Tortured by CIA, patients seek federal compensation

http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/News/National/2007/01/11/3299202-sun.html



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MONTREAL -- Patients were put in isolation, tied down or drugged, and subjected to hours and hours of taped recordings meant to brainwash them at the behest of the CIA.

They were subjected to electroshocks, experimental drugs and LSD, most of them unwilling and unknowingly part of the U.S. spy agency's experimentation, a Federal Court judge was told yesterday.

Now it's time for the federal government to compensate those victims, lawyer Alan Stein argued.

Stein is seeking court approval for a class-action lawsuit on behalf of his client, Janine Huard, one of the hundreds of patients of Dr. Ewen Cameron to be subjected to the Cold War-era experiments.

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They were part of a larger CIA program called MK-ULTRA, which also saw LSD administered to U.S. prison inmates and patrons of brothels without their knowledge, according to testimony before a 1977 U.S. Senate committee.

Huard, a petite great-grandmother who will be 79 at the end of the month, was a patient of Cameron three separate times from 1951 to 1962.

She said she was drugged, shocked and forced to listen to recorded messages for hours on end, day after day.

"It was torture," she said outside the court yesterday.

,as the article words it. They were given shock treatments, where household current is applied to the brain, causing the brain to go into a massive seizure while bursting blood vessels and causing global brain damage. Some of these victims were regressed to a state of infancy through a combination of huge doses of LSD and repeated shock treatment.

It's amazing that this "therapy" (shock)has regained popularity and has not been banned. It would be banned as a medical treatment in any other field outside of treating the loonies, the most discriminated people on the planet. The fact that ECT is still uses is testament to that fact.