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Jan 26, 2023 · HowStuffWorks. Culture. History vs. Myth. Operation Midnight Climax: A CIA Sex, Drugs and Surveillance Program. By: Patrick J. Kiger | Jan 26, 2023. In a bizarre experiment, the CIA used prostitutes to lure unsuspecting men to apartments in New York and San Francisco to drug them with LSD in its effort to achieve mind control.
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In the early years of the Cold War, the US and the Soviet Union were poised for nuclear combat. "The United States became convinced that we were under imminent threat," says Stephen Kinzer, a former foreign correspondent atthe New York Times. "[The population] felt that the Soviet Union had the power, almost at a moment's notice, not only to destro...
Arguably the most coveted of the CIA's mind control projects were those investigating the possibilities of hypnosis, with documents showing that it occupied up to eight MK-Ultra sub-projects. At the time, pop culture led many to believe that hypnosis could be used to create a "Manchurian candidate." The 1962 film of the same name, starring Frank Si...
The aim of Professor Orne's experiments in Sydney was to see if it was possible to get hypnotised people to engage in "anti-social behaviour". If a subject could be made to perform tasks against their own wishes, the CIA could potentially use this power against opposition soldiers. Historical experiments had recorded hypnotised subjects doing almos...
Apr 12, 2024 · L. Ron Hubbard, Operation Midnight Climax, and stochastic terrorism—the race for mind control changed America forever. By. Annalee Newitz. April 12, 2024. Shirley Chong. On an early spring...
Lysergic acid diethylamide is a hallucinogenic drug commonly known as LSD. In the early 1950’s, the Central Intelligence Agency began Operation Midnight Climax (O'Carroll, S.). For nearly a decade, the CIA used women to seduce and drug men with the hallucinogen LSD.
Mar 27, 2012 · MK-Ultra, or Operation Midnight Climax, saw US government officials secretly test the effects of LSD on hundreds of oblivious American citizens and military personnel in New York and San...
Jul 13, 2023 · Caleb White Jul 13, 2023 10:30 AM EDT. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) raised eyebrows decades ago with its controversial "Operation Midnight Climax." The program was allegedly...
Nov 24, 2019 · A few years earlier, the evocatively titled Operation Midnight Climax had seen CIA operatives open at least three Bay Area safe houses disguised as upscale bordellos, kitted out with...
