A collection of articles from SOTT re: CIA, drug testing, and human medical experimentation. Please visit the links to view the full articles

FLASHBACK: CIA sheds new light on secret drug tests carried out on unsuspecting Americans
from sott
July 15, 1977

The Central Intelligence Agency informed the Senate on Friday it has uncovered documents shedding new light on secret drug tests carried out on unsuspecting Americans from 1953 to 1964.

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FLASHBACK: How CIA stole their minds; Secret experiments leave painful legacy
from sott
October 30, 1988, Sunday, City Edition

On a cold January day 32 years ago in Montreal, a hearty, cigar-smoking man whose bursts of song had earned him the nickname “the Canadian Al Jolson” walked worriedly into Ravenscrag, a forbidding-looking psychiatric hospital that was part of McGill University’s Allan Memorial Institute.

A jolly, loving man, if a bit bossy in his family’s eyes, Louis Weinstein, then 49, was a dress manufacturer and a basically healthy man. But he suffered increasingly from panic attacks in which he struggled, terrified, for breath.

At Ravenscrag, he had every reason to expect the best. His doctor was a world-famous psychiatrist with impeccable credentials: Dr. Ewen Cameron, head at various points of the American Psychiatric Association, the Canadian Psychiatric Association, even the World Psychiatric Association, a prolific man who eventually wrote more than 150 papers and five books.

But Weinstein - like countless others - would emerge from Cameron’s “treatment” with severe memory loss and substantial disintegration of that most human possession, the personality.

During six years of “treatment” under Cameron, he became incontinent of bowels and bladder and for 10 years afterward remained unable to function.

Unwittingly, Weinstein became entrapped in a decades-long US Central Intelligence Agency program called MKULTRA, clandestine experiments in mind control spurred by advances in Soviet and Chinese brainwashing techniques. MKULTRA, believed to cost $ 25 million, ultimately involved more than 185 nongovernmental - and sometimes unsuspecting - researchers and 80 institutions.
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FLASHBACK: Bid to sue over LSD rejected
from sott
A federal judge has tentatively ordered dismissal of a $12 million lawsuit against the U.S. government, filed by a former deputy marshal who said he was unknowingly drugged with LSD as part of a CIA mind-control program before trying to hold up a San Francisco bar nearly a half century ago.