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The Cult Dossier · No. 160 · Psychiatry / The Asylum
MKULTRA and the Allan Memorial Institute
Depatterning; psychic driving; MKULTRA Subproject 68
1948 – 1964 (litigation continuing) · Montreal, Quebec, Canada; funded from the United States
XV. THE ASYLUM — WHEN MEDICINE DECIDED WHOSE MIND WAS WRONG
None.
### Who led it
### What it worshipped and taught
### Who was in it
### How it ended, or where it stands
### The dead
### Of note
### Its timeline
- 1945 Cameron is sent to Nuremberg on the panel assessing whether RUDOLF HESS was fit to stand trial. HE WAS PRESENT AT THE PROCEEDINGS THAT MADE MEDICAL CONSENT AN INTERNATIONAL QUESTION. The Nuremberg Code came out of the separate Doctors' Trial that followed.
- 1948–1964 The experiments run at the Allan Memorial Institute. Patients admitted for ordinary psychiatric complaints are depatterned. MANY NEVER RECOVERED THEIR MEMORIES OR THEIR CAPACITY TO WORK OR PARENT.
- 1957–1964 The CIA funds the work as MKULTRA SUBPROJECT 68, routed through a front foundation. Cameron was not a covert operative; he was an eminent psychiatrist who took the money and published.
- 1973 CIA DIRECTOR RICHARD HELMS ORDERS THE MKULTRA RECORDS DESTROYED, which is why the documentary record is fragmentary and why some victims can never prove they were included.
- 1977 MKULTRA surfaces publicly through United States Senate hearings, after surviving financial records escape the destruction order.
- 1988 Nine former patients who sued the CIA in ORLIKOW v. UNITED STATES settle out of court. THE SETTLEMENT IS REPORTED AS 750,000 DOLLARS IN ALL; another account gives about 67,000 dollars per plaintiff.
- 1992 The Canadian government pays 100,000 dollars each to 77 survivors, who sign away the right to sue. ABOUT 250 MORE ARE REFUSED — for lack of medical records, late filing, or not having been harmed enough — and campaign for decades.
- JULY 2025 ON 31 JULY, JUSTICE DOMINIQUE POULIN OF THE QUEBEC SUPERIOR COURT AUTHORISES A CLASS ACTION against the Royal Victoria Hospital, McGill University and the Government of Canada, on behalf of everyone depatterned at the Allan Memorial between 1948 and 1964, together with their successors and families. JULIE TANNY and LANA PONTING are the representative plaintiffs. THE CASE IS LIVE AND THIS FILE WILL GO STALE.
### Its people
### Donald Ewen Cameron
D. Ewen Cameron
Director, Allan Memorial Institute; MKULTRA Subproject 68 · 24 December 1901 – 8 September 1967 · active 1943–1964
Before the law. NEVER CHARGED, NEVER SUED IN HIS LIFETIME, NEVER SANCTIONED BY ANY PROFESSIONAL BODY. He died in good standing.
Where things stand. Deceased 1967. LITIGATION ABOUT HIS WORK IS STILL LIVE: a Quebec class action against the hospital, McGill and the Government of Canada was authorised in JULY 2025 — fifty-eight years after his death. See 160.
- NOVEMBER 1945 Assesses Rudolf Hess at Nuremberg.
- 1952–53 PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION.
- 1948–1964 Depatterning and psychic driving at the Allan Memorial Institute.
- 1957–1964 Funded by the CIA as MKULTRA Subproject 68.
- 1967 Dies of a heart attack while mountain climbing, facing no proceeding of any kind.
Checked 2026-09-05
### Julie Tanny
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Representative plaintiff, Allan Memorial class action · — · active 2015–present
Before the law. REPRESENTATIVE PLAINTIFF IN A LIVE CLASS ACTION. Authorisation is a procedural threshold, NOT a finding of liability, and nothing has yet been decided on the merits.
Where things stand. LIVING AND LITIGATING. THIS FILE WILL GO STALE — the case was authorised in July 2025 and the next step had not been reported when this entry was written.
- 1992 Canada makes ex gratia payments of 100,000 dollars to a limited group; many families are excluded.
- 2015–2025 Tanny campaigns and the class action is prepared.
- JULY 2025
- Ongoing No trial and no judgment yet.
Checked 2026-09-05 · living: health details are kept at home
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