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From Montreal psych ward
to the land of the Inuit

THIS WEEK’S review was going to cover books of humor
from Canadian and foreign publishers; unfortunately their
punchlines missed our deadlines. Instead, BOOKS NOW

of the country.

I Swear By Apollo by Den
Gillmor (Eden Press, Montreal;
$24.95 hard cover; 188 pp.) is the
well-documented account of Ca-
nadian men and women who were
the unwitting subjects of brain-
washing experiments in the 1950s
and 1960s in a Montreal
psychiatric facility, the Allan Me-
morial Institute.

MIKE ©
STEELE
book reviewer

These experiments were con-

“ducted under the direction of Dr.

Ewan Cameron with, it was later
revealed, funding from the Cana-

» . dian Defence Research Board and
"2. the U.S. Central intelligence

' Subsequent to'those cay’ reve-

- Jations it was discovered that these

_activities were not limited to the
United States but that the.CIA had
- in-fact been one ‘of the funding.

sources for experiments in Canada ”

of a far more intensive and
destructive nature.

»: In I Swear By Apollo, Gillmor. :
tells the story of the Allan Memo-
rial’s director, Dr. Cameron, and
his attempts to perfect a technique

he called ‘depatterning’ whereby:
-test subjects were to have their ©

. memory patterns destroyed and

~ supplanted with new or ‘correct’
ones. fe

- In theory this was to be a cure _

for: a wide variecy of emotional |

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_ will be looking at two exceptional works from opposite ends

disorders; in reality it was hoped
that this would provide military
‘and intelligence agencies with a

useful.Cold War weapon which

they suspected had already been ~~
:, developed by their opponents.

' In case this has the ring of some
sort of leftist paranoid drivel trot-
ted out for the sake of sensa-

_ticnalism (and sales), it should be
. noted that the Canadian Minister
of Justice commissioned Halifax
ve lawyer George Cooper, QC, ii
‘1985 to, investigate the charges that
. the Canadian government had
“cooperated. with the CIA in these

xperiments. The Cooper Report

“was released by John Crosbie in

May, 1986, concluding that:

a) the experiments, had taken place
as alleged,

b) roughly. 103 per cent of the fun-
_ding was provided by the CIA,

c). approximately 90 per cent of the. *
o , funding came e from the, Canadian

Defence Research Board and the

Department of Health and

Welfare.

Forty-seven of the victims were

“women; six were men, All suffered
‘ some degree of impairment as a

result of the techniques used on
them, One woman, 2 Vancouver
resident who is currently suing the
federal government, permanently
and completely sufferéd the loss of -
all memory of the first 26 years of
her life.

1 Swear By Apollo follows Dr.
Cameron, who became president
of the Quebec, Canadian and
American Psychiatric Associa-.
tions, from his early training to his
death in 1967 under controversial
‘circumstances. It is a story that is
‘still making headlines today and

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The Incredible Eskimo is not the
story of a missionary with a
callous disregard for the values of
a different culture or in any way
dated by the time period of its sub-
ject matter. It is instead a true tale
of aman who had the wisdom to
limit his interference despite a rigid
religious training, and is without a
doubt one of the most informative
and insightful examinations of In-
uit life that the reader could de-
mand.

The second book reviewed this
week is an inspiring personal story
of one man’s 12-year sojourn
among the Barren Lands Inuit of
the Canadian north.

The Incredible Eskimo, by
Raymond de Coccola and Paul
King (Hancock House; $14.95 in
paperback; 434 pp.) might better
have been titled Mission Improba-
ble. De Coccota, then a Oblate
missionary, was surely one of the
least likely candidates for such an ©
assignment.

In 1937 this Corsican-born . 24-
yeas-old volunteered to leave his
home in Paris, France, to work
with the pecple he later came to -
love, admire and respect. Atthe
time de Coccola spoke no English,
let alone any of the Inuit dialects.

Co-author Paul King also has an.

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