Allan Memorial Institute
In January 1973, on the order of CIA Director Richard Helms, the agency destroyed the bulk of its MKULTRA records. Records that survived tied the CIA to Dr. Ewen Cameron's "depatterning" experiments in this Mount Royal mansion, which the agency paid for in part from 1957 through a front called the Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology. On July 31, 2025, a Quebec judge authorized former patients and their families to sue Canada, McGill University, and the Royal Victoria Hospital as a class.