While guys like Freud encouraged talking through problems, Cameron thought things like electroshock therapy and drug cocktails could be used to physically change the brain and get rid of the illness in question. Duncan: He probably did, but I dont think I could remember the specifics of it. Cameron Cemetery. Finally, while the person is in isolated confinement, in LSD altered states of consciousness, and deprived of sensory stimulation, adequate food, water, and oxygen, the subject would be bombarded by psychic driving by use of a football helmet clamped to the head with taped messages played for hours non-stop up to a half-million times, messages such as my mother hates me. (McCoy, 2007). North America. Heres journalist John Marks. "[36], Cameron is the subject of Stephen Bennett's film Eminent Monsters (2020), which was funded by BBC Scotland and Creative Scotland. Here, patients were exposed to a range of RF and electromagnetic signals and monitored for changes in behaviour. 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. We were unable to subscribe you to WBUR Today. 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. To see some of the things that have happened are very upsetting. [citation needed][21]. He did and he got it. So I think in a certain way they believed that what fiction writers could come up with, somebody could actually make real. When asked about the decision to involve Cameron in MK-ULTRA, John Gittinger, the CIA officer in charge of monitoring his work said, quote, Now that was a foolish mistake. [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. Cameron also wanted to revolutionize the way psychology and psychiatry looked at mental illness. 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. Josh Crane Twitter Producer, Podcasts & New ProgramsJosh is a producer for podcasts and new programs at WBUR. 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. He reported that "the subject's very identity had begun to disintegrate," and that's when someone should, ya know, stop. He argued that people with mental illnesses could spread and transmit their diseases. Ewen Donald Cameron. It's Boston local news in one concise, fun and informative email. And he has a much different memory of how it all went down. Amory: Marians mom died three ago. Shes also signed on to the class-action lawsuit against McGill University, the Canadian government, and the CIA. Ben: But do you even though you had nothing to do with it do you have any feelings of sadness about those folks and what they've gone through? [22], During the 1950s and 1960s, Cameron became involved in what has later become known as the MKUltra mind control program, which was covertly sponsored by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)[6] and which eventually led to the publication of the KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation manual. Donald Cameron of Lochiel (c.1700 - October 1748), was an influential Highland Clan Chief known for his magnanimous and gallant nature. ", 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. 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. The lawsuits were dismissed, even though it was later shown there were a higher-than-usual number of people diagnosed with schizophrenia, presumably to increase Cameron's subject pool. For Cameron, the traits were contagions and anyone affected by the societal, cultural or personality forms would themselves be infected. Heres documentarian Stephen Bennett, whose film Eminent Monsters looks at the real echoes of Camerons work in government interrogation programs today. . Donald Ewen Cameron was born in Bridge of Allan, Scotland, the oldest son of a Presbyterian minister. 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. Duncan Cameron: No. His work had led him to the belief that mental illness could be "cured" like, say, a broken hip might be rehabilitated. I mean, he was that much of a scientist. According to "Brainwashing's Avatar: The Curious Career of Dr. Ewen Cameron,"there was more to his work at the Allan Memorial Institute than just exploring the CIA's questions about brainwashing. Amory: He said he did not destroy documents, that he didn't know about that. During those years, Cameron began to expand on his thoughts about the interrelationships of mind and body, developing a reputation as a psychiatrist who could bridge the gap between the organic, structural neurologists, and the psychiatrists whose knowledge of anatomy was limited to maps of the mind as opposed to maps of the brain. On March 10, Cameron's notes read: "She is disoriented as to time only and is probably in her second stage of depatterning. And the funeral was yet another opportunity for Marian and her siblings to learn more about the mother who had been absent for so much of their childhoods. I'm sure that they loved him very much and knew him in a very different way. Just as Sigrid Schultz stated in Germany will try it again, Cameron fostered a fear for Germans and their genetic determination. [27] Such consequences included incontinence, amnesia, forgetting how to talk, forgetting their parents, and thinking their interrogators were their parents. I mean, he was fascinated with the future in his own field of psychiatry, medicine and government. Duncan: I started work at the State Department just a day or so before Kennedy was assassinated. But none of us trained in psychiatry. Amory: And I think you may have given a deposition for that. Jim Turner: The most salient point that I recall is that Camerons son told us that he'd taken his father's private records and had destroyed them. He was always interested in the future. 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. The first was for 18 days and the second for 29 days, all while hearing endless recorded messages and being subjected to a series of electroshock therapy sessions. The extent of Goldberg's treatment - or mistreatment - while in the care of Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron at the Allan Memorial Institute, would remain an encumbering family secret for years. We love making Endless Thread, and we want to be able to keep making it far into the future. Many spent this period of time in what he called the "sleep room," where they were drugged into a medically-induced coma that they were brought out of only to be given three meals a day and the occasional trip to the bathroom. And you can see this manual that's been found all around the world, from hellholes to modern democracies. "[H]e was born in. 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. Amory: With the information we do have about Cameron, we know this: his so-called treatment didnt cure mental illness, and it didnt control peoples minds. Psychiatric experimentation: the lessons or history, The Journal of the California Alliance for the Mentally Ill, 1994, Vol. Her niece later said, "She had electric shock equipment put on her head so many times that it [remained] in her subconscious." You know, all of us not only respected him, but loved him, and not just myself, but my brothers. He published a book called Remembering[18] and extended psychiatric links to human biology. Marian Read: So for me, the importance of all of this is to get it out of the shadows of pulp fiction, you know Amory: This is Marian Read. He died of a heart attack while climbing a mountain in the Adirondacks in 1967. His occupation was occupation. His response? He theorized that attitudes and beliefs should reinforce the overall attitudes of the desired society. Amory: He remembers his dad working a lot during this time, which, definitely tracks. [citation needed]. Particularly because we put that question to him today. 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. His version was a continuous-loop cassette player that would deliver messages on repeat and it's even worse than it sounds. According to Cameron's psychiatric analysis of the German people, they were not suitable to have children or hold positions of authority because of a genetic tendency to organize society in a way that fostered fearsome aggression and would lead to war rather than peace; he would repeatedly use the German as the archetypal character structure on which to ground the most psychologically deviant humans. Thank you! [26] His "psychic driving" experiments consisted of putting a subject into a drug-induced coma for weeks at a time (up to three months in one case) while playing tape loops of noise or simple statements. Lloyd has continued to fight for recognition, recompense, and an apology. He received an M.B., Ch.B. According to The Washington Post, Cameron was recruited in 1957, and he was a big deal. Ironically, his lasting impact would be on how to destroy the human mind, not how to repair it. Amory: Duncan has a very different picture of his father, a whole bunch of them actually. In this manner, somatic causes could be compared. They had 11 children: Allan Francis Cameron, John Donald Cameron and 9 other children. In 1933, he married Jean C. Rankine, whom he had met while they were students at the University of Glasgow. All Germans on trial would be assessed according to the likeliness for committing the crime. Hij is getrouwd met (Niet openbaar), ze kregen 1 kind. On the weekends, you'd think he would go out and mow the lawn or bask in the sun or go play golf or tennis, but none of it. 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 1929 he moved to Canada where he worked in the Brandon Mental Hospital in Manitoba as the physician in charge. Skip . And I think my father would have too. [1] In papers published during this time he linked RNA to memory. Ben: Jims right. Amory: Immortal Technique is rapping about it: Ben: But for those who have had to deal with the fallout of MK-ULTRA on a personal level, the fact that the program rarely gets discussed outside the realm of pop culture can feel discouraging. Both of her brothers were heavily into drugs by the age of 10 and dealt with serious mental illness throughout their lives. The personality types are as follows: Cameron believed that a society in which psychiatry built and developed the institutions of government, schools, prisons and hospitals would be one in which science triumphed over the "sick" members of society. Who hasnt talked about this in a long time. 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. Amory: Ben and I are in an apartment in Washington D.C. thats bursting with morning light and books, and were flipping through some of our hosts old family photos. And it was a great shock to everybody because he was 65 and in many ways, you know, going full throttle and at the top of his career. Alison Steel won compensation for her mother's misery in 2017, says the CBC: $100,000 in exchange for ending legal action. Sign up and be the first to find out the latest news and articles about what's going on in the medical field. So I think the complaints of the doctors and nurses had reached their ears. Ben: Robert Cleghorn, a former member of Camerons staff, took over after Cameron stepped down. 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. Cameron reported to John Gittinger, an agent in charge of overseeing parts of MKUltra. And, until theres true accountability for what happened and what is still happening, it never will be. Husband of Marielene Schlumberger. And in that he took some risks, obviously. The transcript has been edited from our original script for clarity. After one test he noted: "Although the patient was prepared by both prolonged sensory isolation (35 days) and by repeated depatterning, and although she received 101 days of positive driving, no favourable results were obtained." (McCoy, 2007) Indeed, Hebb and Camerons contribution as pioneers who designed the psychological paradigm for torture used by the CIA was acknowledged by The McGill Daily, in 2012. Amory: But, Camerons extreme measures didnt result in a Nobel Prize or any mental health breakthroughs, which is why Harvey finds a certain poetry in his untimely death. If you haven't heard Parts 1 through 4 yet, you can find them here, here,here,and here. Cameron began to abandon the Freudian unconscious in favour of a social constructivist's view of mental illness. While more is known about the experiments of Dr. Ewen Cameron than about some of the other MKUltra projects, there's still a lot of information missing. You have been subscribed to WBUR Today. We encourage you to research and examine these records . "Now, that was a foolish mistake. . And we would take off. from the University of London in 1925, and an M.D. Ben: Hebb did an interview with a film producer in the 1980s, saying, quote, Cameron was irresponsible criminally stupid. He furthered his diagnostic definitions of clinical states such as anxiety, depression and schizophrenia. And people talk about the transmission of trauma through generations. There's my father and my mother. Amory: In the early 60s, MK-ULTRA director Sidney Gottlieb took the so-called treatments Cameron used on his patients at the Allan and brought them back to the CIA. In other words, torture. [14] Hess later confessed that he had faked the amnesia. Rauh: A question that Mr. Turner wanted me to ask was what happened to the papers identifying the patients? And then she came back from Montreal and she was never the same. Ben: After Marians mom left the Allan, she struggled for the rest of her life to regain her sense of self and mental clarity. The psychological experimentation project, known as MK Ultra, was allegedly funded by the Canadian government and the United States Central Intelligence Agency. Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel, 17t. And this is a picture up with my brother, Stuart. Although society had established sanctions against the spread of infectious diseases, Cameron wanted to extend the concept of contagion to chronic anxiety. In Cameron, the CIA had a psychiatrist, conveniently outside the United States, who was willing to do terminal experiments in electroshock, sensory deprivation, drug testing, and all of the above combined. 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. In his analysis, culture and society played a crucial role in the ability for one to function according to the demands necessary for human survival. from the University of London in 1925, and an M.D. Amory: The study, which was published a few months before Cameron died, found that Camerons methods exposed his patients to unnecessary risk, and that there was no clinical proof his methods were any more effective than standard forms of treatment. Death: June 18, 1958 (52) Immediate Family: Son of Sir Ewen Allan Cameron and Rachel Margaret Cameron. She was gonna go out there and do something. McGill's then-director of psychology, Dr. Donald Hebb, took the money and set up experiments using his ready-and-waiting pool of test subjects: students. The goal, says CBC, was to reduce the patient to what was called a "childlike state," with some people destroyed so completely that they could no longer walk, talk, or dress themselves Shoelaces? I wasnt destroying documents. Care of his patients went to his assistants, and here's where things get even weirder. And he was always very fascinated by what the future held for us all. Duncan: I have no recollection whether there were any papers relating to any of the--. There was also Donald Hebb, who ran McGills psychology department at the time Cameron was running its psychiatry department. But the government agency backing his experiments at the Allan did find a way to make use of his methods. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Cameron continued his work on memory and its relationship to aging. Esther Schrier who was a nurse at Montreal's Jewish General Hospital tragically lost her first child at just three weeks of age. I think he wanted to be famous. The National Post reports that in 1992, 77 of Cameron's patients were awarded an ex gratia settlement of $100,000, and that's all well and good, but claims made by more than 250 other people were rejected for various reasons. The described types would have to be eliminated from society if there was to be peace and progress. She said: "She wasn't able to talk to me about life and regular stuff. Did it work? Ben: Camerons research could never happen today at least not lawfully. "A number of experiments at McGill University.". In the final installment ofMadness," we sit down with Duncan, and we explore the shocking ways his father's methods are still being used today. Dr. Ewen Cameron wanted to win a Nobel Prize for his work in psychiatry. Amory: In spite of Camerons ambition and prestige, he never helped find a cure for mental illness, he never won a Nobel Prize for psychiatry. Amory: This is information that may have proven invaluable in holding Cameron, as well as McGill, the CIA, and the Canadian Government accountable for what happened at the Allan. Region. [10] There he met A. T. Mathers, Manitoba's principal psychiatrist, who convinced Cameron in 1929 to move to Brandon, the second largest city of Manitoba, Canada. His goal was to standardize his treatment, and once he did it for schizophrenia, he believed he would open a "gateway through which we might pass into a new field of psychotherapeutic methods." Morrow's family got involved, and it was only at their insistence that she was transferred to another hospital. And they are still being asked to by victims and their families, 60 years later. The victims and their lawyers want us to remember that this story isnt over. Harvey: Here he is trying to reach the peak, trying to climb the mountain, reach this goal. Rauh: --Well, I will put it another way. Charles Tanny was a former patient of Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron at the Allan Memorial Institute in Montreal in 1957. Research genealogy for Donald Ewen Cameron of lambeth, as well as other members of the Cameron family, on Ancestry. Despite the horrific abuse, the American and Canadian psychiatric establishment closed ranks. And here he is with me many years ago. For years, the patients of Dr. Ewen Cameron or, more accurately, the families of those patients have been trying to get compensation for the unthinkable experiments their loved ones were subjected to. So we reached out to one of the most comprehensive archives in the world: The Library of Congress. Maybe the people responsible are waiting for all of us to forget. (Beyond Nuremburg, ABA Journal March 1997; News accounts of five legal cases at: The Law and Mind Control Mind Control Through Five Cases). Anyone with any appreciation of the complexity of the human mind would not expect that you could erase an adult mind and then add things back with this stupid psychic driving., Amory: The CIA also turned its back on Cameron. And Mary Morrow? There are a few ways to reach us: This content was originally created for audio. The Canadian government also funded the project. She was not staying in this little town. The title is The Understanding Man. Lake Placid in particular, and the northern Adirondacks in general, have lost suddenly, tragically, but in a sense, beautifully, probably their most distinguished citizen. These negative statements were sometimes taken from the therapy sessions Cameron conducted when patients first arrived, says Rebecca Lemov, author of "Brainwashing's Avatar: The Curious Career of Dr. Ewen Cameron." 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. She was a former captain of the Scottish field hockey team, a competitive tennis player,[11] and lecturer in mathematics at the University of Glasgow. Duncan: Well, that's a big subject. Rauh: So any documents that would show the treatment of the plaintiffs in this case were destroyed? Amory: What was your father like as a dad? Ewen Cameron was fulfilling one of the items on his life bucket list: to climb Street Mountain. According to "Brainwashing's Avatar: The Curious Career of Dr. Ewen Cameron,"he left his position at Allan and his patients in 1964. And I think it affected a lot more people than anybody even realizes today. His death occurred while climbing a mountain. 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. Psychiatry would play a disciplinary role. Allan Cameron. 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. They were destroyed. And here I am looking much younger than I am now. He clearly had his mind set on doing unorthodox research long before the Agency front started to fund him. If he had a choice he would have kept living forever. The paper stated that German culture and its people would have offspring bound to become a threat to world peace in 30 years. We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each person's profile. And he was searching for ways of doing something about them. The U.S. wanted to know just how such a thing could possibly happen, and Dr. Ewen Cameron had a theory: brainwashing. Duncan: They got close to the top and James looked around and my father had passed away. What Hebb and Cameron both have in common is their contribution in establishing the scientific foundation for CIAs two-stage psychological torture method. It's hardwired into the brain. 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. Most of the patient files are gone, and according to WBUR, they weren't just misplaced, they were destroyed. Heres part of Duncans transcript: Duncan (from the transcript): I recall contacting the American Psychiatric Association and asking them if they would have an interest in holding his papers in their archives, and they expressed an interest in doing it. 3.99 Ewen Cameron experimented on people right up until he left the Allan in 1964. From 1939 to 1943 he was professor of neurology and psychiatry at Albany Medical College, and at the Russell Sage School of Nursing, also in the Albany area. A notoriously tough climb, he did it with his son James, and when he got to the top, he had a heart attack and died almost instantly. Stephen Kinzer: In the end, Gottlieb was forced to conclude that there's no such thing as mind control and that everything he had done had been for naught. The only cure for mental illness, he theorized, was to eliminate its "carriers" from society altogether. Amory: The answer might be in the idea of brainwashing itself. Cameron titled this procedure "intrapsychic" (a term derived from the psycho-somatic relationship of hospital patients). Skip Ancestry main menu Main Menu. I then *went through* the papers, because I felt that it would be improper to leave in the papers any paper that identified patients. My recollection was that I wasn't able to provide him with much information that he didn't already have. John Marks: The Allan Memorial Institute under Cleghorn commissioned a study of his work, which is absolutely or almost absolutely unprecedented in the psychiatric field. [citation needed]. Cameron's work was funded under MKUltra's subproject 68. Under that program, more than 80,000 suspected North Vietnamese sympathizers were interrogated by US forces and their allies. Ben: Her dad couldnt afford childcare, so soon after Marians mother went into the Allan, social services took Marian and her two younger brothers away because there was no parent to take care of them. Duncan: This is at the Lake Placid Club in Lake Placid, New York. In 1936, he also published his first book, Objective and Experimental Psychiatry which introduced his belief that psychiatry should approach the study of human behavior in a rigorous, scientific fashion rooted in biology. 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: Sarah Anne Johnson, whose grandmother Val Orlikow was a patient of Ewen Camerons, has a response to Duncan that, considering what her family has been through as a result of his fathers experimentation, is surprising. Memories are not the most reliable form of evidence. 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. And he always had a little book of science fiction by the bedside. music, sound effects, tone) are harder to translate to text. Two of my sons are lawyers and they say it isnt a good idea.. Those were right out. Amory: Author Stephen Kinzer, who wrote the book about the CIA and Mind Control, says, after Vietnam, this same literature got used elsewhere. Ewen passed away on month day 1915, at age 84 at death place. . Thank you! 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: Oh yes, he enjoyed a good joke even if they were off color. Theres no clear approach to the summit only overgrown pathways. Ben: As for the CIAs MK-ULTRA program itself, it never had an official end date. That right there is getting into some shady territory, but the promise of a $10,000 grant the equivalent of just over $100,000 today had to be pretty tempting. Click here for the donation page. Research genealogy for donald ewen Cameron of Melbourne, Victoria, as well as other members of the Cameron family, on Ancestry. Dr. Ewen Cameron wanted to win a Nobel Prize for his work in psychiatry. She very slowly recovered mostly and died in 2017. 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