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Brainwashed investigates the CIA’s covert mind control experiments – from the Cold War and MKULTRA to the so-called War on Terror. It’s the story of how a renowned psychiatrist used his unwitting patients as human guinea pigs at a Montreal hospital, and the ripple effects on survivors, their families, and thousands of other people around the world. It also examines the cultural impact — how the CIA brought LSD to America and inadvertently created counterculture influencers such as author Ken ...
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Brainwashed Introduces: The Six Billion Dollar Gold Scam
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It was the biggest gold discovery in history...until it wasn’t. In 1995, Canadian mining company Bre-X announced to the world it had found a significant amount of gold deep in the jungles of Indonesia. Stock prices soared as investors worldwide fought to stake their claim. But when Bre-X’s chief geologist mysteriously fell from a helicopter over th…
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Bonus: Front Burner | Canadian CIA MK-Ultra victims still fight for justice
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Front Burner is your essential daily news podcast that takes you deep into the stories shaping Canada and the world. In this episode you’ll hear Daemon Fairless speaking with Lisa Ellenwood. Lisa was a writer and producer on Brainwashed, but she’s also a producer with CBC’s The Fifth Estate and co-author of the book Les cobayes oubliés: l’histoire …
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Host Michelle Shephard speaks to Ben Brock Johnson and Amory Sivertson from the podcast Endless Thread about their series, Madness. Like Brainwashed, Madness focusses on the CIA-funded mind control experiments led by Dr. Ewen Cameron. The hosts swap stories, compare notes and reflect on the enduring legacy of MKULTRA.To find transcriptions for epis…
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MKULTRA has entered popular culture, becoming the butt of jokes, television plot points, and the darling of internet conspiracy theorists. At the very least, the secrecy that still surrounds MKULTRA, or the CIA’s post-9/11 programs, sows distrust of governments, and medical professionals. At worst, it gives credence to online conspiracies, like Piz…
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MKULTRA was supposed to have ended in the 1960s. The torturous experiments didn’t work. So why did these techniques evolve and continue to be used by American trainers throughout Latin America, and then get revived once again in the era that followed the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks? The CIA’s Black Sites and a courtroom inside the Guantanamo Bay Naval B…
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After discovering that they were the unwitting victims of human experiments, nine of Dr. Cameron’s victims band together to take on a Herculean task – to make the CIA pay. How do you sue one of the most powerful intelligence agencies in the world?For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/brainwashed-transcri…
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Communist brainwashing, mind control experiments, a government cover up... MKULTRA sounds like the stuff of conspiracy theories or science fiction. But it was real. John Marks, author of The Search for the Manchurian Candidate, and Stephen Kinzer, author of Poisoner in Chief, reveal the shocking details of the bizarre and expansive secret CIA proje…
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Dr. Ewen Cameron, an internally renowned psychiatrist, was once the director of the World, American and Canadian Psychiatric Associations. So how did he come to develop his controversial treatments? And what was the real purpose behind his experiments?For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/brainwashed-tra…
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The Allan Memorial Institute in Montreal was an innovative new hospital where patients sought cutting-edge psychiatric care. But instead of being helped, many were subjected to shockingly brutal experiments: massive doses of LSD or other drugs, electroshocks, and sensory deprivation. How — and why — could this be allowed to happen?For transcripts o…
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Brainwashed is an investigative series into the CIA’s covert experiments in mind control – from the Cold War and MKULTRA to the so-called War on Terror. Listen to the voices of the survivors and their families, the conscientious objectors and the lawyers and journalists who have fought to have this story come to light. Go into the hospital rooms wh…
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Xiticix: The hunt for the Queen - Critical Flail Season 2 Episode 16
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The ASS Ops, in an uneasy alliance, work with the Coalition to repel the chitinous dissemination.
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Something like "The Invasion" - Critical Flail Season 2 Episode 15
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The ass ops return to Tolkeen where an unexpected surprise greets them, and then we shop for like 40 minutes...
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Empowered and Endangered - Critical Flail Season 2 Episode 14
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After defeating Sushima the ASSops continue their trials in their quest to obtain The Scroll Of Life unknowingly uncovering a hidden source of power. I dont wanna say they killed everyone but...
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Pickle-Joe?!? - Critical Flail Season 2 Episode 13
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The ASSops head into the chinese mountains the ASSops locate The Scroll Of Life!
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Shadow Boxing - Critical Flail s2e12
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After their arrival in china, the ASSops meet a homeless wiseman on their quest to track down The Scroll Of Life. Which leads them deep into the ominous mountains to the northwest...
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Alara, Michael, and Sara continue their journey across the Coalition States of America!
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Alara, Michael, and Sara continue their journey across the Coalition States of America!
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The Sundering - Critical Flail Season 2 Episode 8
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The party is seperated and on the run from the coalition.
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SAVE THE CHILD!!! - Critical Flail Season 2 Episode 7
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The ASS Operatives save Sarah while Alara takes a nap.
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The Search for Sara - Critical Flail Season 2 Episode 6
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Sara has been kidnapped and the skies begin their search for her.
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GIANT MECH BATTLE!!! - Critical Flail Season 2 Episode 5
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After Sarah's disappearance Michael tracks her to a small military compound. Their defenses were highly underestimated.
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What happened to Skylocke?!? - Critical Flail Season 2 Episode 4
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The Skies return home to find a mess. Skylocke is missing and worse in this episode of Critical Flail
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Project Starplane, Starplan, Stardust, or Stargazer?!? - Critical Flail Season 2 Episode 3
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The group takes a mission and nobody dies! Watch the livestream on youtube!
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Somebody DIES in episode 1!!! - Critical Flail Season 2 Episode 1
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The gang goes to Florida and somebody dies!!!
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Artema and Co. face the final trials of Selune. Will she become a Silverstar, or will everyone parish in the process?
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Gearbox and Co. run through fire in an attempt to escape the mad doctor. They then brush against one of the monstrous twins. Will they survive?
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Critical Flail - 3 - The Maiden, The Mother, The Croan
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Gearbox was dropped into the world of Outlast (yes the video game). Will she make it through? What of the young group of strangers?
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Critical Flail - 2 - Gnome out of Time
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Geabox, guided by visions sent by the goddess Selune is taken to a distant world. Can she "outlast" the trials set before her, or will she end up a sacrificial lamb?
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Crit Flail episode 1 A Dungeons and Dragons podcast (also we drink).
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