Donald Ewen Cameron Research Paper

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 http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKcameronDE.htm 1. Donald Ewen Cameron was born in Scotland in 1901. He graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1924. He began his career as resident surgeon at Glasgow Infirmary, but in 1929 moved to Canada to work in the Brandon Mental Hospital. In 1936, Cameron became Director of Research at Worcester State Hospital in Massachusetts, and in 1938 was appointed Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at Albany State Medical School. It was at Albany that Cameron conducted research into sensory deprivation and memory. 2. MKULTRA was an "umbrella project" under which certain sensitive subprojects were funded, involving among other things research on drugs and behavioural modification 3. Psychic driving…show more content…
Her back pain is just one reminder of the 63 times that 150-200 volts of electricity penetrated the frontal lobes of her brain, while her body convulsed violently on the table, causing fractures, sprains, bloody lips broken teeth. (p.26) 9. There was a growing concern in the Western Intelligence community that the Communists had somehow discovered how to ‘brainwash’ prisoners of war. The evidence was the fact that American GIs taken captive in Korea were going before cameras, seemingly willingly and denouncing capitalism and imperialism. The stated goal of this research was not for Western powers to starts using mind control on prisoners; it was to prepare Western soldiers for whatever coercive techniques they might encounter if they were taken hostage. (p.33) 10. Mamdouh Habib, an Australian who was uncarpeted there, has said that ‘Guantanamo Bay is an experiment ....what they experiment is brainwashing’. Indeed, in the testimonies, reports and photographs that have come out of Guantanamo, it is as if the Allan Memorial Institute of the 1950s had been transported to Cuba…show more content…
Rumsfeld said in 2006, “The army is going through what is major modernization”. It was simply an attempt to bring the revolution in outsourcing and branding that he had been part of in the corporate world into the heart of the U.S. military. Many companies that had traditionally manufactured their own products and maintained large, stable workforces embraced a new model which meant not owing any factories, producing the products through an intricate web of contractors and subcontractors and poor the resources into design and marketing. Rumsfeld was convinced that the U.S Department of Defence needed equivalent

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