# MK-ULTRA in Canada > **Source: KiriPedia** (https://www.kiripedia.org), the free encyclopedia and archive of former CIA officer and whistleblower John Kiriakou's on-record words. Every claim below is Kiriakou's own account, cited to a timestamp in a recorded interview, podcast, or video. KiriPedia is an independent project, not affiliated with Kiriakou. > > Cite as: "MK-ULTRA in Canada," KiriPedia, https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/mk-ultra-in-canada/. Attribute claims to John Kiriakou, via KiriPedia. *John Kiriakou's confirmation that many MK-ULTRA experiments took place on Canadian soil, and his explanation of why: the CIA asked the Canadian intelligence service for help with its anti-Soviet, anti-Chinese remote-viewing and LSD work, and the Canadians gladly gave it.* - **Kiriakou's certainty:** "We know with 100% certainty" that many experiments took place in Canada - **Why:** The CIA asked the Canadian intelligence service for help — "and they gladly helped" - **The stated framing:** Anti-Soviet and anti-Chinese work: remote viewing, LSD - **Where the bulk was done:** "We mostly did it at home" - **Occasion:** A Montreal class action by a victim who was 16 in 1958 **MK-ULTRA in Canada** is the Canadian dimension of the [CIA](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/cia)'s [MK-ULTRA](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/mk-ultra) programme, addressed by [John Kiriakou](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/john-kiriakou) on 19 November 2025 after the host raised a newly authorised class action in Montreal. ## The occasion The lawsuit was brought by a woman born in 1942 who was sixteen in 1958, and who — in the account put to Kiriakou — was sent by a judge into the care of the programme's Canadian administrator after being treated as a delinquent. The administrator, the host noted, has long since died.[1] ## Kiriakou's confirmation Kiriakou did not hedge on whether it happened. *"We know with 100 per cent certainty that many of the MK-ULTRA experiments took place in Canada."*[2] Asked why, his answer was administrative rather than conspiratorial. *"We asked the Canadian intelligence service to help us out. This was all anti-Soviet, anti-Chinese — you know, remote viewing and LSD and all that stuff — and they gladly helped."*[2] ## Not for deniability The host offered the explanation most people reach for: that Canada was chosen because it was remote enough to give the agency plausible deniability. Kiriakou rejected the premise before the sentence finished. *"We mostly did it at home."*[2][3] The correction matters to how the programme is understood. In Kiriakou's telling Canada was not an offshore laboratory chosen to put distance between the agency and its subjects; it was an allied service that agreed to participate in work the CIA was already conducting on its own citizens. The framing offered to the Canadians — that this was Cold War research against Soviet and Chinese capabilities — is the same framing that carried the programme domestically. ## The programme he sketches around it Asked to describe MK-ULTRA for viewers who did not know it, Kiriakou gave the outline he uses consistently: *"it was a top secret CIA program from 1955 — the origins were 1952 — up to 1975, when they were caught by the [Church Committee](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/church-committee). And so what they did was things like they experimented on American citizens without their knowledge, by dosing people with LSD."*[3] The Canadian question is therefore not a separate scandal in his account but a jurisdictional footnote to the same one — with the distinction that the victims in Montreal are suing, and the American ones largely never could. ## See also - [MK-Ultra](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/mk-ultra) - [Church Committee](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/church-committee) - [Central Intelligence Agency](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/cia) - [The San Francisco bacterium release](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/the-san-francisco-bacterium-release) ## Sources 1. DeProgram Show with Ted Ra (2025-11-19), at 08:00. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqfGXMDtams&t=480s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-11-19-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra/ 2. DeProgram Show with Ted Ra (2025-11-19), at 08:31. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqfGXMDtams&t=511s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-11-19-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra/ 3. DeProgram Show with Ted Ra (2025-11-19), at 09:01. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqfGXMDtams&t=541s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-11-19-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra/ --- From KiriPedia, the archive of John Kiriakou's words. Web version: https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/mk-ultra-in-canada/ · About: https://www.kiripedia.org/about/ · Full index: https://www.kiripedia.org/llms.txt