Ellen Atkin Survivor Statement
MK Ultra Girl
I, Ellen Atkin, stand as an evidenced survivor of the Montreal Experiments — a dark chapter in Canadian and world history where human beings were used as test subjects for psychological manipulation, coercive persuasion, and so-called “mental illness therapies” funded through the MK Ultra program, The Rockefeller Foundation and the Canadian Health Care system among other parties.
My family was among those targeted. Both of my parents, John Atkin and Jane Atkin (Crunican), were patients of Dr. Ewen Cameron at the Allan Memorial Institute in Montreal. Their medical records confirm their involvement in these unethical experiments — this “care” destroyed lives under the guise of science and treatment.
Additionally, I Ellen Atkin serve as the Representative Plaintiff for the Family Class in the Banman v. Ontario lawsuit concerning the Psychosocial Treatment (PST) Unit at St. Thomas Psychiatric Hospital, a role in which I act as the legal proxy for all similarly situated family members of patients. I am the estate representative for my late sister, Ruth Atkin, who was a patient in the PST Unit. The court formally recognized myself, “Ellen Atkin” as “eminently qualified” to serve as a representative plaintiff in October 2023.
In this capacity, I Ellen Atkin, am named as a Plaintiff alongside Martha Banman and Louise Bark, representing two distinct groups:
The Ruth Atkin Estate: Acting on behalf of Ruth’s individual claims regarding her involuntary admission and treatment from 1981 to 1993.
The Family Class: Representing family members who assert they were unrecognized victims of the same psychiatric abuse that affected their relatives.
I am known publicly as the MK Ultra Girl, the child in the haunting photograph labeled “Strain All Urine.” That image represents not only my personal history but the suffering of thousands of survivors and descendants of the Montreal Experiments and related atrocities perpetrated by figures such as Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, Dr. Donald Hebb, Dr. Louis “Jolly” West, and Dr. Joseph Mengele. It stands as a symbol of the silencing, denial, and cover-up that have persisted for generations under national security. Our own files are closed to us. The lack of respect or veneration as victims of military intelligence objects for war games telling us things like “the future of the western world depends on us” is turned into a carnival side show of mental illness accusations. It is time to stand up, open the files and give us evidenced survivors our military pensions and compensation and treatment without extreme prejudice and gas lighting.
Behind the language of “mental illness therapy” lay systematic human experimentation — drugging, depatterning, electroshock, and psychological reprogramming — practices that shattered families and identities in the name of control. I was born into that system and carry its imprint.
The Strain All Urine photograph has become a testament to this hidden history. I have come forward to claim my truth as that child, now grown, to give voice to all who were silenced by trauma, secrecy, and institutional abuse.
This is not only my story — it is the story of thousands of survivors and families whose lives were altered by secret programs designed to erase the human mind. The impact on my life, family, and community has been profound and ongoing. The legacy of trauma, medical neglect, and systemic denial continues to this day.
Through this statement, I affirm my standing as a survivor seeking justice, disclosure, and reparations on behalf of all victims of the Montreal Experiments and related MK Ultra programs.
I call for:
Full acknowledgment of these crimes by the Canadian government and participating institutions.
Immediate release of all classified records.
Comprehensive reparations to victims, families, and descendants.
An end to all forms of mind control, coercive psychiatry, and state-sponsored psychological abuse.
The time for secrecy is over. The time for truth, healing, and justice has come.
No more secrecy.
No more human experimentation.
No more silence.
For all people.
For all time.
For all beings.
Ellen Atkin
MK Ultra Girl
Evidenced Survivor of the Montreal Experiments, MK Ultra and Dark Lab