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Brainwashed

CBC

Brainwashed investigates the CIA’s covert mind control experiments – from the Cold War and MKULTRA to the so-called War on Terror. It’s the story of how a renowned psychiatrist used his unwi...

Episodes

10 episodes

Brainwashed Introduces: The Jaclyn Ferland-Smith Case

Someone Knows Something is the investigative true crime series by award-winning documentarian David Ridgen. In Season 10 of Someone Knows So...

00:37:56Mar 16, 2026

Bonus: Front Burner | Canadian CIA MK-Ultra victims still fight for justice

Front Burner is your essential daily news podcast that takes you deep into the stories shaping Canada and the world. In this episode you’ll...

00:28:25Oct 11, 2023

Bonus: BRAINWASHED / MADNESS

Host Michelle Shephard speaks to Ben Brock Johnson and Amory Sivertson from the podcast Endless Thread about their series, Madness. Like Bra...

00:24:11Oct 28, 2020

Episode 6: NEVER TOO LATE TO SAY SORRY

MKULTRA has entered popular culture, becoming the butt of jokes, television plot points, and the darling of internet conspiracy theorists. A...

00:34:09Oct 20, 2020

Episode 5: WE TORTURED SOME FOLKS

MKULTRA was supposed to have ended in the 1960s. The torturous experiments didn’t work. So why did these techniques evolve and continue to b...

00:39:40Oct 13, 2020

Episode 4: SUING THE CIA

After discovering that they were the unwitting victims of human experiments, nine of Dr. Cameron’s victims band together to take on a Hercul...

00:30:49Oct 6, 2020

Episode 3: EXPOSING MKULTRA

Communist brainwashing, mind control experiments, a government cover up... MKULTRA sounds like the stuff of conspiracy theories or science f...

00:29:43Sep 30, 2020

Episode 2: PSYCHIC DRIVING

Dr. Ewen Cameron, an internally renowned psychiatrist, was once the director of the World, American and Canadian Psychiatric Associations. S...

00:33:32Sep 23, 2020

Episode 1: RAVENSCRAG

The Allan Memorial Institute in Montreal was an innovative new hospital where patients sought cutting-edge psychiatric care. But instead of...

00:23:06Sep 23, 2020

Trailer: Brainwashed

Brainwashed is an investigative series into the CIA’s covert experiments in mind control – from the Cold War and MKULTRA to the so-called Wa...

00:03:05Sep 2, 2020