Endless Thread's "Madness," Part 1: The Sleep Room

Beyond All Repair

WBUR

Criminal Justice, True Crime

4.6 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

"Hey, it's Amory. We've had such a huge response for Beyond All Repair that the team and I are thinking and talking about what we might bring to you in the future. But in the meantime, we wanted to keep things going, at least for now, with something a little different. So, as you may know, I'm the co-host of another show called Endless Thread.

This is a show about mysteries and history, all connected to the internet. Back in April of 2020, my Endless Thread co-host Ben Brock Johnson and I released a real doozy of a story. It's about alleged crimes at one of the highest-ranking institutions of higher ed and medicine, connected to the MKUltra experiments conducted on people by the CIA during the Cold War.

It's also a story about the origins of psychiatry, a dangerous doctor. And a group of people, often women, who have been fighting for their personal stories to be heard. We're putting this series into this feed for just a limited time, so listen now while you can to this set of stories called Madness. And we'll be in touch with more Beyond All Repair news in the future."

About the episode:

"Madness: The Secret Mission for Mind Control and the People Who Paid the Price" — a 5-part investigative series from Endless Thread — unravels the shocking history of CIA-funded mind-control experiments. In this first episode, we hear about powerful accounts of abuse at a psychiatric hospital in Montreal, and the renowned doctor who conducted these disturbing experiments on his unwitting patients.

Show Notes:

This series was originally published in WBUR's Endless Thread in April 2020.

Transcript

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0:33.8	Hey, it's Amory. We've had such a huge response for Beyond All Repair, and the team and I are thinking and talking about what we might bring to you in the future.
0:43.3	But in the meantime, we wanted to keep things going, at least for now, with something a little different.
0:49.3	So as you may know, I'm the co-host of another show called Endless Thread, and this is a show about mysteries and about history, all connected to the Internet.
1:00.1	Back in April of 2020, my Endless Thread co-host, Ben Brock Johnson and I released a real doozy of a story.
1:08.1	It's about alleged crimes at one of the highest ranking institutions of higher
1:12.3	ed and medicine, connected to the MK Ultra experiments conducted on people by the CIA during
1:19.6	the Cold War. It's also a story about the origins of psychiatry, a dangerous doctor, and a group
1:26.5	of people, often women, who have been fighting for their
1:29.5	personal stories to be heard. We're putting the series into this feed for just a limited time,
1:35.5	so listen now while you can to this set of stories called Madness. And we'll be in touch with
1:41.9	more Beyond All Repair news in the future.
1:46.6	Okay, here's the first episode.
1:56.3	WBUR Podcasts, Boston. Check, check, check, check, check.
2:03.6	Once again, Amory Severson and I are setting up our recording kit.
2:08.6	I was going to make you just like hold the umbrella over my head in the kit.
2:13.6	It is a stormy day in Montreal and we are in an eerie place, known as the Allen Memorial Institute.
2:21.1	I did reach out to the Allen Memorial for an interview, and they did not want to talk.
2:26.9	So we're not here to talk, just to look.
2:30.1	The Allen is really where the story we're going to tell you today all started.
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