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carmencita ago

http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/issue43/articles/1957_1961_canada.htm

Early in 1957, Dr. D. Ewen Cameron, Director of the Allan Memorial Institute in Montreal, formally applied for funding from the "Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology," a CIA front at Corn-ell University Medical School, New York City. Cameron described his brainwashing experiments as follows:

"(i) The breaking down ongoing patterns of patient's behavior by particularly intensive electroshocks (depatterning).

(ii) Intensive repetition (16 hours a day for 6-7 days) of prearranged verbal signal.

(iii) During this intensive repetition the patient is kept in partial sensory isolation.

(iv) Repression of the driving period is carried out by putting the patient, after the conclusion of the period, into continuous sleep for 7-10 days."

  Cameron also proposed testing "LSD and similar agents" in "depat-terning" his patients.  Sidney Gottlieb and other CIA officials approved the application and over four years, provided $60,000 for the experiments.