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Project MKULTRA & Ewen Cameron 35 Project MKULTRA & Ewen Cameron 35 Mind-Control Part 1: Helms/Gottlieb destruction of MKULTRA $5 million in damages from the Canadian Mind-Control Part 1: government, George Scott, MD, the prison records. Fortunately for these survivors, paper Canadian and U.S. trails are being unearthed in government, psychiatrist, and Mark Eveson, a psychologist Canadian and U.S. Survivors Seek Justice hospital and prison archives. The eminently affiliated with Queen’s University.34 Survivors Seek Justice While the emotional shock of The Sleep freer Canadian press also helps build public Continued From Page 34 support for MC survivors’ lawsuits.32 Room still electrified Canadian airways, the Continued From Page 34 Gail Kastner, now in her 60s, did not Ottawa Citizen published an expose drawn from All branches of the military sponsored discover Ewen Cameron’s experiments were the interviews, archives, scientific journals and MC research in collaboration with the CIA.26 cause of her "wasted life" until reading a correspondence between doctors and prison Most civilian subjects were unwitting; even newspaper story in the Montreal Gazette in officials. It found that hundreds of federal CIA employees and Army recruits who 1992. She sued the Canadian government and prisoners throughout Canada were used for consented to drug and hypnosis experiments Montreal’s Royal Victoria Hospital in 1999 pharmaceutical trials of untested drugs, sensory were not properly informed as to their dangers. after the government rejected her claim for deprivation, and pain and electroshock studies. MKULTRA clearly violated the Nuremberg damages. A "brilliant student whose It uncovered a 1968 trial during which Code requirement that subjects give "informed domineering father checked her into the defendant Christine Bauman claimed that she consent" to participate in scientific research: institute for depression," Kastner says that suffered terrifying personality changes after "This means that the person involved should Cameron’s electroconvulsive "depatterning" being given LSD in 1961 at the Institute for have the legal capacity to give consent; should treatments and insulin-induced comas for five Psychotherapy, not far from Kingston Prison be so situated as to be able to exercise free weeks at a time are responsible for a life of where she had been incarcerated.35 power of choice, without the intervention of any screaming nightmares, recurring seizures, loss Furthermore, archival materials released element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, of memory, and long-term regression to an through the Proctor lawsuit indicate that some overreaching, or other form of constraint or infantile state. Her husband, son and twin sister abuses may have begun as early as March 24, coercion." This Code was established in 1948 could not tolerate her bizarre behavior, i.e. 1949, when a new electroshock machine arrived by the same U.S. Military Tribunal that tried 24 "wetting the living-room carpet, thumb- at Kingston Penitentiary. Electroshock has a Nazi doctors for deadly experiments on sucking, babytalk and wanting to be bottlefed." history of being used as punishment in Nazi concentration camp inmates. It was binding on Abandoned by her own family, she was rescued Germany and against Blacks in apartheid South the U.S. as of February 26, 1953.27 from homelessness by the Jewish Family Africa.36 How do we explain the hundreds of Service.33 By late 1999, additional Canadian thousands of human guinea pigs callously During the era of Cameron’s women and men came forward to claim they sacrificed during the Cold War?28 As Paperclip brainwashing regimens, psychiatrists and were used in prison and hospital experiments in researcher Linda Hunt concluded, "...we used psychologists in other Canadian institutions the 1960s and 1970s. A class-action suit against Nazi science to kill our own people."29 Perhaps were using similar methods to "treat" people the prison system was filed anonymously by survivor stories can help us understand what haphazardly diagnosed with depression, "Jane Doe," a 75-year-old grandmother who went wrong and why our secular democracy schizophrenia or, in prisons, what was realized after reading newspaper stories that she allows huge bureaucracies of unsupervised, perceived as "antisocial" conduct. Dorothy was one of the 23 women who were given LSD supersecret warriors guided only by the cult-like Proctor was a rebellious 17-year-old when she and other terrifying "treatments" without their religion of "national security" and the obsessive entered the Prison for Women in Kingston, consent while in prison . Her lawsuit charges search for "enemies of the state." The death of Ontario on a three-year term for robbery. Scott and Eveson with assault, intentional communism as a military threat has not dented Primed first with sensory deprivation and affliction of mental suffering, and negligence. the religious zeal that still inspires the electroshock, she was administered LSD in Her access to the Eveson’s clinical notes, military/intelligence establishment. 1961 by a prison psychologist, then locked into released as a result of the Proctor suit, helped James Stanley, a career soldier, suffered "The Hole" to endure what for her was "Dante’s her recognize what had been done to her 38 soul murder as an Army lab rat. He was given Inferno." years ago.37 LSD in 1958 without being warned of its Proctor, a Native and Black Canadian Less documented, however, are the dangers, as were 1000 other "volunteer" from Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, calls this connections of these prison experiments to U.S. soldiers. Stanley suffered hallucinations, "mind rape." She says she was singled out for mind-control funding sources. Canadian memory loss, incoherence, and a negative such "Nazi-style science" because she had twice newspaper stories usually include the caveat personality change. Fits of uncontrollable escaped from the prison, bringing unfavorable that although prison use of LSD and "shock violence destroyed his family, and restricted his publicity to the authorities there. Proctor asserts therapy" coincided with CIA "brainwashing" ability to earn a living. And he never knew why that the steady prison diet of LSD and other experiments at Allan Memorial Institute, no until 1975, when the Army invited him to experimental drugs led her down the path to evidence has been found to link the programs. participate in a follow-up study on "volunteers drug addiction for 24 years. After publishing However, Allen Hornblum, author of Acres of who participated" in LSD testing. In United Chameleon: The Life of Dorothy Proctor in Skin: The Human Experiments at Holmesburg States vs. Stanley,30 the Supreme Court 1994, this articulate and determined woman Prison, said on a 1998 CBC radio show that majority decided against Stanley’s claim for launched a complaint with the Corrections some of the experiments conducted in U.S. damages. However, Justices Brennan, Marshall Service of Canada (CSC), saying she suffered prisons during this era were sponsored by the and O’Connor dissented, asserting their belief permanent brain damage and hallucinations U.S. Army and the CIA. And he pointed out that that the Nuremberg Code’s standard of haunting her to the present day. shortly after seven Nazi doctors were hung at informed consent applies to soldiers as well as "I was reduced to a lab rat, a monkey in Nuremberg for horrific experiments on inmates civilians. In 1996 James Stanley finally a cage," she told the Ottawa Citizen (7/21/98), at Bergen Belsen, Auschwitz and Ravensbruk, wrangled a $400,000 settlement from the which has been covering the Proctor and other U.S. doctors were injecting plutonium and government, but no apology for having ruined Canadian human experimentation cases for a uranium into unwitting hospital patients.38 his life.31 number of years. A government inquiry turned hospitals and prisons.40 Unacknowledged civilian wreckage up documentation (including clinical notes) that from unimaginably cruel brainwashing Proctor was not the only victim of involuntary Continued on Page 35 experiments continues to bob to the surface prison experimentation 1960-1963. At least 23 from a vast sea of still-classified, cold-war other women prisoners were also used as human experiments. Survivors of ghoulish medical guinea pigs. Only four of these women have tortures or the families of deceased victims are been found to date. And instead of complying turning up in Canadian and U.S. courtrooms with the CSC’s recommendation of an apology today demanding compensation for a lifetime of and financial compensation to Proctor, the suffering. Some Canadian plaintiffs appear to Canadian government commissioned an "ethics have a slight advantage over their U.S. cousins, study" at McGill University. Meanwhile Proctor who are severely hampered by the 1973 hired lawyer James Newland and filed suit for