Operation Midnight Climax: The CIA’s Secret LSD Experiments Explained

Описание: What was Operation Midnight Climax?

In the 1950s and 1960s, the CIA ran a covert program inside apartments in New York and San Francisco where unsuspecting citizens were secretly dosed with LSD and observed behind two-way mirrors.

Operation Midnight Climax was part of the larger MKUltra program — a Cold War experiment overseen by CIA chemist Sidney Gottlieb under the authority of the Central Intelligence Agency. Its field operations were orchestrated by George Hunter White, a former OSS officer who transformed safehouses into psychological testing grounds.

Sex workers were paid to lure clients. Drinks were secretly spiked with LSD. Hidden microphones recorded confusion, panic, and vulnerability. The goal? To understand whether psychedelic drugs could be used for interrogation, manipulation, or mind control during the Cold War.

The project operated under the broader umbrella of MKUltra — one of the most controversial intelligence programs in American history.

By the 1970s, Senate investigations led by the Church Committee exposed shocking details: unwitting citizens drugged without consent, destroyed records, and a culture of secrecy that shielded ethical violations.

Operation Midnight Climax wasn’t cinematic mind control. It was something more unsettling — institutional recklessness hidden behind national security.

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