memorial page for Donald Ewen Cameron (1852-5 Feb 1892), Find a Grave Memorial ID 170055188, citing Cameron Cemetery, Indian River . 5, p. 2227) As a result of the lawsuit, the CIA agreed to pay $750,000, the maximum allowed under U.S. law, to settle a case without conceding liability. Alison believes those random phrases her mother would sometimes say were from the recordings that she'd been forced to listen to for hours. Ben: Duncan Cameron was 10 years old when his dad became the Director of the Allan Memorial Institute in Montreal. Cameron wrote that mental illness was transmitted generationally; thus, the re-occurrence of mental illness could be stopped by remodeling and expanding existing concepts of marriage suitability, as well as the quarantine of mentally ill individuals from the general population. Who hasnt talked about this in a long time. 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. It affected a lot of people. He also organized the structure of mental health services in the western half of the province, establishing 10 functioning clinics; this model was used as the blueprint for similar efforts in Montreal and a forerunner of 1960s community health models. Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel, 17t. 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. And he put Camerons treatment program under the microscope. Ben: OK. Fair. Heres documentarian Stephen Bennett, whose film Eminent Monsters looks at the real echoes of Camerons work in government interrogation programs today. The guilt of her baby's deadly staph infection stayed with her, and when she became pregnant with her second, and the CBC says she went into Cameron's care in February of 1960. 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. 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. Ewen Donald Cameron. And that seemed to us to be a highly questionable action for someone to take. [34], Naomi Klein states in her book The Shock Doctrine that Cameron's research and his contribution to MKUltra were not about mind control and brainwashing, but "to design a scientifically based system for extracting information from 'resistant sources.' Cameron followed these schools in demanding that mental disturbances are diseases and somatic in nature; all psychological illness would therefore be hardwired, a product of the body and the direct result of a patient's biological structure rather than caused by social environments. He clearly had his mind set on doing unorthodox research long before the Agency front started to fund him. [1] In papers published during this time he linked RNA to memory. 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." And he was a fast driver. Donald Ewen Cameron (19011967) was born in Scotland in 1901 and graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1924. [citation needed]. Shes a member of SAAGA, or Survivors Allied Against Government Abuse. [23][24] He is unrelated to another CIA psychiatrist, Alan S. Cameron, who helped pioneer psychological profiling of world leaders during the 1970s and was not associated with the behavioral modification research program. Ben: After Marians mom left the Allan, she struggled for the rest of her life to regain her sense of self and mental clarity. He had various people record the tapes sometimes including the patient's loved ones and it was, on the whole, incredibly traumatizing. More about the Cameron family name; Sponsored by Ancestry. They fear the stranger, they fear the new idea; they are afraid to live, and scared to die." Agnes was born in 1844, in Richmond Victoria Australia. Cameron also wanted to revolutionize the way psychology and psychiatry looked at mental illness. Take a guess. Ben: Robert Cleghorn, a former member of Camerons staff, took over after Cameron stepped down. The described types would have to be eliminated from society if there was to be peace and progress. from the University of London in 1925, and an M.D. Which suggests it was for purposes of, not closure, but of not wanting information to come to light that was in the papers. Her family sued, first based on the treatment alone, then again, after discovering she was a part of the MKUltra program. His work had led him to the belief that mental illness could be "cured" like, say, a broken hip might be rehabilitated. To see some of the things that have happened are very upsetting. The only cure for mental illness, he theorized, was to eliminate its "carriers" from society altogether. Cameron began to base some of his notions on race, as is seen in his theories regarding the German people. You can see out a window. Duncan: Well, I didnt destroy the documents. 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? He warned that government institutions should take measures against such potential liabilities. 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. We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each person's profile. Amory: And I think you may have given a deposition for that. Old '45" Cameron Major Cameron (1663 - 1718) family tree on Geni, with over 230 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives. AIan Cameron followed in the footsteps of his father and became a director at Panmure Gordon in 1957. He wanted to know if it was possible to wipe a person's mind and reinstall a new personality. 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. He died of a heart attack while climbing a mountain in the Adirondacks in 1967. [38], Cameron died of a heart attack while hiking with his son in the Adirondack Mountains on September 8, 1967. There was also Donald Hebb, who ran McGills psychology department at the time Cameron was running its psychiatry department. 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. Though he did visit the Allan Memorial on occasion. [clarification needed] Those Germans affected by the events that led to World War II were of utmost concern. In 1929 he moved to Canada where he worked in the Brandon Mental Hospital in Manitoba as the physician in charge. Skip Ancestry main menu Main Menu. 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. Amory: But even on their long drives from Montreal to upstate New York, Duncan says his dad never really talked about work. She said she received 12 boxes of her husbands papers after he died, but that, quote, If I had these papers, I wouldnt necessarily let you see them. He was always interested in the future. He had a Mercedes. That's absolutely the stuff of a terrifying Netflix horror series, but it was very real and it destroyed an unknown number of lives. Ben: Over and over, weve heard from victims of Dr. Ewen Camerons brutal experiments at the Allan Memorial Institute. Death: June 18, 1958 (52) Immediate Family: Son of Sir Ewen Allan Cameron and Rachel Margaret Cameron. Amory: The answer might be in the idea of brainwashing itself. In this manner, somatic causes could be compared. On March 12, her records show she was considered "depatterned": She could no longer stand, speak, could barely swallow, was incontinent, and required treatment by an obstetrician for severe bleeding. And here I am looking much younger than I am now. 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? Jean spent three months under Cameron's care, and spent two periods in a drug-induced coma. I'm the oldest son of Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron and Jean Cameron. He told The Scotsman: "Cameron's entire focus seemed to shift after the Nuremberg Trials. Velma Orlikow, for instance, was dealing with postpartum depression. Ben: Today we grapple with Dr. Ewen Camerons legacy. [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. She was not staying in this little town. Cameron titled this procedure "intrapsychic" (a term derived from the psycho-somatic relationship of hospital patients). It has to do with another of his Adirondack hikes that changed the Cameron family forever. Despite the horrific abuse, the American and Canadian psychiatric establishment closed ranks. So you can see that the work of Ewen Cameron, filtered through Gottlieb, definitely informs the interrogation techniques, if we want to call them that, that the United States has been using on its prisoners in Guantanamo and in black sites around the world. Birthdate: June 04, 1906. It's hardwired into the brain. music, sound effects, tone) are harder to translate to text. Cameron began to explore how industrial conditions could satisfy the population through work and what kind of person or worker is best suited to industrial conditions. His focus on children included the rights to protection against outmoded, doctrinaire tactics, and the necessity for the implantation of taboos and inhibitions from their parents. Hes in his mid-80s now. The U.S. wanted to know just how such a thing could possibly happen, and Dr. Ewen Cameron had a theory: brainwashing. [25], Cameron had been hoping to correct schizophrenia by "erasing" existing memories and "reprogramming" the psyche. Donald Hebb the psychiatrist who started the whole mess with his sensory deprivation experiments had even less kind things to say: "Cameron was irresponsible criminally stupid. [citation needed] He furthermore wanted to understand the problems of memory caused by aging, believing that the aged brain experienced psychosis. Her life was sad. 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. They had 11 children: Allan Francis Cameron, John Donald Cameron and 9 other children. And that kind of explains why, when they were ordered to stop their depatterning and psychic driving of patients, they just sort of didn't. Now, a recent court decision has. If he had a choice he would have kept living forever. Thus, this group would have to be studied and controlled as a contagious social disease. Duncan: You see, he doesn't have a scowl. She never did get her children back. We love making Endless Thread, and we want to be able to keep making it far into the future. Donald Ewen Cameron was the key figure in the Montreal experiments. He died of a heart attack while climbing a mountain in the Adirondacks in 1967. Ben: The manual was all about how to obtain information from quote resistant sources. It went on to become the basis for the Phoenix Program during the Vietnam War. Although society had established sanctions against the spread of infectious diseases, Cameron wanted to extend the concept of contagion to chronic anxiety. [30][bettersourceneeded], In 1980, the Canadian investigative news program The Fifth Estate interviewed two former patients of Cameron's who were among several of his ex patients who were at that time suing the CIA for the long term effects of Cameron's treatment. 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. 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. Rauh: --Well, I will put it another way. In 1951 a few years before the U.S. government and the CIA approved MKUltra there was a top secret meeting held at Montreal's Ritz-Carlton. The sick were, for Cameron, the viral infection to its stability and health. 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. His occupation was occupation. "A number of experiments at McGill University.". . They were destroyed. Amory: Theres a reason that all the photos of Ewen Cameron are from more than 50 years ago. Traces of some survived, including documentation on Sub-project 42 also known as Operation Midnight Climax and sub-project 68. He never got one. Amory: Nearly everyone who experienced Camerons treatments first-hand has since died. The human significance of his dark legacy was brought to public attention when nine of his Canadian victims filed lawsuits in 1980s twenty-one years after Camerons death. Charles Tanny was a former patient of Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron at the Allan Memorial Institute in Montreal in 1957. Then we brought them down I think it was probably during one of my infrequent jaunts up there I brought them down in my car, and I then took them over and deposited them at the American Psychiatric Association. The second part of the technique was inspired by something called the Cerebrophone, which was essentially a "learn-while-you-sleep" recording device. Today, we're talking to one of the only people who will stand up for Dr. Cameron. Police, hospitals, government, and schools would need to use the correct psychiatric authority to stop mental contagions from spreading. Typically, I would show up there and, if it was a Friday, ask if I could have a lift down to Lake Placid. 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. Therefore, society should function to select out the weak and unwanted, those apt towards fearsome aggression that threatened society. If we can succeed in inventing means of changing their attitudes and beliefs, we shall find ourselves in possession of measures which, if wisely used, may be employed in freeing ourselves from their attitudes and beliefs in other fields which have greatly contributed to the instability of our period by their propensity for holding up progress, In Cameron's book Life is For Living, published in 1948, he expressed a concern for the German race in general. In 1943, Cameron was invited to McGill University in Montreal by neurosurgeon Dr Wilder Penfield. Yeah so it was sad. Dr. Ewen Cameron wanted to win a Nobel Prize for his work in psychiatry. Ben: Did he have any favorite sayings or idiosyncrasies or things like that that you remember or that made an impression on you when you were younger? 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." ", "Brainwashing's Avatar: The Curious Career of Dr. Ewen Cameron,". Morrow's family got involved, and it was only at their insistence that she was transferred to another hospital. Care of his patients went to his assistants, and here's where things get even weirder. He was always attracted to these subjects for which there was no easy answer. So we dont have access to Cameron's thoughts on his own legacy. If you haven't heard Parts 1 through 4 yet, you can find them here, here,here,and here. Duncan: This is at the Lake Placid Club in Lake Placid, New York. Although Cameron rejected the Freudian notion of the unconscious, he shared the Freudian idea that personal psychology is linked to the nervous nature. Cameron's work was funded under MKUltra's subproject 68. Just as Sigrid Schultz stated in Germany will try it again, Cameron fostered a fear for Germans and their genetic determination. 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. Alison Steel says her mother was never the same after undergoing. Ben: But the Canadian and US governments could take accountability for their support of Cameron. Ben: Jims right. Maybe the people responsible are waiting for all of us to forget. He received an M.B., Ch.B. [27] Such consequences included incontinence, amnesia, forgetting how to talk, forgetting their parents, and thinking their interrogators were their parents. Cameron's work stopped when she gave birth, and Lloyd remembered a broken mother. At the heart of MKUltra, says The Guardian, was the broadcasting of videos of American POWs from the Korean War condemning their own country and lauding the benefits of Communism. If I put you through this program, within 24 hours to 48 hours you'll be in a diagnosable psychotic state. He argued that people with mental illnesses could spread and transmit their diseases. Rauh: A question that Mr. Turner wanted me to ask was what happened to the papers identifying the patients? Her niece later said, "She had electric shock equipment put on her head so many times that it [remained] in her subconscious." Montreal's CTV says that by the time she died in 2011, she had spent the last 20 years of her life as an "infant," unable to allow anyone near her head without a terrible reaction. We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each person's profile. Duncan: Well, I think that I would feel sad about that. And he admits that the papers he removed are now destroyed. That's how quick it is because it removes your time and space. This is Part 5. [citation needed][21]. Amory: Eventually though, it wasnt just Camerons successor who was calling him out. Part of Camerons plan for his patients was to wipe their minds clean, to make them forget their past, so they could move forward. He served as president of the American Psychiatric Association , Canadian Psychiatric Association ,[2] American Psychopathological Association . In theory, he was supposed to help her anxiety, depression, and postpartum depression. She very slowly recovered mostly and died in 2017. After his mother confirmed that yes, there were 12 boxes of papers that her sons both lawyers said she probably shouldn't share, Duncan revealed that he had gone through and taken out "several papers" that identified "a particular patient." 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. Cameron believed that mental illness was literally contagious that if one came into contact with someone with mental illness, one would begin to produce the symptoms of a mental disease. In other words, torture. Other similar psychiatric diagnoses of Germany were published during this time. Amory: Duncan knows how to be very careful about what he says. Her family sued, first based on the treatment alone, then again, after discovering she was a part of the MKUltra program. The behaviour of a mental patient could resemble the behaviour of a patient with, for example, syphilis, and then a somatic cause could be deduced for a psychological illness. And they found his work next to worthless. [citation needed] Characteristics were thus diagnosed as syndromes emerging from the brain. 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. Ben: Did you ever get a sense of at least some of the things that he was trying to accomplish while he was at the Allan? We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each person's profile. . Duncan: No, he had some peculiar hobb-- he loved science fiction. 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. [15], Before his arrival in Nuremberg, Cameron had written The Social Reorganization of Germany, in which he argued that German culture and its individual citizens would have to be transformed and reorganized. With the results of the Manhattan project, Cameron feared that without proper re-organization of society, atomic weapons could fall into the hands of new, fearsome aggressors. Duncan: It's really a very moving editorial. Like in Nicaragua, where he was The New York Times Bureau Chief. . Instead of being considered for the fellowship, the neurologist was admitted to his Allan Memorial Institute, diagnosed with schizophrenia, and given such a heavy dose of barbiturates that it triggered an allergic reaction and she suffered from a prolonged loss of oxygen to the brain. Patients would be subjected to messages repeated hundreds of thousands of times, as they were kept in their coma for up to a month. The mentally ill were thus labelled as not only sick, but also weak. You can see other fellow humans. Here, patients were exposed to a range of RF and electromagnetic signals and monitored for changes in behaviour. And I feel for them for that. His brutal techniques involved a three-stage method for brainwashing in order to eliminate the will and establish control: first, mental depatterning achieved through drug-induced coma; massive neuroleptic drug cocktails induced extended sleep lasting up to eighty-six days. Skip Ancestry . Cameron started to distinguish populations between "the weak" and "the strong". sister. And he was searching for ways of doing something about them. And you can see this manual that's been found all around the world, from hellholes to modern democracies. And in a sense, that's what he wanted to do professionally. 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