O is for Operation Midnight Climax Part II - A Bag o‘ Bastards

OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE! We are a clandestine organization working to keep the USA free from the Red Menace by ANY MEANS NECESSARY. We are currently hosting opportunities for a self-motivated sociopath. You must be a self-starter with a high level of initiative and moral flexibility. You must have experience in espionage, murder, and basic admin. Prior experience in drugging informants and friends not required, but will be CONSIDERED FAVORABLY! Must have own vehicle. Safehouse with recording equipment and FULLY STOCKED BAR will be provided. To apply, just be a shady piece of shit and WE'LL BE IN TOUCH. Only FULL ON CREEPS need apply. 

This week Alisha and Will return to serve up the second part of Operation Midnight Climax.

 

Sources:

Articles:

Guide to the George White Papers, 1932-1970 M1111

https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf6k40059b/

Operation Midnight Climax, The CIA’s mind-control drug program (Jordan Fearn, History of Yesterday, Aug 2021)

https://historyofyesterday.com/operation-midnight-climax-36d42a4b39cf

The Secret History of Fort Detrick, the CIA’s Base for Mind Control Experiments (Stephen Kinzer, Politico, Sep 2019)

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/09/15/cia-fort-detrick-stephen-kinzer-228109/

The CIA's Secret Quest For Mind Control: Torture, LSD And A 'Poisoner In Chief' (Terry Gross, Fresh Air, NPR Sep 2019)

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/09/758989641/the-cias-secret-quest-for-mind-control-torture-lsd-and-a-poisoner-in-chief

Brainwashed : The Secret CIA Experiments in Canada (The Fifth Estate, Dec 2017)

https://www.cbc.ca/fifth/episodes/2017-2018/brainwashed-the-secret-cia-experiments-in-canada

Project MKUltra: When the CIA Tested LSD on Unsuspecting Americans (Josh Clark, How Stuff Works, Jun 2019)

https://history.howstuffworks.com/history-vs-myth/cia-lsd.htm

Operation Husky: How Mobster Lucky Luciano Aided The U.S. In WWII (John Kuroski, allthat’sinteresting.com, Dec 2017)

https://allthatsinteresting.com/operation-husky-lucky-luciano

1953–1964: Operation Midnight Climax — CIA’s lurid ventures into sex, hookers and LSD (Alliance for Human Research Protection, Jan 2015)

https://ahrp.org/1953-1964-operation-midnight-climax-cias-lurid-ventures-into-sex-hookers-and-lsd/

'Apparently Useless': The Accidental Discovery of LSD (Tom Shroder, The Atlantic, Sep 2014)

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/09/the-accidental-discovery-of-lsd/379564/

Operation Midnight Climax: How the CIA Dosed S.F. Citizens with LSD (Troy Hooper, SF Weekly, Mar 2012)

https://www.sfweekly.com/news/operation-midnight-climax-how-the-cia-dosed-s-f-citizens-with-lsd/

Albert Hofmann, Inventor of LSD, Embarks on Final Trip (David Biello, Scientific American, April 2008)

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/inventor-of-lsd-embarks-on-final-trip/

Sex, Drugs and the CIA (Douglas Valentine, Counterpunch, June 2002)

https://www.counterpunch.org/2002/06/19/sex-drugs-and-the-cia-2/

https://www.counterpunch.org/2002/06/19/sex-drugs-and-the-cia-3/

https://www.counterpunch.org/2002/06/19/sex-drugs-and-the-cia/

The Diaries Of a CIA Operative (John Jacobs and Paul Avery, The Washington Post, Sep 1977)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1977/09/05/the-diaries-of-a-cia-operative/65b08a3e-c95a-434e-b1c6-c05f726a3a6f/

Secret Agents, Secret Armies: The Short Happy Life of the OSS (National World War II Museum, May 2020)

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/wwii-secret-agents-the-oss

OSS: The Predecessor of the CIA (Sarah Pruitt, History.com, Aug 2018)

https://www.history.com/news/oss-the-predecessor-of-the-cia

The True Story of Brainwashing and How It Shaped America(Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian Magazine, May 2017)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/true-story-brainwashing-and-how-it-shaped-america-180963400/

Brainwashed (Monica Kim, Foreign Policy, Feb 2019)

https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/02/18/brainwashed-north-korea-prisoners-of-war-monica-kim/

From mind control to murder? How a deadly fall revealed the CIA’s darkest secrets (Stephen Kinzer, The Guardian, Sep 2019)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/06/from-mind-control-to-murder-how-a-deadly-fall-revealed-the-cias-darkest-secrets

In the 1970s, Congress investigated intelligence abuses. Time to do it again? (Timothy B. Lee, Washington Post, June 2013)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/06/27/in-the-1970s-congress-investigated-intelligence-abuses-time-to-do-it-again/

Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities

https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/investigations/church-committee.htm

The Search for the Manchurian Candidate (John Marks, 1991)

https://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/lsd/marks6.htm

When the CIA ran a LSD sex-house in San Francisco (Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle

April 2016)

https://www.wanttoknow.info/mk/cia-lsd-sex-climax

Videos:

MK Ultra: The CIA's Mind Control Fiasco | Answers With Joe (Joe Scott, Dec 2019)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejaGzxEevGI&ab_channel=JoeScott

Stephen Kinzer ─ Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control (Stephen Kinzer, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Oct 2019)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX4ksoSCoeE&ab_channel=WatsonInstituteforInternationalandPublicAffairs

Compensation for CIA-funded brainwashing experiments paid out to victim's daughter 60 years later (The National, Oct 2017)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sov_sbVCpr0&ab_channel=CBCNews%3ATheNational

CIA Mind Control | CIA Secret Experiments (National Geographic, uploaded Mar 2008)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUW-frxo2X4&ab_channel=WIRED

Audio:

Operation Midnight Climax (iHeartRadio, Mar 2021)

https://open.spotify.com/show/0lPmZAi7ymc7jLFbfDBWwS?si=cud6eKgjRKybOxLTWeJBHg&dl_branch=1

443 - George Hunter White (The Dollop, Aug 2020)

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3CnrVFagijPtZT83mRPDdc?si=brG2fNnOQQOWh05uJv_ULg&dl_branch=1

 

Books:

The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Decption (H.Keith Melton, Robert Wallce, Haper Collins Press, 2009)

https://ia600506.us.archive.org/2/items/cia-manual-trickery-deception-2009/cia-manual-trickery-deception-2009.pdf

Albion Dreaming: A popular history of LSD in Britain. Andy Roberts. Published September 1st 2008. Marshall Cavendish Limited.