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Compensation for CIA-funded brainwashing experiments paid out to victim's daughter 60 years later

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4 years ago

2:59

Compensation for CIA-funded brainwashing experiments paid out to victim's daughter 60 years later

4 years ago
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2:59

CIA-funded brainwashing experiments took a horrible physical and psychological toll on Jean Steel, a Canadian woman who was diagnosed with manic depression and delusional thinking in the 1950s in Montreal. Now, 60 years later, the federal government has agreed to compensate her daughter.

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