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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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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.

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