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Dr Ewan Cameron

• Cameron worked for Dulles in the OSS before it became the CIA.

During his career, Cameron would found the Canadian Mental Health Association

and serve as chairman of the Canadian Scientific Planning Committee, president

of the American Psychiatric Association, president of the Canadian PsychiatricAssociation, and the first president of the World Association of Psychiatrists. He

was also the psychiatrist most thoroughly co-opted by U.S. intelligence servicesin all of North America.

His intelligence career began at least as early as 1941, when he was sent by Allen

Dulles to England on behalf of the OSS to 'ascertain the state of mind' of RudolphHess, Hitler's right-hand man who had supposedly 'defected' to the U.K..

Cameron was during this time a member of the Military Mobilization Committee

of the American Psychiatric Association where he also worked closely withDulles. By 1943, Cameron had founded the Allan Memorial Institute in Montreal

with a generous grant from (where else?) the Rockefeller Foundation. The

institute would continue to receive lavish support from the Rockefellers for atleast the next decade, as well as the generous support of the CIA through various

funding conduits.

In 1946, Cameron helped craft the Nuremberg Code on medical research, setting

ethical guidelines for human research that were perhaps nowhere more flagrantly

ignored than at his own Institute. Cameron's MK-ULTRA operation conducted

what were undoubtedly among the most appalling of the CIA funded mind controlexperiments (those that are well documented, anyway), utilizing what he

euphemistically termed 'depatterning' and 'psychic driving.'

During the depatterning phase, the objective was to completely obliterate the

existing personality. This was done by restraining the victims (oops, I meant

 patients) for weeks on end and subjecting them to massive doses of drugs andrepeated electroshock treatments. Cameron preferred the Page-Russell

electroshock technique - controversial even among the shock docs of the time – 

which employed six consecutive shocks rather than just one big jolt. This wasn't

quite enough for Cameron though, so he cranked up the power to as much astwenty times the normal strength, and administered the 'treatment' two or three

times a day. Concurrently given three times a day were drug cocktails containing

every combination of incapacitating and mind-altering drug imaginable.

Following some two months of this medical torture, patients were then subjected

to psychic driving, during which they were again incapacitated by drugs – including curare, a paralyzing agent which can be lethal - while taped messages

were played continuously through speakers placed in pillows or in helmets the

unfortunate victims were forced to wear. This also went on for weeks on end, withthe subjects remaining drug-addled throughout the process. Cameron

experimented with other techniques as well, including psychosurgery and the

extensive use of LSD; one woman was kept locked in a small box for thirty-five

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consecutive days.

In 1960, Cameron was asked by Allen Dulles to evaluate the mental state of U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers upon his return from the Soviet Union. So impressed

was Dulles with Cameronís assessment of Powers that he next had him draft a

 psychological profile of Patrice Lumumba - the first Prime Minister of the newlyindependent Congo - to determine what the most efficient means of assassinating

him might be. Premier spymaster William Buckley took the agency's file on

Lumumba to Montreal for Cameron's review; by January of the following year,Lumumba was dead, his body dissolved in acid after enduring a month of barbaric

torture. As for Buckley, he would later be present at both the attempted

assassination of Pope John Paul and the successful assassination of Egyptian

President Anwar Sadat, whose security forces he had personally trained.

Working with Cameron on his experiments - some of which are believed by some

researchers to have been terminal - were Leonard Rubenstein, an Englishman and

former member of the British Army's Royal Signal Core, and Jan Zielinski, aPolish-born engineer who knew only limited English and rarely spoke. These two

 built a 'grid room' and an isolation chamber in the basement of Allan Memorialand were given unlimited access to patients, despite the fact that neither had any

formal medical training or qualifications. Also on board was Dr. Hassam Azima – 

rumored to be a blood relative of the U.S.-installed Shah of Iran - and Dr. Wilder Penfield, a prominent neurologist.

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• Recruited by the CIA, he commuted to Montreal every week to work at the Allan

Memorial Institute to carry out MKULTRA experiments there.

In addition to LSD, Cameron also experimented with various paralytic drugs, aswell as electroconvulsive therapy at 30 to 40 times the normal power. His

"driving" experiments consisted of putting subjects (human beings) into drug-

induced coma for months on end (up to three in one case) while playing tape

loops of noise or simple repetitive statements.

His experiments were typically carried out on patients who had entered the

institute for minor problems such as anxiety disorders and post-partumdepression, many of whom suffered permanently from his actions.