Rather than recruiting from Ivy League universities, he concentrated on technical schools and state colleges.... "Typically, these technical recruits had shown a childhood penchant for tinkering that eventually turned into engineering and hard-science degrees," one Technical Services officer later wrote. "They were often the first or only member of their family to attend college and many came from rural communities in the Midwest and Southwest. They arrived at the CIA seeking technical opportunities and adventure. It did not take long before these newly engineers began delighting in calling operations officers 'liberal arts majors.'"My father grew up in a small town in Utah, was the first of his family to go to college (somewhat against his father's wishes), said he studied physics because they said it was the hardest discipline (and considered engineering to be dull), and spent his entire college and graduate school career at a conservative religious institution before working undercover for the agency on the Glomar Explorer project. He also believed that history professors worked part-time in the summer as rangers at National Park sites.
"Despite the claims that Cameron’s experiments were a legitimate medical treatment, these experiments had devastating impacts on patients and their families. In a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) podcast, Allan Tanny described how his father Charles Tanny, a hardworking man with trigeminal neuralgia, was admitted to the Allan Memorial Institute and was never the same after he returned (Shephard, 2020–21). In the following decades, numerous lawsuits were filed on behalf of Cameron’s former patients, including Tanny. In 2019, a class action lawsuit was filed in the Superior Court, District of Montreal: J. Tanny vs. Royal Victoria Hospital et al. (Consumer Law Group, 2019). Charles Tanny’s daughter Julie Tanny filed the lawsuit on behalf of her father and other victims of the Montreal experiments, seeking compensation for victims and their families. The legal proceeding described how Tanny was given over 50 days of insulin-induced ‘sleep therapy’, in which he was given multiple drugs: barbiturates (Seconal, Nembutal, Veronal, Amobarbital), antipsychotics (Sparine, Reserpine, Chlorpromazine) and glutethimide, a hypnotic sedative. He was also given frequent ECT treatments, many of which were Page-Russell, an intensive form of ECT where shocks continued during convulsions. After his treatments, Tanny experienced near total memory loss and disorientation, as well as incontinence, symptoms which never completely disappeared. Returning home from the hospital, Tanny had changed from being a loving and engaged father to emotionally distant and volatile, even physically abusive towards Julie Tanny, a young child at the time. This class action lawsuit entitled all of Cameron’s former patients to compensation for their injuries, and all family members and dependants to compensation for loss of support and emotional trauma as a result of their relationship with the patients.
Cameron’s experiments had devastating consequences for patients and their families. What began as hopeful treatment for severe mental illness strayed from legitimate medical treatment and became a form of medical torture likened to the Nuremberg Trials.... We must be aware that we are all capable of such atrocities if we allow our desire for answers to come before our first duty: to do no harm."
When I was at UVa, I was in a distinguished history majors seminar and we had to read a dopey anthropology book on Eva Peron for Brian Owensby. In the discussion, I reasonably asked why the book never even mentioned Juan Peron's ties to the Nazi regime. Owensby was really dismissive and said that there was absolutely no connection between Peron and the Nazis. The next week, Thomas F.X. Noble, the faculty coordinator, played some silly game where people supposedly got upset by some comment or something.
Of course, they were utterly wrong.
Peron's autobiography Yo, Juan Domingo Peron states -
