30/06/2026
The operation was called Midnight Climax. It was a sub-project of MKUltra, run by CIA officer George White under the direction of Sidney Gottlieb.
The safe houses were furnished and maintained with federal funds. The s*x workers were paid government informants.
The men who were dosed were not told they had been given any substance. They were observed and their reactions were recorded by CIA personnel on the other side of one-way mirrors.
The project ran from approximately 1955 to 1965.
George White described the programme in a letter to Gottlieb after his retirement: he wrote that he had been a citizen soldier and that the work had been necessary. He was never charged.
The safe house logs were among the MKUltra documents ordered destroyed in 1973. Some survived. The programme was not publicly acknowledged until the 1977 Senate hearings.
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