CIA CHILD ABUSE circa 1959: Ted Kaczynski was a 3 year victim of MK Ultra starting at age 17

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23. So the CIA takes a 16 year old kid (not yet an adult)

who already has mental health problems and dopes him with LSD, interrogates and humiliates him, but they share no responsibility in pushing him over the edge to become a killer, which was only a fantasy of his before that?

Without that cruel intervention in his life and development, might he have turned out differently? Might he have received counseling and medication to cope with his mental iillness? We'll never know.

I knew a genius in one of my college classes. He was a brilliant mathematician with no social skills at all. He had mental health issues and had dropped out of another college at that college's request (insistent request) because of behavior that alarmed faculty and students. He enrolled in the college that I attended after some therapy.

He was obsessed with one of our professors and told me that he had transported himself through a closed door to watch her. Alarmed by his fantasies, I told her about it. She took it calmly and became a social mentor for him. He'd had an abusive childhood besides being such a genius that he felt isolated from his age peers.

The faculty took him under their wing, especially the math and science departments. He was included in some research projects they were doing, as an assistant researcher, not as a guinea pig in any experiments. He also met regularly with therapists. He gradually transformed into a better adjusted person.

Last I heard, he was a professor of advanced mathematics at a SUNY college that does science and math research. They hired him without an MA or PhD because of his genius mind. He is also married now.

I have since learned that some of his mannerisms and behaviors are symptomatic of what used to be called Asperger's Syndrome. Now they are grouped together with a blanket diagnosis of autism. His brilliance in abstraction, combined with childhood abuse, had left him with little grounding in the empirical world of everyday reality. The faculty nurtured him in personal development and gave him a socially accepted outlet and expression for his brilliance, which gave him a place in life based on his intellectual gift.