Request
to the NIH Bioethics Group
April 5, 1999
In so much as the Inter - Institute Bioethics Interest Group is currently considering research in bioethics, the Advocacy Committee for Human Experimentation Survivors wishes to apprise the group of the passing of the fourth anniversary of the testimony of two survivors, Claudia Mullen and Chris DeNicola Ebner with their therapist, Valerie Wolf, before the Presidents Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments in March, 1995. The President’s Committee recommended further exploration of this testimony which concerned the sadistic experimentation upon children, for the purposes of mind control and other unwitting uses. To date, no such investigation into these claims, or others, by additional survivors of radiation, chemical and biological experimentation perpetrated upon them as unwitting children, had been initiated.
ACHES requests the aid of this group in the following goals:
1) The declassification of all government held files,
documents, tapes or records relating to any experimentation involving children,
prisoners or the mentally incapacitated, particularly those that relate
to covertly or privately funded mind control, radiation, chemical
or biological programs, both past and present.
2) The creation of a Presidential Committee to identify
all US government sponsored programs, within or outside US borders,
including mind control, radiation, chemical, biological or any other type
of experimentation upon children, prisoners or the mentally incapacitated.
3) The determination of the legal, ethical and moral
responsibilities of the US government or any other institutions to the
survivors of any such experiments, which were perpetrated upon them as
unwitting or uncomprehending individuals, AND to determine remedies for
those found to be physically and psychologically harmed by such experimentation.
4) The implementation of standard and practices to
stop any current abuses AND to place a moratorium on human mind control
experimentation and any experimentation on unwitting or uncomprehending
human subjects.
Patty Rehn
Lynne Moss-Sharman
Presented by Karen Coleman Wiltshire,
ACHES-MC, Washington, D.C. contact
30 April 1998
Richard Clair,
Corporate Secretary
Correctional Services Canada
Re: Richard Carlson Inmate ########
Dear Mr. Clair:
Thank you for your letter of April 21, 1998 regarding the involvement of McGill University Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law with respect to investigative protocols concerning LSD experiments conducted on federal inmates. Mr. Carlson has described being subjected to experimental procedures beyond Dr. Scott’s LSD experiment, and he would like to be informed whether Dr. Norbert Gilmore is confining the protocol development to the LSD experiments, or if the McGill Ethics Committee is looking at other experiments undertaken on inmates.
Enclosed is the list of questions sent by Richard Carlson to Jerry Hooper, Assistant Commissioner and investigator Irving Kulik at Corrections Canada regarding brainwashing experiments carried out on him involving drugs, hypnosis, psychic driving, sensory deprivation, behaviour modification, ECT, the use of trigger words or phrases, or other methods while he was an inmate in Collins Bay, Millhaven, Kingston East Cell Block, Joyceville, Stoney Mountain, Edmonton Institution and Bowden Institution. Mr. Carlson has described Collins Bay and Joyceville literally as “amphetamine laboratories” when he was incarcerated there.
The LSD experiments are one small part of a much broader experimental social control regimen carried out on unwitting inmates of federal correctional institutions. I have also enclosed copies of procedures to which “Steve Smith” was subjected at Oak Ridge in the late 1960’s, and I wonder if Dr. Gilmore and the McGill Ethics Committee are also developing protocols with regard to tortuous experiments conducted by psychiatrist Dr.Elliott Barker. Mr. Smith’s experiences were the subject of a CBC documentary in mid December 1997, and although LSD was a drug employed by Dr. Barker, it was only one of many questionable chemicals (including scopalomine) forced on inmates.
Dr. Barker used the euphemism of “Compressed Encounter Therapy” to camouflage a quasi-military mind control experiment in sensory deprivation on a physically restricted and vulnerable group of men. Oak Ridge/Penetang is a satellite institution to those in the Kingston area, and it would seem highly likely that Canadian psychiatrists involved in penal experimentation were a relatively small professional group who would have been publishing in the same journals; attending the same academic conferences; receiving funding from similar if not identical sources; and employing similar experiments in social/mind control in inmate populations.
Dr. George D. Scott who administered the LSD experiments in Kingston was the Commander of the Canadian Army Psychological Retraining Unit during WWII which certainly places him in an unique historical position for having early access to experimental psychiatric procedures for unwitting subjects. One could assume that he was part of the professional military experimental psychiatric loop in his later affiliation with federal penal institutions.
I have also enclosed a letter dated 1940 to the Director of the RCMP from Canadian born Dr. George Estabrooks (Colgate College in Hamilton, N.Y.) in further discussion about the possibility of covert brainwashing experiments on certain members of the Canadian population as part of the ‘War Effort’. It is hard to imagine that Dr. Scott was not aware of the development of psychological warfare using human beings as candidate subjects.
In your letter you stated that the McGill ethics group would be “providing independent advice concerning the long-term effects of LSD”. I would suggest that Dr. Gilmore contact, for example, the U.S. Justice Department regarding a $300,000 civil suit by a former soldier, James Stanley, in 1996. Mr. Stanley was successful in his claim for damages after suffering flashbacks, depression and other problems after unwittingly taking part in LSD experiments 38 years ago as a young soldier.
U.S. Justice Department attorney Michael Truscott “argued” at the hearing that Stanley had willingly taken part in legitimate tests that had been going on for years, and stated “LSD was thought to be a possible weapon that could be used against our enemies.” If the U.S. government was willing to regard its young defence force on the same level as its declared “enemies”, then what was being done to those confined to federal penal institutions?
It is on public record that McGill University and the Allen Memorial Psychiatric Institute were involved in conducting CIA mind control experiments with U.S. military and covert dollars. I sincerely hope that the objectivity you seek on behalf of inmates in Canadian prisons who were unwitting psychiatric guinea pigs for mind control experiments will be found at the same university which provided psychiatrists, scientists, unwitting subjects, equipment, technical and nursing personnel, and locations for CIA experiments. There may be a serious conflict of interest here and I look forward to your comments about the presumption of objectivity.
Lynne Moss-Sharman,
Canada Contact ACHES-MC
Advocacy Committee for Human Experimentation Survivors
lsharman@microage-tb.com
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