She said that at the time, Cameron was something of a celebrity. According to The Guardian, it started with playing tapes designed to tap into the reason the patient sought help in the first place. Heres John Marks again. Amory: He doesnt explicitly say that he was the one who did the destroying. Skip Ancestry main menu Main Menu. His support of Charles Edward Stuart was instrumental in the Jacobite Rising of 1745 Lochiel and the Jacobite cause He died of a heart attack while climbing a mountain in the Adirondacks in 1967. They also asked him for clarification about what happened to his father's personal papers and patient records, and he replied, "Well, I didn't destroy the documents. Their diagnosis was amnesia and hysteria, per a short commentary in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Duncan: They got close to the top and James looked around and my father had passed away. He tried a variety of things, including multiple electroshock therapy sessions a day and massive doses of drugs including LSD. Jean Steel was another one of Cameron's patients, and like the others she didn't sign up to be a part of MKUltra, depatterning, or psychic driving at all. Duncan: Thats my recollection, that any documents that related to patients were destroyed. In 1936, he moved to Massachusetts to become director of the research division at Worcester State Hospital only 1 year later. It has to do with another of his Adirondack hikes that changed the Cameron family forever. Ewen Cameron made the hike with Duncans younger brother, James. We hope you enjoyed reading this excerpt from this mini book on the Scottish history of the Cameron family. Or do you remember any of --. Sarah Anne Johnson: I imagine this is very difficult for his family. She was not staying in this little town. Police, hospitals, government, and schools would need to use the correct psychiatric authority to stop mental contagions from spreading. Ben: But some key documentation of Camerons time at the Allan is straight up missing. Cameron stated, "Get it understood how dangerous these damaged, sick personalities are to ourselves and above all, to our children, whose traits are taking form and we shall find ways to put an end to them." You can see other fellow humans. Cameron focused primarily on biological descriptive psychiatry and applied the British and European schools and models of the practice. [27] Such consequences included incontinence, amnesia, forgetting how to talk, forgetting their parents, and thinking their interrogators were their parents. Cameron decided that Germans would be most likely to commit atrocities due to their historical, biological, racial and cultural past and their particular psychological nature. [citation needed]. Cameron's work was funded under MKUltra's subproject 68. Typically, I would show up there and, if it was a Friday, ask if I could have a lift down to Lake Placid. Ian Donald Cameron is geboren in het jaar 1932 in Blairmore House, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, zoon van Ewen Donald CAMERON en Enid Agnes Maud LEVITA. Heads up that some elements (i.e. . Please note . Amory: Immortal Technique is rapping about it: Ben: But for those who have had to deal with the fallout of MK-ULTRA on a personal level, the fact that the program rarely gets discussed outside the realm of pop culture can feel discouraging. He is largely known today for his central role in unethical medical experiments, and development of psychological and medical torture techniques for the CIA. "[H]e was born in. "He was supposed to do wonders with people with depression or mental health issues." [6] Decades after his own death, the psychic driving technique he developed continued to see extensive use in the torture of prisoners around the world. Donald Ewen Cameron was born in Bridge of Allen, a small town in Scotland, on December 24, 1901. John Marks observes, Ewen Cameron did not need the CIA to corrupt him. He is largely known today for his central role in unethical medical experiments, and development of psychological and medical torture techniques for the CIA. He published a book called Remembering[18] and extended psychiatric links to human biology. Ben: But there is reason to believe that these documents arent just missing. Thank you! [13], In 1945, Cameron, Nolan D. C. Lewis and Dr Paul L. Schroeder, colonel and psychiatrist, University College of Illinois, were invited to the Nuremberg trials for a psychiatric evaluation of Rudolf Hess. And here he is with me many years ago. The first was for 18 days and the second for 29 days, all while hearing endless recorded messages and being subjected to a series of electroshock therapy sessions. Dr. Morrow, says The Washington Post, had applied for a fellowship in psychiatry with Cameron. He continued his training in the United States under Meyer at the Phipps Clinic, Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland from 1926 to 1928 with a Henderson Research Scholarship. There's Edgar Allan Poe stories and Sherlock Holmes stories. There must have been records of experiments. Ben: But we also asked about something else, that he was a little uncomfortable talking about: Orlikow vs. United States, the 1980s lawsuit that ended up giving $750,000 total to 8 of Camerons victims. Yeah so it was sad. [26] His "psychic driving" experiments consisted of putting a subject into a drug-induced coma for weeks at a time (up to three months in one case) while playing tape loops of noise or simple statements. Amory: What we know of Camerons work comes from family accounts like Marian's, a few hard-won medical documents, and detailed descriptions of his techniques from his own journal articles and speeches. So we don't have. And you see this actual physical manual on how to break down the human mind. Any documents that related to patient treatment were destroyed? The lawsuits were dismissed, even though it was later shown there were a higher-than-usual number of people diagnosed with schizophrenia, presumably to increase Cameron's subject pool. Ontario. It is true. Cameron reported to John Gittinger, an agent in charge of overseeing parts of MKUltra. He began his career as resident surgeon at Glasgow Infirmary, but in 1929 moved to Canada to work in the Brandon Mental Hospital. Like in Nicaragua, where he was The New York Times Bureau Chief. Two of my sons are lawyers and they say it isnt a good idea.. Amory: Just not in the way he might have hoped. Donald Cameron of Lochiel (c.1700 - October 1748), was an influential Highland Clan Chief known for his magnanimous and gallant nature. They were destroyed. Through his instruction of nurses and psychiatrists he became an authority in his areas of concentration. He theorized that attitudes and beliefs should reinforce the overall attitudes of the desired society. Stephen: So they created a manual, which basically was for intelligence personnel. He had patients. Cameron's concerns extended to his policies determining who should have children and advance to positions of authority. And he was always very fascinated by what the future held for us all. [34], Naomi Klein states in her book The Shock Doctrine that Cameron's research and his contribution to MKUltra were not about mind control and brainwashing, but "to design a scientifically based system for extracting information from 'resistant sources.' There is no incontinence, there is no mutism, and we are continuing this intense treatment of her until we get complete depatterning.". They fear the stranger, they fear the new idea; they are afraid to live, and scared to die." Alison said that when her mother returned, it was no longer her mother. He had various people record the tapes sometimes including the patient's loved ones and it was, on the whole, incredibly traumatizing. That's how quick it is because it removes your time and space. On March 12, her records show she was considered "depatterned": She could no longer stand, speak, could barely swallow, was incontinent, and required treatment by an obstetrician for severe bleeding. I mean his father was a very prominent psychiatrist, so destroying rather than preserving personal papers of someone of that prominence is a very unusual thing, especially for a family member to have done. Amory: In the Lake Placid community where Dr. Camerons family spent the bulk of their summers, his sudden death from a heart attack while hiking was big news. Family 9 - Donald CAMERON 34, wife Agnes 30, children John 18, Margaret 13, Ann 12, Donald 10, Christian 8, Alexander 6, Dugald 2, Duncan 1/2 (see Donald Cameron) Family 10 - Duncan CAMERON 30 unmarried, sister Mrs McLENNAN 28 and Catherine McLENNAN 5 AIan Cameron followed in the footsteps of his father and became a director at Panmure Gordon in 1957. So why havent they? Jean spent three months under Cameron's care, and spent two periods in a drug-induced coma. In 1936, he also published his first book, Objective and Experimental Psychiatry which introduced his belief that psychiatry should approach the study of human behavior in a rigorous, scientific fashion rooted in biology. In his analysis, culture and society played a crucial role in the ability for one to function according to the demands necessary for human survival. His death occurred while climbing a mountain. He warned that government institutions should take measures against such potential liabilities. This must be very difficult, very complicated for them. Amory: But even on their long drives from Montreal to upstate New York, Duncan says his dad never really talked about work. Memories are not the most reliable form of evidence. And when you get up to the top, its completely wooded, so theres no panoramic view after all the hard climbing. Duncan: He loved hiking. with distinction from the University of Glasgow in 1936.[8]. [14] Hess later confessed that he had faked the amnesia. Old '45" Cameron Major Cameron (1663 - 1718) family tree on Geni, with over 230 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives. Amory: In spite of Camerons ambition and prestige, he never helped find a cure for mental illness, he never won a Nobel Prize for psychiatry. Morrow's family got involved, and it was only at their insistence that she was transferred to another hospital. He was a person who was always looking for a way of advancing the field. [25], Cameron had been hoping to correct schizophrenia by "erasing" existing memories and "reprogramming" the psyche. music, sound effects, tone) are harder to translate to text. Though he does seem to imply that it was done by him or someone in the family. I wasnt destroying documents. Experts must develop methods of forcefully changing attitudes and beliefs to prevent the authoritarian overlord. Genealogy profile for Major Donald of 4th Chief Clunes "Old '45" Cameron Major Cameron . And he put Camerons treatment program under the microscope. And he didn't achieve that either. Duncan Cameron: No. He promoted a philosophy where chaos could be prevented by removing the weak from society. from the University of London in 1925, and an M.D. Ben: Would you have anything that you would want to say to Dr. Cameron or his family? Cameron began to explore how industrial conditions could satisfy the population through work and what kind of person or worker is best suited to industrial conditions. [citation needed]; if the greater population of Germany saw the atrocities of World War II, they would surely submit to a re-organized system of justice. All Germans on trial would be assessed according to the likeliness for committing the crime. She was a former captain of the Scottish field hockey team, a competitive tennis player,[11] and lecturer in mathematics at the University of Glasgow. Results were telling: They became super sensitive to the sensory stimuli they did receive, and then, things started getting really weird. Ben: Sure. That would have been the cultural environment in which people like Sidney Gottlieb grew up. The second part of the technique was inspired by something called the Cerebrophone, which was essentially a "learn-while-you-sleep" recording device. First I have to say that my father was exceedingly committed to his field. Her family sued, first based on the treatment alone, then again, after discovering she was a part of the MKUltra program. Very different. Cameron also wanted to revolutionize the way psychology and psychiatry looked at mental illness. Amory: He remembers his dad working a lot during this time, which, definitely tracks. Ben: Im Ben Brock Johnson, and youre listening to Endless Thread, the show featuring stories found in the vast ecosystem of online communities called Reddit. Cameron followed these schools in demanding that mental disturbances are diseases and somatic in nature; all psychological illness would therefore be hardwired, a product of the body and the direct result of a patient's biological structure rather than caused by social environments. Duncan: Well, I didnt destroy the documents. In this manner, somatic causes could be compared. She was admitted to McGill's Allan Memorial Institute in 1957, needing help dealing with depression and the loss of her child. The line between fantasy and reality blurred. The program is widely believed to have been partly funded by the United States Central Intelligence Agency as part of their top-secret MKULTRA program. Part of Camerons plan for his patients was to wipe their minds clean, to make them forget their past, so they could move forward. 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According to The Washington Post, Cameron was recruited in 1957, and he was a big deal. She went from apartment to apartment, mental hospital to mental hospital. And he was a fast driver. Which suggests it was for purposes of, not closure, but of not wanting information to come to light that was in the papers. These became the basis of a new social and behavioural science that he would later institute through his presidencies of the Canadian, American and World Psychiatric Associations, the American Psychopathological Association and the Society of Biological Psychiatry. Ben: Street Mountain is a strange choice for a bucket list. If he had a choice he would have kept living forever. Amory: What was your father like as a dad? Just as Sigrid Schultz stated in Germany will try it again, Cameron fostered a fear for Germans and their genetic determination. But he has fond childhood memories of summers spent in New Yorks Adirondack Mountains, where his dads competitive nature led him again and again to the line of the horizon. In addition to LSD, he experimented with various paralytic drugs such as curare and electroconvulsive therapy at thirty to forty times the normal power. Scottish-American psychiatrist Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron led and conducted these experiments. I then *went through* the papers, because I felt that it would be improper to leave in the papers any paper that identified patients. He actually has a smile. His successor at Allan, Robert Cleghorn, would later write (via "Brainwashing's Avatar: The Curious Career of Dr. Ewen Cameron,""Cameron's controversial practices [are] now thoroughly discredited." Research genealogy for Donald Ewen Cameron of lambeth, as well as other members of the Cameron family, on Ancestry. In compliance with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) requirements, some of these records are no longer in the physical possession of the FBI, eliminating the FBI's capability to re-review and/or re-process this material. "[36], Cameron is the subject of Stephen Bennett's film Eminent Monsters (2020), which was funded by BBC Scotland and Creative Scotland. You know, my job was to look out for the cops. Many spent this period of time in what he called the "sleep room," where they were drugged into a medically-induced coma that they were brought out of only to be given three meals a day and the occasional trip to the bathroom. Heres journalist John Marks. He commuted from Lake Placid, New York to Montreal every week to work at McGill's Allan Memorial Institute and was paid $69,000 from 1957 to 1964 to carry out MKUltra experiments there, known as the Montreal experiments. Amory: Nearly everyone who experienced Camerons treatments first-hand has since died. The idea that people needed to sit down and talk about their problems was the old way of doing things, and Cameron was living in an era where things were getting more and more automated. Ben: Did he have any favorite sayings or idiosyncrasies or things like that that you remember or that made an impression on you when you were younger? Marian: It's become so embedded in our narrative, in our pop culture, without people really understanding that it happened It was real. Deze informatie is onderdeel van Families Klein, Ree, de Breed en de Vries van Terschelling van Marthan Klein op Genealogie Online. He never got one. The psychological experimentation project, known as MK Ultra, was allegedly funded by the Canadian government and the United States Central Intelligence Agency. Cameron began his training in psychiatry at the Glasgow Royal Mental Hospital in 1925. And these are pictures of him, these are both in the Adirondack Mountains. Amory: You're welcome to pull it out now. Click here for the donation page. Velma Orlikow, for instance, was dealing with postpartum depression. Amory: This is information that may have proven invaluable in holding Cameron, as well as McGill, the CIA, and the Canadian Government accountable for what happened at the Allan. Cleghorn immediately went and took a long, hard look at what Cameron had actually been doing in his little corner of the university, and he was pretty shocked. And so even all these years later, it's part of my life. You can see out a window. Thus, this group would have to be studied and controlled as a contagious social disease. His list of credentials was so long it's impossible to list them all, but for starters, his resume included the University of Glasgow and Johns Hopkins, and in the 1930s, he was lauded for setting up a series of psychiatric clinics. Did it work? Amory: Eventually though, it wasnt just Camerons successor who was calling him out. The title is The Understanding Man. Lake Placid in particular, and the northern Adirondacks in general, have lost suddenly, tragically, but in a sense, beautifully, probably their most distinguished citizen. Ben: Camerons research could never happen today at least not lawfully. Or answer questions about his motivations, whether or not he knew he was part of the CIAs mind control efforts. The U.S. wanted to know just how such a thing could possibly happen, and Dr. Ewen Cameron had a theory: brainwashing. [citation needed][21]. Everyone who makes a monthly donation will get access to upcoming bonus content from the making of our series. It petered out in the early 60s as the programs director, Sidney Gottlieb, came to a realization. Duncan: I mean, it's very different than the caricature that you sometimes read in the press. Duncan: It's really a very moving editorial. Unfortunately, a lot of what went on within them has been lost: In 1973, the majority of the documents associated with MKUltra were destroyed in a massive (and not-at-all-suspicious) purge. And it's still hugely controversial: In 2019, The New York Times published drawings done by prisoners who had been subjected to these torture methods at Guantanamo Bay, and it's not for the faint of heart. Ben: But Duncan is still, in some ways, trying to defend his dads honor. Donald Hebb and Ewen Cameron were competitors; they did not collaborate, though Cameron incorporated Hebb's sensory isolation techniques into his own diabolical arsenal of psychiatry's instruments of torture. The idea was to first "depattern" the person in question. Amory: We definitely will. When asked about the decision to involve Cameron in MK-ULTRA, John Gittinger, the CIA officer in charge of monitoring his work said, quote, Now that was a foolish mistake. Allan Cameron. Duncan: Well, that's a big subject. Ben: Robert Cleghorn, a former member of Camerons staff, took over after Cameron stepped down. She was gonna go out there and do something. There is no such thing as closure. That, says McGill University, was the work of Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron, a psychiatrist who performed experiments so horrifying he's been called "Scotland's Mengele." Kinzer: If Cameron had failed to find an effective means of mind control despite carrying out the most reckless experiments, in which he was willing to take any kind of a grotesque step in an effort to find that key, this must have helped feed Gottlieb's conclusion that the whole thing didn't exist. Cameron viewed German society throughout history as continually giving rise to fearsome aggression. Hes in his mid-80s now. Duncan: I have no recollection whether there were any papers relating to any of the--. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Cameron continued his work on memory and its relationship to aging. Harvey: Here he is trying to reach the peak, trying to climb the mountain, reach this goal. He has an open, amused look on his face. [38], Cameron died of a heart attack while hiking with his son in the Adirondack Mountains on September 8, 1967. Ewen passed away on month day 1915, at age 84 at death place. Amory: Hey, Dad, let's get out of here!, Duncan: I can remember doing that several times. He never got one. It's Boston local news in one concise, fun and informative email. In 1943, Cameron was invited to McGill University in Montreal by neurosurgeon Dr Wilder Penfield. He graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1924. The mentally ill were thus labelled as not only sick, but also weak. Hebb submitted his findings to the CIA, and it ended up being just the beginning. Amory: Marian was 5 years old when her mom was admitted to the Allan for what she thinks was postpartum depression. Thank you! Tell us about your reaction to this episode or send us a story idea. Amory: But, Camerons extreme measures didnt result in a Nobel Prize or any mental health breakthroughs, which is why Harvey finds a certain poetry in his untimely death. "Madness: The Secret Mission for Mind Control and the People Who Paid the Price" an investigative series in 5 parts unravels the shocking history of CIA-funded mind-control experiments. Patients were tested in the Radio Telemetry Laboratory, which was built under Cameron's direction. Ben: As for the CIAs MK-ULTRA program itself, it never had an official end date. While guys like Freud encouraged talking through problems, Cameron thought things like electroshock therapy and drug cocktails could be used to physically change the brain and get rid of the illness in question. Amory: This is from The Adirondack Daily Enterprise, is the name of the paper. Shes a member of SAAGA, or Survivors Allied Against Government Abuse. He saw no reason why psychiatry should be any different. After his treatments patients were unable to function; they had been reduced to a state of infancy. Dr. Ewen Cameron wanted to win a Nobel Prize for his work in psychiatry. On the weekends, you'd think he would go out and mow the lawn or bask in the sun or go play golf or tennis, but none of it. Shes also signed on to the class-action lawsuit against McGill University, the Canadian government, and the CIA. Dr. Ewen Cameron wanted to win a Nobel Prize for his work in psychiatry. Heres documentarian Stephen Bennett, whose film Eminent Monsters looks at the real echoes of Camerons work in government interrogation programs today. Amory: Theres a reason that all the photos of Ewen Cameron are from more than 50 years ago. He received an M.B., Ch.B. [7], Donald Ewen Cameron was born in Bridge of Allan, Scotland, the oldest son of a Presbyterian minister. Ben: The main takeaway here is Duncan admitting that he did remove documents pertaining to specific patients, before giving his dads papers to the archives. According to what his son, Duncan, told WBUR, it was 1967 when he decided to climb Street Mountain in the Adirondacks. Ben: OK. Fair. The psychiatric community could have questioned his methods, but they remained silent. Jim: But again, you know, the deposition transcript, you're going to have to rely on that, like we did. The paper stated that German culture and its people would have offspring bound to become a threat to world peace in 30 years. The human significance of his dark legacy was brought to public attention when nine of his Canadian victims filed lawsuits in 1980s twenty-one years after Camerons death. [33] The son of one of Cameron's patients noted in a memoir that other than Ed Broadbent and Svend Robinson, no Canadian MP brought up the issue in the House of Parliament. Cameron wanted to build an inventive psychiatric institution to determine rapid ways for societal control while demanding a psychological economy that did not center itself around guilt and guilt complexes. Its not a very popular mountain to climb, its steep. By that time, information on Cameron's sleep room projects was coming out, and there were all kinds of people who were very quick to distance themselves from it. He came up with the idea that if he presented the world and confronted the Germans with the atrocities committed during the war, the world and the Germans would refrain from repeated acts of extreme aggression. While more is known about the experiments of Dr. Ewen Cameron than about some of the other MKUltra projects, there's still a lot of information missing. This third type needs, This page was last edited on 16 February 2023, at 19:10. My recollection was that I wasn't able to provide him with much information that he didn't already have. He also organized the structure of mental health services in the western half of the province, establishing 10 functioning clinics; this model was used as the blueprint for similar efforts in Montreal and a forerunner of 1960s community health models. There must have been names of patients. She had no idea how to boil water, much less care for a child. Amory: Sarah Anne Johnson, whose grandmother Val Orlikow was a patient of Ewen Camerons, has a response to Duncan that, considering what her family has been through as a result of his fathers experimentation, is surprising. Duncan: I started work at the State Department just a day or so before Kennedy was assassinated. Ewen married Agnes Cameron (born Bell) in 1867, at age 35 at marriage place. Jim Turner: The most salient point that I recall is that Camerons son told us that he'd taken his father's private records and had destroyed them. Rauh: So any documents that would show the treatment of the plaintiffs in this case were destroyed? [clarification needed] Those Germans affected by the events that led to World War II were of utmost concern. This is Part 5. Amory: Marians mom died three ago. memorial page for Donald Ewen Cameron (1852-5 Feb 1892), Find a Grave Memorial ID 170055188, citing Cameron Cemetery, Indian River . Harvey: It is frustrating, and if you talk about a story with no end, I think the important thing to remember is that it isn't just the patients who went through this, it was their families. Ben: Perhapsthis is Dr. Cameron's most enduring legacy. Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron did experiments so horrifying he's been called "Scotland's Mengele." Here's why MKUltra's top brainwashing scientist was a nightmare. Peterborough County. Alison believes those random phrases her mother would sometimes say were from the recordings that she'd been forced to listen to for hours. Duncan: I think the furthest I got was to his office. 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