Hundreds of mentally ill patients who were subjected to barbaric CIA-funded brainwashing experiments by a Scottish doctor could be entitled to compensation following a landmark court ruling.
Doctor Ewan Cameron, who became one of the world's leading psychiatrists, developed techniques used by Nazi scientists to wipe out the existing personalities of people in his care.
Cameron, who graduated from Glasgow University, was recruited by the CIA during the cold war while working at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
He carried out mind-control experiments using drugs such as LSD on hundreds of patients, but only 77 of them were awarded compensation.
Now a landmark ruling by a Federal Court judge in Montreal will allow more than 250 former patients, whose claims were rejected, to seek compensation
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Patients were woken from drug-induced stupors two or three times a day for multiple electric shocks. In a specially designed "sleep room" made famous by Anne Collins's book of the same name, Cameron placed a speaker under the patient's pillow and relayed negative messages for 16 hours a day.
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In The Sleep Room by Anne Collins was made into a miniseries, The Sleep Room, on Canadian TV.
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The Sleep Room
Gripping survivor-centered accounts of medical atrocities committed by CIA-funded mind-control (MC) researchers during the Cold War are rarely found in traditional U.S. media. Neither are they the subject of emotionally powerful TV docu-dramas commonly produced for broadcast and cable television. In January 1998, the Canadian Broadcasting System (CBC) courageously filled this void, although the blackout on government MC history is near-total in the U.S.
The Sleep Room, a gut-wrenching four-hour miniseries, depicts the true story of Dr. Ewen Cameron's secret MKULTRA brainwashing experiments carried out in the late 50s and early 60s at Allan Memorial Institute in Montreal. Widespread publicity accompanying this major TV event has empowered many other Canadian survivors of nonconsensual brainwashing experiments in hospitals and prisons to come forward and seek justice in the courts.
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The ones we see are the culls, or the failures, the damaged and abandoned. It's not too hard to imagine successes. Adaptive protocols that took, intelligence-boosted, reflex-optimized, and securely-domiciled, off at the edge of things; these examples for all their outraging heartbreak are failures - not as human beings but as laboratory rodents - and they contribute to a sense of failed enterprise around the whole package. The brainwash crew as frantic villains in a science-fiction plotline, doomed and secondary.
It's not too hard to imagine a few generations of successes now, each raising the next, convinced through all the technical means within reach of their rightness, their superior fitness, the importance and beauty of the program, and the obvious proof as they shine against the proles, the slobby cul-de-sacs of undirected growth, and unfocused training.
Teams, and grouped endeavors, the seers and the logicians, the telepaths and the athletes; wistful regret that we couldn't have started long ago, how much farther along we'd be, how much surer the goal would be. It's a common trope but it's mistaken, that the products of these kinds of total-immersion rebuilding are heartless and mechanical. If anything their hearts are also more focused, more directed, less compromised by the confusion and noise of ordinary being. Emotionally heroic, trembling like Dobermans under the praising hands of their elders.
You'll notice there was a fire, and the records are gone.
What we see is the testimony of the discarded unusables. What we don't see are the ones that worked, that passed all the tests.
