Brainwashed : MK Ultra & The Secret CIA Experiments in Canada - The Fifth Estate
It sounded like a bad Hollywood horror movie. Patients at a
psychiatric hospital subjected to intensive shock treatments, LSD and
drug-induced comas. But for hundreds of Canadians, it was an all-too real
nightmare. They were brutal experiments on human guinea pigs -- funded by the
Canadian government and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Concerned about
the brainwashing of U.S. soldiers who had been Korean prisoners of war, the CIA
funded mind-control experiments across North America. They turned to Dr. Ewen
Cameron and Montreal’s famed Allen Memorial Institute. In the 1950s and 1960s,
patients committed to the hospital for something as simple as post-partum
depression were subjected to chemically- induced sleep for weeks and continuous
rounds of electroshocks.
MK- ULTRA ORGANIZED CHILD ABDUCTION
Many emerged broken and destroyed, their memories
erased and minds permanently damaged. The fifth estate first investigated this
story in 1980. And for two decades, we kept on the story… following the victims
who successfully sued the CIA. And questioning why the Canadian government was
so reluctant to admit its responsibility. Never has the federal government
apologized for funding those experiments. Now as result of our reporting, more
and more victims and their families are coming forward. An estimated 90
patients were eventually compensated, but hundreds more who tried to get
compensation were rejected because the Ottawa said they hadn't been
"de-patterned" enough or didn’t have the necessary documents to
warrant compensation. Newly unearthed documents reveal how Ottawa kept files
secret, misplaced vital documents – and forced victims to keep compensation
agreements confidential.
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