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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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