Kornberg, a close friend of Stephen Harper's mentor Tom Flanagan

Does it surprise anyone here that Kornberg, a close friend of Stephen Harper's mentor Tom Flanagan during the Vietnam War was “a consultant on psychological operations and counter-insurgency"?

But in a phone interview, he adds one detail: during the Vietnam War he was “a consultant on psychological operations and counter-insurgency” – a rare intelligence assignment for a political numbers cruncher. In 1967, Flanagan’s burgeoning friendship with Kornberg spawned his first scholarly paper: a joint study of the ultraconservative voters who backed Barry Goldwater’s abortive 1964 bid for the White House. Even then, Kornberg regarded Flanagan as one of Duke’s most conservative students. “He believes many people want a risk-free society,” Kornberg says. “He is sort of like Goldwater: he believes people have to take care of themselves.”

http://www.uoguelph.ca/shakespeare/pdf/walrus_flanagan.pdf