Podbit · Conspiracy Theories
When Val Orlikow and her parliamentary husband David learned the truth about MKUltra, they hired famed civil rights attorney Joseph Rauh and gathered 9 plaintiffs. Rauh's strategy: prove the CIA knew the experiments were dangerous and funded them with no oversight — then catch them in a lie about who approached whom.
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The unravelling begins in December 1974 when reporter Seymour Hersh publishes an explosive article in The New York Times revealing the CIA's illegal domestic operations [1] — Carter Roy "Val Orlikow came to the Allan for postpartum depression and idolised Cameron. He dosed her with LSD without explaining what it was, then le…" 15:30 . Congressional hearings follow, and MKUltra is publicly exposed. But the connection to Cameron's work in Montreal takes longer to emerge. It is the summer of 1977 when David Orlikow — a member of the Canadian parliament — reads a newspaper and suddenly understands why his wife Val was never the same after her treatment at the Allan. She had gone there for postpartum depression. She had come out unable to concentrate enough to read books or write letters — her two greatest loves. For years she had clung to the belief that Cameron at least wanted her to get better. Now she learns the tapes, the electroshock, the LSD — all of it was part of a CIA mind control programme. She feels as though Cameron regarded her as nothing more than a fly. And she is, as Carter Roy puts it, mad as hell.
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