NSC MEETING ON CANADA, TUESDAY, 18 FEBRUARY 1986 AT 1100

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• Publication Date: February 14, 1986
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NSC Meeting on Canada, Tuesday, 18 February 1986, at 1100
FROM:
George Kolt
EXTENSION
NO.
NIC No. 00788-86
NIO for EUROPE
R-9511
DATE
14 February 1986
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Has,the, CIA brainwashed Canada-40
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Whose side is Joe Clark on anyway - the CIA-'
and-Washington or Canada's? r~
When we last left our intriguing real-life dra- Allan
ma, you'll recall, the federal government was t Fotheringham
still waffling over the nine elderly Canadians who ilW 1 News
had their minds altered by the CIA-funded brain- -
washing experiments at .McGill University.
Between 1953 and. 1973, the CIA' spent. $25 mil-
lion attempting to learn bow to. control, the hu- Mr. Hulse and Mr. Knaus apologized for the
man mind using a front called the Society for McGill caper, why can't Mr. Clark produce Mr.
the Investigation of _Human, Ecology to spin mon- Hadwen for a court case involving nine aging'Ca-
ey through 50 universities in 21 countries. nadians - one plaintiff in his 80th year,. the oth-
Under the CIA code name MKULTRA, McGill's ers in their 70s?
Allan Memorial Institute run by the,controversial Would Canada rather stall until all have died
Dr. Ewen Cameron used LSD and other experi-, .off? One wonders.
meats on. 53 patients - nine. of ;whom, have been '?., . The .whole. thing" is so strange. Joe Rauh, who
trying 16 sue the. U.S. for some ,recompense for walks heavily -withta.cane,- recently had his 75th
birthby,and remarks sar-
their destroyed lives..,, donically ` hat his wife is
. ,The Canadian govern threatening divorce him
meat, essentially, is hiding if he doesn't get rid of this
- under the Conservatives case that has delayed his
now just as much as under catiremnt.
the, Liberals previously, in ,As he n has told Joe Clark
a case that has dragged,-. in :letters, his small firm
through the U.S. courts for
six years:. has spent more than 5,000
'"'uncompensated hours .on
Jon Rauh, a legendAry L ";:'the case. The legal bills
r aging American civil reach. beyond $175,000_. The
. here, has :
,rights .lawyer:
nearly. gone bankruptrpur aging~victims-40 crDr.
suing the case for the nine'=" Cameron of course have no :
Canadian citizens. He has money.
established that two CIA . "' The puzzled Rauh has
chiefs in Ottawa - one-written Clark: "I thought I
{ would receive the grateful
Stacy Hulse and one John support of the Canadian
Kenneth Knaus - official-
government, but with the
iy apologized to Canadian exception of the long-gone
officials for what was done Jeremy Kinsman, all I
at McGill. . .. ,
Then external affairs have received so far from
minister Allan MacEachen your government is hostili-
admitted as much in the jai .. ty."
House of Commons. (Kinsman, a former top
U.S. courts, submitting Joe Clark officer with Ambassador to CIA pleas on security Whose side is External Affairs Minister on? Allan Gotlieb here, is now
in Ottawa in the Marcel
grounds, have resisted
Rauh's request that Hulse and Knaus be pro- Masse battalions.)
duced. CIA lawyers here argue that Hulse and Knaus
So now Rauh, in his last ploy before trial, has cannot be produced for pre-trial testimony be-
asked national security is at stake. Rauh says
asked that Canada at least produce the man the their activities are "about as secret as those of
apologies were given to. We introduce you to the Elizabeth Taylor."
mysterious John Hadwen, resident of Rockcliffe, They were identified by members of the Cana-
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. dian Embassy after MacEachen publicly ac-
Is he dead and gone, never to be traced? Re- knowledged four dates between August 1977 and
tired, beyond official recall? Not at all, John February 1979 in which "expressions of regret"
Hadwen - the one man who can unravel the CIA were made to Canadian officials - one in Wash-
brainwashing case - is very alive and well, in ington and the other three in Ottawa.
fact a former Canadian High Commissioner to If the CIA is innocent, why is it offering
New Delhi, now back in the Security and Intelli- ;25,000 to each victim to settle the case? If the
gence branch at External Affairs down on Sussex U.S. won't produce Hulse and Knaus, -why won't
Drive. The exact fancy title: Director General, the federal government produce John Hadwen -
Bureau for Security Services (dealyng also with the man who received the apologies?
terrorism.) Whose side is Joe Clark on? Does the Canadian
Joe Rauh asks that Joe Clark at least produce government have any balls left?
Mr. Hadwen. If Mr. MacEachen admitted that Do not tune out on this one.
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