THE CIA AND THE ENCOUNTER MOVEMENT'S PATRON SAINT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000400460004-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 26, 2004
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: August 29, 1977
• Content Type: NSPR

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SAN FRAOCISCO EXAINia'R
By Walter Barney
.R.riariaa Writar
29 AUGUST 1977
Carl Rogers says he didn't think much of it at the
-re, but the first research grant that enabled him to
-udy "client-centered therapy," which has revolution-
:ed psychotherapy in the last 25 years, came from the
entral Intelligence Agency.
Rogers, who is not widely known to the general
ublic, is practically the. patron saint of the encounter
sovernent. His emphasis on the shared responsibility of
atient and therapist has been adopted by therapists
rid consciousness groups of every stripe. The American Psychological Association has hon-
red him with two symposia-on "Carl Rogers at 75" at
The New York Times disclosed this month that in
-2e early 1950s Rogers was on the board of the Society
Dr the Investigation of Human Ecology, a CIA front for.
-inneling money to scientists Investigating ways: to
-)ntrol human behavior
Rogers was a tittle embarrassed ' at the publicity
iven an episode he had almost forgotten, but not at all
nwilling to talk about it during his visit here
He was recruited, he said, by Col. James Monroe,
in Air Force expert on brainwashing. This was at the
_me when American prisoners of war in Korea were
i iecting to the Communist side under intensive
sychological pressure from their ralitois.