That would have been the cultural environment in which people like Sidney Gottlieb grew up. Duncan: I think the furthest I got was to his office. He graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1924. Husband of Marielene Schlumberger. from the University of London in 1925, and an M.D. Amory: He doesnt explicitly say that he was the one who did the destroying. Amory: He remembers his dad working a lot during this time, which, definitely tracks. And how his work lives on. Here, patients were exposed to a range of RF and electromagnetic signals and monitored for changes in behaviour. Though he does seem to imply that it was done by him or someone in the family. A stronger personality would be able to maintain itself in heavy industrial situations, he theorised, while the weaker would not be able to cope with industrial conditions. On March 12, her records show she was considered "depatterned": She could no longer stand, speak, could barely swallow, was incontinent, and required treatment by an obstetrician for severe bleeding. And that seemed to us to be a highly questionable action for someone to take. Joseph Rauh Jr. was one of the attorneys that represented the group who filed lawsuits in the mid-1980s. Family 9 - Donald CAMERON 34, wife Agnes 30, children John 18, Margaret 13, Ann 12, Donald 10, Christian 8, Alexander 6, Dugald 2, Duncan 1/2 (see Donald Cameron) Family 10 - Duncan CAMERON 30 unmarried, sister Mrs McLENNAN 28 and Catherine McLENNAN 5 In Cameron, the CIA had a psychiatrist, conveniently outside the United States, who was willing to do terminal experiments in electroshock, sensory deprivation, drug testing, and all of the above combined. He had a Mercedes. Alison said that when her mother returned, it was no longer her mother. Particularly because we put that question to him today. Harvey: Here he is trying to reach the peak, trying to climb the mountain, reach this goal. According to The Guardian, it started with playing tapes designed to tap into the reason the patient sought help in the first place. If he had a choice he would have kept living forever. The only cure for mental illness, he theorized, was to eliminate its "carriers" from society altogether. These negative statements were sometimes taken from the therapy sessions Cameron conducted when patients first arrived, says Rebecca Lemov, author of "Brainwashing's Avatar: The Curious Career of Dr. Ewen Cameron." Being compared to the Nazi's most notorious doctor probably isn't the life goal of most medical professionals, so let's look at what he did to deserve this dubious title. Duncan Cameron: This is a picture of the whole family. And here he is with me many years ago. Donald Ewen Cameron was the key figure in the Montreal experiments. Under that program, more than 80,000 suspected North Vietnamese sympathizers were interrogated by US forces and their allies. In 1951 a few years before the U.S. government and the CIA approved MKUltra there was a top secret meeting held at Montreal's Ritz-Carlton. Ewen Donald Cameron. Cleghorn immediately went and took a long, hard look at what Cameron had actually been doing in his little corner of the university, and he was pretty shocked. Experts must develop methods of forcefully changing attitudes and beliefs to prevent the authoritarian overlord. Cameron began his training in psychiatry at the Glasgow Royal Mental Hospital in 1925. Duncan: Yes. With the results of the Manhattan project, Cameron feared that without proper re-organization of society, atomic weapons could fall into the hands of new, fearsome aggressors. There's Edgar Allan Poe stories and Sherlock Holmes stories. (McCoy, 2007) Indeed, Hebb and Camerons contribution as pioneers who designed the psychological paradigm for torture used by the CIA was acknowledged by The McGill Daily, in 2012. Cameron used his ideas to implement policies on who should govern and parent in society. music, sound effects, tone) are harder to translate to text. Jim: But again, you know, the deposition transcript, you're going to have to rely on that, like we did. He was always interested in the future. in psychological medicine from the University of Glasgow in 1924, a D.P.M. Amory: But Cameron was publishing articles and giving speeches about his work throughout his life. And he admits that the papers he removed are now destroyed. Instead of being considered for the fellowship, the neurologist was admitted to his Allan Memorial Institute, diagnosed with schizophrenia, and given such a heavy dose of barbiturates that it triggered an allergic reaction and she suffered from a prolonged loss of oxygen to the brain. She very slowly recovered mostly and died in 2017. (Beyond Nuremburg, ABA Journal March 1997; News accounts of five legal cases at: The Law and Mind Control Mind Control Through Five Cases). Scottish-American psychiatrist Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron led and conducted these experiments. Ben: Did he have any favorite sayings or idiosyncrasies or things like that that you remember or that made an impression on you when you were younger? As time has worn on, its become the families of those victims who shoulder the burden. The second stage involved extreme, high voltage multiple electroshock treatments three times daily. Cameron began to base some of his notions on race, as is seen in his theories regarding the German people. Donald Ewen Cameron (19011967) was born in Scotland in 1901 and graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1924. Even as he wrote about Cameron's "warmth [which was] never allowed to appear as intimacy," he wrote about a pretty big blind spot: Cameron had apparently hired a few assistants with "psychopathic personalities.". Ewen Cameron experimented on people right up until he left the Allan in 1964. Donald Hebb the psychiatrist who started the whole mess with his sensory deprivation experiments had even less kind things to say: "Cameron was irresponsible criminally stupid. I'm the oldest son of Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron and Jean Cameron. Kinzer: Later on, it became the basis for manuals that the CIA provided in the 1980s to police forces in Latin America that were known to practice torture. And in that sense, I think his ambition overrode his skills and his ability to do the research. They stressed how they'd been unwilling participants, and that they'd gone to the institute for other issues. Canada's McGill University has owned up to the part it played in MKUltra's Sub-project 68, and they say that it really started before Dr. Ewen Cameron even got involved. It describes various personalities that he believed were of marked danger to all members of society. Many spent this period of time in what he called the "sleep room," where they were drugged into a medically-induced coma that they were brought out of only to be given three meals a day and the occasional trip to the bathroom. About 55 families of victims who underwent medical experimentation in the 1950s and 1960s are suing for millions of dollars. To see some of the things that have happened are very upsetting. Duncan: I'm Duncan Cameron. You can see out a window. Allan Cameron. Heres journalist John Marks. Cameron focused primarily on biological descriptive psychiatry and applied the British and European schools and models of the practice. The idea that people needed to sit down and talk about their problems was the old way of doing things, and Cameron was living in an era where things were getting more and more automated. Cameron was born on December 24, 1901, in Scotland and graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1924. . Amory: They bounced around between foster homes and orphanages for years, experienced emotional and physical abuse. His goal was to standardize his treatment, and once he did it for schizophrenia, he believed he would open a "gateway through which we might pass into a new field of psychotherapeutic methods." Father, Son and CIA by Harvey Weinstein p. 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Were they *destroyed* or did you just take the patients name out? "A number of experiments at McGill University.". When asked about the decision to involve Cameron in MK-ULTRA, John Gittinger, the CIA officer in charge of monitoring his work said, quote, Now that was a foolish mistake. . The idea was to first "depattern" the person in question. [10] There he met A. T. Mathers, Manitoba's principal psychiatrist, who convinced Cameron in 1929 to move to Brandon, the second largest city of Manitoba, Canada. The human significance of his dark legacy was brought to public attention when nine of his Canadian victims filed lawsuits in 1980s twenty-one years after Camerons death. He was always attracted to these subjects for which there was no easy answer. We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each person's profile. We encourage you to research and examine these records to . Amory: But, Camerons extreme measures didnt result in a Nobel Prize or any mental health breakthroughs, which is why Harvey finds a certain poetry in his untimely death. Ben: He looks like hes having a good time. Shes also signed on to the class-action lawsuit against McGill University, the Canadian government, and the CIA. Esther Schrier who was a nurse at Montreal's Jewish General Hospital tragically lost her first child at just three weeks of age. And he didn't achieve that either. 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. And in a sense, that's what he wanted to do professionally. Cameron started to distinguish populations between "the weak" and "the strong". And he put Camerons treatment program under the microscope. Ben: The study also said that these treatments, the de-patterning and psychic driving programs including LSD injections, induced comas, sensory deprivation and electroshock had a detrimental impact on patients memories, which, in retrospect, might have been part of the point. Just as Sigrid Schultz stated in Germany will try it again, Cameron fostered a fear for Germans and their genetic determination. Operating under the umbrella of MKUltra were as many as 162 sub-projects, with as many as 80 different organizations involved in research. In his analysis, culture and society played a crucial role in the ability for one to function according to the demands necessary for human survival. Amory: And, they delivered, with a full transcript of Duncans deposition from November, 1983. She went from apartment to apartment, mental hospital to mental hospital. 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