Psychological Strategy Board

It brought in academics mostly from MIT and Harvard to consider new directions in psychological warfare.

The Psychological Strategy Board, 1951 to 1953, served to coordinate psychological warfare and propaganda activities across different parts of the US government.

Renowned social scientists were appointed to the board.

44 US and Canadian universities participated in the CIA's MKUltra programme , which experimented on unwitting subjects using electroshock, radiation, covert drugging and other nefarious means.

So for people who were obsessed with the idea of power and constantly complaining about the powers that be, they were remarkably uncritical to the actual powers that be that they were working for.

After World War II, The American state established the Psychological Strategy Board, or PSB, in 1951, which they worked with in various ways.

And this is what it described itself as doing.

Its aim was to provide a permanent literature and foster long-term intellectual movements which will appeal to intellectuals, including scholars and opinion-forming groups.