Dr. Ewen Cameron wanted to win a Nobel Prize for his work in psychiatry. He never got one. He died of a heart attack while climbing a mountain in the Adirondacks in 1967. So we don’t have access to Cameron's thoughts on his own legacy. But we do have his son, Duncan Cameron. In the final installment of “Madness," Amory and Ben sit down with Duncan and explore the shocking ways his father's methods are still being used today.

"Madness: The Secret Mission for Mind Control and the People Who Paid the Price," an Endless Thread series in 5 parts, unravels the shocking history of CIA-funded mind-control experiments. This is Part 5. If you haven't heard Parts 1 through 4 yet, you can find them <a href="https://www.wbur.org/endlessthread/2020/04/24/madness-part-one-the-sleep-room">here</a>, <a href="https://www.wbur.org/endlessthread/2020/05/01/madness-part-two-brave-new-world">here,</a> <a href="https://www.wbur.org/endlessthread/2020/05/08/madness-part-three-subproject">here,</a> and <a href="https://www.wbur.org/endlessthread/2020/05/15/madness-part-4-pursuit-of-justice">here</a>.

<description>&lt;p&gt;Dr. Ewen Cameron wanted to win a Nobel Prize for his work in psychiatry. He never got one. He died of a heart attack while climbing a mountain in the Adirondacks in 1967. So we don’t have access to Cameron's thoughts on his own legacy. But we do have his son, Duncan Cameron. In the final installment of “Madness," Amory and Ben sit down with Duncan and explore the shocking ways his father's methods are still being used today.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;"Madness: The Secret Mission for Mind Control and the People Who Paid the Price," an &lt;em&gt;Endless Thread&lt;/em&gt; series in 5 parts, unravels the shocking history of CIA-funded mind-control experiments. This is Part 5. If you haven't heard Parts 1 through 4 yet, you can find them &lt;a href="https://www.wbur.org/endlessthread/2020/04/24/madness-part-one-the-sleep-room"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://www.wbur.org/endlessthread/2020/05/01/madness-part-two-brave-new-world"&gt;here,&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://www.wbur.org/endlessthread/2020/05/08/madness-part-three-subproject"&gt;here,&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="https://www.wbur.org/endlessthread/2020/05/15/madness-part-4-pursuit-of-justice"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

"Madness", a five-part series from the podcast Endless Thread, unravels the shocking history of CIA-funded mind-control experiments.

Dr. Ewen Cameron wanted to win a Nobel Prize for his work in psychiatry. He never got one. He died of a heart attack while climbing a mountain in the Adirondacks in 1967. So we don’t have access to Cameron's thoughts on his own legacy. But we do have his son, Duncan Cameron. In the final installment of “Madness," Amory and Ben sit down with Duncan and explore the shocking ways his father's methods are still being used today.

"Madness: The Secret Mission for Mind Control and the People Who Paid the Price," an Endless Thread series in 5 parts, unravels the shocking history of CIA-funded mind-control experiments. This is Part 5. If you haven't heard Parts 1 through 4 yet, you can find them <a href="https://www.wbur.org/endlessthread/2020/04/24/madness-part-one-the-sleep-room">here</a>, <a href="https://www.wbur.org/endlessthread/2020/05/01/madness-part-two-brave-new-world">here,</a> <a href="https://www.wbur.org/endlessthread/2020/05/08/madness-part-three-subproject">here,</a> and <a href="https://www.wbur.org/endlessthread/2020/05/15/madness-part-4-pursuit-of-justice">here</a>.

Endless Thread's "Madness", Part 5: The Unreachable Summit

In the early 1980s, victims of Dr. Ewen Cameron’s mind-altering experiments at the Allan Memorial Institute began a slow process of finding each other and building a case against the CIA for funding Cameron's work. The legacy of that case has played a key role in two separate lawsuits in progress today. These new lawsuits represent the interests of hundreds of families still seeking justice for the brutal “treatments” their loved ones were subjected to decades ago.

"Madness: The Secret Mission for Mind Control and the People Who Paid the Price" -- an investigative series in 5 parts -- unravels the shocking history of CIA-funded mind-control experiments. This is Part 4. If you haven't heard Parts 1 through 3 yet, you can find them <a href="https://www.wbur.org/endlessthread/2020/04/24/madness-part-one-the-sleep-room">here</a>, <a href="https://www.wbur.org/endlessthread/2020/05/01/madness-part-two-brave-new-world">here</a> and <a href="https://www.wbur.org/endlessthread/2020/05/08/madness-part-three-subproject">here</a>.

<description>&lt;p&gt;In the early 1980s, victims of Dr. Ewen Cameron’s mind-altering experiments at the Allan Memorial Institute began a slow process of finding each other and building a case against the CIA for funding Cameron's work. The legacy of that case has played a key role in two separate lawsuits in progress today. These new lawsuits represent the interests of hundreds of families still seeking justice for the brutal “treatments” their loved ones were subjected to decades ago.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;"Madness: The Secret Mission for Mind Control and the People Who Paid the Price" -- an investigative series in 5 parts -- unravels the shocking history of CIA-funded mind-control experiments. This is Part 4. If you haven't heard Parts 1 through 3 yet, you can find them &lt;a href="https://www.wbur.org/endlessthread/2020/04/24/madness-part-one-the-sleep-room"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://www.wbur.org/endlessthread/2020/05/01/madness-part-two-brave-new-world"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="https://www.wbur.org/endlessthread/2020/05/08/madness-part-three-subproject"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

In the early 1980s, victims of Dr. Ewen Cameron’s mind-altering experiments at the Allan Memorial Institute began a slow process of finding each other and building a case against the CIA for funding Cameron's work. The legacy of that case has played a key role in two separate lawsuits in progress today. These new lawsuits represent the interests of hundreds of families still seeking justice for the brutal “treatments” their loved ones were subjected to decades ago.

"Madness: The Secret Mission for Mind Control and the People Who Paid the Price" -- an investigative series in 5 parts -- unravels the shocking history of CIA-funded mind-control experiments. This is Part 4. If you haven't heard Parts 1 through 3 yet, you can find them <a href="https://www.wbur.org/endlessthread/2020/04/24/madness-part-one-the-sleep-room">here</a>, <a href="https://www.wbur.org/endlessthread/2020/05/01/madness-part-two-brave-new-world">here</a> and <a href="https://www.wbur.org/endlessthread/2020/05/08/madness-part-three-subproject">here</a>.

Endless Thread's "Madness", Part 4: Pursuit of Justice

As the fear of communism was rising in the U.S. after World War II, government officials set their sights on developing a weapon that sounds straight out of science fiction: mind control. This effort was led by the CIA in a program called MK-ULTRA, which was made up of 149 "subprojects" involving more than 80 academic institutions, prisons, and organizations. In this episode, we learn the dark history of MK-ULTRA and examine the origins of Subproject 68: Dr. Ewen Cameron's experimentation on patients at the Allan Memorial Institute in Montreal.

<description>&lt;p&gt;As the fear of communism was rising in the U.S. after World War II, government officials set their sights on developing a weapon that sounds straight out of science fiction: mind control. This effort was led by the CIA in a program called MK-ULTRA, which was made up of 149 "subprojects" involving more than 80 academic institutions, prisons, and organizations. In this episode, we learn the dark history of MK-ULTRA and examine the origins of Subproject 68: Dr. Ewen Cameron's experimentation on patients at the Allan Memorial Institute in Montreal.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

This five-part investigative podcast series from Endless Thread called "Madness," unravels the shocking history of CIA-funded mind-control experiments.

As the fear of communism was rising in the U.S. after World War II, government officials set their sights on developing a weapon that sounds straight out of science fiction: mind control. This effort was led by the CIA in a program called MK-ULTRA, which was made up of 149 "subprojects" involving more than 80 academic institutions, prisons, and organizations. In this episode, we learn the dark history of MK-ULTRA and examine the origins of Subproject 68: Dr. Ewen Cameron's experimentation on patients at the Allan Memorial Institute in Montreal.

Endless Thread's "Madness," Part 3: Subproject 68

Hundreds of people who were experimented on at the Allan Memorial Institute over the course of two decades are all connected to one man: Dr. Ewen Cameron. In this episode, we look at how Cameron rose to prominence in his field and investigate the surprising origins of his treatment program.

This episode is part of "Madness: The Secret Mission for Mind Control and the People Who Paid the Price," a five-part investigative series from <a href="https://www.wbur.org/podcasts/endlessthread">Endless Thread</a> that unravels the shocking history of CIA-funded mind-control experiments.
<h3>Show Notes:</h3>
<ul>
 	<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXVlpOvdU6k&feature=emb_title" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CBS Radio Workshop's "Brave New World" (1956)</a></li>
 	<li><a href="https://www.wnyc.org/story/life-is-for-living/">Audio of Dr. Ewen Cameron's 1955 speech, courtesy of the WNYC archives</a></li>
 	<li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/1434797.In_the_Sleep_Room" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In The Sleep Room: The Story Of CIA Brainwashing in Canada by Anne Collins (1988) </a></li>
 	<li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2032280.Psychiatry_and_the_CIA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Psychiatry and the CIA: Victims of Mind Control by Harvey Weinstein (1990)</a></li>
 	<li><a href="http://www.hopscotchfilms.co.uk/eminent-monsters">A trailer for Eminent Monsters: A Manual For Modern Torture , a documentary film from Stephen Bennett (2018)</a></li>
</ul>

<description>&lt;p&gt;Hundreds of people who were experimented on at the Allan Memorial Institute over the course of two decades are all connected to one man: Dr. Ewen Cameron. In this episode, we look at how Cameron rose to prominence in his field and investigate the surprising origins of his treatment program.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This episode is part of "Madness: The Secret Mission for Mind Control and the People Who Paid the Price," a five-part investigative series from &lt;a href="https://www.wbur.org/podcasts/endlessthread"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Endless Thread&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; that unravels the shocking history of CIA-funded mind-control experiments.
&lt;h3&gt;Show Notes:&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
 	&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXVlpOvdU6k&amp;feature=emb_title" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;CBS Radio Workshop's "Brave New World" (1956)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
 	&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.wnyc.org/story/life-is-for-living/"&gt;Audio of Dr. Ewen Cameron's 1955 speech, courtesy of the WNYC archives&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
 	&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/1434797.In_the_Sleep_Room" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;&lt;em&gt;In The Sleep Room: The Story Of CIA Brainwashing in Canada&lt;/em&gt; by Anne Collins (1988) &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
 	&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2032280.Psychiatry_and_the_CIA" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Psychiatry and the CIA: Victims of Mind Control&lt;/em&gt; by Harvey Weinstein (1990)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
 	&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.hopscotchfilms.co.uk/eminent-monsters"&gt;A trailer for &lt;em&gt;Eminent Monsters&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;em&gt;A Manual For Modern Torture &lt;/em&gt;, a documentary film from Stephen Bennett (2018)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Hundreds of people who were experimented on at the Allan Memorial Institute over the course of two decades are all connected to one man: Dr. Ewen Cameron. In this episode, we look at how Cameron rose to prominence in his field and investigate the surprising origins of his treatment program.

This episode is part of "Madness: The Secret Mission for Mind Control and the People Who Paid the Price," a five-part investigative series from <a href="https://www.wbur.org/podcasts/endlessthread">Endless Thread</a> that unravels the shocking history of CIA-funded mind-control experiments.
<h3>Show Notes:</h3>
<ul>
 	<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXVlpOvdU6k&feature=emb_title" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CBS Radio Workshop's "Brave New World" (1956)</a></li>
 	<li><a href="https://www.wnyc.org/story/life-is-for-living/">Audio of Dr. Ewen Cameron's 1955 speech, courtesy of the WNYC archives</a></li>
 	<li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/1434797.In_the_Sleep_Room" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In The Sleep Room: The Story Of CIA Brainwashing in Canada by Anne Collins (1988) </a></li>
 	<li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2032280.Psychiatry_and_the_CIA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Psychiatry and the CIA: Victims of Mind Control by Harvey Weinstein (1990)</a></li>
 	<li><a href="http://www.hopscotchfilms.co.uk/eminent-monsters">A trailer for Eminent Monsters: A Manual For Modern Torture , a documentary film from Stephen Bennett (2018)</a></li>
</ul>

Endless Thread's "Madness," Part 2: Brave New World

"Hey, it's Amory. We've had such a huge response for Beyond All Repair that the team and I are thinking and talking about what we might bring to you in the future. But in the meantime, we wanted to keep things going, at least for now, with something a little different. So, as you may know, I'm the co-host of another show called <a href="https://www.wbur.org/podcasts/endlessthread">Endless Thread.</a>

This is a show about mysteries and history, all connected to the internet. Back in April of 2020, my Endless Thread co-host Ben Brock Johnson and I released a real doozy of a story. It's about alleged crimes at one of the highest-ranking institutions of higher ed and medicine, connected to the MKUltra experiments conducted on people by the CIA during the Cold War.

It's also a story about the origins of psychiatry, a dangerous doctor. And a group of people, often women, who have been fighting for their personal stories to be heard. We're putting this series into this feed for just a limited time, so listen now while you can to this set of stories called Madness. And we'll be in touch with more Beyond All Repair news in the future."
<h3>About the episode:</h3>
"Madness: The Secret Mission for Mind Control and the People Who Paid the Price" — a 5-part investigative series from <a href="https://www.wbur.org/podcasts/endlessthread">Endless Thread </a>— unravels the shocking history of CIA-funded mind-control experiments. In this first episode, we hear about powerful accounts of abuse at a psychiatric hospital in Montreal, and the renowned doctor who conducted these disturbing experiments on his unwitting patients.
<h3>Show Notes:</h3>
<ul>
 	<li><a class="elr" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/ag3exj/how_did_project_mkultra_maintain_its_secrecy_so/ee3muas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The comment from Redditor u/Dwintahdt that tipped us off on this story</a></li>
 	<li><a class="elr" href="https://maisonneuve.org/article/2019/02/5/distant-relatives/">Article about this story from Max Binks-Collier for Maisonneuve Magazine</a></li>
 	<li><a class="elr" href="https://www.wnyc.org/story/life-is-for-living/">Audio of Dr. Ewen Cameron's 1955 speech, courtesy of the WNYC archives</a></li>
 	<li><a class="elr" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i82trFGtY24&loop=0">The Fifth Estate episode, "Brainwashed: The Secret CIA Experiments in Canada"</a></li>
 	<li><a class="elr" href="https://www.saaga.info/">Survivors Allied Against Government Abuse (SAAGA)</a></li>
 	<li><a class="elr" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QkbaO3pLXY">Video from the SAAGA's October 2019 rally in Ottawa.</a></li>
</ul>
This series was originally published in WBUR's Endless Thread in April 2020.

<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;"Hey, it's Amory. We've had such a huge response for Beyond All Repair that the team and I are thinking and talking about what we might bring to you in the future. But in the meantime, we wanted to keep things going, at least for now, with something a little different. So, as you may know, I'm the co-host of another show called &lt;a href="https://www.wbur.org/podcasts/endlessthread"&gt;Endless Thread.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This is a show about mysteries and history, all connected to the internet. Back in April of 2020, my Endless Thread co-host Ben Brock Johnson and I released a real doozy of a story. It's about alleged crimes at one of the highest-ranking institutions of higher ed and medicine, connected to the MKUltra experiments conducted on people by the CIA during the Cold War.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;It's also a story about the origins of psychiatry, a dangerous doctor. And a group of people, often women, who have been fighting for their personal stories to be heard. We're putting this series into this feed for just a limited time, so listen now while you can to this set of stories called Madness. And we'll be in touch with more Beyond All Repair news in the future."&lt;/em&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;About the episode:&lt;/h3&gt;
"Madness: The Secret Mission for Mind Control and the People Who Paid the Price" — a 5-part investigative series from &lt;a href="https://www.wbur.org/podcasts/endlessthread"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Endless Thread &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;— unravels the shocking history of CIA-funded mind-control experiments. In this first episode, we hear about powerful accounts of abuse at a psychiatric hospital in Montreal, and the renowned doctor who conducted these disturbing experiments on his unwitting patients.
&lt;h3&gt;Show Notes:&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
 	&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="elr" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/ag3exj/how_did_project_mkultra_maintain_its_secrecy_so/ee3muas" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;The comment from Redditor u/Dwintahdt that tipped us off on this story&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
 	&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="elr" href="https://maisonneuve.org/article/2019/02/5/distant-relatives/"&gt;Article about this story from Max Binks-Collier for &lt;em&gt;Maisonneuve Magazine&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
 	&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="elr" href="https://www.wnyc.org/story/life-is-for-living/"&gt;Audio of Dr. Ewen Cameron's 1955 speech, courtesy of the WNYC archives&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
 	&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="elr" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i82trFGtY24&amp;loop=0"&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Fifth Estate&lt;/em&gt; episode, "Brainwashed: The Secret CIA Experiments in Canada"&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
 	&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="elr" href="https://www.saaga.info/"&gt;Survivors Allied Against Government Abuse (SAAGA)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
 	&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="elr" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QkbaO3pLXY"&gt;Video from the SAAGA's October 2019 rally in Ottawa.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;em&gt;This series was originally published in WBUR's Endless Thread in April 2020.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

"Hey, it's Amory. We've had such a huge response for Beyond All Repair that the team and I are thinking and talking about what we might bring to you in the future. But in the meantime, we wanted to keep things going, at least for now, with something a little different. So, as you may know, I'm the co-host of another show called <a href="https://www.wbur.org/podcasts/endlessthread">Endless Thread.</a>

This is a show about mysteries and history, all connected to the internet. Back in April of 2020, my Endless Thread co-host Ben Brock Johnson and I released a real doozy of a story. It's about alleged crimes at one of the highest-ranking institutions of higher ed and medicine, connected to the MKUltra experiments conducted on people by the CIA during the Cold War.

It's also a story about the origins of psychiatry, a dangerous doctor. And a group of people, often women, who have been fighting for their personal stories to be heard. We're putting this series into this feed for just a limited time, so listen now while you can to this set of stories called Madness. And we'll be in touch with more Beyond All Repair news in the future."
<h3>About the episode:</h3>
"Madness: The Secret Mission for Mind Control and the People Who Paid the Price" — a 5-part investigative series from <a href="https://www.wbur.org/podcasts/endlessthread">Endless Thread </a>— unravels the shocking history of CIA-funded mind-control experiments. In this first episode, we hear about powerful accounts of abuse at a psychiatric hospital in Montreal, and the renowned doctor who conducted these disturbing experiments on his unwitting patients.
<h3>Show Notes:</h3>
<ul>
 	<li><a class="elr" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/ag3exj/how_did_project_mkultra_maintain_its_secrecy_so/ee3muas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The comment from Redditor u/Dwintahdt that tipped us off on this story</a></li>
 	<li><a class="elr" href="https://maisonneuve.org/article/2019/02/5/distant-relatives/">Article about this story from Max Binks-Collier for Maisonneuve Magazine</a></li>
 	<li><a class="elr" href="https://www.wnyc.org/story/life-is-for-living/">Audio of Dr. Ewen Cameron's 1955 speech, courtesy of the WNYC archives</a></li>
 	<li><a class="elr" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i82trFGtY24&loop=0">The Fifth Estate episode, "Brainwashed: The Secret CIA Experiments in Canada"</a></li>
 	<li><a class="elr" href="https://www.saaga.info/">Survivors Allied Against Government Abuse (SAAGA)</a></li>
 	<li><a class="elr" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QkbaO3pLXY">Video from the SAAGA's October 2019 rally in Ottawa.</a></li>
</ul>
This series was originally published in WBUR's Endless Thread in April 2020.

Endless Thread's "Madness," Part 1: The Sleep Room

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