As of 2007, not a single U.S. government researcher had been
prosecuted for human experimentation, and many of the victims of
U.S. government experiments have not received compensation, or
in many cases, acknowledgment of what was done to them In 1957,
with funding from a CIA front organization, Dr. Ewan Cameron of
the Allan Memorial Institute in Montreal, Canada began MKULTRA
Subproject 68. His experiments were designed to first
“depattern” individuals, erasing their minds and
memories—reducing them to the mental level of an infant—and then
to “rebuild” their personality in a manner of his choosing. To
achieve this, Cameron placed patients under his “care” into
drug-induced comas for up to 88 days, and applied numerous high
voltage electric shocks to them over the course of weeks or
months, often administering up to 360 shocks per person. He
would then perform what he called “psychic driving” experiments
on the subjects, where he would repetitively play recorded
statements, such as “You are a good wife and m