Charles A. Morgan III is an American psychiatrist who has studied post-traumatic stress disorder.
Morgan has written over 100 peer reviewed science papers about PTSD and the nature of acute stress on human cognition and military performance.
Morgan's research has been conducted, in part, at military training sites (such as Survival School) because, unlike traditional laboratory settings, these venues offer an opportunity to evaluate the impact of realistic stress SERE.
[2][3][4][5] In a June 2007 article on the adoption of Soviet extended interrogation methods by American interrogators, The New York Times quoted Morgan:[6] “How did something used as an example of what an unethical government would do become something we do?”According to a 2015 report solicited by the American Psychological Association, and written by David H. Hoffman and other colleagues at the law firm Sidley Austin LLP, Dr. Morgan was a contract worker for the CIA in the early 2000s.
According to Hoffman, et al., Dr. Morgan worked under CIA psychologist Kirk Hubbard in the Agency's Research and Analysis Branch of the CIA's Operational Assessment Division, which the report describes as focused on psychological assessment of spies and potential spies.