The San Francisco heat left the room stifling. I felt like a turkey on the afternoon of Thanksgiving, basting in my own juices as I sat on the rim of my porcelain toilet. And that's when she walked in. She was a dame. The kinda dame with legs that went all the way up, and then all the way back down. A dame. The kinda dame that you would like to take for a drink, and then - like the gentleman you are - treat her to a nice cocktail of gin and LSD. A dame. The kinda dame that you wanted to watch have sex with an accountant, or a pilot, or a US congressman. She was a dame, and as I sat there gulping my pitcher of martini like it would keep the devil at bay, I thought to myself "I can't wait to offer her a job.". Join Alisha and Will for the climax as they once again delve into the world of sex, drugs, and George Hunter White on this week's Enter the Rabbit Hole.
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)
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)
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)
In the 1970s, Congress investigated intelligence abuses. Time to do it again? (Timothy B. Lee, Washington Post, June 2013)
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)
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)
Albion Dreaming: A popular history of LSD in Britain. Andy Roberts. Published September 1st 2008. Marshall Cavendish Limited.
