The toxic legacy of Canada’s CIA brainwashing experiments: ’They strip you of your soul’ | World news | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/03/montreal-brainwashing-allan-memorial-institute
[...] in 1977 it emerged that the #CIA had been funding experiments in mind-control brainwashing at the institute as part of a North America-wide project known as #MK_Ultra.
At the time, the US agency was scrambling to deepen its understanding of brainwashing, after a handful of Americans captured during the Korean war had publicly praised communism and denounced the US.
In 1957, this interest brought the agency north of the border, where a Scottish-born psychiatrist, Ewen Cameron, was trying to discover whether doctors could erase a person’s mind and instill new patterns of behaviour.
