A Nation Betrayed: Secret Cold War Experiments Performed on Our Children and Other Innocent People by Carol Rutz

much of her memory was gone that she had to relearn my youngest brothers’ birthday, along with a lot of other personal information she had forgotten. I don’t recall anything that happened during that visit to the hospital until we left, and the nurse closed and locked the door behind us. Daddy grabbed hold of my hand and turned me around and said, “If you ever tell what’s happening at home Little Girl, you’ll end up here too.”
     
    I believed. When it came to a threat, daddy always carried through.
     
    In a letter to me, my brother gave me new insight into what this time of moms’ life was like. He writes, “I’m sure that you know that mom and I were very close. I was probably closer to her than any of her children. We used to talk for hours when we had a chance. She was the bravest person that I ever knew. When I was in high school mom went to the state hospital. xxx I worked in the kitchen at St. Vincent’s Hospital after school. Dad always thought I worked five nights a week, but I only worked three. The other two evenings I would take a bus to the State Hospital to see mom. It was a horrible time of her life, but she didn’t want to leave. She didn’t even want to come home on the weekends they offered her toward the end of her stay. We talked for hours and hours and much of which she told me, I didn’t understand or thought that she really was a little crazy. Later I figured out that she was the sanest person I ever knew. She was terrified of the electric shock treatments that they were giving her. She looked at it as if it were a form of torture. They called it treatment. It was barbaric. How could people with any conscience scramble somebody’s brain with electricity? After her “Treatments” she would be disassociated and depressed for days, but still she chose to stay rather than come home. She often told me that she could at any time tell the doctors the right answers to be released, but she chose not to. Well at fifteen years old I understood little of what she told me, but later I understood a lot. That poor woman is certainly in heaven, because she went through hell on earth. I don’t know if you knew how much she hated dad. Let me tell you from what she used to say, I could not comprehend any hate that intense. It was the only emotion she had for him. She was also terrified of him. The only person that mom hated more than dad was his father. I never knew why, but she despised him more than anything or anyone in this world.”
     
    Momma wasn’t alone in receiving electroshock to make her more submissive and alter her personality. Dr. D. Ewen Cameron of the Allan Memorial Institute of Psychiatry, McGill University in Montreal, Canada was doing MKULTRA experiments with electroshock and drugs for the CIA. The CIA funded Dr. Cameron’s work through a cover organization called the Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology in New York founded by Cornell University neurologist Harold Wolff. xxxi Grants were made to eight universities as well as several individual researchers for mind control experiments with the Society being the CIA’s cover mechanism. 96 Wolff had originally been commissioned by Allen Dulles to do an official study of Soviet and Chinese brainwashing techniques in 1953. Wolff coincidentally was treating Allen Dulles’ son for brain damage from a head wound he suffered in Korea.
     
    Dr. Cameron had headed Allan Memorial since 1943, when the Rockefeller Foundation had donated funds to set up a psychiatric facility at McGill University. He was later elected president of the American Psychiatric Association in 1953 and went on to become the first president of the World Psychiatric Association. Such a notable list of accomplishments for a heartless man whose experiments would rival some that took place in Nazi Germany. I find it very curious that he was appointed in 1945 to the American panel to examine Rudolf Hess at the Nuremberg trials, and then later carried out