MK-ULTRA/MIND CONTROL EXPERIMENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00901R000600420001-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 25, 2006
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: December 23, 1984
• Content Type: TRANS

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RADIO TV REPORTS, IN
4701 WILLARD AVENUE, CHEVY CHASE, MARYLAND 20815 [phone]
FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS STAFF
FROG AM 60 Minutes-
DATE December 23, 1984 7:00 P.M.
SUBJECT MK-ULTRA/Mind Control Experiments
STATION WDYM-TV
CBS Network
Washington, D.C.
ED BRADLEY: MK-ULTRA is not the name of a new James.
Bond movie. It is, or was the pode.word for a secret CIA project,
which took place between 1953 and 1964 .in which unsuspecting
people wer.e used in mind-control, experiments that left them
emotionally crippled for life. MK-ULTRA, consisted of more than
130 research programs which took place in prisons, hospitals and
universities all over the United States. Tonight. we'll look at
subproject number 68, an experiment conducted.in Canada.
The CIA does not deny that the experiments took place.
In fact, we'll show you an internal agency memo which admits
their involvement.
The rationale for' all of this? Well, the memo doesn't
say. But it's apparent that learning how to make people do
things they normally wouldn't do by controlling their minds is
valuable if you're in the espionage business.
Dr. Ewen Cameron, an American, .now dead, headed the
Allen Memorial. Institute at' the -McGill University in' Montreal,
Canada, where-the experiments took place. ?Dr.Cameron, Never told
his patients they were being used as guinea pigs.
ZAL ORLICO: I can't get over the rage that.1 feel that
he would have done `this to' me and to other people [unintel-
ligible]. MORI/CDF
BRADLEY: I'n?1957 Zal Orlico (?) was suffering from
depression. It was recommended that she see Dr. Cameron, who'was?
one of the leading psychiatrists in Canada. Her treatment from
Dr. Cameron? Massive doses of lysergic acid diethalamide, a new
n,; nrt-a1 t Pri nn dru called LSD. It- destroyed her
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