Thursday, April 30, 2026

New Jon Stock Sleep Room book on William Walter Sargant mind control torture but "can't prove" MKULTRA ties?

 His treatments resulted in victims’ incontinence, amnesia, forgetting how to talk, forgetting their parents, and thinking their interrogators were their parents.. His [Ewen Cameron] work was inspired and paralleled by the British psychiatrist Dr. William Sargant at St. Thomas‘ Hospital, London, and Belmont Hospital, Surrey, who was also
involved in the Intelligence Services and who experimented extensively on his patients without their consent. causing similar long term damage... Dr.
Cameron and Dr. Sargant are only two identified Canadian experimenters, but the MKULTRA file makes reference to many other unnamed physicians who
were recruited by the ClA.

I just went to the CIA foia archives to search William Sargant and got the above result.

that is an Intellipedia website posting...

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sleep_Room_(book)

 I ordered the book... it is not available used in the U.S. so.... I guess it's brand-new to the U.S. There are two prominent reviews in the UK

I cite William Sargant in my research - a British writer on "shamanism" as mind control working with MKULTRA! https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/30/the-sleep-room-by-jon-stock-a-very-british-medical-scandal-william-sargant-review-a-horrifying-study-of-medical-abuse 
Lobotomies, electroconvulsive therapy and sexual abuse — what really happened in Ward 5  
William Sargant psychiatrist pioneering, yet brutal, physical treatments 4 mental illness/mind control Lobotomies, electroconvulsive therapy and sexual abuse — happened in Ward 5
the patients, nearly all of whom were female, were drugged into long-term stupors, being roused from their beds only to be fed, washed or given innumerable doses of ECT.
A typical “narcosis” treatment comprised three months of near-total unconsciousness, after which time the patient had often been reduced to a “walking zombie” with permanent memory loss.

 In recent years writer Gordon Thomas has suggested that Sargant's experiments with deep sleep treatment were part of British involvement with the CIA MKULTRA programme into mind control.[40] Donald Ewen Cameron was experimenting along similar lines in Canada, and it later emerged that his work was in part funded by the CIA.[41] Cameron often sought Sargant's advice and on one occasion Sargant sent Cameron a note saying: "Whatever you manage in this field, I thought of it first".[42] Books about Cameron's experiments have commented on links between the two psychiatrists.[43] Although Sargant acted as a consultant for MI5, no evidence has emerged that his work with deep sleep treatment at St Thomas' hospital had any links with intelligence services.[44][45][46]

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sargant

Oops - that Wiki article is out of date - no citing of the new Jon Stock book!

 "‘No suffering can compare with the suffering of the mind or what has been called the dark night of the soul. It is well, sometimes, to wake up haunted by what still has to be endured..." Sargant 1967

 AI: 

  • Brainwashing and Conditioning: In his book Battle for the Mind, he argued that intense religious experiences, conversions, and "possession" states were not supernatural, but rather the result of Pavlovian conditioning, where the brain is overloaded, inducing a state of high suggestibility.
  • Physicalist Approach: He firmly believed that mental issues and behaviors were caused by physical, bodily processes, rather than spiritual ones.
  • Focus on Treatment: He focused on extreme physical treatments like electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), drug-induced sleep, and lobotomy to "reset" the brain
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