Chapter 2 of The Finders Operation - F
Christopher Bird – Author of the The Secret Life of Plants
Carl Schleicher was not the only Finders Operation connection to Mankind Research Unlimited. Was there someone that Finders Operation leader Marion Pettie was closer to that was an employee for Mankind Research Unlimited? Christopher Peter Bird was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on May 11, 1928, to Charles S. Bird and Julia Appleton. During his youth, Bird lived with a family of Caucasian Russian emigres and learned to speak fluent Russian. Christopher graduated in 1951 from Harvard College with a B.A. in Biology and later did his graduate work on Eastern European studies and Polynesian anthropology. Christopher served in the United States Army during the Vietnam War and specialized in psychological warfare. Christopher prepared a course of study in psychological warfare for the Divisional Staff of the South Vietnamese Army. After the war, Christopher became the Washington Representative for the Rand Development Corporation.[1] [2] [3]
“Mr. Bird, whose family said he served with the United States Central Intelligence Agency in the 1950’s (worked for the CIA in Japan), was best known for “The Secret Life of Plants: A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Men” (1973), which he wrote in collaboration with Peter Tompkins (whom was a previous member of the United States Office of Strategic Services). In the book, the authors said, among many other things, that experiments had shown that plants instantly registered the reactions of people they cared about who were thousands of miles away. “The Secret Life of Plants” became a best seller and was translated into many foreign languages. Elsa First, a psychoanalyst, wrote in reviewing that work that the two authors had “concocted a popular-science pastiche of New Occult hopes and brought them out into the marketplace, glibly tailored to bid for middle-class respectability.” “Crucial portions” of The Secret Life of Plants are dedicated to the “scientific work” of Cleve Backster (former interrogation specialist for the United States Central Intelligence Agency), who did experiments with plants hooked up to polygraph machines and supposedly showed that plants react to human stimuli. Scientists have heavily criticized Cleve Backster's work and many of his so-called experiments have not been able to be replicated.[4] [5] [6] [7]
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