[ot] an old story regarding child kissing

[Karl]

It's well known (and not that relevant) that during mkultra some
politicians were recorded having sexual encounters with manipulated
children.  _I haven't read of this for quite some time_.

>
I briefly googled it to try to ease my dissociative paranoia.  What I found
first instead was https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Midnight_Climax
.  This is a _different_ thing, _not about children_.

Here are some quotes.  I'm noting again that individuals involved in
mkultra have their names revealed, but corporate partners (which became a
visible thing in the recent foia -- their names were redacted) do not.

I connected to this article (and stopped reading it) when I encountered the
topic of post-coital questioning, which possibly some other people with
activism experience may also have some connection around.  Post-coital
questioning is not something that I expect to have ended, and that's quite
clear.

It's unfortunate that the article uses the phrase "prostitute" when the
people involved were co-opting safehouses and the project involved slavery
of civilians.  It seems there are still some issues to unpack.  I don't
know why we would believe prostitute are on the payroll when assassins are
being turned into drugged slaves with their aid.

*Operation Midnight Climax* was an operation carried out by the CIA
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency> as a
sub-project of Project MKUltra
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra>, the mind-control
research program that began in the 1950s. It was initially established in
1954 by Sidney Gottlieb <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Gottlieb> and
placed under the direction of the Federal Narcotics Bureau
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Narcotics_Bureau> in Boston
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston>, Massachusetts with the officer George
Hunter White
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George_Hunter_White&action=edit&redlink=1>
under
the pseudonym <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudonym> of Morgan Hall.[1]
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Midnight_Climax#cite_note-1>
Hundreds
of federal agents, field operatives, and scientists worked on these
programs before they were shut down in the 1960s.

The project that started in 1954 consisted of a web of CIA-run safehouses
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safehouse> in San Francisco
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco> and Mill Valley, California
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mill_Valley,_California>, and New York
City.[2]
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Midnight_Climax#cite_note-Kinzer-2>
It
was established in order to study the effects of LSD
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LSD> on unconsenting
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consent> individuals. Prostitutes
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitutes> on the CIA payroll were
instructed to lure clients back to the safehouses, where they were
surreptitiously plied with a wide range of substances, including LSD, and
monitored behind one-way glass
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-way_glass>. The prostitutes were
instructed in the use of post-coital questioning to investigate whether the
victims could be convinced to involuntarily reveal secrets. The victims
were sometimes fed subliminal messages in attempts to induce them to
involuntary actions, including criminal activity such as robbery, assault,
and assassination. Many of the CIA operatives involved in the experiments
voluntarily imbibed in the drugs and prostitutes for recreational purposes.
[2]
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Midnight_Climax#cite_note-Kinzer-2>

Every one of these acts was blatantly illegal and several significant
operational techniques were developed in this theater, including extensive
research into sexual blackmail <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackmail>,
surveillance technology and the possible use of mind-altering drugs in
field operations.[3]
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Midnight_Climax#cite_note-Kamiya-3>
The
Operation Midnight Climax program was soon expanded, and CIA operatives
began dosing people in restaurants, bars and beaches.[3]
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Midnight_Climax#cite_note-Kamiya-3>
The
extent to which this widespread exposure of the public to mind-altering
drugs contributed to the rise of the counter-culture movement in the late
1950s and 1960s is unknown, although Ken Kesey
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Kesey> has attributed his role in the
genesis of the influential San Francisco Bay Area psychedelic social scene
that developed in the 1960s to his participation in Project MKUltra
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra> LSD experiments at the
Menlo Park, California, VA Hospital. The safehouses were dramatically
scaled back in 1963, following a report by CIA Inspector General John
Earman which strongly recommended closing the facility. The San Francisco
safehouses were closed in 1965, and the New York City safehouse soon
followed in 1966.[*citation needed
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed>*]

In 1974, the journalist Seymour Hersh
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Hersh> exposed the CIA's illegal
spying on U.S. citizens and how the CIA had conducted non-consensual drug
experiments. His report started the lengthy process of bringing
long-suppressed details about MKUltra to light.[3]
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Midnight_Climax#cite_note-Kamiya-3>
Project
MKUltra came to light in the spring of 1977 during a wide-ranging survey of
the CIA's Technical Services Division. John K. Vance, a member of the CIA
inspector general's staff, discovered that the agency was running a
research project that included administering LSD and other drugs to
unwilling human subjects.[4]
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Midnight_Climax#cite_note-4>
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