true crime
Hosted by CBC · true crime · EN-CA
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 unwitting patients as human guinea pigs at a Montreal hospital, and the ripple effects on survivors, their families, and thousands of other people around the world. It also examines the cultural impact — how the CIA brought LSD to America and inadvertently created counterculture influencers such as author Ken Kesey and poet Allen Ginsberg. It’s an exploration of what happens in times of fear, when the military and medicine collide. And what happens when the survivors fight back. For the best in true crime from CBC, ad-free, visit apple.co/cbctruecrime.
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Signup to Generate a PitchBrainwashed 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 unwitting patients as human guinea pigs at a Montreal hospital, and the ripple effects on survivors, their families, and thousands of other people around the world.
Brainwashed is hosted by CBC. The show has published 9 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Brainwashed Introduces: The Most Wanted Olympian" (15 October 2026, 38 minutes), "Brainwashed Introduces: The Jaclyn Ferland-Smith Case" (16 March 2026, 38 minutes), and "Bonus: Front Burner | Canadian CIA MK-Ultra victims still fight for justice" (11 October 2023, 28 minutes).
Brainwashed publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 29 minutes across 9 episodes.
Booking probability for Brainwashed is 23%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Brainwashed requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Brainwashed's contact route on record: verified email.
CBC hosts Brainwashed, a true crime podcast with 9 episodes published.
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Host Michelle Shephard speaks to Ben Brock Johnson and Amory Sivertson from the podcast Endless Thread about their series, Madness. Like Brainwashed, Madness focusses on the CIA-funded mind control experiments led by...
Episode #6
MKULTRA has entered popular culture, becoming the butt of jokes, television plot points, and the darling of internet conspiracy theorists. At the very least, the secrecy that still surrounds MKULTRA, or the CIA’s...
Episode #5
MKULTRA was supposed to have ended in the 1960s. The torturous experiments didn’t work. So why did these techniques evolve and continue to be used by American trainers throughout Latin America, and then get revived once...
Episode #4
After discovering that they were the unwitting victims of human experiments, nine of Dr. Cameron’s victims band together to take on a Herculean task – to make the CIA pay. How do you sue one of the most powerful...
Episode #3
Communist brainwashing, mind control experiments, a government cover up... MKULTRA sounds like the stuff of conspiracy theories or science fiction. But it was real. John Marks, author of The Search for the Manchurian...
Episode #2
Dr. Ewen Cameron, an internally renowned psychiatrist, was once the director of the World, American and Canadian Psychiatric Associations. So how did he come to develop his controversial treatments? And what was the...
Episode #1
The Allan Memorial Institute in Montreal was an innovative new hospital where patients sought cutting-edge psychiatric care. But instead of being helped, many were subjected to shockingly brutal experiments: massive...
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 War on Terror. Listen to the voices of the survivors and their families, the...
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author of The Search for the Manchurian Candidate, Search for Common Ground
Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs at Brown University’s Watson Institute
Sir William Fraser Professor of Scottish History and Palaeography at the University of Edinburgh, Channel 5
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