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

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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WBUR's reintroducing you to Endless Thread's 2020 series, "Madness," that unraveled the shocking story of forced brainwashing and the murky history of CIA-funded mind-control experiments. This feed is the home of Beyond All Repair, WBUR & ZSP Media's 10-part true crime investigative series as well as Violation, a podcast from WBUR & The Marshall Project, exploring America’s opaque parole system.