Criminal psychologist Dr Julia Shaw follows the story of one teenage runaway in 1958 into a shadow world of experiments on children, covert CIA involvement, and vanished indigenous children. In Project Mind Control, we hear a story of an international effort to weaponise psychology and control human behaviour. The truth may never be fully revealed, but the crimes demand to be uncovered. In 1958, teenage runaway Lana Ponting was sent to one of Canada’s most notorious psychiatric institutions: The Allan Institute. Now Dr Julia Shaw speaks to her about the experiments she endured there, designed to break down and rebuild the hu...
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The CIA
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Lana’s revelations about a friend she made at The Allan open an entirely new investigation. One spearheaded by a group of indigenous women called the Mohawk Mothers, who believe th…
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Typical Rebellious Teenager
Dr Julia Shaw meets Lana Ponting, in the 1950s she was a teenage runaway. That rebellion led her to be admitted into the notorious psychiatric institute, where she becomes the subj…
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Introducing Project Mind Control
In 1958, teenage runaway Lana Ponting was sent to one of Canada’s most notorious psychiatric institutions: The Allan Institute. There, she became part of a series of secretive and…