Beyond All Repair

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


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"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:
  • The comment from Redditor u/Dwintahdt that tipped us off on this story
  • Article about this story from Max Binks-Collier for Maisonneuve Magazine
  • Audio of Dr. Ewen Cameron's 1955 speech, courtesy of the WNYC archives
  • The Fifth Estate episode, "Brainwashed: The Secret CIA Experiments in Canada"
  • Survivors Allied Against Government Abuse (SAAGA)
  • Video from the SAAGA's October 2019 rally in Ottawa.
  • This series was originally published in WBUR's Endless Thread in April 2020.

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