Macabre Montreal by Mark Leslie

Author:Mark Leslie
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2018-09-14T16:00:00+00:00

In 1940, Sir Hugh Allan’s son, Sir Montague Allan, donated the mansion to the Royal Victoria Hospital. The Allan Memorial Institute opened in July of 1944 and launched what was considered a very modern Department of Psychiatry as part of McGill University’s Faculty of Medicine, with an initial offering of fifty-two patient beds.

MK-ULTRA

At the end of the Korean War, something was alarming the U.S. government. Some of the American soldiers who had been taken as prisoners of war returned home with decidedly different views, values, and thoughts, described as anti-American and Communist. U.S. government agencies, such as the CIA, believed this was evidence that foreign militaries had mastered methods of brainwashing and mind control as a powerful new weapon.

Fears that countries deemed hostile to the United States had the ability to use chemical and biological agents against Americans and their allies led to the development of a defence program designed to discover similar techniques. The plan was to develop these techniques so that American intelligence agents could learn to detect them and be able to counteract.

Among other efforts, such as Project CHATTER (a Navy project involving a “truth drug”), Project BLUEBIRD/ARTICHOKE (a program designed to promote memory enhancement and the establishment of defensive means for preventing hostile mind control), and MKNAOMI (a covert support base to meet clandestine operational requirements and stockpile severely incapacitating and even lethal materials), MK-ULTRA was developed.

MK-ULTRA, approved by the director of Central Intelligence on April 13, 1953, was the principal CIA program concerned with the research and development of chemical, biological, and radiological agents capable of employment in clandestine operations to control human behaviour.

MK-ULTRA documents were destroyed in 1973 under the orders of Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, Chief of Technical Services Division. But various hearings, pieces of testimony, and recorded eyewitness accounts survived and can be put together to create a disturbing and unforgettable tale. In an almost 180-page document of a United States Senate joint hearing before the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research of the Committee of Human Resources that took place on August 3, 1977, the chairman of the Health Subcommittee, Massachusetts Senator Edward M. Kennedy, stated:

Some two years ago, the Senate Health Subcommittee heard chilling testimony about the human experimentation activities of the Central Intelligence Agency. The Deputy Director of the CIA revealed that over thirty universities and institutions were involved in an “extensive testing and experimentation” program which included covert drug tests on unwitting citizens “at all social levels, high and low, native Americans and foreign.” Several of these tests involved the administration of LSD on “unwitting subjects in social situations.”

The hearing revealed that there were 149 MK-ULTRA subprojects, many of which appeared to have some connection with research into “behavioural modification, drug acquisition and testing or administering drugs surreptitiously” and that the Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology (also known as the Human Ecology Foundation) was established to undertake research in the general area of the behavioural sciences. This foundation provided funding to

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