Endless Thread's "Madness," Part 3: Subproject 68

Beyond All Repair

WBUR

Criminal Justice, True Crime

4.6 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

As the fear of communism was rising in the U.S. after World War II, government officials set their sights on developing a weapon that sounds straight out of science fiction: mind control. This effort was led by the CIA in a program called MK-ULTRA, which was made up of 149 "subprojects" involving more than 80 academic institutions, prisons, and organizations. In this episode, we learn the dark history of MK-ULTRA and examine the origins of Subproject 68: Dr. Ewen Cameron's experimentation on patients at the Allan Memorial Institute in Montreal.

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0:56.0	Amory and I have been bringing you our special series, Madness, about alleged crimes at the Allen Memorial Hospital in Montreal
1:01.7	and its connections to mind control experiments, also the history of the psychiatry industry.
1:07.8	Today, we're bringing you the third installment in the series, which touches on some
1:12.5	of the larger events that impacted how the United States and Canada approached their MK Ultra
1:18.6	program, the controversial program designed to give North America an edge at the beginning of the
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2:01.2	This is part three of our special series, Madness.
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