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My Cold War
The chilling story of a childhood interrupted by secret Cold War experiments. Based on true events, MY COLD WAR is a fictional recreation of a period when governments sacrificed their own citizens to "national security."
392 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2006
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May 1, 2022
There should be hundreds more books like this one, at least in the attempt to wake the sleeping masses. I know that is farfetched, but mind control, in all its forms, is drastically underestimated in terms of how the entire human family is subjugated. The extreme examples, as set forth in this book, are actually a great sign post for the greater reality of the human condition. She is among the fortunate few who not only somehow survived these Dullesonian psychopaths, but lived to write about it; like Elisa E., Jian Liang, Brice Tayler (aka Sue Ford)m, Cisco Wheeler and others.
March 3, 2021
I dropped a star for the small number of errors in the text.
A remarkable woman. It is not just a survivor story. She is triumphant. I read it without putting it down.
A remarkable woman. It is not just a survivor story. She is triumphant. I read it without putting it down.
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January 2, 2019Moriah reviewed My Cold War
 My Cold War is a riveting read. August 20, 2017
My Cold War is a riveting read. NAZI experiments were performed on children, to gather information on mind, brain and body control. Ann was included in these experiments, some of which lead to termination (children who did not survive the experiments). Eugenics “selective breeding and culling of the human race to favor the insiders and club members over the common herd (Diamond)” was their foundation. Ann asks, “What were they really trying to do?... Was the plan to create a future race of slaves? Is that why they performed lobotomies and drugged the children into a vegetable state? Were they trying to see how far they could go in destroying a soul in order to create a human robot, a functioning zombie who could be used as a disposable, unpaid labor force? Were they prepared to go that far?”
The answer is YES and they are achieving their goal.
The entire planet is at stake. Humanity is at risk. Diamond says knowledge has power to free us; secrecy has power to enslave us. Thank you Ann, for bringing this desperately needed knowledge to light. Moriah Morningstar, author of A New Vision.
Amazon Customer reviewed My Cold War
 An Important Memoir July 3, 2017
Not many people know anything but the vaguest details about the MK Ultra experiments, and that orphans were locked up their entire childhoods, experimented on in unimaginable ways. Even stranger is that members of the army were blackmailed or intimidated into selling their children to the doctors at the same Montreal hospital for these experiments.
Jennifer A. Hoffman reviewed My Cold War
 Sobering tale that answered questions about my life and filled gaps in my childhood memories August 21, 2015
I was led to this book via series of websites and I bought it after reading the first chapter-- Ann Diamond could have been writing about my father, my childhood, and my life. My father was also in intelligence in the 1960s and I spent a lot of time in military hospitals from 1963 to 1970, as I had Guillain Barre Syndrome paralysis. What has led me to believe that I have had the same type of MKUltra testing is that in spite of having a photographic memory and nearly total recall of my childhood, from the age of 2 years, there are gaps in my memory and things I cannot remember yet I have always had strange fears and vague memories of events that I could not explain. And like Ms. Diamond, I don't remember being part of family events during that 7 year period. Although my mother took a lot of photos, I am missing from many of them. Where was I? I am starting to put pieces together now and seeing glimpses of myself in a hospital bed, at night, with people around me --I couldn't move because I was paralyzed, and being in cold water (maybe that's why I have always hated being cold), and other strange memories of people, situations, and expriences, that have started cropping up in the past few years.
I was a perfect test candidate, highly intuitive, intelligent, curious, and from a 'perfect bloodline' on both sides of my parentage. For decades, I had suspicions that something had happened to me during my childhood, but I could not remember any details. I don't think my parents really knew what was going on but my father could have been blackmailed too and was probably an operative, as he was an orphan and lived in a Catholic orphanage for 4 years as a young child. As I read "My Cold War", the pieces started coming together more clearly and I now understand more of what happened to me. What I will do with that information remains to be seen. As the saying goes, 'you can't unring the bell', knowing isn't going to change anything but it does help me to understand more of myself, and that's a blessing. I believe there is a special torment for the people who did this to so many thousands of innocent men, women, and children. The sheer depravity of these experiments makes me sick and I hope that the courage of people like Ann Diamond, who come forward with their stories, will help bring understanding and peace to those, like me, who were part of these experiments, to bring these criminals to justice, and to stop these experiments, and all actions like them, forever
Your Sister reviewed My Cold War
 Drawing the line in the sand. February 14, 2014
You owe it to yourself and to humanity to read and thoroughly understand this important, courageous autobiography... and to comprehend the far reaching implications of the truths unflinchingly exposed by our good friend, Ann Diamond.
E. Atkin reviewed My Cold War
 Most Enlightening Book January 23, 2014
My mother was also a patient at the same hospital in Montreal under the MK ULTRA program. Thank you Ann Diamond for writing this book. It needed to be written. I hope that I can do as much research into my mother's case and unearth as much as you did in your book concerning how this tragedy of monumental scale can still be so hidden. We need to get this message out. I see Ann`s prescient book as the crack in the dam that will open the floodgates to releasing these records and offering restitution so families and individuals can heal. A world shattering book full of remarkable insights; A game changer.
Reading in Montreal reviewed My Cold War
 A chilling eye opener January 22, 2014
This account of growing up during a particularly alarming and secretive part of Montréal's history is extremely unnerving. The author's reflections of such a disturbing period are intense and thought provoking.
Kitty Hundal reviewed My Cold War
 Intriguing January 22, 2014
An intriguing look behind the historical curtain of Canada's inexplicable foray into the evils of mind control, psychological abuse and torture of children and adults. Emotionally difficult to read but the resulting insight is well worth the effort.
 My Cold War August 26, 2013
Very informative and eye opening book. The narrative is easy to follow although the events and inhumanity are challenging. This message needs to be delivered. Thank you
 My Cold War is a riveting read. August 20, 2017
My Cold War is a riveting read. NAZI experiments were performed on children, to gather information on mind, brain and body control. Ann was included in these experiments, some of which lead to termination (children who did not survive the experiments). Eugenics “selective breeding and culling of the human race to favor the insiders and club members over the common herd (Diamond)” was their foundation. Ann asks, “What were they really trying to do?... Was the plan to create a future race of slaves? Is that why they performed lobotomies and drugged the children into a vegetable state? Were they trying to see how far they could go in destroying a soul in order to create a human robot, a functioning zombie who could be used as a disposable, unpaid labor force? Were they prepared to go that far?”
The answer is YES and they are achieving their goal.
The entire planet is at stake. Humanity is at risk. Diamond says knowledge has power to free us; secrecy has power to enslave us. Thank you Ann, for bringing this desperately needed knowledge to light. Moriah Morningstar, author of A New Vision.
Amazon Customer reviewed My Cold War
 An Important Memoir July 3, 2017
Not many people know anything but the vaguest details about the MK Ultra experiments, and that orphans were locked up their entire childhoods, experimented on in unimaginable ways. Even stranger is that members of the army were blackmailed or intimidated into selling their children to the doctors at the same Montreal hospital for these experiments.
Jennifer A. Hoffman reviewed My Cold War
 Sobering tale that answered questions about my life and filled gaps in my childhood memories August 21, 2015
I was led to this book via series of websites and I bought it after reading the first chapter-- Ann Diamond could have been writing about my father, my childhood, and my life. My father was also in intelligence in the 1960s and I spent a lot of time in military hospitals from 1963 to 1970, as I had Guillain Barre Syndrome paralysis. What has led me to believe that I have had the same type of MKUltra testing is that in spite of having a photographic memory and nearly total recall of my childhood, from the age of 2 years, there are gaps in my memory and things I cannot remember yet I have always had strange fears and vague memories of events that I could not explain. And like Ms. Diamond, I don't remember being part of family events during that 7 year period. Although my mother took a lot of photos, I am missing from many of them. Where was I? I am starting to put pieces together now and seeing glimpses of myself in a hospital bed, at night, with people around me --I couldn't move because I was paralyzed, and being in cold water (maybe that's why I have always hated being cold), and other strange memories of people, situations, and expriences, that have started cropping up in the past few years.
I was a perfect test candidate, highly intuitive, intelligent, curious, and from a 'perfect bloodline' on both sides of my parentage. For decades, I had suspicions that something had happened to me during my childhood, but I could not remember any details. I don't think my parents really knew what was going on but my father could have been blackmailed too and was probably an operative, as he was an orphan and lived in a Catholic orphanage for 4 years as a young child. As I read "My Cold War", the pieces started coming together more clearly and I now understand more of what happened to me. What I will do with that information remains to be seen. As the saying goes, 'you can't unring the bell', knowing isn't going to change anything but it does help me to understand more of myself, and that's a blessing. I believe there is a special torment for the people who did this to so many thousands of innocent men, women, and children. The sheer depravity of these experiments makes me sick and I hope that the courage of people like Ann Diamond, who come forward with their stories, will help bring understanding and peace to those, like me, who were part of these experiments, to bring these criminals to justice, and to stop these experiments, and all actions like them, forever
Your Sister reviewed My Cold War
 Drawing the line in the sand. February 14, 2014
You owe it to yourself and to humanity to read and thoroughly understand this important, courageous autobiography... and to comprehend the far reaching implications of the truths unflinchingly exposed by our good friend, Ann Diamond.
E. Atkin reviewed My Cold War
 Most Enlightening Book January 23, 2014
My mother was also a patient at the same hospital in Montreal under the MK ULTRA program. Thank you Ann Diamond for writing this book. It needed to be written. I hope that I can do as much research into my mother's case and unearth as much as you did in your book concerning how this tragedy of monumental scale can still be so hidden. We need to get this message out. I see Ann`s prescient book as the crack in the dam that will open the floodgates to releasing these records and offering restitution so families and individuals can heal. A world shattering book full of remarkable insights; A game changer.
Reading in Montreal reviewed My Cold War
 A chilling eye opener January 22, 2014
This account of growing up during a particularly alarming and secretive part of Montréal's history is extremely unnerving. The author's reflections of such a disturbing period are intense and thought provoking.
Kitty Hundal reviewed My Cold War
 Intriguing January 22, 2014
An intriguing look behind the historical curtain of Canada's inexplicable foray into the evils of mind control, psychological abuse and torture of children and adults. Emotionally difficult to read but the resulting insight is well worth the effort.
 My Cold War August 26, 2013
Very informative and eye opening book. The narrative is easy to follow although the events and inhumanity are challenging. This message needs to be delivered. Thank you
June 11, 2016
Christina Manolescu:
(Author of BAGLADY)
MY COLD WAR is extremely fluid and well written, honest, engaging and fascinating, not only because of its hair-raising subject matter but also the colourful and intimate descriptions of family life and the rich historic sweep of the narrative built up gradually in tiny brush-strokes on a wide canvas.
These descriptions and honest personal introspection from the vantage point of adulthood (interpreting the recollections of childhood-adolescence) give the other darker story its proper depth and context. They serve to heighten suspense and the poignancy of what is to come. The text reads beautifully (masterful, poetic and also humorous from time to time), with logical, detailed and carefully worded facts, insights and impressions that 'ring true' as the story gradually unfolds
MCW was a compelling read from start to finish...The finale was particularly strong, lyrical and emotional, finishing on a haunting note. Quite an achievement. Bravo!
David Himmelstein (journalist, for New York Post etc.):
I finally got around to reading “My Cold War” and it has shaken me upward. You have really locked the macrocosm into the microcosm. The first thing that touched me early on was the tonal aspect your empathetic search for extenuating circumstances to explain parental betrayal. I think the ambivalence continues through the book and because of your openness it can come off as a loving both/and rather than either/or. I appreciate your openness and tentativeness about the writing of the book itself. The only thing I disagree with is your categorical dismissal of psychiatry, but if I’d been through what you have………..
The content speaks for itself. Manipulation is ubiquitous and the home is the front line of resistance or submission. You name the names (I assume legal considerations dictated the brainerdization of McGill) and chart the hard-wiring. I also admire your courage in putting forward a mention of the extra-terrestrial presence, even though you know that will be an instant credibility-breaker for many. But that element is going to find its place in the hurley-burley of the next few years.
I’m going to try and find time to write something about “My Cold War”. In the meantime, I can only express my humble awe at your courage and tenacity.
Good luck and God bless.
Dave
Dec. 29/10
Dear Ann,
I finished reading your book, My Cold War this morning.
I was (still am) deeply moved by its content and I love your writing style.
It’s like water flowing in the desert, dissipating the drought and bringing hope by disclosure....
THANKS for that book....all your writings are fascinating and really helpful to me as a Canadian freedom fighter.
Judy G. Janzen, Three Dead Words
If you read Ann’s My Cold War, it all comes together.
She is so credible, so kind and so balanced at every level of her being.
Judy Janzen
From Kelley:
Thanks so much for sharing your story and monumental talent in My Cold War… I have a million questions and comments about your book but for now let it suffice to share a couple of observations: your courageous efforts to get documents and ask questions of officialdom are super inspirational – your tenacity and hunger for the truth is evident throughout the book. I imagine that your insights have multiplied exponentially since then – would love to hear/read your afterword.
It’s excruciating to read about your sense of isolation and loneliness as a child. It’s such a universal theme among survivors of families touched by Masonic and government cognitive rape. Isolation on so many levels – personal and social. But in sharing your own history of isolation you’ve helped create a bridge for the rest of us – bridges of recognition, validation, empathy and identification. Such is the rich gift of art and of biographical disclosure.
(Author of BAGLADY)
MY COLD WAR is extremely fluid and well written, honest, engaging and fascinating, not only because of its hair-raising subject matter but also the colourful and intimate descriptions of family life and the rich historic sweep of the narrative built up gradually in tiny brush-strokes on a wide canvas.
These descriptions and honest personal introspection from the vantage point of adulthood (interpreting the recollections of childhood-adolescence) give the other darker story its proper depth and context. They serve to heighten suspense and the poignancy of what is to come. The text reads beautifully (masterful, poetic and also humorous from time to time), with logical, detailed and carefully worded facts, insights and impressions that 'ring true' as the story gradually unfolds
MCW was a compelling read from start to finish...The finale was particularly strong, lyrical and emotional, finishing on a haunting note. Quite an achievement. Bravo!
David Himmelstein (journalist, for New York Post etc.):
I finally got around to reading “My Cold War” and it has shaken me upward. You have really locked the macrocosm into the microcosm. The first thing that touched me early on was the tonal aspect your empathetic search for extenuating circumstances to explain parental betrayal. I think the ambivalence continues through the book and because of your openness it can come off as a loving both/and rather than either/or. I appreciate your openness and tentativeness about the writing of the book itself. The only thing I disagree with is your categorical dismissal of psychiatry, but if I’d been through what you have………..
The content speaks for itself. Manipulation is ubiquitous and the home is the front line of resistance or submission. You name the names (I assume legal considerations dictated the brainerdization of McGill) and chart the hard-wiring. I also admire your courage in putting forward a mention of the extra-terrestrial presence, even though you know that will be an instant credibility-breaker for many. But that element is going to find its place in the hurley-burley of the next few years.
I’m going to try and find time to write something about “My Cold War”. In the meantime, I can only express my humble awe at your courage and tenacity.
Good luck and God bless.
Dave
Dec. 29/10
Dear Ann,
I finished reading your book, My Cold War this morning.
I was (still am) deeply moved by its content and I love your writing style.
It’s like water flowing in the desert, dissipating the drought and bringing hope by disclosure....
THANKS for that book....all your writings are fascinating and really helpful to me as a Canadian freedom fighter.
Judy G. Janzen, Three Dead Words
If you read Ann’s My Cold War, it all comes together.
She is so credible, so kind and so balanced at every level of her being.
Judy Janzen
From Kelley:
Thanks so much for sharing your story and monumental talent in My Cold War… I have a million questions and comments about your book but for now let it suffice to share a couple of observations: your courageous efforts to get documents and ask questions of officialdom are super inspirational – your tenacity and hunger for the truth is evident throughout the book. I imagine that your insights have multiplied exponentially since then – would love to hear/read your afterword.
It’s excruciating to read about your sense of isolation and loneliness as a child. It’s such a universal theme among survivors of families touched by Masonic and government cognitive rape. Isolation on so many levels – personal and social. But in sharing your own history of isolation you’ve helped create a bridge for the rest of us – bridges of recognition, validation, empathy and identification. Such is the rich gift of art and of biographical disclosure.
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