![]() ![]() In the decades since, no government has ever admitted liability, let alone apologized - despite the fact that part of the experiments in Montreal were funded not only by the CIA, but also by the Canadian government. ![]() ![]() Hundreds of relatives whose loved ones were experimented upon by Cameron are now demanding compensation for family members and an apology from the Canadian government.Ĭanada has never provided a list of the victims of the experiments that took place during Cameron's tenure from 1943 to 1964. Schrier is now 60 years old, semi-retired, living in Toronto and still fighting to be recognized as an experiment victim. Lloyd Schrier tells the story of his family's tragic past as part of the CBC podcast Brainwashed. "I don't think it was fair to do that to a developing fetus." Ewen Cameron, she became an unwitting experiment subject for a massive CIA brainwashing operation codenamed MK-ULTRA.Īnd Schrier was part of this clandestine program, too, because his mother was pregnant with him at the time. She had gone to "the Allan," as the hospital is known, to seek treatment for what today would be considered anxiety or postpartum depression.īut once she walked through those hospital doors and into the care of a psychiatrist named Dr. She was a patient at Montreal’s Allan Memorial Institute in the 1960s. "They gave her all the drugs … about four or five barbiturates and amphetamines at a time."Įsther Schrier received electroshock therapy, massive amounts of drugs and so-called psychiatric treatments that sound as if they were lifted from the pages of George Orwell's dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. "She had her 30th and last day of sleep on March 24th," Schrier said as he read from the 1960 hospital record. ![]() And he has his mother's heartwrenching medical report that is still hard for him to comprehend. He has news articles and pictures spanning decades, all describing what his family went through. When Lloyd Schrier tells his story, it sounds more like a conspiracy than his family's tragic past.īut many of the details are laid out in a thick file of documents, correspondences and reports. The series is available on CBC Listen, Apple Podcasts or Google Podcasts. The following story is based on material from the CBC podcast Brainwashed, a six-part series co-produced with The Fifth Estate that investigates the CIA's covert mind-control experiments - from the Cold War and MK-ULTRA to the so-called U.S. ![]()
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