THE TERRITORIAL IMPERATIVE AND RELATED ITEMS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP69B00596R000100080005-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 13, 2000
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: December 14, 1966
• Content Type: MF

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ORD 5535-66
14 December 1966
MEMORANDUM FOR: Acting Deputy Director for Science and
Technology
SUBJECT : The Territorial Imperative and Related
Items
1. I understand from that the Director
asked you whether I had a chance to look at The Territorial
Imperative and was interested in an evaluation of it and more
specifically what one might do about it. The following comments
are the gist of my feelings about it.
2. No doubt the Director and Deputy Director were im-
pressed by The Territorial Imperative because it made sense to
them. It should. The ideas expressed by Ardrey and to some
extent by Lorenz are technically and scientifically substantiated
on the basis of extensive experimentation cited in these books. I
should say that the degree of scientific validity to Ardrey's concept
of group behavior is far greater than the experimental data from
Freud and others. To try to summarize Ardrey's work, I would
say he is pointing out that man's grout behavior is not random and
is motivated by an "innate" desire for possession of a defined
territory (real estate), by the need for stimulation, and a need for
identity (the age old question of "Who am I?"). He does not exclude
other well-known motivators such as love, hate, etc. The impor-
tant point is that whatever these forces are, they are exhibited in
a group within certain well-defined constraints throughout the
animal kingdom including man. The various external forces which
impinge upon modern societies are so complex that man has lost
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