Superb deep dive!
We're blessed to add not one but two new submissions from you just before the deadline, thank you!
MK-Ultra / mind control investigations are some of the most profound conspiracies carried out by shadowy actors on an unsuspecting public. From your piece, we can see the methods of compartmentalization playing a key role in concealing the procurers of 'stress' research. Scientists who believed they were conducting legitimate research surely must feel a real sense of betrayal by their financiers who prevented them from understanding the true nature of the research. Even more insidious is that insights gained were, and still are, applied today to target and torture political enemies of the state, overthrow governments, bolster dictatorial regimes, brainwash victims, and inflict traumatic psychological damage to the human psyche.

Couldn't help but think of the CIA mind control experiments at McGill University in Canada in the 1960s by Dr. Ewen Cameron. Went back to cross reference the program and what do you know? Cameron was also funded by the SIHE!

Cameron, who was also co-founder of the World Psychiatric Association, ran experiments called "psychic driving" and "depatterning" that attempted to erase a patient's memories and reprogram them with new thoughts.

The federal government provided Cameron with more than $500,000 between 1950 and 1965 — $4 million in today's dollars — along with a smaller amount of funding from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, using a front organization called the Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology.

https://www.cbc.ca/fifth/episodes/2017-2018/brainwashed-the-secret-cia-experiments-in-canada

Very much looking forward to digging into Part 2!