is a Asia and Africa provided ample opportunity for realvisiting instructor, victories over the working class. Such victories

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workers, but also the development of new forms capable - of why or how the CPM decided upon the suicidal courseof sustaining that level of psychological manipulation for of guerrilla warfare in 1948, but we suggest that more

the CIA and Rockefeller. input into that decision came from Lord Mountbatten'sIt is probable, that the decision to use Malaya as the intelligence division than from the Chinese or Soviet

first test case for an advanced Reesian operation was CP's. In addition to controlling the vast British Intelli-

made during the last months of the war. By that point it gence network, within the Malayan movement, Mount-was obvious that nothing could stop the strike wave of batten was responsible for making sure that the wartime

the overwhelmingly pro-communist Malayan labor guerrilla unitswerehopelesslyunder-supplied. However,movement that did indeed sweep the peninsula after in the last months of the war the units were deluged with1945. It was equally clear that any attempt to main- weapons supply drops, in spite of the fact that Japan wastain Malaya as a colony would drive the Malayan bout- about to surrender. The guerrillas, finally well-armed,

geoisie into the popular front against the British, and never were able to engage the Japanese significantly[45],

would hand the peninsula, and the militarily crucial and found themselves confronting only the British.

Straits of Malacca that it controlled, over to the Soviet After the post-war strike wave was brutally crushed byUnion. The workers, not actually the Malayan CP armed British forces, the CPM was easily manipulated into

cadres, were the problem. These armed guerrillas were beginning guerrilla fighting. Though an official state ofalready under the control of British Intelligence, so it emergency was declared in 1948, the British response towas more a matter of utilizing the CPM to unwittingly the fighting was notoriously light until the High Corn-blunt the strike wave and to build a CIA-controlled missioner, Sir Henry Gurney, was assassinated under

Reesian government, suspicious circumstances. Not so strangely, Gurney's

Malaya was actually an easy operation. The Colonial death was timed to occur with Churchill's re-election inPolice's intelligence section, the Special Branch •(which October, 1951. Provided with an excuse for a hard line,

reported not only to the colonial commissioner but also Churchill ordered the unification of civil and militaryto the head of the Security Service, MI-5, in London), control of Malaya under General Sir Gerald Templar,

had been highly active since the 1920's. Special Branch the former Vice Chief of the General Staff.infiltration of the left was so successful by 1930 that the _ With Templar's arrival, the war, if it can be techni-

Comintern representative to the area was picked up after cally called that, was over. Then the Reesian test phaseonly a month of activity, along with all of his top trade began. Rees' techniques for food control, selection, and

union contacts. [42] When the Japanese attacked .in resettlement were implemented with a vengeance. TheDecember, 1941, it was the British Special Branch that rice crop was destroyed, and "food cans were even punc-

proposed to the CPM leadership that they prepare for tured."[46] Food was stored by the government and dis-armed struggle. The entire military leadership of the pensed only at community kitchens. "This technique ofCPM's Malayan Peoples' Anti-Japanese Army was community cooking as a control mechanism was based

trained at Special Training School No. 101, commanded on th'e fact that cooked rice spoils in twenty-four hours inby two officers from the Special Operations Executive. the tropical environment and thus could not be storedxfor

Many of the communist guerrilla units in. the field were any period of_time." [47] Reeling from this quick descentalso commanded by British officers of Force 136, the into near starvation, Malayans were told that it was theSoutheast Asian division of the SOE. [43] fault of the guerrillas, but that they could obtain food by

In addition, the Japanese Occupation Forces con- resettling to a system of "New Villages" that the govern-

tinued this process of infiltration. It was Standard Oper- merit had set up. Over 500,000 Malayans (one-tenth ofating procedure for the Special Techniques section of the the population) were resettled, sometimes by force, to

Security Operations division of the Japanese Army to set the New Villages, but it is obvious that the program wasup Hsueh-Chu-Hui(Cooperation and Assistance Society) more aimed at the additional 650,000 rubber workers

in occupied zones. "The organizational and operational and tin miners who were also resettled. [48]principles of the society were very closely patterned after While the New Villages were nominally underthe work of the Communist Party"[44], and the societies Templar, their functioning was controlled .by Templar's

were usually successful in penetrating the CP's urban Director of Intelligence, John Morton, formerly of MI-5,

underground apparatus. It is likely that, with the and the head of his Information Department, A.D.

capture of extensive documentation of the Japanese Peterson. Peterson had been a colleagu e of Enoch Powellnetwork by the Allies, British Intelligence simply con- while he was the psywar specialist for Mountbatten'stinued to utilize the apparat, as the Allies did with Nazi intelligence section. It is likely that by that time they

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Intelligence officer Gehlen's orgamzatlon, both met Rees, who had himself spent early 1945 ad-No historian has yet come up with a coherent analysis vising Mountbatten on the Burma operation. [49] Mor-

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ton's job, as he himself saw it, was "bringing the the methods from the Reesian masters in the German

nationalist movement to the fore."[50] Morton and occupation.

Peterson used the Villages to profile the population, and The military commander who implemented the tech-

select out the future Malaysian Government and Civil niques, General Sir George Erskine, had been deputyService. Chief of Staff on the Control Commission for Germany,

If our discussion tends to leave out the role of the responsible for civilian food distribution, and, possibly,

guerrilla movement itself, it is because their "inde- Rees' center at Bad Oeyenhausen. The officer in chargependent" effect on the development of the new Malay- of Nairobi area Special Branch forces and covert opera-sian Government was in fact minimal. Though they did tions was Captain Frank Kits0n, who had also served inmanage to kill off about 1,900 police and soldiers in the German Occupation as an Intelligence officer.

twelve years, their more heinous alleged crimes like Kitson found that, for reason of the recent origins of

destruction of crops, slashing rubber, trees, and assassi- the insurrectionary movement, there had been no oppor-nations of civilians, were more likely done by the Special tunities for infiltration as in Malaya. This he solved by

Branch. In addition to the guerrillas' being well-pene- taking Morton and Peterson's minor innovation, thetrated by the pre-war and wartime apparat, Morton and Special Operations Volunteer Force, and, expanding it,Petersoh selected lively candidates from the New Village he built a parallel guerrilla infrastructure from theand POW camps to form a Special Operational Volun- ground up.J52] Seldcting out "volunteers" from the

teer Force, which they used to even further infiltrate resettlement labor camps and the-internment camps for

their network. Mau Mau suspects, Kitson dotted the region with hisThe infiltration was so deep that "by 1957 Special own network of training centers. There are indications

Branch had a dossier on almost individual guerrilla who that Kitson's "revolutionaries" were better organizedwas left."[51] The guerrillas of Malaya were never beat- than the actual insurgents. Within less than a year, theen, they were allowed to slink back into the jungle. Un- "counter-gangs" n as Kitson called his network had

fortunately, the pitiful puppet show goes on to this day, penetrated the insurgents' infrastructure so deeply thatas the guerrillas are occasionally trotted out to perform Kitson's men were leading relatively large Mau Mausome meaningless act of terrorism. They are of the most units.

use when it is necessary to exacerbate racial tensions. The fact that official histories of the Emergency creditSOE had made sure in 1941 that they trained only the finaldefeatoftheinsurrection to "Operation Anvil,"communists from Malaya's Chinese minority, and the a silly maneuver in which the RAF aimlessly bombed the

CPM was never able to organize its way out of that huge Kikuyu Forest hoping to drive hiding insurgentssituation, into soldiers at the forest's perimeter, only indicates that

The unified command form of government, which was Kitson's efforts were being clown-played by decision. The

set up even on the state and district level, was phased rebellion was more likely broken by the total psycho-over to selected and British-trained, anti-communist logical collapse of Mau Mau cadre under Kitson's on-Malays who maintained the system intact. Even the food slaught.

control system was maintained under the new title After hiscounter-gangshadpenetrated the Mau Mau,"Emergency Food Denial Organization," administered Kitson would occasionally pull out some of his cadre andby the Malayan Ministry of Defense and Internal a few of his professional informers, dress them in hoods

Security. The New Villages, of course, became the and longwhite robes, then clear out an entire village andbasis for the new, "independent" Malayan economy, force them to march past his "hooded men" who would

The problem of Kenya proved to be more difficult for select Mau Mau suspects. While the Japanese and others

the Rees-trained counterinsurgents of the British Army. had used the "hooded man" technique defensively yearsStrike activity in Nairobi in the early 1950's, and the before, Kitson, with his long, ominous line of spooks,

possibility of its link-upwith theugly mood of the adja- used it to bluntly impress the population with thecent, pro-independence Kikuyu tribesmen had fact that their underground was hardly secret to the

demanded action by 1953. While it is unlikely that the British. When it became obvious to every Mau Mau

so-called Mau Mau Emergency would have led to a cadre that there was a good possibility that he might besocialist revolution, capitalist planners had determined the only one who was not an infiltrator, the movement

that if any colonial looting ground was to be inde- collapsed. As the Mau Mau disintegrated, Jomopendent, its freedom would definitely be conducive to Kenyatta, a more malleable leader of the anti-colonialmaintained accumulation. Food control and resettle- _movement, was given a timely release from a British jail.

ment called "villagization" in Kenya was viciously Years later, with a cuteness typical of the "old boys"administered, this time by practitioners who had learned at cIA Covert Operations, "De Mau Mau" would be the

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name of one of the counter-gangs operating against U.S. were implemented wisely, and backed up by foodghetto populations, and two of the CIA's biggest black control, then the Vietnamese farmers, and later the

operators would have their names changed to Muhamed workers could be psychologically smashed, and the

Kenyatta and Charles 37X Kenyatta. [53] Hamlets could become the basis of a new government toBy the late 1960's there could have been no question in replace the ineffectual Diem regime.

the minds of Rockefeller's CIA planners that food Though the Pentagon did agree to the massive use of

cont.rol, resettlement, and counter-gang organizing chemical defoliants to destroy the South Vietnamese ricewould be the l_rimary weapons against the working class crop to complement the formation of the hamlets in

and their potential allies in the Eastern Bloc. At the 1961-62, the strategy was not seen as more than defen-

beginning of that decade, the primary thrust was toward sive by President Kennedy and the old school Pentagonenlarging that capability so as to be ready for the final, faction. Kennedy, in fact, would never internalize that

inevitable battle with the working class and the Soviet the true nature of "counter-gang" organizing was thatUnion. Though the U.S. military had been engaged in such manipulated formations could actually become the ,

covert operations since the war, and the CIA itself had government. It was only after the President's death that

built up a formidable covert para-military network, it the U.S. military would begin gearing up for Reesianwas obvious that the whole U.S. Armed Forces had to be capability.

upgraded to perform Reesian operations on the level of To follow up the growing interest in Reesian war after

the CIA and the British Army, if the class war were to be Thompson's intervention, the CIA brought a team offinally resolved. ' British counterinsurgents to the U.S. in 1962 for a barn-

Valiant attempts were made to turn the crude storming recruitment tour of military circles. At an

counterinsurgency action in Vietnam into a mature important symposium on counterinsurgency set up byReesian operation. It is clear that the CIA planners had the CIA think-tank RAND Corporation in i962, the new

believed that a simple puppet Diem government com- style of warfare was pushed by counter-gangster Kitson

bined with counter-gang organizing among Meo tribes- himself, and it is reported that there was enthusiasticmen, etc. by the CIA-controUed Special Forces would response, especially from the Americans.[55]suffice. But, by 1961, such small-scale measures could To counteract the cost-minded bureaucratuc faction

not cope with an unbroken working class, an un-infil- of the Pentagon beginning to coalesce around Robert

trated guerrilla army, and support from the Chinese and McNamara, the British team included Colonel Shireley,

Soviets, however half-hearted. The Rockefeller wing of the head of the Operations Research Section during thethe CIA brought in Sir Robert Thompson, who had Malayan Emergency, who stressed that such warfare was

served in the Ma!ayan operation, to plead for food the only effective"long-haul, low-cost" strategy.[56] Thecontrol and resettlement. [54] If the Strategic Hamlets -- Operations Research line that there should be a unified,

as Thompson had renamed the resettlement camps "systems analysis" approach to warfare that the mili-

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tary should be prepared to govern as well asfight, as the directly with one of the largest counter-gangs inReesians suggested would within a year be taken up existence, the fascist MSI.by Tavistock directly. In 1963, the Operations Research By our estimation, every "underground" terroristSociety of Britain, of which most military OR men like group in the world is either a counter-gang or so infil-Shireley were members, merged with the Tavistock Insti- trated by operatives and psychologically manipulatedtute to form the Institute for Operational Research. victims that it is, except in the case of individual

While it will not be necessary here to detail the further members, imp6ssible to make the distinction. Such atakeover of the U.S. military by the Rockefeller-Rees depth of penetration is demanded by a depression.forces (See Cuskie), by 1967, the CIA had gained enough Firstly, in a period when it is certain that workers will besupport to openly suggest that the Southeast Asia situa- seeking out radicals both left and right, the cabal hastion, if it could not be won, coul d be the testing ground made sure that those workers will have to run a gamut offor an American Army prepared for class struggle• The counter,gangs who will take the most weak-willed andcabal's position was most bluntly put forward in a 1967 siphon them off into suicidal terrorism, nationalism, andproposal to the Department of Defense by a lesser- clean-trade-unionism. Secondly, it is necessary thatknown CIA braintrust, the American Institute of some of these gangs become large enough to be used onResearch which claimed: the world strategic level against the working class and

The potential applicability of the findings in the United _ against the Soviet Union.States will also receive special attention. In many of our key Even the Soviets have fallen into supporting blatantdomestic programs, especially those directed at dis- counter-gang formations like the notorious Blackadvantaged subcultures, the methodological problems _re September guerrillas, whose existence was developed to'similar to those described in this proposal; and the out-fox them-in the Mid-East. Another counter-gang,

application of the Thai findings [which included thedemand for extensive use of food control and reset- the provisional IRA, set up by Kitson himself, is stilltlement -- M.M.] at home constitutes a potentially more being used for last-minute training of British troops thatsignificant project contribution. [57] will be shortly Used on their homeland, and the situation

has gotten so unwieldy that security forces cannot helpbut occasionally _hoot British soldiers assigned tocounter-gang duty. [58]

IV. Low Intensity Operations and What to Do But even the counter-gang's utility in manipulatingAbout Them world politics and in ensnaring potential class leaders is

insufficient to prevent serious working-class opposition

At the beginning of the present decade, it had become to the demands of capitalism in its final depression• Thatunquestionable to the Rockefeller Cabal that the troops, is made quite clear by Frank Kitson, the Reesianmany now well-schooled in counterinsurgency tech- lieutenant who has now made his way to brigadier and aniques, would have to be brought home. Throughout the position as the top counterinsurgent in the Britishsecond half of the 1960's, such a contingency had been General Staff. Low Intensity Operations, Kitson's 1971built throughout the advanced capitalist sector, with the extended memorandum to the military officers of thevelocity of its implementation increasing with capitalists' cabal that he helped recruit over the last two decades,awareness of the magnitude of the present breakdown demands that armies prepare for theoniy war that is left,crisis, the world revolution• [59] The only armies that are so

In the United States, the CIA-founded Law Enforce- prepared are those capable of ,'stability operations"merit Assistance Administration (LEAA) took over the Kitson's bland military term for military dictatorship. In

brainwashing network that the CIA had set up in the the Kitson memo, the Rees-Rockefeller forces call uponnation's prisons a few years earlier to destroy the black the military for the last-minute re-tooling in preparationmovement. The LEAA used this network as the basis for , for rule, suggesting that now armies must quickly muster

the creation of a number of large counter-gangs, both the capability to run vital services, such as sewerage andblack and white, right and left. The LEAA also took transportation, "without the aid of civilian authorities,"responsibility for rationalizing and reshaping urban in periods when such authorities _are "unable or un-police departments to make them capable of using the willing to provide them."[60] Kitson leaves the dubioussophisticated techniquesthat had been laboriouslytested legal point of who is supposed to decide when dulyin Vietnam. elected or appointed civil authorities are "unwilling," up

In the United Kingdom, the Home Office provided a to the barren imaginations of his fellow Reesian officers.similar function. In Italy, the CIA-controlled Psycho- The counter-gangs must now become the Reesian

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to... make contact with the local situation." "Counter- will it be possible to believe as Rockefeller does that theorganization is the putting over to the public by action imminent presence of soldiers in the streets of Britainrather than by propaganda, the views of the government, will not finally warn the workers, of the Continent andFor this purpose individuals can be sent amongst the North America that they must prepare for the fight?community forthepurposeofdoingworkwhichwillhelp These special forces and their counter-gangs areto remove sources of grievance and at the same time prepared to give a limited fight, hut is finally Reesianmaking contact with the people."[61] "Serve the psywar which has become the means of class war. The

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people . Once such counter-organizations are estab- movements of the Rockefeller forces on a daily basis havelished "on similar lines to those established by the brought this conclusively home. Rees himself claims thatenemy" and have gotten "right under the skin of the 'his only publicly acknowledged original contribution topopulation," then, after the army has moved in, they will the psychiatry of war or the psychiatric war -- washave provided "a framework which helped engender a that of "battle inoculation."[64]

feeling of security and commitment amongst the popula- Rees found that in the First War, training was limitedtion which in turn encouraged them to give in- to teaching a soldier to shoot straight, march in line, andformation."[62] follow orders. When such trainees were thrust into the

The counter-gang can only be a holding action in a horror of battle, many broke down. In the early part ofrevolutionary period, even if it has some offensive capa- the Second World War, army psychiatrists tried tobilities, as Kitson insists it must. Kitson's point has been counteract this by making maneuvers as realistic asalready proven in the field when two counter-gang possible, using blood and offal from local butcher shops,formations, Baraka's Kawaida. organization and the _ plenty of explosives, etc. Unfortunately, recruits tendedBeni Zakeem of Brooklyn, attempted to move offensively to be as traumatized by the maneuvers as by real battles.on the Labor Committees and were counter-attacked so Rees realized that the incidence of battle trauma could

successfully that they had to be sacrificed b), higher be reduced by a series of maneuvers, accompanied byauthorities. The counter-organization network, even training films, in which there was a "gradual introduc-when assisted by the CIA's LEAA hit squads like tion of unpleasant things." Using'the massive economicSTRESS and the Tactical Squads o'f urban police forces that the Rockefeller cabal can muster, they aredepartments, can only prepare the path for stability similarly "inoculating" the working class to food con-operations troops prepared to cement rule with, of trol and resettlement schemes.

course, "food control and resettlement schemes" which Phony shortage upon phony shortage, in addition toare the "primary non-military means of harming the providing the excuse for cutting back unprofitableenemy."[63] production, has been used to bring areas of the world to

After the stability forces, which must have full psycho- critical low points in their food and fuel supplies. Thenlogical warfare capability, have herded the population add a transparent counter-gang like Mike Parkhurst'sinto the resettlement camps under threat of starvation, independent truckers and an engineered shutdown ofthen Reesian selection can go on unimpeded and in full, transport, and you have the National Guard bringing insociety can be rebuilt as the rationally selected citizenry the food and fuel, as happened in Pennsylvania and theare placed into their proper roles, and can take over from "South. In San Francisco, a group of obvious brainwashthe military who have minimally maintained vital ser- victims, the Symbionese Liberation Army, have madevices for the duration of the transition. From the psycho- food distribution centers commonplace in the ghetto.logically manipulated environment of the camps there Sabre-rattling by Rockefeller man Kissinger and byc.an be selected the informers to keep camp security, the the CIA-sympathizers at the Pentagon, in addition to

aards, the workers who must be worked to death, and being aimed at the Soviets, provides the excuse for "civilthose who will be brainwashed, But capitalist rationality defense" hysteria. Already, Secretary of Defense Schle-in a period of depression demands that the entire process singer has suggested that by June there should be a civilof psychological manipulation, brainwashing, and selec- defense test in which the "non-essential personnel" oftion become no more than a sophisticated version of the seven large American cities will be resettled for a short

medical team at the gate of Auschwitz who sent the able- period in safe spots in the country. The two Englishbodied to the left and the doomed to the right, towns of Corby and Hull were recently turned into

Kitson's plans significantly leave out how his special Northern Irish towns as troops took over the streets for

units will actually defeat the fighting potential of the counterinsurgency maneuvers without notifying theworking class. In spite of massive infiltration of the labor citizens or the local authorities. Calculated layoff pat-movement and the collusion of labor leaders in the broad terns are creating bands of unemployed "refugees" notimplementation of coercive techniques in plants, how unlike the_ "Oakies" of the Thirties, but in this period,

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they are being offered jobs if they resettle to the Rocke- maintain capitalists' property titles for them. Thefeller-controlled work camps of the Athabasca oil fields. Reesian theory or war is predicated on the weakness of

The working class has already sustained a series of the the working class. "The post-war malcontents," saysmost rotten set-ups in which they have exPerienced food Rees, in the seminal Shaping..., "may well be writtencontrol, resettlement, and the presence of military or down as infected by subversive influence, as communistspara-military forces controlling the streets. Some or what-not, unless we are able to demonstrate that theytactics, like the oil hoax, are now being tried again are men who have been unwisely handled and who are

recycled in some parts of the world. Yet most reacting like rebellious and difficult children."[6S] Theworkers cannot see the coherence of this series, and are statement is partially a cover. The nature of Reesianexperiencing only the horrible, vague feeling that "some- control is "motherly," but what Mother Rees does notthing must be wrong." This is because the manipulations mention is that, if workers refuse to be treated like chil-are being administered in the same way t.hat Rees used dren, his psywar program is designed to viciously driveBion's group therapy, them back into infantilism, many at the cost of their

Generally, the manipulations are not administered in minds.a linear progression, but in a cyclical fashion such that It is clear from an analysis of the work of key Tavi-one section of workers will experience layoffs while stock personnel, and collaterally, from the modusanother will wait in long lines for rationed gas. The operandi of the Tavistock network and the CIA, thatworker's bourgeois ego blinds him from seeing the attack infantilization -- officially, the theory of anal sadism --on another section of the class as an attack on himself, is at the basis of the psywar strategy.

These manipulated events remain "natural" and uncon- Rees' intellectua! troubleshooter, H.V. Dicks, informsnected -- that is, magical even though some of them us that the first big discussion paper at the "invisibleare shaping his behavior. Basing their strategy on this college" was his own "Anal Sadistic Basis of Ourweakness in the class, the Rees-Rockefeller forces are Culture," and that his became the basis for the work in

aiming for the cumulative effect. Like the empiricist the German ideology and for the selection of Ger-quack manipulators of group therapy, the Rockefeller mans.[66] Only hints are given about the full theory inforces have built up, through their counter-gangs and Dicks' writings, as he writes concerning his role infinancial deals, a fairly set repertoire of hoaxes, terrorist UNRRA, as the chief psychological profile specialist forattacks, phony strikes, etc. Computer-assisted, they run the CIA's RAND Corporation. Only in 1972 do we get a

through the repertoire, altering the progression, velocity, coherent picture in Dicks' Licensed Mass Murder, aand form slightly in accordance with the ideological study of mass killers of the Nazi SS. As in the case ofdifferences in the class that they have studied for so long. Kitson's final book, there is no time to banter, and there

The class is faced with the situation in which world is only a minimal cover on what must be done. The book

events are designed for effect, in which large radical is a "how-to" text. The Columbus Centre at the Uni-groups and some trade unions are led by zombies or versity of Sussex in England, under whose aegis the piecedupes, and in which many of the operators in the field is writeen, is an open Tavistock-front organization. Theare themselves unaware of their shaped motivation, or of Centre has only one line of work; it publishes "Studies in

how they fit in the overall effect. In such a world the the Dynamics of Persecution and Extermination."[67]criterion for insanity is to say that reality is what it Both Rees and Dicks marvelled at the level of control

appears to be. that the Nazis held over the German population, and theThe Labor Committees will continue to shine the light Nazis' purblind understanding of psychological oper-

on this covert network of vampires because once the ations. As an example, Rees in 1945 pointed to Ger-coherence in detail of a section of this psywar program is many's "elaborate selection techniques, out of which

exposed it tends to lose its effect on workers. It is actually grew the still wider department of psychological warfare.a race against time, whether we can build the forces to However disastrous the ultimate aim and purpose of thistake out key sections of this network, before the network work ill Germany, there is no question that it wasdestroys through this program the creativity necessary to thorough and effective, though lacking in some of thelead a revolutionary fight against these forces. The more imaginative and insightful aspects of work in our

vampire image is doubly apt, for the psychological own countries."[68] It was Dicks whom Rees assigned tosignificance of the vampire legend is that the vampire discover the origins of such developments in thefeeds upon the rottenness of the victim (e.g., the failure phylogeny of the German ideology.to wear a crucifix, say prayers regularly, etc.). The general theory coming from the studies Dicks

For psychopath Rees there was no positive significance believed was applicable, with variation, to all European,to his psywar program, outside of a hysterical desire to Russian, and North American cultures. Blocked from

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seeing love as the infant's growing perception and under- as rats, as the shit that the Nazis themselves much

standing of social relations around it, Dicks cannot see feared. In the extreme form, SS camp guards obsessively

how the infantile ego is capable of overcoming its tried to destroy the rats, the shits, the "useless mouths topreoccupation with object possession.[69] The infant feed" confined in the camps.

lives in a state of "primitive greed" which is "coupled That Dicks had convinced capitalist planners that this

[with] typical resentment against the originators of the theory should be the basis of post-war psychologicalfrustration [denial of objects -- M.M.] that had to be warfare is demonstrated by the operations of the Occu-internalized as 'bad, anti-libidinal objects.'"[70] For the pation Forces and UNRRA which Dicks and Tavistock

child, "excrement becomes the symbol of all the badness advised. The essence of SHAEF propaganda in occupiedand hate taken inside as oral privation, just at the stage Germany was that Germans would starve to feed the

of toilet training and acquisiton of muscular control over Jews and Eastern Europeans. One SHAEF propaganda

the anus and so over the faeces can become the setting drive impressed Gei mans with the fact that the refugeesfor rebellion against the depriving, punishing authority were ten to twenty pounds heavier than the starving

figure, internalized as well as outside."[71] The child Germans. "Your body is disappearing. It is turning intobecomes an anal s/tdist, both excreting upon his shit. You are turning into shit." From this studied in-

enemies, and terrified of the "badness" inside him. tensification of all the psychological horrors of the ThirdSince adulthood is, more or less, a veneer for Dicks, Reich, plus the profiling and manipulation of many of

regression into this infantile state can be caused by the new leaders at 'the Selection Centre, the creative

"stressful circumstances resembling or evoking strong revolutionary potential of the German working class was

emotive associations with the early object-relations." [72] not expected to survive.

Dicks found that the Nazi ideology tended to appeal to Similarly, the forced resettlement and food control

those egos that had been most weakened and terrified by conducted by the Rees/Dicks-advised UNRRA not onlyhunger (such as in the horrible period of-privation after provided a clinical laboratory to test different national-

the First World War) and disruption of the home (with ities' ability to withstand infantilization, but also insured

many fathers away at the front or dead): that the coming generation of Greeks, Ukranians, et al.As is well-known, the period of Nazification was not would grow up with the experience of extreme childhood

abrupt, but was a de facto process of inoculation which deprivation and uncertainty.simultaneously exacerbated these fears while getting theGermans used to Schachtian policies. The Nazis actually The Rees-Rockefeller program calls for the reductionselected the weakest of these egos for the elite SS, in of the advanced capitalist sector to the state approxi-

which they were consciously inoculated on the basis of mating that in Greece and Italy after the war by exploit-

a'n intense form of sadistic mothering (recruits were ing every form of infantilism that the working classforced to watch and implement progressively more brutal retains. Look at Italy, where CIA nee-fascists are openly

tortures and publicly humiliated if they flinched; alter- touting that they will destroy the country's politicalnatively, their trainers would offer them beer and parties around the divorce referendum and defy the left

camaraderie, etc.). The product, especially in the SS to _vercome its mother domination and stop the

who made up the concentration camp guards, was move. We build a self-conscious intellectual renais-"mother's little men" ("I was only a little cog." "I was sance and organize the working class out of its childish

only following orders." "I did not pull the trigger, I only individualism, or we are permanently reduced to infantsdrove the truck."). The Reeslan "beauty" of Nazi propa- emulating the sadism of the Reesian Woman who tells us

_ganda was that it portrayed Jews and Eastern Europeans where to resettle and giyes us our food.

FOOTNOTES

1. Rees, J., The Shaping of Psychiatry By War, New York, 1945, p. 81. 7. Ree_, op. cit., p. 133.2. See Cuskie, Freeman, and Marcus in this issue. The tactical deployment Of the 8. ibid., p. 62.

Tavistack-Rockefeller forces, along with marching orders to our growing working 9. ibid., p. 120.class forces to take out these targets, can be obtained from New Solidarity, the 10. See The Campaigner, Vol. 7, No. 4-5 ( February-March 1974), particularly theNCLC press, on an on-going basis, articles by Marcus, White and Menzel, for a discussion of the clinical aspects of3. Rees, op. cit., p. 43. brainwashing.4. Ibid., p. 45. 11. Dicks, H.V., Fifty Years at Tavistock, London, 1970, p. 63.5. Grmasci, Antonio, "Americanism and Fordism" in Selections from the Prison 12. Ibid., p. 145.

Notebooks, New York, 1971, pp. 302-303. 13. See L. Marcus's papers on the New Psychoanalysis published in TheWhile Gramsci avoided the difficult question of Freud's contribution, he "in- Campaigner, September-October, 1973, November, 1973, December, 1973, and

stinctually" suspected the use of the new science at the hands of the capitalists, January, 1974.and noted it as one of the problems facing the working class; "psychoanalysis and 14. Rees, op. tit., p. 52.its enormous diffusion since the war, as the expression of the increased moral 15. Rees, J. Reflections, New York, 1966, pp. 41-42.coersion exercized by the apparatus of the State and society on single individuals, 16. Dicks, op. cir., p. 99.and of the pathological crisis determined by this coersion,'" p. 280. 17. Rees, Reflections, p. 45.

6. Menzel, C. "After the Ludlow Massacre," New Solidarity, March 27, 1974, p. 4 18. Rees, Shaping, p. 61.and April 10, 1974, p. 6. Covers the Rockefeller family's early relationship with 19. Wilson, A.T.M., et al., "Transitional Communities and Social Reconnection: ARees and the mental health movement and Rees's formation of the World Study of Civil Resettlement of British Prisoners of War," in Readings in SocialFederation of Mental Health. Psychology, New York, 1952, p. 561-581.

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20. Rees, J. (ed.), The Case of Rudolph Hess, London, 1947, Introduction. p. 3.

21. Hints of this can be found in Dicks' discussion of his work in "Personality 44. Lee, Chong-Sik, Counterinsurgency in Manchuria: The Japanese Experience,Tralts and National Socialist Ideology," Human Relations, 3 (1950) p. 111-154. 1931-40, RAND Corporation Memorandum, RM.5012.ARPA, January, 1967, p. 13-22. Dicks, Fifty Years, p. 110. 15.23. Rees, Shaping, p. 136. 45. Komer, loc. cat.24. Rees, Reflections, passim, in the Reesian view, power over social formations 46. Ibid., p. 58.can be maintained by controlling a select number of key "co-operators." See the 47. Ibid., p. 60.lengthy discussions of "rumor control" by many Tavlstockians in early post-war 48. Ibid., p. 56. See also Pelzer, K., "Resettlement in Malaya," Yale Reviewissues of Human Relations and Public Opinion Quarterly. Spring, 1952, pp. 392-404.25. Rees, Shaping, p. 83. 49. Rees, Reflections, p. 45.26. Rees, Reflections, passim. See also the cited Menzel articles on the WFMH in 50. Komer, op. cat., p. 64.New Solidarity. 51. Ibid., p. 45.27. See Note 10. 52. Kitson, F. Gangs and Countergangs, London, 1960, passim.28. Morgenthau, Henry, Germany Is Our Problem, New York, 1945, passim. U.S. 53. Rockefeller's Mau Mau, made up primarily of brainwashed black, VietnamSenate, Committee on Military Affairs, "A Program for German Economic and veterans, has already been exposed in the Labor Committee Fact Sheet, "CIAIndustrial Disarmament," Subcommittee on War Mobilization Monograph NO. 6, Youth Strategy," and in numerous New Solidarity articles• Their latest claim toApril, 1946, passim, fame was an attempted defense of the Rees-created Imamu Baraka, which led to29. Adequate for the story of the dumping of the Morganthau Plan is Kolko, G. the destruction of their Boston branch at the hands of the NCLC. Charles 37XPolitics of War, New York, 1968, passim, Collaterally, refer to James Forrestal's Kenyatta, the "unsuccessful" bodyguard of Malcolm X and presently a confidantDiaries (edited by Walter Millis), New York, 1951. of Nelson Rockefeller, and Muhamed Kenyatta of Eric Trist's Philadelphia30. Marcus, L. "United States of Europe: Their Program and Ours," The network, arealsopartofthisCIAanti-ghettoyouthstrategy.Campaigner, Vol. 5, NO. 4 ( Fall, 1972) and Syvriotis, N., "The Self-Cannibalization 54. Hilsman, R., To Move a Nation, New York, 1968, passim.of Europe," The Campaigner, Vol. 5, No. 3, (Summer 1972). 55. Kitson, F., Low Intensity Operations, Harrisburg, Pa., 1971, p. 73.31. Quoted in Proudfoot, M. European Refugees: 1939-52, Evanston, II1., 1956, p. 56. After the 1961 symposium, RAND began an extensive study of the British162. experience. Komer, op. cat., is one of the few that is unclassified, and opens with a32. Ibid., p. 174. polemic for "long haul, low-cost'" approach,E/. Quoted by James Holland in his33. Quoted in Kolko, The Politics of War, p. 259. paper presented at the Second International Seminar on Behavior Modification34. Rees, Shaping, p. 105. (Mexico City, 1971).35. Lerner, D., Sykewar, 1949. See also Cuskle in this issue. 58. "Royal Ulster Constabulary Exposes Real IRA," New Solidarity March 25,36. Hauser, R. and H., Fraternal Society, New York, 1963, pp. 192-196. 1974, and Chris White's "CtA 'Strellas' Strike," New Solidarity, April 1, t974._. Rees, Shaping, p. 153. White's full expose of the IRA as countergang is forthcoming.38. Rees remained a close advisor to the United Nations High Commissioner on 59. Kitson, Low Intensity Operations, passim.Refugees, and ran a convention on that subject in Vienna in 1959. Refer to Michael 60. Ibid., p. 187.Klare's War Without End, New York, 1972, for a discussion of the CIA's use of 61. ibid., p. 79.refugees. 62. Ibid., p. 80.39. Kolko, op. cat., p. 259. 63. Ibid., p. 166.40. Dicks himself led the exodus to RAND. In 1950, he took leave from Tavistock 64. Rees, Shaping, p. 81.for a special assignment with RAND and a notorious RAND sub-contractor, 65. Ibid., p. 136.Harvard University's Social Relations Department (which, incidentally, was 66. Dicks, Fifty Years, p. 99.founded by Dr. Alan Gregg, the Rockefeller Foundatlon's Chief Medical Officer 67. The Columbus Center's creder_iats include the Who's Who of Anglo-Americanand Rockefeller's liason man with Tavistock). A "laundered" version of Dicks' fascism• Its funders include members of the old "Clivedon Set" who previouslyPSychological profile work for RAND can be found in his "Observations on backed British fascist Moseley, the J.M. Kaplan Fund, a known CIA conduit,Contemporary Russian Behavior," Human Relations, 5 (1,952), pp. 111-175. Unilever Corporation, the first corporation to use Reesian selection, the41. in addition to Freeman (this issue), Tavistock's early post-war deployment in Archbishop of Canterbury, and the American Jewish Committee. The Centre itselfindustry can be reconstructed from Jacques, E., The Changing Culture of • is run by its advisory committee which includes Harold Lever, Marie Jahoda, J.D.Factory, London, 1951, and Trist, E., and Bamborth, K., "Some Socialand Psycho- Sutherland, A.T.M. Wilson, and Eric Tr_st, all of the Tavistock hierarchy.logical Consequences of the Longwall Method of Coal-getting," Human Relations, 68. Rees, Shaping, p. 34.4 (1951), pp. 3-38. 69. See Note 13._. Hanrahan, G.Z., The Communist Struggle in Malaya, New York, 1954, p. 12-13. 70. Dicks, H.V., Licensed Mass Murder, New York, 1972, p. 174•43. Komer, R., The Malayan Emergency In Retrospect: Organization of a 71. Ibid., p. 174.Successful Counterinsurgency Effort, RAND Report R-957-ARPA, February, 1972, 72. 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