THE CIA AFFAIR: A BAD TRIP REVISITED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000300500004-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 20, 2004
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: February 12, 1979
• Content Type: MAGAZINE

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MacLEAN'S MAGAZINE (CANADA)
12 February 1979
'By Julianne Labreche
he scene was long ago and far away, o
1 in Zurich back in 1957, when Dr. D. Z
Ewen Cameron, described by one col- Author Marks: on the trail of the CIA
league as "the godfather of Canadian
psychiatry," rose to present his.-star-American Central Intelligence Agency
tling and severe new treatment for to learn how to control the human mind.
schizophrenia. Some members of his Between 1953 and 1973 the agency
distinguished audience at the Second undertook a full-scale attempt to dis-
International Congress for Psychiatry, cover and develop techniques of mind
which included the grand old man of the control and brainwashing, fearing that
profession, Dr. Carl Jung, seemed sur- the Soviets and Chinese had already
prised by Cameron's harsh "de-pattern- perfected the methodology.
ing" techniques, but he was not rattled. The.project was hidden behind a suc-
Cameron frankly described his method cession of code names-first BLUEBIRD,
as "a sharp tool." ? then ARTICHOKE and later IK-DELTA-
The real razor's edge of Cameron's and then a "study group" called the So-
research only became public last week ciety for the Investigation of Human
with the release of a chilling new book,. Ecology was established as a scientific
by American author John Marks, The front through which the CIA could sub-
Search for the "Manchurian Candi^ sidize research by recognized authori-
date." It links Cameron, who was direc- ties who had no idea of the ulterior pur-
tor of McGill University's Allan Memo- poses of their new sponsor. The society
rial Institute from its founding in 1943 was involved with 50 or 60 different uni-
until his abrupt departure in 1964, with_ versities in 21 countries. The little-
a 20-year, $25-million effort by-.,the. known but. fearsome drug LSD was em-
STAT
ployed in mind-influencing experiments
involving, in some cases, unsuspecting
prisoners, prostitutes and other "unde-
sirables" on the fringes of U.S. society.
At McGill, the only Canadian univer-
sity to become involved, the aggressive
and pioneering Dr. Cameron conducted
his experiments. The human ecology so-
ciety, as Marks reveals in his book,
sponsored the program at Allan Memo-
rial from 1957 to 1964, advancing rela-
tively modest amounts of $4,000 and up-
ward a year-never more than $20,000.
The centre's growing fame. drew de-
pressed and schizophrenic - patients
from all over the world, but of the 53
known to have undergone the treatment
many were Canadians. Maclean's has
talked to two of these. Val Orlikow, wife
of federal NDP MP David Orlikow, de-
scribes her experiences as "the coldest,
most impersonal treatment that any- i
body could give to anybody." (See box.)dTAT
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