Canada’s CIA – admitted MKULTRA

Politics, Religion, and Family

from -the Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/03/montreal-brainwashing-allan-memorial-institute

The toxic legacy of Canada’s CIA brainwashing experiments: ‘They strip you of your soul’

In the 1950s and 60s, a Montreal hospital subjected psychiatric patients to electroshocks, drug-induced sleep and huge doses of LSD. Families are still grappling with the effects

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 The experiments took place at the Allan Memorial Institute. The site is seen here in 1901. Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo

Sarah Anne Johnson had always known the broad strokes of her maternal grandmother’s story. In 1956, Velma Orlikow checked herself into a renowned Canadian psychiatric hospital, the Allan Memorial Institute in Montreal, hoping for help with postpartum depression.

She was in and out of the clinic for three years, but instead of improving, her condition deteriorated – and her personality underwent jarring changes.

More than two decades passed before Johnson and her family had an explanation, and…

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