This poor woman!

MONTREAL — Five decades after unwittingly participating in brainwashing experiments that were funded by the CIA and the federal government, 78-year-old Janine Huard went to Federal Court yesterday to try and persuade a judge she is entitled to compensation.

“They demolished me,” Huard told reporters yesterday before her court hearing. “They gave me terrible drugs, electroshocks and made me stay in a bed with a mask over my face listening to recordings for hours.”

Huard had entered Montreal’s Allan Memorial Institute in 1958 after suffering postpartum depression following the birth of her second child. Her newborn had become ill and Huard was having difficulty coping.

But instead of helping her, the institute’s director, Dr. Ewen Cameron, used her as a “guinea pig” to carry out experimental brainwashing techniques that he mistakenly believed could treat depression.

Huard was awarded $66,000 US in compensation from the CIA in 1989, but she hasn’t received a cent in compensation from the Canadian government.

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