More about the Cameron family name; Sponsored by Ancestry. Amory: Nearly everyone who experienced Camerons treatments first-hand has since died. [13], In 1945, Cameron, Nolan D. C. Lewis and Dr Paul L. Schroeder, colonel and psychiatrist, University College of Illinois, were invited to the Nuremberg trials for a psychiatric evaluation of Rudolf Hess. They were destroyed. Josh Crane Twitter Producer, Podcasts & New ProgramsJosh is a producer for podcasts and new programs at WBUR. Donald Cameron of Lochiel (c.1700 - October 1748), was an influential Highland Clan Chief known for his magnanimous and gallant nature. Ben: But the Canadian and US governments could take accountability for their support of Cameron. And he admits that the papers he removed are now destroyed. Box 500 Station A Toronto, ON Canada, M5W 1E6. Donald Cameron (bishop), better known by her family name Ewen Donald Cameron, is a popular Australian assistant bishop in the Anglican Diocese of Sydney. He received an M.B., Ch.B. "She just wasn't there for me;she wasn't emotional," Steelsaid. In fact, he might have enjoyed those more. [25], Cameron had been hoping to correct schizophrenia by "erasing" existing memories and "reprogramming" the psyche. All. Cameron started to distinguish populations between "the weak" and "the strong". A series of other research scandals in the 1960s resulted in stricter regulation of research practices and a more stringent code of ethics. Heres documentarian Stephen Bennett, whose film Eminent Monsters looks at the real echoes of Camerons work in government interrogation programs today. Class action suit by families of those brainwashed in Montreal medical experiments gets go-ahead | CBC News Loaded. Psychiatry would play a disciplinary role. [citation needed][21]. Amory: This is from The Adirondack Daily Enterprise, is the name of the paper. He was there when his legal partner, Joseph Rauh, took Camerons deposition. As time has worn on, its become the families of those victims who shoulder the burden. Shes also signed on to the class-action lawsuit against McGill University, the Canadian government, and the CIA. Duncan Cameron: No. His publicly available will declared an inheritance of 2.74m; any offshore investments would only have been declared privately to HMRC. Ben: Duncan Cameron was 10 years old when his dad became the Director of the Allan Memorial Institute in Montreal. Harvey: Here he is trying to reach the peak, trying to climb the mountain, reach this goal. I'm sure part of him very much wanted to be the person who cures mental illness. With funding from the CIA, the late Dr. D. Ewen Cameron did a series of mind-control experiments on 53 people, including Harvey Weinstein's father, Louis, a prosperous Montreal businessman. In 2009, his personal fortune was estimated at 10m by the Sunday Times Rich List. Amory: He doesnt explicitly say that he was the one who did the destroying. He commuted from Lake Placid, New York to Montreal every week to work at McGill's Allan Memorial Institute and was paid $69,000 from 1957 to 1964 to carry out MKUltra experiments there, known as the Montreal experiments. Duncan: Thats my recollection, that any documents that related to patients were destroyed. cold," and "that monster, Dr. Ewen Cameron" enacted on his unwitting experimental subjects. She said she received 12 boxes of her husbands papers after he died, but that, quote, If I had these papers, I wouldnt necessarily let you see them. Duncan: I started work at the State Department just a day or so before Kennedy was assassinated. The program is widely believed to have been partly funded by the United States Central Intelligence Agency as part of their top-secret MKULTRA program. And here I am looking much younger than I am now. view all Jennie Burnham Cameron's Timeline. There's Edgar Allan Poe stories and Sherlock Holmes stories. Panama Papers reporting team: Juliette Garside, Luke Harding, Holly Watt, David Pegg, Helena Bengtsson, Simon Bowers, Owen Gibson and Nick Hopkins. Treatments included chemically induced sleep for weeks, rounds of electroshocks and experimental drugs. He married Catherine McPhee on 6 March 1828. Patients were tested in the Radio Telemetry Laboratory, which was built under Cameron's direction. According to Cameron's psychiatric analysis of the German people, they were not suitable to have children or hold positions of authority because of a genetic tendency to organize society in a way that fostered fearsome aggression and would lead to war rather than peace; he would repeatedly use the German as the archetypal character structure on which to ground the most psychologically deviant humans. Hes in his mid-80s now. Ben: Jims right. All Germans on trial would be assessed according to the likeliness for committing the crime. His support of Charles Edward Stuart was instrumental in the Jacobite Rising of 1745 Lochiel and the Jacobite cause 1569: Allan Cameron of Lochiel (Alan MacDonald Dubh) becomes XVI Chief. And in a lot of ways, modern psychiatry has completely left behind the man who once dominated its ranks. When search suggestions are available use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. Though he did visit the Allan Memorial on occasion. from the University of London in 1925, and an M.D. Ben: About halfway through, Prosecutor Joseph Rauh starts quoting statements that Camerons wife Duncans mom made on the record. Marian Read: So for me, the importance of all of this is to get it out of the shadows of pulp fiction, you know Amory: This is Marian Read. Heres part of Duncans transcript: Duncan (from the transcript): I recall contacting the American Psychiatric Association and asking them if they would have an interest in holding his papers in their archives, and they expressed an interest in doing it. The Tarbert estate is owned by Ginge Manor House, an offshore company named after the Astors home in Oxfordshire. And, later on to guidebooks for what we now call enhanced interrogation at places like Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. Sources: Memoirs of Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel, chief of the clan Cameron, supposed to have been written by one John Drummond (Bannatyne Club, 1842) But none of us trained in psychiatry. We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each person's profile. I think he wanted to be famous. [10] There he met A. T. Mathers, Manitoba's principal psychiatrist, who convinced Cameron in 1929 to move to Brandon, the second largest city of Manitoba, Canada. So I think in a certain way they believed that what fiction writers could come up with, somebody could actually make real. Cameron titled this procedure "intrapsychic" (a term derived from the psycho-somatic relationship of hospital patients). Amory: In the early 60s, MK-ULTRA director Sidney Gottlieb took the so-called treatments Cameron used on his patients at the Allan and brought them back to the CIA. And there some of them were high risk ones. . We encourage you to research and examine these records . "[35] She then cites Alfred W. McCoy: "Stripped of its bizarre excesses, Cameron's experiments, building upon Donald O. Hebb's earlier breakthrough, laid the scientific foundation for the CIA's two-stage psychological torture method. And he always had a little book of science fiction by the bedside. Ben: The manual was all about how to obtain information from quote resistant sources. It went on to become the basis for the Phoenix Program during the Vietnam War. Sarah Anne Johnson: I imagine this is very difficult for his family. . Her life was sad. David Camerons personal finances have come under close scrutiny in recent days. husband. Cameron wanted to build an inventive psychiatric institution to determine rapid ways for societal control while demanding a psychological economy that did not center itself around guilt and guilt complexes. Cameron was born on December 24, 1901, in Scotland and graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1924. Duncan: Talking about him, it should be easy, but sometimes it's sort of emotional. It describes various personalities that he believed were of marked danger to all members of society. Cameron became the first director of the Allan Memorial Institute as well as the first chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at McGill. In 1936, he also published his first book, Objective and Experimental Psychiatry which introduced his belief that psychiatry should approach the study of human behavior in a rigorous, scientific fashion rooted in biology. music, sound effects, tone) are harder to translate to text. Amory: The answer might be in the idea of brainwashing itself. But what of the past? He received an M.B., Ch.B. Canada. [26] His "psychic driving" experiments consisted of putting a subject into a drug-induced coma for weeks at a time (up to three months in one case) while playing tape loops of noise or simple statements. Stephen Kinzer: In the end, Gottlieb was forced to conclude that there's no such thing as mind control and that everything he had done had been for naught. In 1938 he moved to Albany, New York, where he received his diplomate in psychiatry and thus was certified in psychiatry. [22], During the 1950s and 1960s, Cameron became involved in what has later become known as the MKUltra mind control program, which was covertly sponsored by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)[6] and which eventually led to the publication of the KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation manual. Cameron believed that mental illness was literally contagious that if one came into contact with someone with mental illness, one would begin to produce the symptoms of a mental disease. Joseph Rauh (from the transcript): But as far as you know now, neither you nor your brother or sister or mother have *any* papers left that are not sort of public documents? We put this to Harvey Weinstein, the psychiatrist we heard from earlier, whose father was a patient at the Allan. And here he is with me many years ago. He died of a heart attack while climbing a mountain in the Adirondacks in 1967. We shouldn't have done it, I'm sorry we did it.. And in that he took some risks, obviously. And they found his work next to worthless. [citation needed]. Cameron began to base some of his notions on race, as is seen in his theories regarding the German people. He was always attracted to these subjects for which there was no easy answer. Ben: But, as human experiments at the Allan Memorial Institute, and MK-ULTRAs mind control efforts, fade into history, reduced to references in tv shows and video game plot points, there are troubling examples of these techniques still in use today. [29], Sid Taylor stated that Cameron used curare to immobilise his patients during his research. His eldest son (by his second wife), John Cameron (attainted 1715, died 1745), was father of Donald Cameron [qv. We were unable to subscribe you to WBUR Today. So why havent they? She was gonna go out there and do something. Now rented out, the property was reported earlier this year to be worth more than 3.5m. Its not a very popular mountain to climb, its steep. And Camerons part of that. In compliance with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) requirements, some of these records are no longer in the physical possession of the FBI, eliminating the FBI's capability to re-review and/or re-process this material. Everyone who makes a monthly donation will get access to upcoming bonus content from the making of our series. Duncan: No, he had some peculiar hobb-- he loved science fiction. The plaintiffs allege the Government of Canada funded psychiatric treatments by Dr.Ewen Cameron at the Allan Memorial Institute between 1950 to 1964. Duncan: Well, I think that I would feel sad about that. 1906 July 31, 1906. The Department of Justice says it is reviewing the court's latest decision. As soon as his family found out about his death, they burned all the files that this man kept in his possession. Duncan: Oh yes, he enjoyed a good joke even if they were off color. Alison Steel says her mother was never the same after undergoing. Cameron viewed German society throughout history as continually giving rise to fearsome aggression. He died three years later. And they are still being asked to by victims and their families, 60 years later. In 2001, the couple took out a 350,000 mortgage on their house in Dean, Oxfordshire, with the interest covered by the taxpayer. From 1939 to 1943 he was professor of neurology and psychiatry at Albany Medical College, and at the Russell Sage School of Nursing, also in the Albany area. Cameron wrote that mental illness was transmitted generationally; thus, the re-occurrence of mental illness could be stopped by remodeling and expanding existing concepts of marriage suitability, as well as the quarantine of mentally ill individuals from the general population. Experts must develop methods of forcefully changing attitudes and beliefs to prevent the authoritarian overlord. These became the basis of a new social and behavioural science that he would later institute through his presidencies of the Canadian, American and World Psychiatric Associations, the American Psychopathological Association and the Society of Biological Psychiatry. Amory: Ben and I are in an apartment in Washington D.C. thats bursting with morning light and books, and were flipping through some of our hosts old family photos. Rauh: A question that Mr. Turner wanted me to ask was what happened to the papers identifying the patients? The title is The Understanding Man. Lake Placid in particular, and the northern Adirondacks in general, have lost suddenly, tragically, but in a sense, beautifully, probably their most distinguished citizen. That's how quick it is because it removes your time and space. As a child he was nursed by the wife of a tailor who lived at Blar na Cleireach, near Lundavra, hence his by-name. Private User. Genealogy for Jennie Burnham Cameron (Burnham) (1906 - 1993) family tree on Geni, with over 240 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives. And I think my father would have too. Ben: Sure, but I mean, in terms of trying to help cure people of mental illness or anything like that, not necessarily his process, but his end goal. I'm the oldest son of Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron and Jean Cameron. As for the ongoing lawsuits, some of the plaintiffs have actually contacted Duncan wondering if hed be willing to support their efforts. [23][24] He is unrelated to another CIA psychiatrist, Alan S. Cameron, who helped pioneer psychological profiling of world leaders during the 1970s and was not associated with the behavioral modification research program. (laughter). And people talk about the transmission of trauma through generations. Born on 7 November 1926 in Australia, Donald Cameron (bishop) started his career as assistant bishop in the Anglican Diocese of Sydney . . 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Kinzer: Later on, it became the basis for manuals that the CIA provided in the 1980s to police forces in Latin America that were known to practice torture. The transcript has been edited from our original script for clarity. We love making Endless Thread, and we want to be able to keep making it far into the future. He had patients. Amory: What we know of Camerons work comes from family accounts like Marian's, a few hard-won medical documents, and detailed descriptions of his techniques from his own journal articles and speeches. She then married Viscount Astor and they had three children William, Flora and James. Marian: It's become so embedded in our narrative, in our pop culture, without people really understanding that it happened It was real. And in a sense, that's what he wanted to do professionally. And he was searching for ways of doing something about them. You know, all of us not only respected him, but loved him, and not just myself, but my brothers. The behaviour of a mental patient could resemble the behaviour of a patient with, for example, syphilis, and then a somatic cause could be deduced for a psychological illness. For Cameron, the traits were contagions and anyone affected by the societal, cultural or personality forms would themselves be infected. If you haven't heard Parts 1 through 4 yet, you can find them here, here,here,and here. There must have been names of patients. We want to hear from you! The companys documents reportedly boasted that he represented a 70-year connection between the firm and the Cameron family. Dr. Cameron - the first chairman of the World Psychiatric Association, and president of both American and Canadian psychiatric associations - was recruited by the CIA in the 1940's after they. Think of all the books and the movies that are about mind control. The human significance of his dark legacy was brought to public attention when nine of his Canadian victims filed lawsuits in 1980s twenty-one years after Camerons death. Although society had established sanctions against the spread of infectious diseases, Cameron wanted to extend the concept of contagion to chronic anxiety. with distinction from the University of Glasgow in 1936.[8]. Duncan: Yes. Amory: They bounced around between foster homes and orphanages for years, experienced emotional and physical abuse. He is famed in history as The Gentle Lochiel. from the University of London in 1925, and an M.D. Amory: Just not in the way he might have hoped. Photo by Christinne Muschi . [31][2] In her book, In the Sleep Room: The Story of the CIA Brainwashing Experiments in Canada,[32] author Anne Collins explored the history of Cameron and Montreal's Allan Memorial Institute. The sick were, for Cameron, the viral infection to its stability and health. John Marks: The Allan Memorial Institute under Cleghorn commissioned a study of his work, which is absolutely or almost absolutely unprecedented in the psychiatric field. He died in 1958, leaving an inheritance of 57,000 - worth about. Click here for the donation page. Ben: But there is reason to believe that these documents arent just missing. Harvey: It is frustrating, and if you talk about a story with no end, I think the important thing to remember is that it isn't just the patients who went through this, it was their families. (McCoy, 2007) Indeed, Hebb and Camerons contribution as pioneers who designed the psychological paradigm for torture used by the CIA was acknowledged by The McGill Daily, in 2012. This article was amended on 7 April 2016 to correct a reference to the inheritance tax threshold relating to Ian Camerons will. Analysis shows his wealth is derived from a network of inherited wealth and family companies. Two of my sons are lawyers and they say it isnt a good idea.. 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Harvey Weinstein: Complicated question, we all have motivations for the things that we do. Cameron's experiments at McGill were numbered MKULTRA subproject 68, which gives you an idea just how many other subgroups tested . (McCoy, 2007), According to Leonard Rubenstein, an attorney for plaintiffs [Mrs. David Orlikow et al. Ewen married Agnes Cameron (born Bell) in 1867, at age 35 at marriage place. And one of these risks was the treatment that he was using. Amory: He remembers his dad working a lot during this time, which, definitely tracks. Amory: In spite of Camerons ambition and prestige, he never helped find a cure for mental illness, he never won a Nobel Prize for psychiatry. He argued that people with mental illnesses could spread and transmit their diseases. On the weekends, you'd think he would go out and mow the lawn or bask in the sun or go play golf or tennis, but none of it. Duncan: I think the furthest I got was to his office. Thus, this group would have to be studied and controlled as a contagious social disease. Cameron focused primarily on biological descriptive psychiatry and applied the British and European schools and models of the practice. . [citation needed]. If he had a choice he would have kept living forever. Ben: Today we grapple with Dr. Ewen Camerons legacy. To see some of the things that have happened are very upsetting. Ben: Perhapsthis is Dr. Cameron's most enduring legacy. Later he was brought up by MacLachlan of Coruanan, head of a tribe who were followers of Lochiel. . Thank you! Amory: Sarahs grandmother, Val, sued the CIA forty years ago for supporting Dr. Camerons work at the Allan. 1553: Donald Dubh MacDonald MacEwen Cameron (Donald Dow M'Connel M'Ewen) becomes XV Chief. This personality type poses a danger to those closest to them, especially children. He married Marjory, daughter of MacLean of Drimnin in Morven, and had four children, the eldest of whom was afterwards the famous Sir Alan Cameron, and the youngest, a daughter, who married Cameron of Scamadale, and had a son, Lieutenant Alexander Cameron, who commanded the 79th Highlanders at Waterloo, during the last three hours of the Ewen Cameron made the hike with Duncans younger brother, James. The Camerons first property, a one-bed flat in Notting Hill, was purchased in 1992 for 130,000. Through his instruction of nurses and psychiatrists he became an authority in his areas of concentration. Like, did she always have problems? And he said, Oh, gosh. She goes, No. She was the one that was gonna go and conquer the world. A lawsuit against the Canadian government, the Royal Victoria Hospital and theMcGill University Health Centre is moving ahead. Clan Cameron Archives. 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