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oh in the traditional motion picture story the villains are usually defeated the ending is a happy one. i can make no such promise for the picture you're about to watch the story isn't over. i remember the nurse bringing my father down and he gone from a man to this almost non human creature. piers he starts to try to get rid of the equipment that they used to put him in sensory isolation he's mumbling incoherently he's trying to remove his goggles he's trying to move his cuffs. over and over again that he's doing coherent. he trusts ducked as he put on the lights in that time but some betrayed that trust . for the last 16 years dealt is working for the british and american
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governments and least psychologically to destroy. the struggle for its entirety just simply to have your name. a monthly friend to spell real name. they don't know what the mistake is but they know. the way and scale it as we're all. to tell the story we need to get back to the 1950 s. when scotty psychiatry's stop to ewen cameron experimenting on his own patients. is there a pair of among us james who caught. the normal mom world on rest we are seeing an enormous demand for knowledge concerning the effects of stress. on your socks what they just went to the end of 5 agent he simply identified himself as the richest man when they lifted. hood over my head i see
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andrew standing in front of me in the middle of the desert in afghanistan. since he said. there's nothing i we the british government can do about your situation you have to cooperate with the americans they said what do you think about waterboarding i said i like it a lot of stuff but no. special parts of. those. coming up.
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in the past we have foolishly released hundreds and hundreds of dangerous terrorists. only to meet them again on the battlefield. i just signed an order to keep open the detention facilities in guantanamo bay. cuba doctor and you in cameron of montreal chairman of the organizing committee opened this 3rd world congress of psychiatry the. bees of a day. some enough to terminate. the imagination and drive us forward in this greatest of endeavor.
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to go see the memorial institute. where my father spent on and off for tragic years. was one year after my bar mitzvah i was 14 and i remember the christmas holidays that year with my father pacing singing serious crazy song from that thinks the thirty's called mary seed oats and dozy dotes of the lambs eat ivy over and over again and my being very puzzled and not understanding what was happening. which is how he ended up in $956.00 going to see cameron at the morial institute the. life for the most chilling experiments we have uncovered took place at this gothic estate called raven strike half way up in montreal.
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then a drug began to take hold very rapidly. things became very fairy and very frightening. i thought this was the coldest and most impersonal treatment that anybody could give to anybody in the world. i haven't ever had to talk about this publicly i don't like. to reflect dog but how. to her because it breaks my heart. my mom and dad both worked so i would go over to her house after school. but even as a young kid i remember being like that's my grandma. you watch out you don't mess
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with her. she did suffer from postpartum depression which probably was misdiagnosed. and my mother was very familiar with montreal from having lived there so they chose the out on. by the 1950 s. the allen memorial institute was one of the world's leading psychiatric hospitals. its director cameron was the president of the american canadian and world psychiatric association my mother thought that dr cameron was gone my mother thought dr cameron was god. i'm trying to decide if that's a photograph of cameron. you know it's very interesting that his
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is the only photograph in which there is no name. and that he was the founder of this place and that odd goes the 2nd 3rd 4th and cetera directors somehow do no harm guy forgotten. even cameron was born in breach of alan stirling share in 1001. the son of a presbyterian minister cameron soon outgrew scotland. in 1902 he became an american citizen. and driven cameron dreaming of winning the nobel prize. on the front teens of psychiatry. i think it's very easy for people to say that this is the story of one patient or one family and some people downplay it because of that. to see this only and simply
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as a horrendous experience that happened in montreal in the 1950 s. is to really miss the big picture. in 1951 britain america and canada to secret meeting in the ritz carlton hotel in montreal . 2 projects were discussed the 1st was the see a program. in spite of everything a man can do a falls into the hands of the enemy. if you were an airman who was going was shot down an enemy territory. told you. that on the enemy lines. your 1st feeling might be one of helplessness as if suddenly the whole world dropped off from under you leaving you with the enemy's mercy. such a feeling is quite understandable for a minute or 2. to see. if asian resistance and
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escape. but there was a hidden agenda of the meeting the primary objective was often so eloquent that the same you could lose against captured soldiers so it was a joke of leo mobilization psychology important united states that research was making the claim in overseas for the better part of the. research has begun similar experiments in a psychiatric hospital in the u.k. . in the u.s. the cia had over 160 secret projects in institutions. $25000000.00 allocated to sheneman experimentation it was code named and. ultra. camerons were at the allen memorial institute
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was one of the largest projects in m.k. ultra. you are in the angry person you're angry at the doctors your own group of the nurses why are you sure it isn't because you need to. come and begun trialing post breaking. up with. my father would be forced to listen to his voice is. high voices low voices spaced voices faster slower. i don't doubt that they have all.
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dr cameron had people listening to recordings he saw and eyes in the paper for how to learn a language while you sleep and it was a recording. of a voice speaking in spanish that you would put in your pillow. one of the things that the tapes said was you are an angry person you are angry at the doctors the nurses. said because you. and she had to listen to this over and over and over again i mean as many hours in a day that that she could. came there was. no one. man who barely could. who. couldn't really carry on
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a conversation who lay dying down on a couch all day mostly sleeping who. was a different person. mabel transport bearing 407 korean prisoners of war docks in san francisco amid seems all emotion in 953 american troops become returning from the korean war. thousands was suspected of having been brainwashed. communist fear gripped america we all know the atomic bomb is very dangerous certainly be used against us we must get ready for it. with terror came a huge opportunity for an ambitious psychiatry's to the american government we're now spending a $1000000000.00 a year on psychological moved hundreds of thousands of people students test
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subjects. brainwashing isolde's. death. there's a mesh them on behind all the mind if you wish. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race is on all sides very dramatic development only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. is you'll be via reflection of reality.
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in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation community. are you going the right way or are you being so. direct. what is true what is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or remain in the shallows. since that other abundance of and. pay for them is only. about the mind. if you are not just the type to use
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a pen in. the in the next tongues arms mom i'm going to you have. been. used in feel good in though it is a. little too doesn't it but again it was on the. life is only confusing we haue a very considerable up legation to undertake social engineering it will take bold climbing and brave hearts to develop this field. use all kinds of exotic techniques they were convinced that hypnosis could actually work and to hypnotize somebody in with them up and some must do something that they ordinarily wouldn't do and then you could snap your fingers and forget all that's
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pretty stuff. dr cameron didn't set out to develop interrogation methods by his techniques proved useful to the cia. in 963 many of the psychological experiments were paid to fight for the 1st time in the cube counter intelligence manual a cia guy on how to torture. who bark is a curious name conscript and it's the cia's name for itself and that was the foundation for the method of psychological interrogation psychological torture of the cia disseminated within the u.s. intelligence community and worldwide among our allies for the next 30 years. within the decade britain would be using these techniques on her own citizens.
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terrorist campaign continues on except. in the 1st 6 months of 971 over 300 films ripped through northern ireland. to. come out comprehensively quick enough with such restrictions the stuffs. the british government's response was to introduce internment without trial. on the 9th of august 971342 people what arrested. a suspected terrorists. just twenty's 3 years of age. and that's 3 30 in the morning waking up those are the mercy of a panelist almost and set up right in the bad only to discover that there was i had
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been awakened by a bottle of british army rifle took me in the stomach. at 6 it's up that morning my mother commanded bad rimsha says better get up there's soldiers all right now hey she was the next single is that still going on my head i'm told mailers on and are asked. as everybody commend the tell you what's happening i'd say there's shit and ball mine and so many dead. was 1. on the porch were coming and from areas like armor urban. areas and the c.m. picture was a marriage and a man being arrested. it looked like a war that erupted in belfast. british intelligence eased up to cameron's experiments in sensory overload and deprivation on that irish christmas.
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day or you see come on and come put the bag over your head. overalls put on us spread eagled again lord for our own land. there's a good pistol in my head such sure punny said and what the hell's going on. for you see in this piece techniques state devising methods to an essential destroy the us now to that individual. by scientific. process it is one of the 1st to make the connection between the montreal experiment and the interrogation technique ceased. in 1970 he
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presented the b.b.c. documentary with an irish prisoner who by then. men. were subjected to a technique which is later comfy euphemistically known as interrogation that. when i was trying to do that written no she's only at the time and i could feel everything of the different textures of the floor. they finish up with their insistence that a systems end says this and that and let's say your tips against the wall one we're told and let's just position. it seems itself to be completely innocuous all you're doing is leaning forward against the wall why should this be a problem. but it is a polyp you have to retain the position so it becomes extremely painful when he doesn't appear to be painful from the point of view of the lay observer.
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after considerable experimentation it was found if individuals were placed without ice bondage they would not only pos into a confused under extremely anxious state but they would sure some interesting phenomena. and then i start to notice this noise. a. prima noise. it appears to come in through my her. body and. just suckles right run in each time with the student body it touches every nerve send you in the body. starts to occupy my main to take children maybe in atlanta. the veracity of this noise. of the spears piercing them of a good time and again under if you can imagine that and say you know who did this
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noise was exaggerated the 100 fold. they thought they were going to kill us they started saying the rosary on my sanger's on the fingers got. a couldn't follow and all of ended up was a litany of him age only. named as a soloed was named as a. cause i. combination of procedures which each in itself is extremely simple an extremely cheap to produce comes from the obstruction side to work on the consequence of this.
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and the time. was a long time traumatic stress post-traumatic stress disorder. on a member to claim the acceptance that the end result of this is my desk. i had this welcoming of gas comin to bring it sooner rather than later. mother. just went everywhere everywhere to try and try and i. was fortunate enough to get the phone number of brown for her then prime minister to call it northern ireland. she running or and she sends her husband home my husband taken away. for it is because everybody's tonight on one
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maria is just basically says these are terrible times too many comes out. in 1971 island to the u.k. to the european courts. that the man had been hit by the british. the european court of human rights eventually decided that the hooded man had not been tortured but instead enjoyed inhuman and degrading treatment was. the global precedent set by this 978 judgment allowed governments around the world to. these techniques.
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on the 30th of july 2011 the forestry union. just moved up this is a federal. we discussed the possibility of 3 in the k.s. to me it was. a little made in france my question and i a 70 year old grandfather. taking 71 i was one of the hooded men. we went through and named is. torture and hell. the humane
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case is probably one of the most notorious cases in human rights jurisprudence dogs in the street know about what a man they know what happened to him in and protect her they know that it was torture. we have documents that made it very clear expressed the clear but those that. were not only authorized and the techniques but knew exactly what they were authorized and which was the half torture. they spoke to all of the men of their experience all of them seem to come to the white noise most of even the batemans and the machine that was used to create white noise and actually cost less than one pint to manufacture. a document and much the murdered race had communicated with the british prime minister regarding to torture you see the word on paper at that level. you know without plays it intoned.
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through the act of making art is how i process my thoughts and ideas. i think about the family tree and i was thinking about. in our family something came in out of left field and broken branch on our family tree. in 1977 the new york times broke the story of cameron cia mind control program. one of the people reading this story.
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for motion. in the early ninety's seventy's helmet a psychologist 6 just proposed to the west berlin senate a social experiment he wanted to live paedophiles and down to camp an eclectic boys experiment was a. mobile. home . for girls to tend to believe that sex with older men would help with the boys' socialization over 30 years many children were handed paedophiles to raise just mentioned a little hard. work from. boyfriends or she could just go for broke for sure someone turned over to.
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