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The Fairshake Files is a documentary investigation channel producing long-form, multi-part deep-dive series. We provide well-researched, sober analysis of history's most controversial events, from infamous true crime cases to declassified government programs and unsolved historical mysteries.

Our mission is to go beyond the official story to explore competing theories, alternative narratives, and complex conspiracies. We present all angles with a calm, narrative style that values research over sensationalism.

This channel is for viewers seeking nuance and in-depth context on topics like Project MKUltra, COINTELPRO, the Manson Family, and other pivotal historical moments. We dissect the legends, present the evidence, and let the viewer decide.

New investigations are opened monthly. This is the home for historical deep-dives, true crime analysis, and conspiracy theory deconstruction.

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  • MK-ULTRA: From Midnight Climax to the Montreal Experiment | Chapters 1–3

    MK-ULTRA: From Midnight Climax to the Montreal Experiment | Chapters 1–3
    Mar 21 2026
    Welcome back to The Fairshake Files, where the official record ends…and the real one begins.

    MK-ULTRA Declassified | Chapters 1–3

    This feature-length compilation brings together the first three chapters of our MK-ULTRA investigation.

    It begins with the Cold War panic that convinced American intelligence that the human mind itself had become a battlefield. It moves through Operation Midnight Climax, where the CIA dosed unsuspecting men in safehouses wired for voyeurism and surveillance. And it ends in Montreal, where psychiatric prestige, institutional power, and covert funding converged around one terrifying idea: that a human being could be broken down and rebuilt.

    Across these three chapters, we follow the architecture of the program as it evolves:




    • The Cold War fear of “brainwashing” and the Manchurian Question
    • The birth of Project BLUEBIRD, ARTICHOKE, and MK-ULTRA
    • Sidney Gottlieb and the search for a controllable mind
    • The drugging of colleagues, unwitting subjects, and the fall of Frank Olson
    • Operation Midnight Climax and the San Francisco safehouses
    • George Hunter White, the two-way mirror, hidden microphones, and reel-to-reel surveillance
    • The use of sex workers as bait and the deliberate dosing of unsuspecting men
    • Wayne Ritchie, the human fallout, and the Atlanta prison experiments
    • The Allan Memorial Institute in Montreal and MK-ULTRA Subproject 68
    • Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron, depatterning, and the destruction of continuity, memory, and self
    • The Sleep Room, induced dependency, and chemical suspension
    • Page-Russell electroshock and the logic of regression - Psychic Driving, recorded message loops, repetition, and surrende
    • The Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology as a front for covert funding
    • The gaslighting years, compensation fights, and the institutional price placed on a ruined life
    This is not conspiracy fantasy. It is a documented progression: from fear, to experimentation, from experimentation, to procedure, from procedure, to systems that could erase a person while still calling it treatment.

    The first three chapters of MK-ULTRA are not just about LSD, safehouses, or rogue personalities. They are about what happens when secrecy, bureaucracy, medicine, and national security all agree that some people do not matter.

    Next up: MK-ULTRA Chapter 4 | The Arctic Mind

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    1 hr and 36 mins
  • PROJECT MK-ULTRA: The Montreal Experiment (Chapter 3)

    PROJECT MK-ULTRA: The Montreal Experiment (Chapter 3)
    Mar 12 2026
    The Fairshake Files continues through the declassified record on Project MK-ULTRA — the CIA’s covert Cold War program to research behavioral modification, interrogation, and chemical influence. In Chapter 3: The Montreal Experiment, the story moves inside a psychiatric institution.

    In March 1963, Linda Macdonald enters the Allan Memorial Institute in Montréal seeking help. What follows is not treatment in any ordinary sense, but a system designed to dismantle memory, identity, and resistance. We follow the architecture of the experiment: Ravenscrag, the prestige of Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron, the Sleep Room, Page-Russell electroshock, depatterning, and psychic driving.

    Then we trace the hidden infrastructure behind it: CIA funding through Subproject 68, the Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology, and the overlap between Cameron’s methods and later interrogation doctrine. This is intelligence history, documented record, and institutional abuse with receipts.

    IN THIS EPISODE:
    • Linda Macdonald’s admission to the Allan Memorial Institute
    • Ravenscrag and the authority structure that made coercion look like care
    • Donald Ewen Cameron and the theory of depatterning
    • The Sleep Room and prolonged drug-induced sleep
    • Page-Russell electroshock and psychic driving
    • Peter Roper and the system behind the ward
    • CIA funding through Subproject 68
    • The Human Ecology front and the bureaucratic language of harm
    • The overlap with KUBARK interrogation logic
    • The aftermath for survivors and their families
    • Velma Orlikow, the compensation fight, and the gaslighting years
    • The bridge to the next chapter: The Arctic Mind
    SOURCES & CITATIONS
    CIA Reading Room materials on MK-ULTRA and Subproject 68
    U.S. Senate hearings on CIA behavioral modification research
    McGill archival material on Allan Memorial and Donald Ewen Cameron
    Canadian government material on the Cooper Report and the assistance plan
    Court-era and wire-service reporting on survivors and settlements

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    35 mins
  • PROJECT MK-ULTRA: The Two-Way Mirror (Chapter 2)

    PROJECT MK-ULTRA: The Two-Way Mirror (Chapter 2)
    Feb 12 2026
    The Fairshake Files continues through the declassified record on Project MK-ULTRA — the CIA’s covert Cold War program to research behavioral modification, interrogation, and chemical influence.

    This chapter moves from theory into the street. In 1955, an operation known as Operation Midnight Climax ran out of a San Francisco safehouse: a staged apartment, hidden microphones, a two-way mirror, and unwitting “subjects” dosed with LSD while the government watched from behind the wall.

    We follow the mechanics of the operation, the people who ran it, and the collateral damage that followed — including the Wayne Ritchie case. Then we trace how MK-ULTRA solved its two problems: deniable dosing in the outside world, and repeatable access inside a prison. This is intelligence history, documented record, and true crime with context and receipts.

    IN THIS EPISODE:
    • Operation Midnight Climax and the San Francisco safehouse model
    • George Hunter White and the role of cut-outs in domestic CIA activity
    • The two-way mirror, microphone holes, and the reel-to-reel record
    • How the operation used coercion, leverage, and controlled access
    • The Wayne Ritchie case and what “collateral” looked like in practice
    • John Mulholland’s misdirection manual and the logic of deniable dosing
    • The prison pathway: MK-ULTRA expansion into the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary
    • Repeated LSD dosing and the “research” logic applied to captivity
    • The Inspector General report, oversight failure, and what the receipts exposed
    • The 1973 destruction order — and how the paper trail still leaked through
    SOURCES & CITATIONS
    • CIA FOIA Reading Room — MK-ULTRA documents
    • U.S. Senate hearings and reporting on CIA behavioral modification research
    • Inspector General reporting (oversight era context)
    • Declassified archival material and supporting documentation tied to releases


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    I’d love to hear your thoughts — share your perspective in the comments or a review.

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    27 mins
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