Friday, March 1, 2013

It seems that while we were all worrying about the DOD, Yale Psychiatrist Charles Morgan was already helping the Federal Bureau of Investigation, an institution with its own lengthy history in New Haven, to practice interrogation tactics on New Haven's growing Colombian immigrant population.


Local immigrant advocates like Kica Matos are more skeptical of Morgan’s use of New Haven immigrants for terrorism-related or military research. Matos, a longtime Fair Haven-based immigrant rights activist, said she and fellow organizers are gearing up a campaign to urge local Latino immigrants not to participate in Morgan’s research.
Matos said Morgan’s current study at the Gold building “troubles” her because it racially profiles “vulnerable communities of color.” She also questioned the ultimate purpose of the research into how to question and assess responses from foreign-born Latinos.
“Interrogations are inherently coercive,” said Matos, the director of immigrant rights & racial justice for the national Center for Community Change. “The FBI is not a friend of communities of color. They have a long history of engaging in the most subversive and devious engagement with communities of color.COINTELPRO is an example.”


EDIT: Yale responds by disavowing involvement in Morgan's private research, of course.

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