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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/they-were-looking-for-the-ideal-manchurian-candidate/article1216879/
Sarah Milroy 7/14/09 ....Winnipeg artist Sarah Anne Johnson has
clearly felt its wing beat overhead, and, sitting last week in the
middle of House on Fire , her new show at Toronto's Art Gallery of
Ontario....In the mid-fifties, her late maternal grandmother, Velma
Orlikow, was diagnosed with postpartum depression. She was sent to
Montreal for treatment, to the Allan Memorial Institute at McGill
University, the site of now infamous mind-control experiments under
the direction of Dr. Ewen Cameron. Though her family didn't know it at
the time, the clinic was receiving funding from the CIA to conduct
procedures in brainwashing. The project was called MK-Ultra, and the
team made the Winnipeg mother of two, and a number of other patients,
their unwitting subjects. "They were looking for the ideal Manchurian
Candidate," Johnson says. "It's almost impossible to believe, it is
just so crazy." Over the course of several stays, her grandmother was
subjected to intensive electro-convulsive therapy, with an aim to wipe
her memory clean for re-programming. "Dr. Cameron called it psychic
driving. He was willing to push his experiments to the limit," Johnson
says. The medical records also show that her grandmother was the
subject of 14 experiments with LSD....The New York Times broke the
story of the experiments in an article in 1977. "My grandfather
happened to read it and he thought, `Wait, those are the years Vel was
there.' " She mobilized herself, leading a group of seven other former
patients and waging a class-action suit against the CIA. (In 1988,
they finally settled out of court, each receiving less than $80,000.)
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