One federal drug agent who worked as a "Consultant" for the CIA for a project dubbed "Operation Midnight Climax" hired prostitutes to slip the drug to unsuspecting clients, then watched through two-way mirrors as the clients tripped out.
The CIA ultimately concluded that the drug was too unpredictable for reliable research, but that was too late for Frank Olson.
During a 1953 meeting at a mountain retreat with MK-ULTRA head Dr. Sidney Gottlieb and other CIA employees, Olson and four other scientists drank a glass of Cointreau that had been secretly spiked with LSD.They were told about the drug about 20 minutes after ingesting it.
A CIA employee who had accompanied him to New York reported that he awoke at 1:30 a.m. to see Olson hurl himself through the closed window.
In the absence of other evidence, Olson's family reluctantly accepted the CIA's puzzling explanation that the scientist had been suddenly seized by a fatal depression.
The CIA continued to insist that Olson had committed suicide, but at President Gerald Ford's urging, the family was paid $750,000.
Olson wasn't the only casualty of the CIA's drug tests.
https://www.wired.com/2010/04/0413mk-ultra-authorized/
The CIA ultimately concluded that the drug was too unpredictable for reliable research, but that was too late for Frank Olson.
During a 1953 meeting at a mountain retreat with MK-ULTRA head Dr. Sidney Gottlieb and other CIA employees, Olson and four other scientists drank a glass of Cointreau that had been secretly spiked with LSD.They were told about the drug about 20 minutes after ingesting it.
A CIA employee who had accompanied him to New York reported that he awoke at 1:30 a.m. to see Olson hurl himself through the closed window.
In the absence of other evidence, Olson's family reluctantly accepted the CIA's puzzling explanation that the scientist had been suddenly seized by a fatal depression.
The CIA continued to insist that Olson had committed suicide, but at President Gerald Ford's urging, the family was paid $750,000.
Olson wasn't the only casualty of the CIA's drug tests.
https://www.wired.com/2010/04/0413mk-ultra-authorized/
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