Cold war on the mind: Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron and the history of brainwashing in Montreal
Schmidel, Henry
Schmidel, Henry
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Beginning with a New York Times article on August 2nd, 1977, much has been published about Canadian psychiatrist Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron’s CIA-financed research into brainwashing at McGill University in the 1950s and ‘60s. My research intervenes in this nearly fifty-year historiography in order to correct the record on various often-repeated errors, allowing future scholars of Cameron’s research—billed as MKULTRA Subproject no. 68—to understand and avoid common yet outdated claims.
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2025-05-29