THE VICTIMS OF MKULTRA

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 14, 2005
• Sequence Number: 36
• Publication Date: April 25, 1985
• Content Type: NSPR

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LETTERS TQ THE EDITQR
The Victims of .MKULTRA
The Post is .quite right in urging
that victims of CIA-supported ' brain-
washing experiments "must be found
and cared for" ("The Victims of
MKULTRA," editorial, April 18J.
Long before my wife and eight
other Canadian victims of MKULTRA
sued the U.S. government, then CIA
Director Stansfield Turner publicly
promised two U.S. Senate coft~-mit-
tees that the CIA would begin' "the
process of attempting to identify the
individuals and determining what is
our proper responsibility to them."
Had the CIA honored these commit-
ments, the Canadian victims of
MKULTRA would have not been
forced to sue for reparations, and the
hundreds of other victims would-have
long since learned of their umvitting
involvement in CIA experiments so
they too could seek medical and finan-
cial assistance.
As for the suit by the Canadian
'~ MKULTRA victims, the CIA has done
everything in its power to stall in the
hope that attrition will wear down my
wife and the eight other Canadians
who were subjected to CIA-supported
brainwashing experiments with LSD
and other damaging techniques:
Until compensation is secured, we
will continue our court fight, confident
that justice ultimately will prevail
DAVID ORLIKOW
Member of Parllsment
Winnipeg North?
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 r CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
~~ ~-~~~-~-- 24 Apri 1 1985
~.~,~~~ i~~~~s ssib~e rows ~o peace
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ment appears today on.page 18, described his scenario as
By Rush>rvorth M. Kidder
Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
Boston
"I feel with an Old Testament certainty that we cannot
continue indefinitely the way the world is now going,
with the world's weapons set on a hair trigger and the
doomsday clock at five minutes to noon."
With those sober words, Colorado Gov Richard
Lamm summarized the thutking that led him to submit
his prize-winning essay to the Monitor's "Peace 2010"
contest.
Speaking to the other two prize winners and to more
than a hundred guests assembled here for the April 22
award luncheon at the Colonnade Hotel, Governor
Lamm said that "we must adapt our thinking ; .. to the
new realities around us because we face a new equation.
"It has historically been one thing to die for your
country," -said Lamm, whose essay, centering on a
limited nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan,
appeared in yesterday's paper. "?It is a different thing to
die with your country. " ' ~ . , :: , ~~
~;.. The contest, which drew more than .1,300 entries from
30 different nations, demonstrated what the Monitor's
managing editor, Richard A. Nenneman, called "the
depth of .feeling -that the .American public. has about
peace, and the amount of knowledge that exists in the so-
calledlay level about international affairs." " -
- It also illustrated the broad range' "of that concern.
~: Lamm, who has held the governorship; of the Rocky
Mountain state for a decade; is`a seasoned author with
several books to his credit: His fellow; winners .-, like
most contest entrants -are less-public figures: Steven
;Horowitz, . a .free-lance .journalist from Milwaukee,
worked as a shepherd on an i~;'a~i.: lw~hbuiz-a;-?1p devel-
oping his ideas on geopolitical reconciliation. Thomas
Fehsenfeld, a businessman from Grand Rapids; Mich.,
candidly told the audience that: "I've neverhad anything
- published before = I'm deeply grateful for the chance to
be heard.'.' -,:,.._~~ ...>:~., _-~,; . --.,._._ :::;= . ...._ ~ . . _ .... :.
?_ Mr. Horowitz,? whose essay centered, on -a rapproche-
menu between East and West Germany" as" a starting-
point for world peace, focused on what' he called "the
"a hopeful one."
"1 believe in humanity," he said, "and I believe in the
creative power of the human mind to find better alterna-
tives for us. I believe that every waI' or threat of war be-
tween nations represents the failure of the imagination,"
he continued, ,adding that "there are always other alter-
natives besides war or surrender and this I think is the
real meaning of the Peace 2010 contest."
The purpose of the contest, said Monitor editor Kath-
erine W. Fanning, was "to stimulate some breakthrough
thinking" that would help "shed some -of the baggage
that suggests peace is an impossible dream."
In opening remarks, Boston Mayor Raymond Flynn
noted that the contest dealt with "the fundamental issue
that transcends all issues." And Massachusetts Gov Mi-
chael S. Dukakis noted that "there is no subject that can
be more important than the one which has been the sub-
. jest of this ...competition."
i The contest's panel of judges, represented on this oc-
casion by Prof. Lincoln Bloomfield of the Massachusetts
j Institute of Technology, made its final selections from a
' group of 45 essays sent forward after an ~tl Wei Kurt
by.. Monitor - editors. ~-..The -other judge _ _~ _
~I Waldheim, former secretary-general of the United Na=
' ~ tions; Curt Gasteyger, director of the Program for Strate-
gic and .International Security Studies in Geneva; and
?' ACLm Stansfield Turner former director of the United
States Central Intelligence Agency . - - ~~ "~ _
~~ "When our mteraataonal fudges sat down to pick the
winning entries;"--said Monitor editor in chief Earl Fcell,
"`they told us that- they were looking for `realism and
idealism. -. .... - _.
` "We need both;" Mr. Fcell added; noting' that "One
.without the other won't work." . :'.1~
i'_
', concept of reconciliation." -:::1 ~ ~- : .. . -. "~~.:~. _-. '
I - ~ "I think some _of the:irriportant~~`~"questions"about
reconciliation have not been asked," he told his audience:
Speaking in the context of President R,eagan's #orthconi-
ing and.:controversial trip =to: West. Germany, he noted
that:"the.resl question we as Americans should ask=-is
whether a reconciliation betweenthe United States and
East Germ ~~can be "~- . ,a~~Lr~^; :~ .~;:~:~"r'-~,-~' ~ .:
Mr . Fehsenfeld, whose essay on the -use of computer.
-networking -to promote the cancept"s of confhct manage~?:
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