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["At war with the CIA: U.S. whistleblower wants asylum in Canada", large
photo of Alexander Legault with caption: "RETALIATION?...Montrealer
Alexander Legault, who says he'll be persecuted by the CIA if he returns
to
the United States, is seeking refugee status in Canada." The Toronto Sun,
Feb. 1, 1998, by Tom Godfrey]
A U.S. man who claims he'll be persecuted by the CIA for blowing the
whistle
on a Montreal brainwashing experiment is fighting to become one of the few
Americans to be granted refugee status here. Alexander Henri Legault, 49,
a
Wisconsin native who has lived in Canada for 17 years, will find out in
days
if he'll be granted asylum by an Immigration and Refugee Board. About 40
Americans yearly claim status here, but very rarely are they accepted,
immigration files show.
Legault, a Montreal food exporter who's married to a Canadian and is the
father of four children, filed his claim in 1993 after immigration
officials
refused to extend his visa. Legault and his lawyers claim he'll be
persecuted by the CIA for obtaining documents that led to nine Canadians
being compensated $100,000 each in 1988. They were guinea pigs in
brainwashing experiments, code named MK Ultra, at Montreal's Allan
Memorial
Institute in the '50s and '60s.
Legault's mother-in-law was one of the survivors of the experiment which
was
made into a CBC mini-series, The Sleep Room, that aired three weeks ago.
The experiments, headed by the late Dr. Ewen Cameron and funded by the
CIA,
subjected unwitting patients to hallucinogenic drugs, weeks of forced
sleep
and massive doses of shock therapy. "I can't sleep living in limbo,"
Legault
told The Sunday Sun. "The CIA is upset because I provided a list of their
projects."
His lawyer, Richard Kurland, said MK-Ultra was one of 100 brainwashing
programs the CIA funded. He said the CIA is outraged that Legault's tip
led
to the compensation of victims. The Sun has obtained transcripts of
Legault's top-secret refugee claim, which began in July 1996 in Montreal
and
wrapped up in June 1997. Testifying under oath was former CIA
agent-turned-author Philip Agee, who's written several books about the
agency, and Ari Ben Menashe,
a former intelligence adviser to former Israeli prime minister Yitzhak
Shamir.
Agee, who recruited and ran CIA spies for 11 years in South
America,testified that he has been hounded by the agency since he began
writing books about them. "The CIA will retaliate if someone does them
harm," Agee testified.
Menashe, 45, now a Canadian citizen, testified in June last year that he
flew twice to Virginia, to meet retired U.S. admiral Stansfield Turner,who
was the
CIA director under former president Jimmy Carter. He said Turner, now a
consultant, agreed to help with the case for $50,000, but Legault refused
to
pay.
William Schaap, 57, an expert witness on the CIA, testified that the
MK-Ultra experiment was one of the most frightening ever conducted by the
CIA. The agency "had a fundamental disregard for the value of human
life," a
U.S. Senate committee said of the experiment.Schaap testified that the CIA
had infiltrated the U.S. and Canadian communist parties, and owned 100
media
organizations worldwide. It also experimented with "hundreds" of chemical
and biological testing programs, which saw a cold virus spread over San
Francisco in the '50s, exposed whooping cough in Tampa, Fla, in 1955 and a
cold bacteria in the New York subway system in 1966, Schaap testified.
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