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Wanda Poltawska, a survivor of medical experimentation at Ravensbrück concentration camp, has died at the age of 101. She later became a psychiatrist and was counseled by the priest who would become Pope John Paul II. The CIA's history and actions are also discussed, including mind-control experiments conducted in Montreal during the Cold War and the agency's role as a secret arm of the US government. Victims of the experiments are now suing the CIA for accountability.
In the 1950s and ’60s, the CIA hired a McGill University psychologist to conduct mind-control research on unsuspecting Canadians. His experiments damaged his subjects forever — and informed the US’s infamous “enhanced interrogation” torture tactics. https://t.co/0LNknJuryx
Wanda Poltawska, who after World War II sought spiritual help to cope with the horrors she experienced in a Nazi concentration camp and became a lifelong friend of her counselor, a priest who would one day be Pope John Paul II, has died at 101. https://t.co/EQADg0I0zt
Perhaps due to its lack of its presence in DC, politicians are obsessed with obtaining “intelligence.” From the notorious operations of the CIA, to the corruption of the NSA, to the FBI’s torrid legacy of weaponizing its operations against the American people, the abuses of the… https://t.co/9EeR71gXaT
During the Cold War, a Canadian psychologist conducted mind-control experiments for the CIA, subjecting his victims to electroshock treatments, insulin comas, and high doses of LSD. Today, the victims are suing. https://t.co/0LNknJuZo5
For two decades, the CIA ran mind-control experiments in Montreal that later influenced modern “enhanced interrogation” techniques such as those used at Abu Ghraib. The CIA continues to skirt accountability for its actions. https://t.co/0LNknJuZo5
Wanda Poltawska survived macabre medical experimentation at Ravensbrück to become a psychiatrist, counseled by the priest who would become John Paul II. https://t.co/vWv7NaXuWu
Given its near-mythical status in American life, it’s easy to forget that there was a time—not that long ago—when the CIA didn’t exist, much less act as a secret, unaccountable arm of the US government. David Talbot: “President Harry Truman, when he created the CIA in 1947, saw… https://t.co/Zn3FU8BnBJ https://t.co/MqgS4d6J8O
Wanda Poltawska survived macabre medical experimentation at Ravensbrück to become a psychiatrist, counseled by the priest who would become John Paul II. https://t.co/V4J1135Klo