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Dr. Ewen Cameron wanted to win a Nobel Prize for his work in psychiatry. He never got one. He died of a heart attack while climbing a mountain in the Adirondacks in 1967. So we don’t have access to Cameron’s thoughts on his own legacy. But we do have his son, Duncan Cameron. In the final …
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Ben: Val Orlikow went to the Allan in 1956 for postpartum depression. The treatment left her mentally shattered and her family in financial ruin. Under the guise of being treated, she’d become the victim of experiments that were funded in part by the CIA — electroshocks, recordings played on loop …
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In the early 1980s, victims of Dr. Ewen Cameron’s mind-altering experiments at the Allan Memorial Institute began a slow process of finding each other and building a case against the CIA for funding Cameron’s work. The legacy of that case has played a key role in two separate lawsuits in progress …
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As the fear of communism was rising in the U.S. after World War II, government officials set their sights on developing a weapon that sounds straight out of science fiction: mind control. This effort was led by the CIA in a program called MK-ULTRA, which was made up of 149 “subprojects” involving …
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As the fear of communism was rising in the U.S. after World War II, government officials set their sights on developing a weapon that sounds straight out of science fiction: mind control. This effort was led by the CIA in a program called MK-ULTRA, which was made up of 149 “subprojects” involving …
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Project MKULTRA was the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) mind control program that used LSD and hypnosis techniques to brainwash individuals. Theodore Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, was a participant in one of Henry Murray’s experiments at Harvard where Murray’s team bullied, harassed, …
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“Madness: The Secret Mission for Mind Control and the People Who Paid the Price” — an investigative series in 5 parts — unravels the shocking history of CIA-funded mind-control experiments. In our first episode, we share powerful accounts of abuse at a psychiatric hospital in Montreal, and we …
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WBUR announces Madness, a special investigation from Endless Thread, the podcast created in partnership with Reddit. Madness unravels the shocking story of forced brainwashing and the murky history of CIA-funded mind-control experiments. Co-hosts Ben Brock Johnson and Amory Sivertson, along with …
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EASTHAM, Mass. (AP) — One of the jurors who convicted notorious crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger says she regrets her decision after learning that he was an unwitting participant in a covert CIA experiment with LSD. Bulger terrorized Boston from the 1970s into the 1990s with a campaign of murder, …
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One of the most bizarre and disturbing government programs in American history is in the news again. On Tuesday, the Associated Press reported that a member of the jury in the trial of James “Whitey” Bulger, the infamous Boston mobster convicted in 2013 of killing eleven people between the 1970s …
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