Behind the Bourne Identity

[Lauren Johnson]

Now, the 64 million dollar question, completely avoided by The Anti-History Channel, is why was Ludlum's protagonist called Bourne?

Answers in this thread, please.

This can't be the answer. It is just too simple with no deep political significance, unless there is some DP significance:

Believe it or not, the name "Bourne," in the original novel by Robert Ludlum, actually came from a guy named Ansel Bourne. Ansel was a preacher in Rhode Island and the first documented case of "dissociative fugue," a condition not unlike dissociative amnesia or dissociative identity disorder (aka multiple personality disorder). One day in 1887, he forgot who he was, started a new life in Pennsylvania under the name Brown, and opened a convenience store. A few months later, he woke up, remembered his life as Bourne, and forgot all about his life as Brown. He also had no idea how in the hell he ended up in Pennsylvania of all places.