Experiments in Isolation
When a professor at the University of Manitoba started doing experiments in sensory deprivation in the 1960s, few people thought anything of it.
No one then realized that intelligence agencies such as the CIA would use the findings of researchers like Dr. John Zubek to develop new and disturbing methods of interrogation.
Award-winning journalist Cecil Rosner has followed this story over the years.
You can read his article, “Isolation,” in the August/September issue of Canada’s History magazine.
Here is Cecil Rosner being interviewed by Canada’s History Associate Editor Nelle Oosterom (11 mins, 12 secs):