WHAT WAS THE CIA UP TO IN CANADA?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00901R000600430054-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 15, 2005
• Sequence Number: 54
• Publication Date: March 26, 1983
• Content Type: NSPR

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THE WASHINGTON POST
26 March 1983
What Was the CIA Up to in Canada?
All Canadians owe a debt of grati- washing experiments. As a Canadian
tude to 'David Broiler for his March 13 citizen and a member of Parliament,
column ("There's a Gorilla in the the arrogance of the CIA angers me;
Hemisphere" ( based on Lawrence but as a husband that anger knows no
Martin's invaluable book, "The Presi- bounds-for my wife was one of the
dents and the Prime Ministers." Both patients used as a guinea pig in the
the Broder piece and the Martin book CIA-sponsored brainwashing experi-
expose a long history of ham-handed ments. I speak from distressing per-
U.S. arrogance toward its Canadian sonal knowledge when I say that the
neighbor. I am writing to attest to an CIA has caused great suffering arid un-
additional instance, of American cal- -happiness to the Canadian citizens
lousness-the CIA-sponsored brain- who were victimized by those unwit-
washing experiments performed on un-.. ting experiments
suspecting Canadian-citizens. Concepts of justice and fairness re-
In those CIA-funded, experiments quire a person who injures another to
during the late 1950s and early 1960s, recompense his victim, yet the U.S.
patients at a Montreal mental hospital government has consistently. acted to
were subjected to some or all of the fol- conceal its wrongdoing and to shirk its
lowing procedures. They were given responsibility. The CIA files relating to
LSD and were "depatterned" by re- this program were ordered destroyed in
ceiving large doses of drugs and/or in- 1973, but due to an oversight a limited
tensive electro-shocks two or three portion of those documents survived
times a (lay until they were reduced to and were found four years later. At
a vegetative state. Some patients were that time, CIA Director Stansfield
subjected to "psychic driving"=tape Turner promised the U.S. Senate that
recordings repeated the same message experimental subjects would be located
over and over when played through and notified-yet not one Canadian
speakers in the patients' pillows or victim has ever been contacted by the
headphones from 6 a.m. until 9 p.m. CIA.
each day until the message had been To this day the U.S. government
repeated some one-quarter to one-half denies all responsibility toward the
million times. Finally, to make some of Canadians who were victims. When my
the patients forget what had been done wife and other Canadians who had
to them, powerful drugs were adminis- been patients at the hospital ap-
tered that caused them to sleep for a _ proached the CIA seeking recompense,
week to 10 days. they encountered a stone wall of oppo-
All of this was done without even in- sition. Those Canadian citizens were,
forming our government here in Cana- forced to site for the compensation due
da, much less telling the patients who them-a suit that the United States
had come to the hospital seeking Cher- has resisted with all the resources
apy that they were subjects of brain- available to it. 11
It is bad enough when, as Mr. Mar-
tin relates, the United States tries to
station missiles in Canada with the
purpose of making us a target for the
Russians and when U.S. industries pol-
lute :so badly that acid rains kill our
forests; but when the United States
comes up here and uses our citizens as
guinea pigs and then denies all respon-
sibility, only one question remains:
with friends like these.. - .
DAVID ORLIKOW
`Winnipeg
(The writer is a member of Parlia-
ment from Winnipeg.).
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1A'ASHINTGTON POST
25 NAPCH 1983
'ill al Payment ApprovTdItErIu,
Massa~re
eSiwrvivors in Guyana
By Bill Prochnau
AN'ashfngton PostStart Wfler
More than four years after the infamous Jones-
town murder-suicide of 913. persons in the jungles
of Guyana, California courts yesterday approved
the final payment of settlements to survivors and
relatives of the victims.
One claimant will get a check for 36 cents-the
last payment on a $29 settlement for a loved one
lost in the bizarre final act of the Rev. James'
Jones. - . .
In all, relatives and survivors received almost
89.5 million from the estate of the cultist Peoples
Temple church, whose members shocked the
world with the murder of a congressman and four
others. followed just hours later by .a ritualistic
mays suicide in which the charismatic Jones or-
dered his followers to drink a cyanide-laced fla-
vored drink.
The highest personal payment was $600,000 to
Jackie Speier, a former congressional aide who
was severely injured in the airport shootings that
killed Rep. Leo J. Ryan (D-Calif.). three newsmen
and a church defector as they attempted to leave
the area. Ryan had gone to Jonestown to inves-
tigate reports of abuse of church members.
Robert Fabian, a court-appointed San Fran-
cisco l