We love making Endless Thread, and we want to be able to keep making it far into the future. After one test he noted: "Although the patient was prepared by both prolonged sensory isolation (35 days) and by repeated depatterning, and although she received 101 days of positive driving, no favourable results were obtained." Click here for the donation page. Ian Donald Cameron is geboren in het jaar 1932 in Blairmore House, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, zoon van Ewen Donald CAMERON en Enid Agnes Maud LEVITA. Cameron titled this procedure "intrapsychic" (a term derived from the psycho-somatic relationship of hospital patients). Some would bang their heads against the walls relentlessly, trying to get the helmets off and that's when he realized he could just put them back into a medically-induced coma and play the tapes for as long as he wanted. Cameron further argued that "the weak" must not influence children. This must be very difficult, very complicated for them. Canada. He had a Mercedes. They fear the stranger, they fear the new idea; they are afraid to live, and scared to die." Amory: Sarah Anne Johnson, whose grandmother Val Orlikow was a patient of Ewen Camerons, has a response to Duncan that, considering what her family has been through as a result of his fathers experimentation, is surprising. It's Boston local news in one concise, fun and informative email. The FBI's FOIA Library contains many files of public interest and historical value. He was always attracted to these subjects for which there was no easy answer. The transcript has been edited from our original script for clarity. Duncan: I have no recollection whether there were any papers relating to any of the--. Her niece later said, "She had electric shock equipment put on her head so many times that it [remained] in her subconscious." Ben: But, as human experiments at the Allan Memorial Institute, and MK-ULTRAs mind control efforts, fade into history, reduced to references in tv shows and video game plot points, there are troubling examples of these techniques still in use today. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Cameron continued his work on memory and its relationship to aging. In 1929 he moved to Canada where he worked in the Brandon Mental Hospital in Manitoba as the physician in charge. He was always interested in the future. At least, until after Cameron left the Allan. 3.99 Stephen Kinzer: In the end, Gottlieb was forced to conclude that there's no such thing as mind control and that everything he had done had been for naught. We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each person's profile. Ben: After Marians mom left the Allan, she struggled for the rest of her life to regain her sense of self and mental clarity. That's absolutely the stuff of a terrifying Netflix horror series, but it was very real and it destroyed an unknown number of lives. McGill's then-director of psychology, Dr. Donald Hebb, took the money and set up experiments using his ready-and-waiting pool of test subjects: students. He argued that people with mental illnesses could spread and transmit their diseases. In 1938 he moved to Albany, New York, where he received his diplomate in psychiatry and thus was certified in psychiatry. According to Cameron's psychiatric analysis of the German people, they were not suitable to have children or hold positions of authority because of a genetic tendency to organize society in a way that fostered fearsome aggression and would lead to war rather than peace; he would repeatedly use the German as the archetypal character structure on which to ground the most psychologically deviant humans. In other words, they really must have seen that there was something wrong and crazy. Sounds questionable? We encourage you to research and examine these records . Jean Steel was another one of Cameron's patients, and like the others she didn't sign up to be a part of MKUltra, depatterning, or psychic driving at all. The CBC says the CIA recruited Dr. Ewen Cameron a few years into MKUltra, using the Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology to approach Cameron and tell him that he really, really needed to apply for one of their grants. Under that program, more than 80,000 suspected North Vietnamese sympathizers were interrogated by US forces and their allies. Velma Orlikow, for instance, was dealing with postpartum depression. Josh Crane Twitter Producer, Podcasts & New ProgramsJosh is a producer for podcasts and new programs at WBUR. There are a few ways to reach us: This content was originally created for audio. And that kind of explains why, when they were ordered to stop their depatterning and psychic driving of patients, they just sort of didn't. By literally wiping the minds of his subjects clean by depatterning and then trying to program in new behavior, Cameron carried the process known as brainwashing to its logical extreme., The dehumanizing nature of his methods were published in premier medical journals without any complaints from other psychiatrists; Cameron read papers about depatterning with electroshock before meetings of his fellow psychiatrists; and they rewarded him, electing him president of the American, Canadian, and World Psychiatric Associations. That, says McGill University, was the work of Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron, a psychiatrist who performed experiments so horrifying he's been called "Scotland's Mengele." And he was searching for ways of doing something about them. In 1943, Cameron was invited to McGill University in Montreal by neurosurgeon Dr Wilder Penfield. [citation needed][21]. Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel, 17t. Marian Read: So for me, the importance of all of this is to get it out of the shadows of pulp fiction, you know Amory: This is Marian Read. . In 1984, New Scientist reported on a lawsuit filed on behalf of some of the people who ended up a part of MKUltra's Sub-project 68. Photo by Courtesy of Julie Tanny For the first four years of Julie Tanny's. His support of Charles Edward Stuart was instrumental in the Jacobite Rising of 1745 Lochiel and the Jacobite cause In theory, he was supposed to help her anxiety, depression, and postpartum depression. She said that at the time, Cameron was something of a celebrity. Ben: Sure. Marian: It's become so embedded in our narrative, in our pop culture, without people really understanding that it happened It was real. The goal, says CBC, was to reduce the patient to what was called a "childlike state," with some people destroyed so completely that they could no longer walk, talk, or dress themselves Shoelaces? In 1933, he married Jean C. Rankine, whom he had met while they were students at the University of Glasgow. Joseph Rauh Jr. was one of the attorneys that represented the group who filed lawsuits in the mid-1980s. Ben: Hebb did an interview with a film producer in the 1980s, saying, quote, Cameron was irresponsible criminally stupid. They stressed how they'd been unwilling participants, and that they'd gone to the institute for other issues. [5], Cameron was involved in administering electroconvulsive therapy and experimental drugs, including poisons such as curare and hallucinogens such as lysergic acid diethylamide, to patients and prisoners without their knowledge or informed consent. I'm sure part of him very much wanted to be the person who cures mental illness. Duncan: Oh yes, he enjoyed a good joke even if they were off color. And in that sense, I think his ambition overrode his skills and his ability to do the research. Amory: Duncan, one of the two lawyer sons, admits hes familiar with those 12 boxes of papers, and then explains what happened to them. Like in Nicaragua, where he was The New York Times Bureau Chief. He actually has a smile. Deze informatie is onderdeel van Families Klein, Ree, de Breed en de Vries van Terschelling van Marthan Klein op Genealogie Online. In 2020, director Stephen Bennett released "Eminent Monsters," a film that examined the link between Cameron's work and the torture techniques used by organizations around the world, including the CIA. ", So, they went back to a 1983 court transcript, where Duncan was called to the stand to testify about what happened to his father's documents. A Canadian government dismissed the CIAs role as a side issue or red herring; Ottawas Justice Department denied legal responsibility, offering each victim a nugatory $20,000 nuisance payment. Ben: Jims right. That would have been the cultural environment in which people like Sidney Gottlieb grew up. Memories are not the most reliable form of evidence. Kinzer: This idea of some evil scientists taking control of someone else's mind is a wonderfully appealing trope, and it's been used repeatedly in very popular movies and books and stories. [27] Such consequences included incontinence, amnesia, forgetting how to talk, forgetting their parents, and thinking their interrogators were their parents. Everyone who makes a monthly donation will get access to upcoming bonus content from the making of our series. These experiments were typically carried out on patients who had entered the Institute for minor problems such as anxiety disorders and postnatal depression; many were permanently debilitated after these treatments. Amory: Eventually though, it wasnt just Camerons successor who was calling him out. The behaviour of a mental patient could resemble the behaviour of a patient with, for example, syphilis, and then a somatic cause could be deduced for a psychological illness. She was a former captain of the Scottish field hockey team, a competitive tennis player,[11] and lecturer in mathematics at the University of Glasgow. Ben: But Duncan is still, in some ways, trying to defend his dads honor. And the funeral was yet another opportunity for Marian and her siblings to learn more about the mother who had been absent for so much of their childhoods. We were unable to subscribe you to WBUR Today. The victims and their lawyers want us to remember that this story isnt over. Patients were tested in the Radio Telemetry Laboratory, which was built under Cameron's direction. Or do you remember any of --. The Canadian government also funded the project. Heres John Marks again. While more is known about the experiments of Dr. Ewen Cameron than about some of the other MKUltra projects, there's still a lot of information missing. In some cases, the same phrases reappear all through these. Husband of Marielene Schlumberger. You can buy the full book for only . After his treatments patients were unable to function; they had been reduced to a state of infancy. Amory: Marian was 5 years old when her mom was admitted to the Allan for what she thinks was postpartum depression. She's the exception, though, and the CBC says that 2020 saw others like Lana Ponting, who was just 16 when she was sent to the sleep room hoping that year, it would finally be their year, thanks to a class action lawsuit filed in 2019. But he has fond childhood memories of summers spent in New Yorks Adirondack Mountains, where his dads competitive nature led him again and again to the line of the horizon. The guilt of her baby's deadly staph infection stayed with her, and when she became pregnant with her second, and the CBC says she went into Cameron's care in February of 1960. If I put you through this program, within 24 hours to 48 hours you'll be in a diagnosable psychotic state. He came up with the idea that if he presented the world and confronted the Germans with the atrocities committed during the war, the world and the Germans would refrain from repeated acts of extreme aggression. Allan Cameron. He first solved the problem by wiring the speakers into football helmets and locking them onto patients' heads, but that ended up being not ideal. Any documents that related to patient treatment were destroyed? He never got one. Pregnant with son Lloyd, Esther was kept in a drug-induced coma in the sleep room for a month, where she lost 13 pounds. He died of a heart attack while climbing a mountain in the Adirondacks in 1967. Then we brought them down I think it was probably during one of my infrequent jaunts up there I brought them down in my car, and I then took them over and deposited them at the American Psychiatric Association. Montreal's CTV says that by the time she died in 2011, she had spent the last 20 years of her life as an "infant," unable to allow anyone near her head without a terrible reaction. [31][2] In her book, In the Sleep Room: The Story of the CIA Brainwashing Experiments in Canada,[32] author Anne Collins explored the history of Cameron and Montreal's Allan Memorial Institute. Ben: Robert Cleghorn, a former member of Camerons staff, took over after Cameron stepped down. So you can see that the work of Ewen Cameron, filtered through Gottlieb, definitely informs the interrogation techniques, if we want to call them that, that the United States has been using on its prisoners in Guantanamo and in black sites around the world. 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