Endless Thread's "Madness", Part 4: Pursuit of Justice

Beyond All Repair

WBUR

Criminal Justice, True Crime

4.6 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In the early 1980s, victims of Dr. Ewen Cameron’s mind-altering experiments at the Allan Memorial Institute began a slow process of finding each other and building a case against the CIA for funding Cameron's work. The legacy of that case has played a key role in two separate lawsuits in progress today. These new lawsuits represent the interests of hundreds of families still seeking justice for the brutal “treatments” their loved ones were subjected to decades ago.

"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. This is Part 4. If you haven't heard Parts 1 through 3 yet, you can find them here, here and here.

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0:00.0	At any given moment, there are up to 3,000 people in witness protection in the UK,
0:06.3	giving up their life for a new identity in a safe house.
0:10.7	But what happens when it all goes wrong?
0:15.2	Three shot, two male, one female.
0:17.4	And the detective inspector is Nile.
0:19.3	It's a safe house.
0:20.5	Sheltering a protective witness and his family. Who did this? I am going to find out, I promise. Protection starts Sunday the 16th of March on ITV1 and ITVX. Support for this podcast comes from Is Business Broken? A podcast from BU Questrum School of Business. Stick around until the end of this podcast for a preview of a recent episode about how to fairly compensate workers.
0:45.6	Hey, it's Amory.
0:46.9	Back with the next installment of Madness, a series I made with my Endless Thread co-host, Ben Brock Johnson, back in 2020.
0:54.4	The first three parts are already in the feed, and we'll have one more after that,
0:58.8	all here just for a limited time. So give them a listen. And remember, you can find many,
1:04.3	many more episodes of Endless Thread over in that feed. But for now, here's the show.
1:18.5	WBUR Podcasts, Boston.
1:27.8	Heads up, this is part four of madness from Endless Thread.
1:32.6	If you haven't heard parts one through three, you should definitely go listen to those first.
1:34.6	Okay, here we go.
1:38.1	Previously on Endless Thread. Cameron didn't seem to have the slightest hesitation about destroying the lives of his subjects.
1:45.0	The CIA was trying to frame this as a LSD testing program.
1:51.0	And what it really was was a much more serious program
1:55.0	to manipulate and control human behavior.
1:58.0	And the LSD made her feel like her bones were melting, like she was a squirrel trapped
2:04.5	in a cage, like she wanted to get out of her own skin and she couldn't get out of her own
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