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On an elegant dead-end block on the north side of Telegraph Hill is 225 Chestnut St., a swanky modernist building with panoramic bay views. It’s about the last place you would have expected to find a clandestine CIA program during the Cold War.
Yet from 1955 to 1965, this building was the site of “Operation Midnight Climax” — a top-secret mind-control program in which CIA agents used hookers to lure unsuspecting johns from North Beach bars to what they called “the pad,” then dosed the men with '___' and observed the X-rated goings-on through a two-way mirror while sitting on a portable toilet swilling martinis
The project consisted of a web of CIA-run safehouses in San Francisco, Marin, and New York City. It was established in order to study the effects of '___' on unconsenting individuals. Prostitutes on the CIA payroll were instructed to lure clients back to the safehouses, where they were surreptitiously plied with a wide range of substances, including '___', and monitored behind one-way glass. Every one of these acts was blatantly illegal, but several significant operational techniques were developed in this theater, including extensive research into sexual blackmail, surveillance technology, and the possible use of mind-altering drugs in field operations.
The Operation Midnight Climax soon expanded and CIA operatives began dosing people in restaurants, bars and beaches.
The safehouses were dramatically scaled back in 1963, following a report by CIA Inspector General John Earman that strongly recommended closing the facility. The San Francisco safehouses were closed in 1965, and the New York City safehouse soon followed in 1966.[citation needed]
In 1974, the journalist Seymour Hersh exposed the CIA’s illegal spying on U.S. citizens and how the CIA had conducted non-consensual drug experiments. His report started the lengthy process of bringing long-suppressed details about MK-Ultra to light.[2] Project MKULTRA came to light in the spring of 1977 during a wide-ranging survey of the CIA's technical services division. John K. Vance, a member of the CIA inspector general's staff, discovered that the agency was running a research project that included administering '___' and other drugs to unwilling human subjects.
The first field test in 1943 was administered to a New York mobster by George White, a tough-guy OSS captain who had been an agent in the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. The results were promising — White’s sidekick said “every (subject) but one — and he didn’t smoke — gave us more information than we had before” — but ultimately inconclusive.
"[White] was a real hard head," said Ritchie, who regularly ran into him in courtrooms and law enforcement offices in downtown San Francisco. "All of his agents were pretty much afraid to do anything without his full approval. White would turn on them, physically. He was a big tough guy."
American chemist Sidney Gottlieb was the brains behind White's brawn. It was the height of McCarthyism in the early '50s, and government intelligence leaders, claiming fear of communist regimes, were using hallucinogens to induce confessions from prisoners of war held in Korea, and brainwash spies into changing allegiances.
What better way to examine the effects of '___' than to dose unsuspecting citizens in New York City and San Francisco?
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By all accounts, White enjoyed the undercover work he was doing. Perhaps a little too much. He would write in a 1971 letter to Gottlieb,
"Of course I was a very minor missionary, actually a heretic, but I toiled wholeheartedly in the vineyards because it was fun, fun, fun. Where else could a red-blooded American boy lie, kill and cheat, steal, deceive, rape and pillage with the sanction and blessing of the All-Highest? Pretty Good Stuff, Brudder!"
edit on 12-8-2018 by The GUT because: (no reason given)
Logically speaking, this was a no-loss win for the C EYE A. Tons of research, R&D, methods developed, intel gleaned and policy formed with nearly no blowback.
And why would they have stopped there?
originally posted by: The GUT
a reply to: dashen
It's what happened to us. What ruined us. The National Security Act of 1947 and the creation of the CIA. Evil. Effing. Bastards
originally posted by: burntheships
A good resource on this topic is a book by John DeCamp, a
former Nebraska State Senator. He wrote his groundbreaking book
about the sordid history of the case called The Franklin Cover-Up:
Child Abuse, Satanism and Murder in Nebraska. Senator DeCamp
was the attorney who defended Paul Bonacci, who was awarded
1Million in damages in the year 1999 as a victim of MKULTRA.
www.ketv.com...
In 1992, DeCamp wrote a book about the Omaha's Franklin Credit Union scandal titled "The Franklin Cover-up: Child Abuse, Satanism, and Murder in Nebraska." The allegations leveled by DeCamp led to a grand jury investigation in Douglas County.
The grand jury found the allegations to be a "carefully crafted hoax". Later, DeCamp wrote a memo with a list of names he alleged were linked to a Franklin Credit sex scandal. A grand jury found those allegations were based on "personal political gain and possible revenge for past actions alleged against (DeCamp)."
The CIA ruined many countries actually, a lot of them still dealing with the consequences to this day. I sometimes wonder how South America would be doing now if the CIA hadn't "intervened" there on countless occasions? And Iran, Iraq, South East Asia etc etc, even long time staunch ally Australia(strongly rumoured to be behind the ousting of gough whitlam , Aussie Prime Minister sacked under mysterious circumstances. Also the Nugan Hand bank, apparently used to launder CIA drug money and other dirty deeds).
originally posted by: The GUT
a reply to: dashen
It's what happened to us. What ruined us. The National Security Act of 1947 and the creation of the CIA. Evil. Effing. Bastards