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Human Relations, Vol. 60, No. 3, 435-462 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0018726707076686

The Kurt Lewin–Goodwin Watson FBI/CIA files

A 60th anniversary there-and-then of the here-and-now

Bill Cooke

Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, drbill.cooke{at}gmail.com

FBI files on Kurt Lewin, founder of this journal, and his close colleague Goodwin Watson, reveal inter alia the investigation of Lewin postmortem by the FBI/CIA, and FBI surveillance of Watson while he was a proponent of corporate T-groups, a precursor to present day team development. Sixty years on from Human Relations' launch, and Lewin's premature death, the files enrich understandings of Lewin's, and Watson's, lives and work. The socio-political structures-in-process they evidence also support the idea of the T-group as a knowing political tactic, apparently emancipatory, yet immunized from (proto-)Cold War inquisition by its very focus on the here-and-now.

Key Words: Cold War • Goodwin Watson • Kurt Lewin • management history • T-groups


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