Headline USA

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Some 70 years after the CIA conducted secret brainwashing experiments on unsuspecting, innocent civilians—including some that involved the use of dangerous, psychotropic drugs like LSD—victims are still attempting to hold the U.S. government responsible for its actions.

Victims who were experimented on in Canada appear to be fighting an uphill battle.

After having their lawsuit against the U.S. government dismissed last year by a judge in Montreal, Quebec, an appeal hearing took place last week.

According to reports, lawyers for the U.S. government reiterated their position that the CIA should be immune for its actions. Appeals court justices reserved their decision for a later date.

“On Thursday, a lawyer representing the United States government told the Quebec Court of Appeal that the country should be immune from prosecution and that any lawsuit against the U.S. government should be filed in that country,” the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported last Thursday.

The lawsuit in question stems from CIA-sponsored experiments that took place at Montreal’s Allan Memorial Institute under psychiatrist Donald Ewen Cameron.

Court records from the lawsuit describe Dr. Cameron’s “Montreal Experiments” as consisting of extreme mind-control brainwashing experimentation on “unwitting” patients by methods of such as drug-induced comas, intensive electroconvulsive therapy, “psychic driving,” sensory deprivation, and the administration of a cocktail of drugs to suppress nerve functionality and activation.