Harvard Department of Social Relations

Kaczynski hinted darkly that the Murray Center seemed to feel it had something to hide, and one of his defense investigators reported that the center had told the psychologists who participated in the study not to talk with Kaczynski's defense team.

It turned out that in the fall of 1959, Kaczynski had been selected as one of 22 subjects out of 70 volunteers to participate in a study being run by a team of psychologists headed by Henry A. Murray of the Department of Social Relations at Harvard, a former Office of Strategic Services employee who had gone on to found the discipline of humanistic psychology.

Oh, so OSS writes to this program, right? Total MKUltra, total mind control.

And again, it raises the question as well, because you can still class him in the domain of, quote, serial killers, loosely speaking.

And so I was a little bit concerned about that, and I let all sorts of people know what had happened.

And a couple of weeks later, I got a call from Harrison White saying, "How would you like to come to Harvard and run the new undergraduate program?" Because the Department of Sociology at Harvard had just separated out from the old Department of Social Relations, which was a multidisciplinary department.

And so they were going to have finally an undergraduate program.

And so Harrison said, "We think you should come back and run that undergraduate program." So I said, "Okay, well, it's a better offer than, than just staying at the place at where I'd been fired," where I had an option to stay another year.

The study is open to students enrolled in a psychology course that Ted happens to be taking.

It's to be run on campus through the school's Department of Social Relations, and they're only asking for about two hours of his time per week, mostly in the form of tests.

Eh, sounds like an easy way to make money, right? Ted signs up, and so do about 70 other students, and they're all vying for just 22 spots.

But for whatever reason, Ted is chosen.