The Fairshake Files continues through the declassified record on Project MK-ULTRA — the CIA’s covert Cold War program to research behavioral modification, interrogation, and chemical influence.
This chapter moves from theory into the street. In 1955, an operation known as Operation Midnight Climax ran out of a San Francisco safehouse: a staged apartment, hidden microphones, a two-way mirror, and unwitting “subjects” dosed with LSD while the government watched from behind the wall.
We follow the mechanics of the operation, the people who ran it, and the collateral damage that followed — including the Wayne Ritchie case. Then we trace how MK-ULTRA solved its two problems: deniable dosing in the outside world, and repeatable access inside a prison. This is intelligence history, documented record, and true crime with context and receipts.
IN THIS EPISODE:
- Operation Midnight Climax and the San Francisco safehouse model
- George Hunter White and the role of cut-outs in domestic CIA activity
- The two-way mirror, microphone holes, and the reel-to-reel record
- How the operation used coercion, leverage, and controlled access
- The Wayne Ritchie case and what “collateral” looked like in practice
- John Mulholland’s misdirection manual and the logic of deniable dosing
- The prison pathway: MK-ULTRA expansion into the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary
- Repeated LSD dosing and the “research” logic applied to captivity
- The Inspector General report, oversight failure, and what the receipts exposed
- The 1973 destruction order — and how the paper trail still leaked through
SOURCES & CITATIONS
- CIA FOIA Reading Room — MK-ULTRA documents
- U.S. Senate hearings and reporting on CIA behavioral modification research
- Inspector General reporting (oversight era context)
- Declassified archival material and supporting documentation tied to releases
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