#HumanExperimentation

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Ewen Cameron Ewen Cameron was a Scottish-Canadian psychiatrist and president of the American Psychiatric Association who ran CIA-funded MKULTRA Subproject 68 at McGill University's Allan Memorial Institute from 1957 to 1963, subjecting unconsenting psychiatric patients to multi-week drug-induced sleep, massive electroconvulsive shocks, and LSD under his theory of 'psychic driving' as behavioral depatterning.

Allan Memorial Institute The Allan Memorial Institute is McGill University's psychiatric facility in Montreal established in 1943 at Ravenscrag, where Ewen Cameron conducted CIA-funded MKULTRA Subproject 68 depatterning experiments on unconsenting patients from 1957 to 1963, resulting in permanent cognitive damage to hundreds of patients and Canadian government compensation to approximately 80 identified victims in 1994.

Operation Midnight Climax Operation Midnight Climax was the CIA's MKULTRA subprogram (1955-1963) in which Federal Bureau of Narcotics agent George Hunter White operated safe houses in San Francisco and New York City where unwitting men were dosed with LSD by CIA-recruited prostitutes while CIA observers watched through one-way mirrors.
Project Bluebird and Project Artichoke Project Bluebird (1950-1951) and its successor Project Artichoke (1951-1956) were the CIA's classified behavioral research programs that pioneered LSD interrogation experiments on prisoners and foreign nationals, forming the direct institutional predecessor to Project MKULTRA.
Project MKUltra Project MKUltra was the CIA's classified behavioral modification program (1953-1973) directed by Sidney Gottlieb, which administered LSD and other methods to unconsenting subjects across approximately 150 subprojects before its records were destroyed in January 1973 and partially reconstructed from misfiled documents in 1977.

KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation is the CIA's classified July 1963 interrogation manual that codified MKULTRA-derived techniques including regression induction, sensory deprivation, and psychogenic manipulation, declassified in 1997 and cited as the basis for interrogation techniques used in CIA operations from Vietnam through the post-9/11 enhanced interrogation program.