The Fairshake Files continues through the declassified record on Project MK-ULTRA — the CIA’s covert Cold War program to research behavioral modification, interrogation, and chemical influence. In Chapter 3: The Montreal Experiment, the story moves inside a psychiatric institution.

In March 1963, Linda Macdonald enters the Allan Memorial Institute in Montréal seeking help. What follows is not treatment in any ordinary sense, but a system designed to dismantle memory, identity, and resistance. We follow the architecture of the experiment: Ravenscrag, the prestige of Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron, the Sleep Room, Page-Russell electroshock, depatterning, and psychic driving.

Then we trace the hidden infrastructure behind it: CIA funding through Subproject 68, the Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology, and the overlap between Cameron’s methods and later interrogation doctrine. This is intelligence history, documented record, and institutional abuse with receipts.

IN THIS EPISODE:

• Linda Macdonald’s admission to the Allan Memorial Institute
• Ravenscrag and the authority structure that made coercion look like care
• Donald Ewen Cameron and the theory of depatterning
• The Sleep Room and prolonged drug-induced sleep
• Page-Russell electroshock and psychic driving
• Peter Roper and the system behind the ward
• CIA funding through Subproject 68
• The Human Ecology front and the bureaucratic language of harm
• The overlap with KUBARK interrogation logic
• The aftermath for survivors and their families
• Velma Orlikow, the compensation fight, and the gaslighting years
• The bridge to the next chapter: The Arctic Mind

SOURCES & CITATIONS
CIA Reading Room materials on MK-ULTRA and Subproject 68
U.S. Senate hearings on CIA behavioral modification research
McGill archival material on Allan Memorial and Donald Ewen Cameron
Canadian government material on the Cooper Report and the assistance plan
Court-era and wire-service reporting on survivors and settlements

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