"Dr. Mary's Monkey"

[Jan Klimkowski]

[Although I left that Department in the late 1950s, I did get some information about the people there later. Dr. Irv Marcus had gone in to private practice; Dr. Harold Lief and his wife divorced and, get this- he moved into bachelor quarters with Clay Shaw in the French Quarter!

Lief was part of the MK-ULTRA nexus, having done work with Orne and being yet another US military shrink.

He was also part of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation (FMSF) coverup of crime. See DPF thread here.

My emphasis in bold in piece below, which is party written by Alex Constantine:

Freyd, Pamela- Founding executive director Wife of Peter Freyd. Stood by her husband's conclusions that her daughter, Jennifer, was imagining her childhood sexual abuse. Remained head of the FMSF after her husband resigned over the controversy.

Freyd, Peter- Founding executive director Accused of childhood sexual abuse by his daughter Jennifer, who is a professor of psychology at the University of Oregon.

Jennifer:"My family of origin was troubled inmany observable ways... I refer to the things that were never 'forgotten' and 'recovered',but to things that we all knew about... During my childhood, my father sometimesdiscussed his own experiences of being sexually abused as an 11 year-old boy, and called himself a 'kept boy'" Peter Freyd graduated to male prostitution as an adolescent.At the age of 13, Jennifer Freyd composed a poem about her father's nocturnal visits.Part of it read:"I am caught in a web. A web of deep, deep terror." The diaries of her youth chronicle the reactions and feelings (guilt, shame and terror) of a troubled girl andyoung woman."My parents oscillated between denying these symptoms and feelings…tousing knowledge of these same symptoms and feelings to discredit me... My father told various people that I was brain damaged."

Pamela Freyd turned to her own psychiatrist, Dr Harold Lief, another advisory boardmember of the FMS Foundation, to diagnose Jennifer."He explained to me that he did not believe I was abused," Jennifer recalls. Dr Lief's diagnosis was based on his belief that Peter Freyd's fantasies were strictly "homoerotic". Of course, his daughter furrows a brow at the assumption that homoerotic fantasies or a heterosexual marriage exclude the possibility of child molestation."At times I am flabbergasted that my memory is considered 'false'" , Jennifer says,"and my alcoholic father's memory is considered rational and sane... I was at home a fewhours after my second session with my therapist, a licensed clinical psychologist working within an established group in a large and respected medical clinic. "During that second visit to my therapist's office, I expressed great anxiety about the upcoming holiday visit with my parents. My therapist asked about half way into the session, whether I had ever been sexually abused. I was immediately thrown into a strange state. No one had ever asked me such a question. I responded, 'no, but….' I went home and within a few hours I was shaking uncontrollably, overwhelmed with intense and terrible flashbacks."

Jennifer asks herself why her parents are believed."In the end, is it precisely because I wasabused that I am to be discredited despite my personal and professional success?" Supposedly, in an electronic message from her father, he openly acknowledged that in hisversion of the story "fictional elements were deliberately inserted"."Fictional is rather an astounding choice of words," Jennifer observed at the Ann Arbor Conference.

Thearticle written by her parents contends that Jennifer was denied tenure at another university due to a lack of published research."In fact," Jennifer counters,"I moved tothe University of Oregon in 1987, just four years after receiving my Ph.D. to accept atenured position as associate professor in the psychology department, one of the world'sbest psychology departments…My mother sent the Jane Doe article to my colleaguesduring my promotion year that is, the year my case for promotion to full professor wasbeing considered. I was absolutely mortified to learn of this violation of my privacy and this violation of the truth." (from Alex Constantine)

Lief, Dr. Harold- Scientific Advisory Board


Lief was the personal psychiatrist to the Freyd family who told Jennifer he didn't believeshe was sexually abused from a young age by her father. Former major in the Armymedical corps. Close colleague of the co-FMSF board member Dr. Martin Orne (theMKULTRA-connected scientist with many connections to different intelligence agenciesand mind control research) and consulted with him on several studies in hypnotic programming and behavioral modification experiments at the University of Pennsylvania. Past president of the Sex Information and Education Council and director of the Centrefor Sexuality and Religion. His academic writing reveals an interesting range of professional interests, including a study entitled 'Orgasm in the PostoperativeTranssexual.'

Dr Colin Ross: "Who is this guy Robert Heath? Well, we are going to see him in a future slide too. My secretary has actually interviewed him, and I might go down and interview him myself at Tulane in New Orleans. He did brain electro implant research for the CIA and he would put brain electrodes in human brains for non-therapeutic purposes, and he would pour in psyllicibin(sp), mescaline, LSD, and other chemicals to see what would go tingle-tingle in the electrodes. And I will tell you more about that. He's funded by the CIA and the military. In one of his papers, he thanks Harold Lief for referring in one of his brain electrode implant research subjects."

In the visible world of "scientific" research, as opposed the Dark Side stuff, Lief was one of the world's leading experts on "Inhibited Sexual Desire", and the cure of "sexual dysfunction".

So, Lief has a world class background in hypnotic programming, sexual desire, behaviour modification and memory modification.

Lief is moving in the circles of Clay Shaw, which presumably means David Ferrie and Lee Harvey Oswald.

That is truly intriguing and provocative.