Letters by Ted Arguing the Harvard Psych Experiments Had Little Effect on His Personality

#1. Excerpt of a letter from Ted to the author of 'Dostoyevsky's Stalker' (Nov 20 2005)

I experienced a lasting resentment of Murray and his co-workers. This resentment was not primarily due to the “dyadic disputation” that Chase makes so much of. What I mainly resented was the fact that I had been talked into participating in studies that involved extensive invasion of my privacy—and by people whom I disliked personally. I am quite confident that my experiences with Professor Murray had no significant effect on the course of my life.

#2. Excerpt of a letter from Ted to [REDACTED] (Nov 17 2017)

TED KACZYNSKI
To
[REDACTED]

Dear [REDACTED],

To continue from the enclosed card, I'm sending you herewith a letter postmarked 10/24/17 from anonymous "Harvard alumna", and a letter dated 8/17/16 from one Jan Irvin. These are just two examples of the many letters I've received from people who believe that in the course of the psychological study at Harvard directed by Henry A. Murray and partly described in Kenneth Kenisten's book The Uncommitted (see List of Works Cited for the new Tech Slavery), I was subjected to psychological "torture" as part of an "MK Ultra" mind-control experiment conducted by the CIA. But it's all bullshit. There was one and only one unpleasant experience in the Murray study; it lasted about half an hour and could not reasonably have been described as "torture." The Murray study consisted mostly of interviews and filling out paper-and-pencil personality tests. The CIA was not involved.

This legend to the effect that the Murray study was some sort of CIA mind-control experiment was started by an irresponsible article that Alston Chase published in The Atlantic around 1999-2001. Other people apparently latched onto Chase's speculations and embelished them on the Internet, and every time some blogger passed the story on he embellished it further, until this monstrous legend became so widespread, repeated by so many irresponsible individuals, that many people accepted it, and still accept it, as prove fact.

#3. Letter from Ted to Andrew Kaczynski (Feb 2 2018)

TED KACZYNSKI
To
ANDREW KACZYNSKI

[REDACTED]

Dear Mr. Kaczynski,

Thank you for your undated letter ...

Actually there was only one unpleasant experience in the Murray study; it lasted about half an hour and could not reasonably have been described as “traumatic.” Mostly the study consisted of interviews and filling out pencil-and-paper personality tests. The CIA was not involved.

About 15 or 20 years ago a TV journalist named Chris Vlasto … looked up some of the other participants in the study and found that nothing had happened that was worth reporting in the media…