In the late 1950s and early 1960s, a man who followed a prostitute into the apartment at 225 Chestnut Street in San Francisco's Telegraph Hill neighborhood received a longer, more intimate encounter than he had paid for. Instead of the cramped, charmless quarters he may have expected, he found himself in a carefully decorated bedroom, where colorful prints of French can-can dancers lined the walls, and the windows and lamps were thoughtfully draped with red muslin. Instead of a hurried liaison, he would enjoy candles, cocktails, and plenty of conversation.
The john had unwittingly become a subject in a CIA experiment focused on how drugs and sex might be used to obtain secrets from foreign adversaries. Part of MKUltra, the agency's broader and highly controversial mind-control research program, Operation Midnight Climax began in 1954. The experiments involved luring men into a heavily surveilled bordello, dosing them with LSD, and filming their reactions to probing questions and subliminal messaging. But it wasn't long before the research devolved into revelry. By the time the program was cancelled in 1963, the project had become headquarters for, what one writer called, "CIA carnal operations," where agents regularly took part in voyeurism, drugs, and sex.
While Operation Midnight Climax yielded little insight into mind control, it did provide plenty of grist for conspiracy theorist and antigovernment crusaders alike—as well as a new drug of choice for an emerging counterculture movement. |
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, a man who followed a prostitute into the apartment at 225 Chestnut Street in San Francisco's Telegraph Hill neighborhood received a longer, more intimate encounter than he had paid for. Instead of the cramped, charmless quarters he may have expected, he found himself in a carefully decorated bedroom, where colorful prints of French can-can dancers lined the walls, and the windows and lamps were thoughtfully draped with red muslin. Instead of a hurried liaison, he would enjoy candles, cocktails, and plenty of conversation.
The john had unwittingly become a subject in a CIA experiment focused on how drugs and sex might be used to obtain secrets from foreign adversaries. Part of MKUltra, the agency's broader and highly controversial mind-control research program, Operation Midnight Climax began in 1954. The experiments involved luring men into a heavily surveilled bordello, dosing them with LSD, and filming their reactions to probing questions and subliminal messaging. But it wasn't long before the research devolved into revelry. By the time the program was cancelled in 1963, the project had become headquarters for, what one writer called, "CIA carnal operations," where agents regularly took part in voyeurism, drugs, and sex.
While Operation Midnight Climax yielded little insight into mind control, it did provide plenty of grist for conspiracy theorist and antigovernment crusaders alike—as well as a new drug of choice for an emerging counterculture movement. |
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