Victim owed compensation in CIA case, judge told

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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070111.BRAINWASH11/TPStory/National

Victim owed compensation in CIA case, judge told
Montreal woman who was experimented on should receive reparations, lawyer says

...Patients were put in isolation, tied down or drugged, and subjected to hours and hours of taped recordings meant to brainwash them at the behest of the Central Intelligence Agency.

They were subjected to massive electroshocks, experimental drugs and LSD, most of them unwilling and unknowingly part of the U.S. spy agency's experimentation, a Federal Court judge was told yesterday.

Now it's time for the federal government to compensate those victims, lawyer Alan Stein argued.

Mr. Stein is seeking court approval for a class-action lawsuit on behalf of his client, Janine Huard, one of the hundreds of patients of Ewen Cameron to be subjected to the Cold War-era experiments...

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1. I'm about to run out on an errand.

I'll check when I get back, but if you know the answer to this question, please save me some time: When did these tests take place?

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3. 1950-62

according to the article

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4. Thanks for that. It's a busy day, and a busy newsday.

I wonder how much the CIA has really changed in forty years. We seem to keep repeating history.

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2. In the Na-vy...

U.S. Navy research on "mind control techniques" cannot be performed on human subjects without the authorization of the Under Secretary of the Navy, according to a new Navy Instruction (pdf).

"The Under Secretary of the Navy (UNSECNAV) is the Approval Authority for research involving ... severe or unusual intrusions, either physical or psychological, on human subjects (such as consciousness-altering drugs or mind-control techniques)."

The nature and scope of any such Navy research could not be immediately discovered.

http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2006/12/navy_mind_control.html