{"id":144,"date":"2005-03-31T09:46:38","date_gmt":"2005-03-31T13:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/03\/31\/oss-hitler-file-available-online\/"},"modified":"2005-03-31T09:46:38","modified_gmt":"2005-03-31T13:46:38","slug":"oss-hitler-file-available-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/03\/31\/oss-hitler-file-available-online\/","title":{"rendered":"OSS Hitler File Available Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a4792'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/hitlerfile.jpg\" width=\"184\" height=\"269\" align=\"left\">It<br \/>\n          has long been known that FDR commissioned a psychological profile of<br \/>\n          Adolf Hitler from the OSS, predecessor to the CIA. Now, 62 years later,<br \/>\n          it is available on the Cornell<br \/>\n          University library web site.<\/em><\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<p>He was<br \/>\n            a feminine boy, averse to manual work, who was &quot;annoyingly subservient&quot; to<br \/>\n            superior officers as a young soldier and had nightmares that were &quot;very<br \/>\n            suggestive of homosexual panic.&quot; The mass killings that he later<br \/>\n            perpetrated stemmed in part from a desperate loathing of his own<br \/>\n            submissive weakness, and the humiliations of being beaten by a sadistic<br \/>\n        father<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"www.lawschool.cornell.edu\/library\/donovan\/hitler\/\">OSS Hitler<br \/>\n          profile<\/a> from Cornell web site<\/p>\n<p>related article from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/03\/31\/science\/31hitler.html?ex=1269925200&amp;en=03334618fb9a9c33&amp;ei=5090&amp;partner=rssuserland\">New<br \/>\n            York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has long been known that FDR commissioned a psychological profile of Adolf Hitler from the OSS, predecessor to the CIA. Now, 62 years later, it is available on the Cornell University library web site. He was a feminine boy, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/03\/31\/oss-hitler-file-available-online\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1442],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-serious-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}