May 20, 2009  

What did you learn at his dinner table, Brian?   Dr. Dimitrije Pivnicki and former Prime Minister Mulroney No, I’m not talking about your meals with Hans Schreiber. I mean your drinks with Dimitrije!

I am compelled to ask questions about Sunday night dinners Brian Mulroney must have shared with Dr. Dimitrije Pivnicki and Brian's future wife, Mila Pivnicki.
     It has been proven that we are influenced while sitting on our parent's knees. I contend we can also be motivated over expensive bottles of wine at a dinner table!
     Is it possible that this ambitious lawyer, and Canada's future Prime Minister, got a taste for a good live while he learned how others played in their big leagues?
     Would a future father-in-law doctor/lawyer want to impress this Canadian lawyer with success making it big on his world stage?
     Did Brian learn how to get into good graces of CIA and other influential international organizations?

Which relationship came first?
    Did conversations between Brian (34) and Dimitrije so impress young Mila (18) that she hitched her wagon to a rising star who appeared to be an image of her father? What relationship came first for Brian – one with Dimitrije – or his daughter?

Dr. Pivnicki recruited from Hungary
    In 1956, Allan Memorial's director, Dr. Ewen Cameron, President of the World Psychiatric Foundation, recruited Dr. Pivnicki, a doctor practicing neuropsychiatry in Hungary. At that time, CIA and Canadian Government funds were pouring into Montreal's Allan Memorial for covert brainwashing and mind control experiments. Cameron needed doctors savvy with adminstering mind altering drugs and other brainwashing tactics.

The patients had no idea of what was in store
    None of their patients knew that these doctors had an agenda that did not include healing them. Most survivors are either hospitalilzed or still suffering after effects of their harrowing experiences. Canada's CBC Fifth Estate broadcast a comrehensive story of what was taking place as Allan's patients were subjected to a variety of experiments. For many Canadians, it was their first awakening of what was happening in Canada with their government's co-operation.

CIA couldn't operate in US America
    By its mandate, USA's CIA, restricted from operating on US American soil, contracted Montreal's Allan Memorial to do their "dirty" work. (In recent years the CIA exported suspected terrorists to other nations for rendering, a euphemism for torturing suspects to obtain information. US America does not allow the CIA to do their dirty work at home.)
    Besides being made a Senior Psychiatrist at Allan Memorial, Dr. Pivnicki was also a lawyer. Could his qualifications as both a doctor and a lawyer make him an ideal addition to Dr. Cameron's Allan Memorial team?
    Brian must have been enthralled by his conversations with the wealthy doctor/lawyer. What brought them together is a matter of conjecture. Some purport that it started out as a client/lawyer relationship. Also, what did 18-year-old Mila, who ultimately became Brian's wife, find in common with her 34-year old lawyer? A story is that they were both active Westmount, Quebec conservatives.

Project MKULTRA started by CIA's Dulles
    It is more likely that her neuroscientist father needed Canadian legal opinions pertaining to project MKULTRA at Allan Memorial. Meeting and romancing Mila was an unexpected bonus for Brian.

All files destroyed
    Much has been reported about this CIA funded MKULTRA project, particularly accounts from some victims. More would undoubtedly have been written if CIA files had not been destroyed — or at least it was thought that they had destroyed — them all.
    Dr. Cameron's family also destroyed all his files after his death in a 1967 mountain climbing incident. He was 66 at that time.

Mulroney protected father-in-law's bunch
    In 1984, Mulroney's government appointed a one-man commission to conduct an independent study into claims for compensation by nine Allan Memorial victimsl.
    Former Tory MP John Cooper, who conducted this so-called enquiry, concluded that our Canadian government bore no legal or moral responsibility for brain washing experiments performed on Canadian citizens and financed, in part, by them.
    "The Cooper Report" was actually compiled and written by Canadian Justice Department lawyers, whose job was to defend Canada against claims of liability based on its involvement with Cameron. A more clear conflict of interest is difficult to imagine. No Canadian Bar disciplinary committee has investigated lawyers who did it.

Report said CIA was not involved
    "The Cooper Report" also concluded that CIA involvement was a red herring. Four years later in 1988, however, the CIA paid $67,000 to victims who mounted a class action suit against it. So much for John Cooper's legal opinions!

Some Canadian patients receive compensation
    As appeals grew for patient compensation, our Canadian government appeared reluctant to open what had become a big can of worms.
    In 1994, most severally incapactitated victims were awarded $100,00 by our Canadian government, (a total of $7.7 million) but it denied 253 other patients from receiving any compensation. Strike two for Cooper!
    In 2004, a court overruled this previous ruling and awarded Gail Kastner $100,000. Claims for others are still before our courts. I think that would be Cooper's third strike.

Mulroney bunch cost taxpayers millions
    If you lump them all together as a team, they – Mulroney, Dr. Cameron and Dr. Pivnicki – account for a minimum of $10 million paid out by our Canadian government. Mulroney got $2.1 million over his alleged illegal involvment in the AirBus/Hans Schrieber affair. He appears to have expensive tastes and needs lots of money. Could he be trying to get some more from Canadian taxpayers?

Pivnicki helped build a church
     Dr. Pivnicki is fondly remembered at Westmount's Serbian Orthodox Church on Melville Avenue. He organized and helped finance its building.
    Perhaps his conscience for his part in these illegal, immoral and horrendous events got best of him and he turned to God. I don't think so. Dr. Pivnicki regularly attended mass while working at Allan Memorial.
    History has a list of thousands of ruthless despots who grandstanded their devotion in order to divert attention from their deeds. Mulroney, Pivnicki and Cameron qualify for that list. I think you can add a few US American presidents as well.
    I did not like living in a country with Brian Mulroney as Prime Minister. It was a daily reminder that I was surrounded by people who could be easily fooled – people who elected him. Reluctantly, I learned how to survive and thrive in spite of his antics. I didn't have as much trouble learning to live . . . without gods!  

                            Anton Kozlik
   

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My articles may contain words or phrases that may infer different meanings to different readers, or my reader may be unfamiliar with a term or its definition. I feel it is important to know what writers meant when they used a word or term.

cognitive dissonance —
Filtering out information that conflicts with what one already believes, in an effort to ignore that information and reinforce one’s beliefs.

Editors note: I will be repeating the “cognitive dissonance” definition for quite a while since it is practiced by so many — known by so few!