Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio & Sir Ben Kingsley’s ‘Shutter Island’:
High Profiling MK Ultra and Threatening What Coercive Diplomacy
Promises to Deliver for the R&D, Deployment and Proliferation
of Stealth Cognition Technologies
© 2010 Brad Kempo B.A. LL.B.
Barrister & Solicitor
Just how gripped with trepidation over the second instance of militarized ‘mind control’ experimentation that violates the Nuremberg Code and its successor is observed in this suspense thriller set in the mid-1950s when MK Ultra was in full swing both north and south of the 49th Parallel. To the public another Hollywood feature film in the genre created by ‘The Manchurian Candidate’; but to those operating in or privy to the diplomatic back-channel and coalition fears and intentions another example of coercive diplomacy employed to drive home how committed the partnership is to addressing this Pandora’s Box and holding responsible parties accountable.
The Chinada High Command’s arrogant belligerence has taken many forms over the years. Choosing to make this particular film available on the television station’s free movie channel in late October 2010 is to be viewed as another example. They knew its geo-content and in this ICC-review environment wanted to mock the shock and horror coalition partners experienced discovering the R&D program and deride the diplomacy undertaken to condemn and halt it.
MK Ultra in Canada is a well-documented fact and political, judicial and media pressure were effective in delivering compensation for victims. Why? Because the authoritarian-totalitarian political culture that created a seething hatred for all things American turned the CIA-funded experiments into a way of embarrassing the United States government. However, when it came to engaging in enslaving and torturous human experimentation involving stealth cognition technologies none of these avenues of redress were available because of the institutional complicity in and staunch loyalty to China’s militarized program.
Demonstrative of this divergence of approach to mind control experimentation is observed in what was submitted to now Chief Justice Lutfy of the Federal Court in an affidavit in September 2002. There were many reports in one of the most mainstream of mainstream newspapers in the country, The Ottawa Citizen; and so contact was made with the author of them, Jim Bronskill. Dogville’s main paper, The Vancouver Sun, also ran articles on the matter. In retrospect – well before the Fiefdom treatise research project was commenced – it’s understandable why the influential publication refused repeated requests to print the Custodian Chief’s story.
Newspaper coverage didn’t end in mid-2001. What may be interpreted as another instance of arrogance belligerence are these CTV news items, i.e. published by the Thomson-owned media outlet, in January 2007:
No decision yet on 'brainwashing' lawsuit
CTV News
January 10, 2007
Montreal -- Patients were put in isolation, tied down or drugged, and subjected to hours and hours of taped recordings meant to brainwash them at the behest of the Central Intelligence Agency.
They were subjected to massive electroshocks, experimental drugs and LSD, most of them unwilling and unknowingly part of the U.S. spy agency's experimentation, a Federal Court judge was told Wednesday.
Now it's time for the federal government to compensate those victims, lawyer Alan Stein argued.
Stein is seeking court approval for a class-action lawsuit on behalf of his client, Janine Huard, one of the hundreds of patients of Dr. Ewen Cameron to be subjected to the Cold War-era experiments.
"She never knew that she was being subjected to these experiments or that she was being used by Dr. Cameron and his staff as a guinea pig," Stein told the court.
Cameron pioneered "psychic driving," by which he believed he could erase the memories of patients and rebuild their psyches without psychiatric defect.
The idea intrigued the CIA, which recruited Cameron to experiment with mind control techniques beginning in 1950. The experiments carried out at the Allan Memorial Institute at McGill University were jointly funded by the CIA and the Canadian government.
They were part of a larger CIA program called MK-ULTRA, which also saw LSD administered to U.S. prison inmates and patrons of brothels without their knowledge, according to testimony before a 1977 U.S. Senate committee.
Huard, a petite great-grandmother who will be 79 at the end of the month, was a patient of Cameron three separate times from 1951 to 1962.
She said she was drugged, shocked and forced to listen to recorded messages for hours on end, day after day. "It was torture," she said outside the court Wednesday.
Huard said it left her unable to care for her four children and plagued with migraines and memory loss.
Huard was one of nine Canadian victims who received nearly US$67,000 from the CIA in 1988 to compensate her for her suffering. But her claim for compensation from the federal government, which jointly funded the experiments, was rejected three times.
Frederic Paquin, the lawyer for the federal attorney general, said the government does not contest that Huard underwent the treatments she claims.
"It's in the medical record," Paquin told the court. But he argued it's too late for a lawsuit, more than four decades after Cameron's death and more than a decade after her claim was rejected.
In 1994, 77 patients were awarded $100,000 each from the federal government but more than 250 others were denied compensation because they were not "totally depatterned."
Although a 2004 federal appeal court decision overruled that criteria in another patient's case and awarded her the $100,000, the Crown stood by the original decisions to deny Huard's claim.
Huard's lawyers argued that she did suffer serious harm and failed to file a lawsuit earlier only because she didn't have the money.
"It's unbelievable that this took place," Stein told the court.
The Crown told the judge that it's difficult to pass judgment today on the treatments of yesterday.
Electroshock therapy is still in use, Paquin told the court, and lobotomies were once common.
"We haven't compensated people who received lobotomies during that era, either," he told the court.
A decision on whether the application can proceed is expected at a later date.
Note the Federal Court's cooperation in this case and contrast it with the Custodian Chief's experiences that proved the judiciary's Chinada complicity.
Then this six months later: the opposite of what happened with respect to his case:
Gov't settles with CIA brainwashing survivor
CTV News
July 3, 2007
Montreal -- A Montreal senior who survived Cold War-era brainwashing experiments picked up a cheque for compensation from the federal government on Tuesday.
Janine Huard, 79, accepted an offer to end her class-action lawsuit against the federal government, which jointly funded the experiments with the Central Intelligence Agency.
The terms of the settlement are confidential, but Huard says it will allow her to live out her days in peace, with some peace of mind.
"I was really so exhausted from fighting for so many years,'' Huard told The Canadian Press in an interview.
"I don't think it's enough after having been hurt so much, and my kids and family. . . but at least justice has been done a little bit.''
The Fiefdom treatise documents how Hollywood’s first contribution to diplomacy relating to containing China and fixing Canada’s dysfunctionalities came in 2004 with Nicole Kidman’s ‘Dogville’ and the re-release of ‘The Manchurian Candidate’. February 2010’s ‘Stutter Island’ falls expressly in the geo-genre of the latter.
Martin Scorsese became a coalition partner in February 2007. Then when he was asked to present his close friend and fellow partner Steven Spielberg an award at the 2009 Golden Globes he used the occasion to its greatest geo-advantage. Sir Ben announced his membership in the August 2008 film ‘Elegy’. And Leonardo his in the December 2008 released ‘Revolutionary Road’.
Mind control and understanding Shutter Island
by Bob Fitrakis
Online Journal
Feb 25, 2010
To understand Martin Scorsese’s well-crafted psychological thriller Shutter Island, viewers should do an Internet search on the following three terms: MK-Ultra, Manchurian candidates, and Operation Paperclip. For the extended value-added search, throw in the combination of “CIA”.
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The post-World War II U.S. administrations and its rising security-industrial complex covertly embraced torture and secret dosing of unsuspecting people with psychedelic drugs to control their behavior and create assets and assassins during the Red Scare.
Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island: Mysterious and sinister, but headed where precisely?
by Joanne Laurier
World Socialist Web Site
March 10, 2010
Martin Scorsese has set his latest film, Shutter Island, in 1954, a year after the end of the Korean War and in the midst of the Cold War. This historical backdrop, including the threat of a nuclear conflict between the superpowers, helps suffuse the gothic thriller with a sense of acute paranoia and foreboding.
[...]
[I]t is revealed in the course of the film that [the insane asylum] receives funding from the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC), lending credence to the suspicion that the institution is being used for foul experiments.
[…]
Where they’ve begun is much the same place the Soviets have—brainwashing. Deprivation experiments. … The Nazis used Jews. The Soviets used prisoners in their own gulags.” Here, in America, she adds, patients are being tested on Shutter Island.
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US government mind-control experiments were indeed being conducted at this time. Beginning in the early 1950s, Project MK-ULTRA was the code name for a covert CIA operation. A precursor of the program began in 1945 when Operation Paperclip was established to recruit former Nazi scientists, some of whom had expertise in torture and brainwashing. Several of these had been identified and prosecuted as war criminals during the Nuremberg Trials. As in the Manchurian Candidate, the goal was to create an agent who could carry information and not have the mission tortured out of him or her.
In December 1974, investigative reporter Seymour Hersh exposed MK-ULTRA in a New York Times article which documented secret experiments carried out on American citizens at numerous institutions during the 1960s and even earlier.
University of Wisconsin historian Alfred McCoy’s book, A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror (American Empire Project), documents the “cruel science of pain” that was developed for extensive use in Southeast Asia, Central America, Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantánamo and secret black sites globally.
The lexicon is introduced early – a telltale sign of coalition involvement back to September 2006; but isn’t employed most assertively until a scene where two U.S. Marshals, the lead detective played by DiCaprio, are examining the cell of an escaped psych ward patient deemed to be very dangerous. A note is discovered below the floorboards, which to Scorsese et al. is a circumstance that in addition to the MK Ultra issue draws them to make the film because the author of the book on which the film is reproduced chooses what in geo-circles is a Taylor Identifier. The scene ends with a Clooney Maneuver.
This production decision is amplified when the coalition’s supra-celebrity is honoured the month before the film’s release with the prestigious ‘2009 Partner of the Year’ distinction. The number ‘67’ is generously sprinkled throughout the script:
Then DiCaprios character interviews all staff members about the inexplicable disappearance. Behind him on the wall is a clock set at 7:20 – the number twenty being the constituent symbolizing two decades of enslaving torturous human experimentation. And 7 – 2 = five, representative of the quantum the Custodian Chief is entitled to for what he suffered.
Additionally, he and an extra who plays a nurse are choreographed to employ lexiconic gestures as follows:
Marshall: Miss Solandro [O-S M.] was put in her room for lights out. Does anyone here know what she did before that? [extra: q-Cl.M.] Anyone? C’mon, anyone, anyone, anyone [snaps fingers three times]?
Nurse: She was in a group therapy session.
Marshall: [Condi M.] Huh! Anything unusual occur?
Nurse: Define 'unusual'.
Marshall: Excuse me!
Nurse: This is a mental institution Marshall for the criminally insane [McG-J.M.]. ‘Unusual’ isn’t part of our day. [laughter]
In a scene involving Leo, Sir Ben, who plays the psych ward’s head doctor and Leo’s law enforcement partner, is the following dialogue; which includes a 'gun to the temple' 'we're gonna f _ _ k you up real good' gesture to underscore what kind of radical approach the coalition feels compelled to employ since the Chinada threat is so profound and diplomacy failed:
Marshall: And which school [of psychiatric thinking] are you, doctor?
Doctor: Me? I have this radical ideal that [Powell-R-S M.] if you treat a patient with respect listen to him; try and understand you might just reach him.
[background distraction: patient screams; staff subdue her]
Marshall: These patients, huh?
Doctor: Even these. What used to do as a last resort is becoming a first response. Give them a pill, put them in a corner it all goes away. […] The greatest obstacle to [the escaped patient’s] recovery was her refusal to face what she had done.
Leo has a flashback to his days serving in World War II. He recalls what happened during the liberation of a Nazi concentration camp where human experimentation is suspected. He and other soldiers are so furious at the inhumanity they witness they line the guards up against a fence and execute them en masse.
Immediately after that scene Leo and his partner are discussing their assignment and the matter of MK Ultra is injected to link this graphic slaughter with consequences for pursuing stealth cognition technology R&D in the face of worldwide condemnation:
Marshall: You know this [asylum] is funded by a special grant from the House on Un-American Activities Committee?
Partner: How exactly are they fightin’ the Commies from an island in Boston Harbor?
[…]
Marshall: By conducting experiments on the mind. […] Like I said, no one would talk, right, ‘till I found someone [that got funding for a science project] who used to be a patient here. […] So he starts seein’ dragons everywhere. He almost beats his professor to death. Ends up here in … Ward ‘C’. They release him after a year, right. What does he do? Two weeks on the mainland he walks into a bar, stabs three guys to death. [At trial] he begs the judge for the electric chair. […] They’re experimenting on people in here.
Like the recurring Taylor Identifying #67, "Ward C" to Scorsese et al. was another perfect fit, being representative of the Coalition.
The film is full of flashbacks which until the end of the movie and the delivery of a big twist in the plot are not fully understood. However, they certainly are in terms of what Scorsese et al. wanted to communicate to the Chinada High Command through this production. For example, Leo repeatedly sees his wife and child in various dreams. One involves him standing over them amongst piles of concentration camp corpses. She’s attired in Chinada prison certainty (chain link fence).
Later when he’s confronted by her in the doctor’s study, the same lexiconic constituents:
When in a dream she’s seen to have been shot by him because she murdered their three children, the same colors that implicate the Beijing leadership in 21st century MK Ultra are again present:
The Marshall's convinced the head of the facility is the 'directing mind' of the human experimentation program, and one of the evidentiary circumstances is being a German. He confronts him with this perceived malfeasance and proceeds to effect the kind of punishment coalition partners have threatened many times over the years:
Doctor: And wouldn't you agree when you see a monstor you must stop it?
Marshall: I agree.
When the full plot is fully revealed producers again draw attention to Chinada’s violations of the International Covenant on Civil & Political Rights. However, this time they add a specific rebuke for what the Custodian Chief has been suffering since the earliest days of his two-decade ordeal and more aggressively the month after 9/11 when as a result of that historic attack the malfeasant became more emboldened and sought to inundate him with a ubiquity of torture. In ‘Dogville’ this Chinese water torture like activity is described thusly:
Understandably, Grace tries to escape and put the hell that was Dogville behind her. After her failed attempt she is chained to the heavy iron flywheel and a shackle is fastened around her neck. The general public wouldn’t see any significance to the bell attached to the metal collar placed by her ear except in the way one is sometimes put on a pet’s collar. But if that was the intent, the bell would have been hung around her neck; not placed right next to her ear.
To the Canadian lawyer it was profoundly evident what its purpose next to her ear was. In the Fiefdom submission Article 7 of the International Covenant on Civil & Political Rights: Svengali in the Extreme (pgs. 15-17, 24-31 - now Submission Three), he describes ubiquitous torture-intending noise disruptions; used to inundate him incessantly literally every day, sometimes every few minutes, for almost a decade and a half. (The chapter is based on what was pled in the Amended Statement of Claim, para. 82(g) and 204).)
In a critical scene the doctor implores the U.S. Marshall to fess up and Scorsese et al. also (i) insert what is articulated in Comparing and Contrasting the Size of the Coalition and Chinada and (ii) draw on an image that depicts the Custodian Chief’s predicament:
Doctor: We need to hear you say it.
Marshall: After she tried to kill herself the first time Deloris told me she –- she had an insect living inside her brain. She could feel it clicking across her skull; just pulling the wires just for fun. She told me that. She told me that. But I didn’t listen [Cl.M.]
Doctor: I hope what we’ve done here will [McCain M.] be enough to stop it from ever happening again. I need to know you’ve accepted reality.
Marshall: [Newman M.] You came after me, huh Doctor? [You] tried to help when no one else would [Cl.M.].
The Newman and two Clooney Maneuvers red flag the fact that the Custodian Chief was assisted – by a global community of democracy, rule of law and human rights advocates who were horrified and outraged at what was occurring in America’s backyard. And the gesture named after the U.S. Senator who was tortured for five years in a Vietnam prison camp, Geo Award recipient John McCain, was chosen because of this factual parallel and to underscore the coalition’s resolve to prevent such atrocities from repeating themselves a third time.
The film concludes with another reminder who's to blame for the 21st century's MK Ultra. There are eight actors and extras in the final shot:
It's also to be noted that Scorsese et al. were cognizant of and motivated by the unlawfulness documented in How the Coalition Acknowledged the Five-Year Anniversary of the Psych Ward Committal Attempt Involving Police-Fabricated Evidence – The ‘Regis & Kelly’ Initiative and other incidents of that nature.
How did the Chinada High Command react to the authorship of this supplemental? The form of arrogant belligerence took this time involved maneuvering a street soldier – male, 5 feet, 3-4 inches tall, late 30s – into position at the check-in counter of the squash and fitness club. When arriving for a pre-arranged match and the Custodian Chief came within arms length of him he began to provokingly run his left forefinger down the bridge of his nose. He repeated this gesture several times, causing the 20-year institutionalized stalking victim to engage him; asking him if what he was doing was a part of Halloween’s trick or treat; and following up with the question whether he knew Halloween tricks can sneak up on him at any time during the year to draw attention to how coalition consequences can be effected.
Worthy of a footnote given this arrogance is how else the fitness club has been turned into a Chinada base of operations. Beyond this incident, others not documented and the one described in The Chinada High Command Engages in Arrogant Belligerence to Mock the ICC, they arranged to have a major contributor to domestically and internationally unlawful policies and practices post an ad in the facility to mock the coalition’s lexicon and objectives. The company involved is Telus – one which launched a nationwide ad campaign to high profile stealth cognition technologies: Telus Corp’s Militarized Hypnosis Bragging Ad Campaign. The company’s executives also joint ventured with the Satanic worshiping behemoth Bell Canada and the Chinese to install the next generation phone and Internet systems in the country as documented on the RCC website in October 22, 2008: China’s Largest Telecom Manufacturer Awarded Telecommunications Infrastructure Contracts by Bell Canada and Telus.
The ad must be walked by each and every time he uses the club, being strategically placed at the top of a stairwell that leads to the level on which the change rooms are situate. It involves a chameleon rendered in the color of condemnation touching the nose of another chameleon rendered in two colors: condemnation and quantum. The geo-theme is mocking the coalition for (i) its denunciation of Canadian political and corporate policies and practices and (ii) guaranteeing that the Custodian Chief gets what’s due him by way of damages for his pain, suffering, injury and loss.
