MONTREAL HOSPITAL PAYS WOMAN WHO SUED OVER C.I.A.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000404780001-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 22, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: May 16, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ARTTCLR APPEARED
ON PAGE o~ `
I EW YORK TINES
16 MAY 1981
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House of Commons from Winnipeg,-who Memorial Institute, the psychiatric wing other Canadians is n y his wiie and five
was pending,
alleged that she had been unknowingly of the Royal oyal Victoria Hospital, which was
subjected to psychiat- experiments one of the institutions that participated in Deterrent Effect Stressed
sponsored by the United- States Central the experiments. A statement by Mrs. Orlikow's lawyer(
Intelligence Agency. Soon after reading the article,?Mrs.Or- said, "We believe that the testimonyi
David Orlikow, the Member of Parlia- likow? began proceedings- in a Montreal heard will deter not only the Allan Me-'
ment, said in ?a telephone interview yes- court, but the case did not come to trial mortal Institute but all hospitals from ex-i
terday that his wife, Velma, became until this month. Mrs. Orlikc -, who said perimental therapy being undertaken
aware, of the role of theC.1-A-in Jul v 19"7. she was still suffering ill effects from they without first advising the Patient of the!
By HENRY GIMGER when she read an article in The New York treatment - and had sued for some
specielton~eNe yo&nm~es Times about a secret 25-year, S2.5 million $190,OGO, agreed to accept about $41,coo
OTTAWA, May 15 -A Montreal hospi- research in mind control. This plus court costs.
tal has settled out of cunt to end a suit was 13 years after she had ended treat- Mr. Orlikow said a suit against the
begun by the wife-of a-member of the meat for acute depression at the Allan C I A in Wa h' at
nature of we. experimentation and even
..then only after obtaining express perrnis.;
sion.",, .._
Mrs. Orlikow, who began treatment irr
Montreal in 1956,. testified that she was
"outraged and heartbroken" when she
I.earned that she had been part of the ex-
perimental program .
"I find thewhole thing despicable," she
said in court . "It runs against everything
I believed in. I felt outraged that an or-
ganization from another- country had
She said that she had been regetlarly
forced- to take LSD and a dozen other
drugs and that "sometimes I thought I
ould die."
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A psychiatrist testifying-for Mrs. Oir-
had been subjected to "psychological tor-
"
ture
and had suffered-irreparable dam-
age.
Documents introduced at -the trial nl-
leged that Dr. Douglas Ewen Cameron,
who directed. the experiments,: had ac-
cepted subsidies between 1949-and 1964
from,a C.I.A front group called the Soci-
ety to Investigate Human Ecology. - -
The. documents were part of an.affida-
vit from-John Dc Marks, a freelance: jour-
nalist who first obtained information on-
the- C.I.A. ' program -. under they United'
States Freedom of -Information'Act. Dr..
Cameron, an American -Citizen-and a- -
well-known psychiatrist; resigae`d-fr m
the hospital institute in- 1964 and died
three years later, reportedly from a heart
attack while mountain climbing in the
Adirondacks.
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