Whistleblower on CIA Mind Control - Asylum Sought in Canada (The Toronto Sun, Feb. 1, 1998)

Whistleblower on CIA Mind Control < Asylum Sought in Canada Whistleblower on CIA Brainwashing in Canada The Toronto Sun Feb. 1, 1998 Montrealer Alexander Legault, who says he'll be persecuted by the CIA if he returns to the United States, is seeking refugee status in Canada. by Tom Godfrey A U.S. man who claims he'll be persecuted by the CIA for blowing the whistle on a Montreal brainwashing experiment is fighting to become one of the few Americans to be granted refugee status here. Alexander Henri Legault, 49, a Wisconsin native who has lived in Canada for 17 years, will find out in days if he'll be granted asylum by an Immigration and Refugee Board. About 40 Americans yearly claim status here, but very rarely are they accepted, immigration files show. Legault, a Montreal food exporter who's married to a Canadian and is the father of four children, filed his claim in 1993 after immigration officials refused to extend his visa. Legault and his lawyers claim he'll be persecuted by the CIA for obtaining documents that led to nine Canadians being compensated $100,000 each in 1988. They were guinea pigs in brainwashing experiments, code named MK Ultra, at Montreal's Allan Memorial Institute in the '50s and '60s. Legault's mother-in-law was one of the survivors of the experiment which was made into a CBC mini-series, The Sleep Room, that aired three weeks ago. The experiments, headed by the late Dr. Ewen Cameron and funded by the CIA, subjected unwitting patients to hallucinogenic drugs, weeks of forced sleep and massive doses of shock therapy. "I can't sleep living in limbo," Legault told The Sunday Sun. "The CIA is upset because I provided a list of their projects." His lawyer, Richard Kurland, said MK-Ultra was one of 100 brainwashing programs the CIA funded. He said the CIA is outraged that Legault's tip led to the compensation of victims. The Sun has obtained transcripts of Legault's top-secret refugee claim, which began in July 1996 in Montreal and wrapped up in June 1997. Testifying under oath was former CIA agent-turned-author Philip Agee, who's written several books about the agency, and Ari Ben Menashe, a former intelligence adviser to former Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Shamir. Agee, who recruited and ran CIA spies for 11 years in South America,testified that he has been hounded by the agency since he began writing books about them. "The CIA will

retaliate if someone does them harm," Agee testified. Menashe, 45, now a Canadian citizen, testified in June last year that he flew twice to Virginia, to meet retired U.S. admiral Stansfield Turner,who was the CIA director under former president Jimmy Carter. He said Turner, now a consultant, agreed to help with the case for $50,000, but Legault refused to pay. William Schaap, 57, an expert witness on the CIA, testified that the MK-Ultra experiment was one of the most frightening ever conducted by the CIA. The agency "had a fundamental disregard for the value of human life," a U.S. Senate committee said of the experiment. Schaap testified that the CIA had infiltrated the U.S. and Canadian communist parties, and owned 100 media organizations worldwide. It also experimented with "hundreds" of chemical and biological testing programs, which saw a cold virus spread over San Francisco in the '50s, exposed whooping cough in Tampa, Fla, in 1955 and a cold bacteria in the New York subway system in 1966, Schaap testified. Source: http://www.freewebtown.com/alexconstantine/classic/whistleblower_on_cia.html