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Operation Midnight Climax. The CIA’s initial experiments with LSD were fairly simple, if shockingly unethical. The agency generally dosed single targets, finding volunteers when they could...
Jan 26, 2023 · From the mid-1950s to the early 1960s, men in San Francisco who patronized prostitutes ran the risk of becoming unwitting participants in a clandestine CIA experiment. It was designed to test whether the combination of sex and the hallucinogenic drug LSD might influence the men to reveal information that the government wanted.
Later, White was moved to San Francisco, where he set up one of the craziest MKUltra projects that was known inside the agency as Operation Midnight Climax. This was an operation in which...
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...
- The Cold War and Project Mk-Ultra
- LSD and Sidney Gottlieb
- Operation Midnight Climax
- The Death of Frank Olson
- Ken Kesey and Other Mk-Ultra Participants
- Church Committee
In the 1950s and 1960s—the height of the Cold War—the United States government feared that Soviet, Chinese and North Korean agents were using mind control to brainwash U.S. prisoners of war in Korea. In response, Allan Dulles, director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), approved Project MK-Ultra in 1953. The covert operation aimed to develop...
The CIA began to experiment with LSD(lysergic acid diethylamide) under the direction of agency chemist and poison expert Sidney Gottlieb. He believed the agency could harness the drug’s mind-altering properties for brainwashing or psychological torture. Under the auspices of Project MK-Ultra, the CIA began to fund studies at Columbia University, St...
Operation Midnight Climax was an MK-Ultra project in which government-employed prostitutes lured unsuspecting men to CIA “safe houses” where drug experiments took place. The CIA dosed the men with LSD and then—while at times drinking cocktails behind a two-way mirror—watched the drug’s effects on the men’s behavior. Recording devices were installed...
Frank Olson was a scientist who worked for the CIA. At a 1953 CIA retreat, Olson drank a cocktail that had been secretly spiked with LSD. A few days later, on November 28, 1953, Olson tumbled to his death from the window of a New York City hotel room in an alleged suicide. The family of Frank Olson decided to have a second autopsy performed in 1994...
Ken Kesey, author of the 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, volunteered for MK-Ultra experiments with LSD while he was a college student at Stanford University. Kesey later went on to promote the drug, hosting LSD-fueled parties that he called “Acid Tests.” Acid Tests combined drug use with musical performances by bands including the Grate...
In 1974, New York Times journalist Seymour Hersh published a story about how the CIA had conducted non-consensual drug experiments and illegal spying operations on U.S. citizens. His report started the lengthy process of bringing long-suppressed details about MK-Ultra to light. The following year, President Ford—in the wake of the Watergate scandal...
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Aug 5, 2021 · For instance, in an operation known as 'Midnight Climax', the CIA employed sex workers in San Francisco, Mill Valley and New York. They were instructed to bring their clients to a safe house and dose them with LSD, so researchers could assess the impact of the drug and gauge its suitability for use in military settings.
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...
