"Some of the cruelest, most scientifically useless forms of abuse perpetrated under MKUltra occurred on Canadian soil. At McGill University, agents drugged civilians with hallucinogenic and narcotic drugs in the pursuit of novel forms of torture and interrogation. Maybe, instead, we should take as our example the Central Intelligence Agency agents (both named and anonymous) who abetted in the murder of Patrice Lumumba, former prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in 1961."
"as lead defence counsel for Mohammed Nazir Bin Lep, one of the Southeast Asian detainees in the military commissions. It was a four-year legal odyssey for me and our defence team. Nazir was tortured for three years and then warehoused without trial for two decades. It was his torture, and that of all the other detainees in the charged cases, that was correctly named by John Baker, former chief defence counsel in the commissions, as Guantanamo's 'original sin.'"
MKUltra carried out cruel, scientifically useless abuses on Canadian soil, including drugging civilians at McGill University to pursue novel torture and interrogation techniques. The Central Intelligence Agency assisted in violent interventions abroad, including the murder of Patrice Lumumba in 1961 and involvement with Canadian assets in right-wing coups in Guatemala, Bolivia, and Iran. Romanticizing espionage as a "great game" obscures that intelligence operations are played with other people's lives and can subvert democratically elected governments. Guantanamo Bay detained and tortured individuals like Mohammed Nazir Bin Lep, who endured three years of torture and twenty years warehousing without trial, a practice named Guantanamo's "original sin."
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