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than finance SDS himself, Warburg used CIA funds, some twenty million 

dollars, to promote the campus riots of the 1960s.

The English Tavistock Institute has not restricted its activities to left-wing 

groups, but has also directed the programs of such supposedly 

"conservative" American think tanks as the Herbert Hoover Institute at 

Stanford University, Heritage Foundation, Wharton, Hudson, 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Rand. The "sensitivity train-

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ing" and "sexual encounter" programs of the most radical California 

groups such as Esalen Institute and its many imitators were all 

developed and implemented by Tavistock Institute psychologists.

One of the rare items concerning the Tavistock Institute appears in 

Business Week, Oct. 26, 1963, with a photograph of its building in the 

most expensive medical offices area of London. The story mentions 

"the Freudian bias" of the Institute, and comments that it is amply 

financed by British blue-chip corporations, including Unilever, British 

Petroleum, and Baldwin Steel. According to Business Week, the 

psychological testing programs and group relations training programs 

of the Institute were implemented in the United States by the University 

of Michigan and the University of California, which are hotbeds of 

radicalism and the drug network.

It was the Marquees of Tavistock, 12th Duke of Bedford, whom Rudolf 

Hess flew to England to contact about ending World War II. Tavistock 

was said to be worth $40 million in 1942. In 1945, his wife committed 

suicide by taking an overdose of pills.

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