CANADIAN SUIT TIES CIA TO LSD, BRAINWASHING STUDIES

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• Publication Date: October 25, 1985
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LOS ANGELES TIMES
25 October L985
Canadian Suit Ties CIA to LSD, Brainwagumgaumamw
By KENNETH FREED, Times Staff Writer
TORONTO-Between 1953 and
1')f*3, nine people entered a Mon-
treal psychiatric clinic seeking
treatment for a variety of illnesses
ranging from depression to alco-
holism to arthritis. However. in-
vtcad of being helped, the six men
and three women charge, they
became test subjects for American
intelligence agents exploring ways
to control the human mind.
Their claim is that without their
knowledge or consent, they were
fed doses of drugs, including
mind-altering LSD, and subjected
to radical brainwashing experi-
ments, involving !c,"?g periods of
forced steep and other unorthodox
procedures. proposed ? nd financed
by the Central Intelligence Agen-
cy.
In a long-running lawsuit, the
nine Canadians allege that their
stay at the Allan Memorial Clinic
and their treatment by its director,
the late Dr. Ewen Cameron, left
them with permanent mental dam-
age and has affected their ability to
lead normal lives.
Each is asking for $175,000 (in
U.S. dollars) in damages and an
apology from the U.S. government.
Although the suit was filed in a
federal district court in Washing-
ton, D.C., five years ago, the case
still has not come to trial and
lawyers for the nine people say
they are frustrated by the govern-
ment's tactics.
Joseph Rauh, a well-known civil
liberties attorney %chu r?uhreseiua
the nine, said in a telephone utter-
view from his Washington office
that the government has prevented
key witnesses, particularly former
CIA agents, from giving deposi-
tions and has forced hire to file
time-consuming pretrial motions
sometimes taking two years to
resolve.
"The CIA strategy," he said, "is
to stonewall until. I'm not we to
continue with the case. At my ripe
old-age of almost 75 therefeonly a
Omlted time I can practy , and
they an stalling for all it's warily"
The CIA says it doss not
cases in litiptios and tll$ Sft,
Department and the U.& ftbl#
in Ottawa add that S Pjb
of State Oeoe'ge shunt: tegnt
adviser is studying the maU1d'..
Rauh and some Canadian gov-
enmeat officials who do not want
to be Identified are nearly as cribs
cal of the Canadian government's
attitude as they are of the CIA,
charghW that- Rzternal Affi
firmly' in, tbd matter for fear.
upsetting Shults and other
AdministrationoffI Mis.
Caseifu Adoa lMl x
A 9 kmu forQark said.
minIn a hai-bra>shtl up the
with Shwas
mid-May but ha areesh ed no
other than that Me ter is
reviewed by this. State
meat's attorney.
Calling thlp$ stdovseltr
appeoach,ltaull-.ildd`;,"'The
waler+sd.ibs. four shifla of .
I" is flabbergasted at thee Is
response, . Clark can't even gads
a `no' from Shulta.
Rauh and some C tnadiaar wu
Clark to threaten to take the case toY
the 'World Court at The Hague.
They salt that the CIA and the U.&
government breached Canadian
sovereignty,
"This could be settled in five
mihutes If Clark said he was going
to The Hague," the American law-
yer wanton, but "Shults treats him
like a f ~ brusheshim away s orehetaid: he just
A aztereW affairs off~-
cial addW4 "It is clear that Clark
doesn't want to upset the Ameri-
cans right now and it is govern-
meatt policy to downplay any dif-,
fereitcas that crop up" between the
two countriM, .
Altbovg* th.American go
meat has ' reftsed to settle ?
apologise And is lighting the case ins
the cotalt, the .CIA-both in 1977
and in cows papers filed In 1990--4'
acknowledged: its involvement
with Cameron's work after ehargee
were made lupin. -
Ameetaa' author John Marko
Est **mid the CIA rob. after'
:" . J :. . Of the
>mod co M el thra gk
He asked for all pertinent docu-
ments under the Freedom of Infor.
mad= Act, received 16,000 pages,
of material and found references to
C'amero}'a work at the Allan clinic
and 4he fact that he had received,
~ .from.a CIA front organisa.
Marks presented his findings in a
1977 book called "In Search of the
Manchurian Candidate." In it, he
referrer to several articles that
Cameron. had written for various
American and Canadian medical
*V&~dition, former CIA .
rector $tanafll4ld Turner told Raub
that the wleriments had taken
place and that "the (C A unit
conducting. the experiment amply
had. such autonomy that not many
outsiders could look in and- ask
what.was going on."
sources close to the case,
hol said' that two forma CIL
opitratbm officers based in Canadi
in the-late 197 acknowledged the
a6=Cy' 1 involvement and even
d
logiaed to the Canadaasi
government.
sine sources said the two,
men, Stacy Hulse and John Ken-
neth KInaus, agreed to give a
depositioO to Rauh confirming the,
CIA role and their apology but that
they were prevented from doing Be
by the CIA's invoking. Of regula-
tions limiting public testimony by
even retired employees.
Rauh has filed a motion to com-
pel the CIA to permit their testimo-
ny, but the judge has delayed a
ruling.
In addition, there are more than
2,000 pages of. documentation in the
public archives in Ottawa concern
ing Cameron's experiments,. ini-i
eluding several documents
deal with letters between
Canadian health officials and Ca
net-members-concerning the wcrll(1'
is associated with Montreal's
tigious McGill University.
These papers point to ra
uses of drugs, including..LSD,,
insulin to induce comas, sometime
for 16 hours. Cameron, .whose woo%
was highly regarded by his profes-
sional pliers, according to contend
porasy" news accounts, also used
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