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CIA Mind Control Mechanics and Dr. Ewen Cameron's Experiments

from The Whole Thing Is Evil · #63

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7 min

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Deeper dive into how CIA-funded mind control operated, including psychiatrist Ewen Cameron's sadistic three-stage memory-erasure experiments funded by the CIA, which led to a class-action lawsuit and payouts.

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  • 33:41Tim questions whether some targets of blackmail schemes were ensnared unwillingly rather than willingly molesting children.
  • 34:06Lawrence E. King trafficked children from Omaha with a Washington partner named Craig Spence who ran a house wired for audio-visual blackmail.
  • 34:47Craig Spence's operation worked by starting as a normal cocktail party, then introducing drugs and sexual activity to compromise attendees who stayed.
  • 35:28Investigator Gary Carradori's plane blew up after pursuing the case, demonstrating a willingness to kill that silenced further investigation.
  • 35:51State and federal grand juries said there was no child abuse despite evidence, and the two child victims who refused to recant were indicted for perjury.
  • 36:46Alicia Owen, a survivor who refused to recant her abuse testimony, was found guilty of perjury in what Tim calls a kangaroo court.
  • 37:17Alicia Owen spent nearly two years in solitary confinement after testifying about her abuse.
  • 38:00Alicia Owen was conscripted into abuse around age fourteen and does not have dissociative identity disorder unlike earlier victims discussed.
  • 38:57When the CIA was conducting mind control experiments on record, major universities participated regardless of how sadistic the experiments were.
  • 39:30Dr. Ewen Cameron, head of both the American and World Psychiatric Associations, conducted extreme mind control experiments funded by the CIA using drugs and electroshock.
  • 39:51Cameron's technique involved three states: knowing identity and location, not knowing either but feeling anxiety, and not knowing either while feeling no anxiety—essentially erasing memory completely.
  • 40:18The CIA directly paid and underwritten Dr. Cameron's mind control experiments despite their sadistic nature.
Mentioned here

Lawrence E. KingCIAAlicia OwenGary CarradoriCraig Spencechild sexual abuseDonald Ewen CameronOmahaHenry VincentWashington DC

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