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In his book ''Conspirators' Hierarchy: The Story of the [[Committee of 300]], 
Dr. John Coleman, "a former intelligence agent of British MI6," discusses the '''Tavistock Institute for Human Behavior'''.[http://www.barefootsworld.net/tavistok.html]

Coleman says that the Institute's prophet, Sigmond Freud, was "settled in Maresfield Gardens when he moved to England. He was given a mansion by Princess Bonaparte. Tavistock's pioneer work in behavioral science along Freudian lines of 'controlling' humans established it as the world center of foundation ideology."[http://www.barefootsworld.net/tavistok.html]

Tavistock's network, Coleman says, "now extends from the University of Sussex to the U.S. through the [[Stanford Research Institute]], [[Esalen]], [[MIT]], [[Hudson Institute]], [[Heritage Foundation]], [[Center of Strategic and International Studies]] at Georgetown, where State Dept. personal are trained," plus US Air Force Intelligence, and both the [[RAND Corporation]] and the [[MITRE Corporation]]. He says that corporation personnel are "required to undergo indoctrination at one or more of these Tavistock controlled institutions." Additionally, a "network of secret groups, the [[Mont Pelerin Society]], [[Trilateral Commission]], [[Ditchley Foundation]], and the [[Club of Rome]] is conduit for instructions to the Tavistock network."[http://www.barefootsworld.net/tavistok.html] 

:"Tavistock Institute developed the mass brain-washing techniques which were first used experimentally on American prisoners of war in Korea. Its experiments in crowd control methods have been widely used on the American public, a surreptitious but nevertheless outrageous assault on human freedom by modifying individual behavior through topical psychology. A German refugee, [[Kurt Lewin]], became director of Tavistock in 1932. He came to the U.S. in 1933 as a ''refugee'', the first of many infiltrators, and set up the Harvard Psychology Clinic, which originated the propaganda campaign to turn the American public against Germany and involve us in World War II. In 1938, [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] executed a secret agreement with [[Winston Churchill]] which in effect ceded U.S. sovereignty to England, because it agreed to let Special Operations Executive control U.S. policies. To implement this agreement, Roosevelt sent General Donovan to London for indoctrination before setting up OSS (now the CIA) under the aegis of SOE-SIS. The entire OSS program, as well as the CIA has always worked on guidelines set up by the Tavistock Institute."[http://www.barefootsworld.net/tavistok.html]

== History ==

The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations describes itself as "a novel, interdisciplinary, action orientated research organisation." It was "founded in London in 1946 with the aid of a grant from the [[Rockefeller Foundation]] ... [and] set up for the specific purpose of actively relating the psychological and social sciences to the needs and concerns of society."[http://www.tavinstitute.org/index.htm]

"The circumstances of World War II brought together an unusually talented group of psychiatrists, clinical and social psychologists and anthropologists in the setting of the British Army, where they developed a number of radical innovations in social psychiatry and applied social science. They became known as the [[Tavistock Group]] because the core members had been at the pre-war [[Tavistock Clinic]]. Though only some of them continued their involvement with the post-war Tavistock organisation, those who did built on the war-time achievements to introduce a number of far-reaching developments in several fields. This style of research related theory and practice in a new mode."[http://www.tavinstitute.org/index.htm] 

"The objectives of the Institute were to study human relations in conditions of wellbeing, conflict or breakdown, in the family, the community, the work group and the larger organisation, and to promote the health and effectiveness of individuals and organisations."[http://www.tavinstitute.org/index.htm] 

"Since that time, the Tavistock Institute has evolved into an organisation that does research and consultancy, evaluation and professional development work in support of change and learning. We try to contribute to the development of the social sciences by publishing our work. We also own and edit ''[[Human Relations]]'', an international social science journal, and edit ''[[Evaluation]]''.[http://www.tavinstitute.org/index.htm]

The Institute was orignially located in the Tavistock Centre in Belsize Park, which it shared with the Tavistock Clinic. During the summer of 1994, Tavistock moved to its current location in central London.[http://www.tavinstitute.org/index.htm] 

== Funding ==

Tavistock describes itself as "a registered charity and a not-for-profit organisation" whose income "comes from research grants and contracts for research projects, consultancy, training and publishing;" plus its "own resources."[http://www.tavinstitute.org/index.htm]

== Contact ==

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