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) 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)...
