and you thought Pandora had problems....
http://www.hypnotism.org/Research.htmLovell Hires On
General Donovan recruited a biochemist, Dr. Stanley Lovell, to head the OSS’s “dirty tricks” Research and Development section. In Lovell’s biography, Of Spies and Stratagems, he recounted a private conversation with Donovan about this job proposal:
Without ado I opened up on my basic problem...”I’d relish your assignment, Colonel, but dirty tricks are simply not tolerated in the American code of ethics...Americans want to win within the rules of the game and devious, subtle devices and stratagems are, as the British say, ‘just not cricket.’”
“Don’t be so...naive, Lovell,” said Donovan. “The American public may profess to think as you say they do, but the one thing they expect of their leaders is that we will be smart...Outside the orthodox warfare system is a great area of schemes, weapons and plans which no one who knows America really expects us to originate because they are so un-American, but once it’s done, an American will vicariously glory in it...”
I pondered, then replied: “What I have to do is to stimulate the ‘Peck’s Bad Boy’ beneath the surface of every American scientist and to say to him, ‘Throw all your normal law-abiding concepts out the window. Here’s a chance to raise merry hell. Come, help me raise it.’”
“Stanley,” he responded, using my first name as a sort of password, I felt, to his inner circle, “go to it.”
...with hardly an exception, they
did outstanding service to their country...every one risked his future status...in identifying himself with illegality and unorthodoxy. (Lovell, pp. 21-22)
Of Spies and Stratagems is available for free downloading:
http://www.archive.org/details/ofspiesstratagem001373mbp
--snip--
I moved into a small office in a temporary building down
by a brewery. I had the title of Director of Research and
Development, O.S.S. and, happily, Dr. Bush also retained me
as a Special Aide to him and to his newrcreated Office of Sci
entific Research and Development. As the days passed by
with no instructions, I met Harry and Junius Morgan, Rich
ard Mellon, Alan Scaife, William Vanderbilt and dozens of
other prominent gentlemen. Yankee-like, it appeared to me
that Colonel "Wild Bill" Donovan, the great Wall Street
lawyer, was staffing up his O.S.S. with a galaxy of potential
postwar clients. Years later I had to admit that they might be
socialite bluebloods, but they were stout-hearted men who
knew how to fight.
..and their descendants are still causing mayhem...
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