A Polar survival expert fears he has been brainwashed by US spooks after stumbling on a top secret nuclear dump.
Jimmy "The Snowman" Campbell, accuses the CIA of wiping his memory after he wandered into the restricted area in Antarctica.
He claims the agency gave him brainwashing drugs which turned him into a shambling wreck plagued by mental health problems.
Now Jimmy's story is to be told in a TV documentary after his daughter Juliet Lamont vowed to reveal the truth more than 30 years on.
Jimmy, 64 - who comes from Croftfoot, Glasgow, but now lives in Australia - was nicknamed The Snowman because of his love of winter sports.
The engineer emigrated to New Zealand then Australia with his teacher wife Frances and their children Juliet and Sean.
Film-maker Juliet said: "Life was perfect. Dad was a brilliant skier and an avid mountain climber. He had a hunger for adventure.
"Our family moved between Scotland, Australia and New Zealand to follow the ski season.
"We'd buy an old camper van, stay in caravan parks and live out of backpacks, and dad would work the ski fields."
In 1978, Jimmy beat hundreds of other candidates to land a job with Operation Deep Freeze, training astronauts while his family stayed in
Australia.
Juliet said: "I'd think of my hero dad doing his important job there, braving the winds, the cold and the isolation.
"I would boast to my friends that he was an explorer on a dangerous expedition."
But when Jimmy returned home three months later he had changed. When his family asked what happened he refused to tell them, saying it was "too
dangerous".
Juliet, 37, said: "We went to meet him. He didn't look right. There was something different about his eyes and he was agitated. Paranoid. He kept
saying, 'No, I can't tell you what happened. You'll be in danger'."
But slowly his story unfolded. Juliet said: "Growing up, I was convinced he'd been messed with. He said he entered a restricted area and had come
across something he shouldn't have - an illegal nuclear dump.
"He was caught and claimed the CIA gave him a chemical lobotomy."
The family returned to Scotland but Jimmy's behaviour became worse. He said the phone was tapped and he was being followed by the CIA.
The intelligence agency categorically deny all Jimmy's claims but Juliet said: "He would spend hours in a dark room, mumbling and scrawling codes
over the wall.
"Mother tried to keep the family together, teaching in Nairn and Forres. But in 1982 she just could not take it any more.
"Dad travelled back to Australia and lived for a while in the bush. Then he moved around living in Salvation Army homes. He'd sleep rough and clean
ashtrays in pubs for beer. He said the whole story was in a safe deposit box and he'd given the key to a friend called Hamish." Juliet traced Hamish
in the Highlands but he knew nothing of the box.
Mum-of-two Juliet, who lives in Australia, admits her father may have suffered mental health problems but she is determined to get to the truth.
She has banged on doors at the CIA and NASA during her emotional two-year quest. She said: "My father operates on the outer edge of normality but he
is a man of great charm and functionality.
"He even joked that if the documentary is a success I can buy him a beer. I'll do that anyway."
'He said phone was tapped and he was being followed'
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