Amory: He doesnt explicitly say that he was the one who did the destroying. She's the exception, though, and the CBC says that 2020 saw others like Lana Ponting, who was just 16 when she was sent to the sleep room hoping that year, it would finally be their year, thanks to a class action lawsuit filed in 2019. Duncan: Well, that's a big subject. Esther Schrier who was a nurse at Montreal's Jewish General Hospital tragically lost her first child at just three weeks of age. from the University of London in 1925, and an M.D. Although Cameron rejected the Freudian notion of the unconscious, he shared the Freudian idea that personal psychology is linked to the nervous nature. Amory: Hey, Dad, let's get out of here!, Duncan: I can remember doing that several times. And he always had a little book of science fiction by the bedside. Ben: He looks like hes having a good time. [16], Cameron next published Nuremberg and Its Significance. [citation needed]; if the greater population of Germany saw the atrocities of World War II, they would surely submit to a re-organized system of justice. Just as Sigrid Schultz stated in Germany will try it again, Cameron fostered a fear for Germans and their genetic determination. He did technically, because nothing says "wonders" has to be a good thing. His list of credentials was so long it's impossible to list them all, but for starters, his resume included the University of Glasgow and Johns Hopkins, and in the 1930s, he was lauded for setting up a series of psychiatric clinics. These became the basis of a new social and behavioural science that he would later institute through his presidencies of the Canadian, American and World Psychiatric Associations, the American Psychopathological Association and the Society of Biological Psychiatry. His successor at Allan, Robert Cleghorn, would later write (via "Brainwashing's Avatar: The Curious Career of Dr. Ewen Cameron,""Cameron's controversial practices [are] now thoroughly discredited." Amory: Just not in the way he might have hoped. Ben: But the Canadian and US governments could take accountability for their support of Cameron. [citation needed]. Canada. [17] Cameron argued that it was necessary for behavioral scientists to act as the social planners of society, and that the United Nations could provide a conduit for implementing his ideas for applying psychiatric elements to global governance and politics. [14] Hess later confessed that he had faked the amnesia. She said: "She wasn't able to talk to me about life and regular stuff. They stressed how they'd been unwilling participants, and that they'd gone to the institute for other issues. According to what his son, Duncan, told WBUR, it was 1967 when he decided to climb Street Mountain in the Adirondacks. Then we brought them down I think it was probably during one of my infrequent jaunts up there I brought them down in my car, and I then took them over and deposited them at the American Psychiatric Association. That, says McGill University, was the work of Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron, a psychiatrist who performed experiments so horrifying he's been called "Scotland's Mengele." Amory: Duncan has a very different picture of his father, a whole bunch of them actually. (Beyond Nuremburg, ABA Journal March 1997; News accounts of five legal cases at: The Law and Mind Control Mind Control Through Five Cases). Morrow's family got involved, and it was only at their insistence that she was transferred to another hospital. As for the ongoing lawsuits, some of the plaintiffs have actually contacted Duncan wondering if hed be willing to support their efforts. And he was a fast driver. [33] The son of one of Cameron's patients noted in a memoir that other than Ed Broadbent and Svend Robinson, no Canadian MP brought up the issue in the House of Parliament. Duncan: No, he had some peculiar hobb-- he loved science fiction. (laughter). It was reported that none of the patients sent to the Radio Telemetry Lab showed any signs of improvement. [25], Cameron had been hoping to correct schizophrenia by "erasing" existing memories and "reprogramming" the psyche. The last generation of Holocaust survivors and their children express their concerns about current events A Five-Part, FDA Advisory Panel & CDC Director are Complicit in Sacrificing Childrens Lives to Protect Pfizer from Liability, Copyright 2023 Alliance for Human Research Protection, 1950s1960s: Dr. Ewen Cameron Destroyed Minds at Allan Memorial Hospital in Montreal, Law and Mind Control Mind Control Through Five Cases, Vera Sharavs documentary Never Again is Now Global now available. In 1936, he moved to Massachusetts to become director of the research division at Worcester State Hospital only 1 year later. Any documents that related to patient treatment were destroyed? Instead of being considered for the fellowship, the neurologist was admitted to his Allan Memorial Institute, diagnosed with schizophrenia, and given such a heavy dose of barbiturates that it triggered an allergic reaction and she suffered from a prolonged loss of oxygen to the brain. Both of her brothers were heavily into drugs by the age of 10 and dealt with serious mental illness throughout their lives. In 1963, the CIA published the Kubark Counterintelligence Interrogation manual, and that's exactly what it sounds like guidelines on how to get people to talk. The line between fantasy and reality blurred. Most of the patient files are gone, and according to WBUR, they weren't just misplaced, they were destroyed. Agnes was born in 1844, in Richmond Victoria Australia. 22 As the Watergate scandal broke in 1973, MKUltra was officially ordered to be shut down by the CIA. He died three years later. The transcript has been edited from our original script for clarity. And in that sense, I think his ambition overrode his skills and his ability to do the research. Amory: But Cameron was publishing articles and giving speeches about his work throughout his life. Duncan: They got close to the top and James looked around and my father had passed away. Scottish-American psychiatrist Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron led and conducted these experiments. Ben: As for the CIAs MK-ULTRA program itself, it never had an official end date. Cameron began to develop broader theories of society, new concepts of human relations to replace concepts he deemed dangerous and outdated. He furthered his diagnostic definitions of clinical states such as anxiety, depression and schizophrenia. Father, Son and CIA by Harvey Weinstein p. 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We put this to Harvey Weinstein, the psychiatrist we heard from earlier, whose father was a patient at the Allan. So we don't have. Charles Tanny was a former patient of Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron at the Allan Memorial Institute in Montreal in 1957. . That would have been the cultural environment in which people like Sidney Gottlieb grew up. You can buy the full book for only . sister. In some cases, applicants couldn't prove the conditions they currently lived with were a direct result of what they went through at Allan, and in others, they were treated outside of the time frame. In 1926, he served as assistant medical officer there[9] and was introduced to psychiatrist Sir David Henderson, a student of Swiss-born US psychiatrist Adolf Meyer. [citation needed]. As the CBC notes, it's sourced pretty heavily from Cameron's work, and talks about things like "deprivation of sensory stimuli, threats and fear, pain, hypnosis and narcosis," and the source of their research? Therefore, society should function to select out the weak and unwanted, those apt towards fearsome aggression that threatened society. Ben: OK. Fair. About 55 families of victims who underwent medical experimentation in the 1950s and 1960s are suing for millions of dollars. Deze informatie is onderdeel van Families Klein, Ree, de Breed en de Vries van Terschelling van Marthan Klein op Genealogie Online. She said she received 12 boxes of her husbands papers after he died, but that, quote, If I had these papers, I wouldnt necessarily let you see them. Ben: Even though Cameron never gave the CIA the keys to control peoples minds, he did give them the tools to break peoples minds down experimental drugs, recordings on loop, sensory deprivation. Ewen Cameron made the hike with Duncans younger brother, James. The program is widely believed to have been partly funded by the United States Central Intelligence Agency as part of their top-secret MKULTRA program. Cameron would analyze what conditions produced the stronger worker, what would be the necessary conditions to replicate this personality and to reward the stronger while disciplining the weaker. We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each person's profile. Ewen Donald Cameron. First I have to say that my father was exceedingly committed to his field. Donald Cameron of Lochiel (c.1700 - October 1748), was an influential Highland Clan Chief known for his magnanimous and gallant nature. [37], Whether or not Cameron was aware that funding for his experiments was coming from the CIA is unclear; it has been argued that he would have carried out the exact same experiments if funding had come from a source without ulterior motives. 3.99 Advertisement. The described types were the enemies of society and life. Ben: Perhapsthis is Dr. Cameron's most enduring legacy. Cameron focused primarily on biological descriptive psychiatry and applied the British and European schools and models of the practice. At least, until after Cameron left the Allan. Other similar psychiatric diagnoses of Germany were published during this time. She was gonna go out there and do something. Velma Orlikow, for instance, was dealing with postpartum depression. We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each person's profile. ", Why MKUltra's Top Brainwashing Scientist Was A Real-Life Nightmare, "Brainwashing's Avatar: The Curious Career of Dr. Ewen Cameron. As time has worn on, its become the families of those victims who shoulder the burden. ", So, they went back to a 1983 court transcript, where Duncan was called to the stand to testify about what happened to his father's documents. Like, did she always have problems? And he said, Oh, gosh. She goes, No. She was the one that was gonna go and conquer the world. While he didn't name names or give specifics, he did say that papers "related to patients were destroyed.". The sick were, for Cameron, the viral infection to its stability and health. The CBC says the CIA recruited Dr. Ewen Cameron a few years into MKUltra, using the Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology to approach Cameron and tell him that he really, really needed to apply for one of their grants. Ben: Im Ben Brock Johnson, and youre listening to Endless Thread, the show featuring stories found in the vast ecosystem of online communities called Reddit. . And you can see this manual that's been found all around the world, from hellholes to modern democracies. Unfortunately, a lot of what went on within them has been lost: In 1973, the majority of the documents associated with MKUltra were destroyed in a massive (and not-at-all-suspicious) purge. [citation needed] Characteristics were thus diagnosed as syndromes emerging from the brain. And how his work lives on. Thank you! Ben: But some key documentation of Camerons time at the Allan is straight up missing. Very different. Marian: There was a picture of my mom there and somebody commented, Ugh that's the Johanna that's her name I remember. And my sister looked at him and said, But what was she like? Duncan: I'm Duncan Cameron. And, until theres true accountability for what happened and what is still happening, it never will be. Research genealogy for Donald Ewen Cameron of lambeth, as well as other members of the Cameron family, on Ancestry. Ben: But we also asked about something else, that he was a little uncomfortable talking about: Orlikow vs. United States, the 1980s lawsuit that ended up giving $750,000 total to 8 of Camerons victims. Cameron started to distinguish populations between "the weak" and "the strong". But the government agency backing his experiments at the Allan did find a way to make use of his methods. The second stage involved extreme, high voltage multiple electroshock treatments three times daily. Cameron viewed German society throughout history as continually giving rise to fearsome aggression. Donald Ewen Cameron (19011967) was born in Scotland in 1901 and graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1924. These experiments were typically carried out on patients who had entered the Institute for minor problems such as anxiety disorders and postnatal depression; many were permanently debilitated after these treatments. Because it would seem to me, or I was concerned as a lawyer, that it might be a breach of the patient-doctor privilege. Ben: Sure. It is at this juncture that he became interested with how he could effectively manipulate the brain to control and understand the processes of memory. Genealogy profile for Major Donald of 4th Chief Clunes "Old '45" Cameron Major Cameron . The idea that people needed to sit down and talk about their problems was the old way of doing things, and Cameron was living in an era where things were getting more and more automated. Under that program, more than 80,000 suspected North Vietnamese sympathizers were interrogated by US forces and their allies. In other words, torture. We were unable to subscribe you to WBUR Today. Amory: Nearly everyone who experienced Camerons treatments first-hand has since died. In addition to LSD, he experimented with various paralytic drugs such as curare and electroconvulsive therapy at thirty to forty times the normal power. For example, something like rock music could be created by mentally ill people and would produce mentally ill people through infection, which in turn would be transmitted to the genes. "Now, that was a foolish mistake. Sounds questionable? 5, p. 2227) As a result of the lawsuit, the CIA agreed to pay $750,000, the maximum allowed under U.S. law, to settle a case without conceding liability. And I think it affected a lot more people than anybody even realizes today. Lloyd Schrier, son of Cameron patient Esther Schrier, told the CBC, "Oh, 'He was God-like,' they would say." Amory: You're welcome to pull it out now. Duncan: Thats my recollection, that any documents that related to patients were destroyed. You can try, The 1963 "Kubark Counterintelligence Interrogation" manual, "CIA's Secret Brainwashing Experiment" (1984), "Brainwashed: The Secret CIA Experiments in Canada" (2017), Jim Turner and Joseph Rauh's lawsuit debrief: "Anatomy Of A Public Interest Case Against The CIA,", Send us a direct message on Reddit. North America. And they are still being asked to by victims and their families, 60 years later. He actually has a smile. And you can get a real sense of your own, where you are in the world. Dr. Ewen Cameron wanted to win a Nobel Prize for his work in psychiatry. She went from apartment to apartment, mental hospital to mental hospital. Her niece later said, "She had electric shock equipment put on her head so many times that it [remained] in her subconscious." Rauh: --Well, I will put it another way. Cameron began to base some of his notions on race, as is seen in his theories regarding the German people. You can see other fellow humans. His death occurred while climbing a mountain. Kinzer: This idea of some evil scientists taking control of someone else's mind is a wonderfully appealing trope, and it's been used repeatedly in very popular movies and books and stories. Were they *destroyed* or did you just take the patients name out? We love making Endless Thread, and we want to be able to keep making it far into the future. Ewen Cameron experimented on people right up until he left the Allan in 1964. Cameron placed the psychiatric treatment unit inside of the hospital and inspected its success. Don't worry, it gets worse. You talked a little bit about this but what was the impact on the family when some of this news started to come out about the CIA and some of the treatment and stuff like that? Amory: Dr. Ewen Cameron will never be able to respond to the intergenerational trauma created by his work. Dr. Morrow, says The Washington Post, had applied for a fellowship in psychiatry with Cameron. Memories are not the most reliable form of evidence. Stephen: So they created a manual, which basically was for intelligence personnel. father. Cameron Cemetery. Some of this work took place in the context of the Project MKUltra program for the developing of mind control and torture techniques, psychoactive poisons, and behavior modification systems. It was the start of a series of experiments backed by the British, the Americans, and the Canadians, and they wanted to know what prolonged sensory deprivation actually did to a person. Duncan: Talking about him, it should be easy, but sometimes it's sort of emotional. To see some of the things that have happened are very upsetting. And so even all these years later, it's part of my life. [31][2] In her book, In the Sleep Room: The Story of the CIA Brainwashing Experiments in Canada,[32] author Anne Collins explored the history of Cameron and Montreal's Allan Memorial Institute. Cameron followed these schools in demanding that mental disturbances are diseases and somatic in nature; all psychological illness would therefore be hardwired, a product of the body and the direct result of a patient's biological structure rather than caused by social environments. Did he ever talk about that? Amory: He said he did not destroy documents, that he didn't know about that. Donald Hebb and Ewen Cameron were competitors; they did not collaborate, though Cameron incorporated Hebb's sensory isolation techniques into his own diabolical arsenal of psychiatry's instruments of torture. And that kind of explains why, when they were ordered to stop their depatterning and psychic driving of patients, they just sort of didn't. But none of us trained in psychiatry. Amory: Jim Turner was one of two prosecutors on the case. John Marks observes, Ewen Cameron did not need the CIA to corrupt him. And Mary Morrow? The described types would have to be eliminated from society if there was to be peace and progress. Amory: The answer might be in the idea of brainwashing itself. It petered out in the early 60s as the programs director, Sidney Gottlieb, came to a realization. He warned that government institutions should take measures against such potential liabilities. He served as president of the American Psychiatric Association (19521953), Canadian Psychiatric Association (19581959),[2] American Psychopathological Association (1963),[3] Society of Biological Psychiatry (1965)[4] and the World Psychiatric Association (19611966). Cameron began to abandon the Freudian unconscious in favour of a social constructivist's view of mental illness. It describes various personalities that he believed were of marked danger to all members of society. AIan Cameron followed in the footsteps of his father and became a director at Panmure Gordon in 1957. Today, we're talking to one of the only people who will stand up for Dr. Cameron. Indian River. Ben: Would you have anything that you would want to say to Dr. Cameron or his family? We encourage you to research and examine these records . Like Freud, Cameron maintained that the family was the nucleus of social behavior and anxieties later in life were spawned during childhood. Cameron wanted to build an inventive psychiatric institution to determine rapid ways for societal control while demanding a psychological economy that did not center itself around guilt and guilt complexes. Cleghorn immediately ended Camerons program. Ben: When Amory and I spoke to Duncan Cameron about his dad, he also told us about his own work, as a lawyer. It affected a lot of people. Sarah Anne Johnson: I imagine this is very difficult for his family. There is no incontinence, there is no mutism, and we are continuing this intense treatment of her until we get complete depatterning.". Duncan Cameron: No. Part of Camerons plan for his patients was to wipe their minds clean, to make them forget their past, so they could move forward. Patients were tested in the Radio Telemetry Laboratory, which was built under Cameron's direction. Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel, 17t. It was a heart attack and was very sudden. Ben: In photos, the Cameron family seems happy, a candid shot of Ewen Cameron that looks to be from a garden party shows the psychiatrist in a skinny tie and jacket, horn-rimmed glasses and short cropped white hair. "A number of experiments at McGill University.". He demanded that political systems be watched, and that German people needed to be monitored due to their "personality type", which he claimed results in the conditions that give rise to the dictatorial power of an authoritarian overlord. His focus on children included the rights to protection against outmoded, doctrinaire tactics, and the necessity for the implantation of taboos and inhibitions from their parents. He moved to Upstate New York where he studied aging and memory at two hospitals in Albany. [7], Donald Ewen Cameron was born in Bridge of Allan, Scotland, the oldest son of a Presbyterian minister. That was in December of 1959, and according to the lawsuit (via the Consumer Law Group), Cameron diagnosed Morrow as having "nervousness and tension." Cameron further argued that "the weak" must not influence children. Pregnant with son Lloyd, Esther was kept in a drug-induced coma in the sleep room for a month, where she lost 13 pounds. And Camerons part of that. In 1984, New Scientist reported on a lawsuit filed on behalf of some of the people who ended up a part of MKUltra's Sub-project 68. She was admitted to McGill's Allan Memorial Institute in 1957, needing help dealing with depression and the loss of her child. His theories of behavior stressed the unity of the organism with the environment; the book also outlined experimental method and research design. Ontario. Amory: Duncan, one of the two lawyer sons, admits hes familiar with those 12 boxes of papers, and then explains what happened to them. Hij is getrouwd met (Niet openbaar), ze kregen 1 kind. For instance, he was careful to say he didnt know anything about his dads treatment regimen at the Allan, which may very well be true. In theory, he was supposed to help her anxiety, depression, and postpartum depression. Hij is overleden in het jaar 2010 in Near Toulon, France. Cameron became the first director of the Allan Memorial Institute as well as the first chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at McGill. So what led the CIA to get onto this fantasy? Who hasnt talked about this in a long time. Amory: Duncan knows how to be very careful about what he says. Amory: They bounced around between foster homes and orphanages for years, experienced emotional and physical abuse. There is no such thing as closure. (McCoy, 2007), According to Leonard Rubenstein, an attorney for plaintiffs [Mrs. David Orlikow et al. It's hardwired into the brain. Duncan: Well, I think that I would feel sad about that. Alison said that when her mother returned, it was no longer her mother. In his 1946 paper entitled "Frontiers of Social Psychiatry", he used the case of World War II Germany as an example where society poisoned the minds of citizens by creating a general anxiety or neurosis.[19]. Or answer questions about his motivations, whether or not he knew he was part of the CIAs mind control efforts. [38], Cameron died of a heart attack while hiking with his son in the Adirondack Mountains on September 8, 1967. Amory: Theres a reason that all the photos of Ewen Cameron are from more than 50 years ago. Amory: Were bringing you the last installment of our special series: Madness The secret mission for mind control and the people who paid the price. Kinzer: Later on, it became the basis for manuals that the CIA provided in the 1980s to police forces in Latin America that were known to practice torture. 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