BBC
Ms P had been running away from home and hanging out with friends her parents disapproved of after a difficult move with her family from Ottawa to Montreal. “I was an ordinary teenager,” she recalled. But the judge sent her to the Allan. Once there, she became an unwitting participant in covert CIA experiments known as MK-Ultra. The Cold War project tested the effects of psychedelic drugs like LSD, electroshock treatments and brainwashing techniques on human beings without their consent. Over 100 institutions – hospitals, prisons and schools – in the US and Canada were involved. Above: The Allan Memorial Institute in Montreal is where the CIA-backed experiments were conducted in Canada