Operation Midnight Climax: CIA's Secret Brothels and LSD Experiments

This episode examines Operation Midnight Climax, a disturbing MKUltra program in which the CIA used safe houses, sex workers, and secretly dosed men with LSD to study mind control during the Cold War.

We trace the roles of figures like George Hunter White and the controversial death of Frank Olson, and explore the ethical abuses, cover-ups, and lasting human consequences of these covert experiments.