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Episode 204: Between 1957 and 1964 in Montreal, Quebec, experiments were undertaken that compromised and invaded people’s minds, their agency to make decisions for themselves removed and their brains mucked about in, both physically and psychologically. These barbaric, Orwellian experiments often involved mind expanding drugs like LSD, sensory deprivation, shock treatments and periods of sleep induced for weeks at a time as well as other treatments that could easily be called torturous. They were sponsored by the most notorious branch of the United States government, the CIA, the Canadian government as well as other shadowy organizations with funding coming even from the Rockefellers. The goals behind the research, it seems were to develop brainwashed, zombie-like ‘recruits’ who would do the bidding of these groups without question or conscience getting in the way and to develop new methods of psychological torture to aid in enemy interrogation. All of it took place right here in Canada. The research was overseen by Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron, an eminent and well-respected psychiatrist at McGill University’s, Allan Memorial Institute with unwitting Canadian psychiatric patients used as Guinae pigs. The project was called MK-ULTRA.Sources:D. Ewen Cameron, M.D., F.R.C.P.C.Donald Ewen CameronDonald Ewen Cameron | The McClaughry’s BlogCIA MKULTRA / Mind Control Collection - The Black VaultMKULTRA files : Free Texts : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet ArchiveThe Most Dangerous Game : Josh Shore, Paul Shore : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet ArchiveThe Curious Career of Dr. Ewen CameronPsychological Warfare | RANDMind Control & MK-ULTRAMK Ultra Project - Commission on Assisted DyingGeorge Cooper Report Ewen Cameron, 1986 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet ArchiveMK Ultra: CIA mind control program in Canada (1980) - The Fifth Estate — YouTubeBrainwashed: The Secret CIA Experiments in Canada - The Fifth Estate — YouTubeCIA Mind Control Survivors Seek Restitution From Canadian GovernmentSAAGA — Survivors Against Government AbuseBrainwashed | CBC Podcasts | CBC ListenRavenscrag, Montreal - WikipediaAllan Memorial Institute - WikipediaProject MKULTRA - McGillDeclassified: Mind Control at McGill | The McGill TribuneReader CIA Brainwashing McIntoshMontreal MKULTRA Experiments | The Canadian EncyclopediaThe toxic legacy of Canada’s CIA brainwashing experiments: ‘They strip you of your soul’ | Canada | The GuardianVictims of CIA’s MKUltra Mind Control Program Are Fighting Back | GaiaMind Wars by Marie D. Jones | GoodreadsThe Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA & Mind Control by John D. Marks | GoodreadsPoisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control by Stephen Kinzer | GoodreadsMaisonneuve | Distant RelativesTrudeau government gag order in CIA brainwashing case silences victims, lawyer says | CBC NewsBrainwashed: The echoes of MK-ULTRA | CBC NewsSocial Media and the BrainUS claims Russia planning ‘false-flag’ operation to justify Ukraine invasion | Russia | The GuardianSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 123 - Born during the Great Depression, Ken Leishman was a stylish, good looking guy with a Clark Gable moustache. A married father of 7, he was adventurous, smart, charismatic, creative and enterprising. He used his skill as a small aircraft pilot to earn cash first as a fly in mechanic on prairie farms, then as a king cookery salesman.  Ken was also deeply in debt, his sales business was failing and he craved an even more lavish lifestyle. To get what he wanted Ken wasn't above stealing it, but often got caught going back for more. After flying all the way to Toronto to rob banks on two separate occasions Ken was dubbed the Flying Bandit after getting caught during his second failed bank robbery. After Ken's release, he had an even more elaborate heist in mind - making off with a few hundred pounds of gold bullion in what would be the greatest gold theft in Canadian history. Sources: [Bandit - A portrait of Ken Leishman by Wayne Tefs]  [Lost: Unsolved Mysteries of Canadian Aviation by Shirlee Smith Matheson]  [In the Mind of a Mountie - Google Play] [This Was Manitoba: Kenneth Leishman - The Flying Bandit (UPDATED)] [Ottawa Citizen - Ken Leishman - Google News Archive Search] [Newspapers.com search - Ken Leishman + Canada] [Ken Leishman: The Flying Bandit - video dailymotion] [Ken Leishman: The Flying Bandit - YouTube] [Court Briefing for 1966 trial of Ken Leishman et al, Winnipeg Gold Heist] [The Flying Bandit - Winnipeg Free Press] [Canada history: Mar.1, 1966: the Great Winnipeg Gold Heist – RCI | English] [The Flying Bandit - Winnipeg Free Press] [The ‘flying bank robber’ died hard | Maclean’s | DECEMBER 29, 1980] Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

In the summer of 1959 a family of 7 was found murdered in Stettler, AB. Who committed the crime was the most shocking of all.