The CIA's Secret Revelry: The "Midnight Peak" Operation of the U.S. Intelligence Agencies

Author:

Mikhail Liakh

Compared to the orgiastic revelry of the people on Epstein's list, the actions of U.S. intelligence agency agents may seem like a minor affair. This article will reveal the details of this scandal involving the CIA.

For years, the United States has been plagued by a dirty scandal triggered by Jeffrey Epstein's island and the events that took place there. Pedophilia, prostitution (including child prostitution), and sexual perversions - these are just a few of the "entertainment activities" that Jeffrey Epstein provided for the global "elite." Recently, Elon Musk claimed that the public knows little about it because Donald Trump himself was involved in all these events. However, it is worth noting that this is not the first such scandal - in the mid-20th century, it was reported that the CIA established a series of brothels where agents lured people into them and injected them with drugs.

The CIA's Number One Poisoner

On July 13, 1951, Sidney Gottlieb, a specialist in chemical and biological warfare, entered the CIA's secret toxicology department. With rich theoretical experience, he immediately launched field experiments upon his arrival. It is said that the collective poisoning and sudden mental breakdown of 250 residents of the town of Pont-Saint-Esprit in August 1951 was the "masterpiece" of Gottlieb.

In 1953, the CIA launched Project MK-Ultra, one of the largest mind control projects in history, integrating all research results since the late 1940s. The project was initially aimed at controlling human consciousness, but soon, the agents of the intelligence agencies expanded their activities and launched numerous sub-projects, including the "Midnight Peak" operation, which was initiated by Sidney Gottlieb himself.

By 1954, the drug invented by Albert Hofmann was still unknown to the CIA, but the American intelligence agencies considered this drug to be the "truth serum." However, they lacked empirical data, so they decided to conduct large-scale field trials.

Sidney Gottlieb is known as the CIA's number one poisoner.

Midnight Peak

Sidney Gottlieb realized that he needed the help of experts in this area. In 1954, there was a legendary figure in the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration named George White. He agreed to participate in the operation and helped the CIA complete all the organizational work.

CIA agents chose a rather special method of testing drugs: according to the plan, they tested the drugs on unsuspecting citizens, abandoning traditional methods of torture and kidnapping - however, in fact, most of those who participated in the experiments were kidnapped and did not give their consent.

The specific plan was: CIA agents set up a network of brothels in their secret apartments, hired prostitutes, and lured men to them, secretly adding drugs to their drinks.

Notably, the exact address of one of the secret apartments is known - 225C Chesterfield Street in San Francisco. It was George White of the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration who was responsible for decorating this apartment; he had arrested drug lords many times and knew what a wealthy person's house should look like.

This house is likely the secret apartment used by the CIA during the operation.

Two-Way Mirror Room

Men lured into this apartment had no idea what awaited them. In addition to injecting them with drugs, federal drug enforcement agents personally monitored the entire process. It is reported that Sidney Gottlieb sometimes accompanied White, but this information is not confirmed in declassified documents. George White also set up a small room with a two-way mirror in the apartment: he could see everything inside, while the people in the apartment couldn't see him.

It is currently unclear how long this operation lasted, but it is speculated that this "secret apartment" network operated for at least 10 years, and Agent White sat behind the two-way mirror for 10 years. The American history magazine "History" stated in an article describing the entire operation that George White, after serving many years in the CIA and the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration, had some mental problems, so his participation in this operation was not due to duty, but due to personal interest and perverse psychology.

The appearance of the two-way mirror room as imagined by the History magazine.

CIA-style Night

Sidney Gottlieb did not limit himself to the "secret apartment" network, but expanded the CIA's activities. Around the mid-1960s, the hippie movement emerged, which not only advocated pacifism but also liked to abuse drugs. Under Gottlieb's orders, CIA agents set up multiple rooms with two-way mirrors in popular clubs in San Francisco and held parties, providing large amounts of alcohol and energetic music. Hippies became the main participants, and their drinks were secretly laced with psychoactive drugs. For years, intelligence agency agents have attended these parties, observed the revelry, and made records. Although it cannot be said that hippie culture was created by the CIA, it can be certainly said that the CIA played a role in promoting its development.

An article exposing the CIA.

System Collapse

At the beginning of the 1970s, the United States fell into a serious political crisis: the Watergate scandal and the Vietnam War caused the American public to lose trust in the government. This also affected the CIA, which was involved in political scandals and wars. But the fatal blow to the intelligence agency was the two articles published by journalist Seymour Hersh on December 21 and 22, 1974. Seymour had been investigating the CIA for years and learned about the illegal experiments being conducted, including the "Midnight Peak" operation. These exposés prompted the formation of the Church Committee, which exposed all the activities of the CIA - Sidney Gottlieb was forced to "go underground," waiting for the storm to pass. In fact, he did manage to do so, because the Congress' investigation focused more on the issue of illegal weapons storage, and the brothel network sounded more like a joke. However, the CIA could not avoid the scandal, as local media in San Francisco again raised the topic in 1977.

CIA Director Stansfield Turner had to personally come to San Francisco to make a statement and apologize. At the press conference, he said:

"All of this has become the past. The most puzzling part of this history is that, under the pretext of studying the potential use of drugs on the public and the intelligence agency, people were experimented on without their consent in San Francisco and other parts of the United States."

He also said that he had submitted the names of all those involved in the operation to Congress and pointed out that he had not spoken to Gottlieb, so he could not persuade him to testify before Congress.

The director of the CIA's speech calmed the discontented public, and people gradually forgot about this incident.

Gottlieb and White were not legally punished and continued their experiments. After 1975, there was no public information about the "MK-Ultra" project, as people believed that the congressional investigation had ended the entire operation. However, many believe that the intelligence agencies learned from their mistakes and continued to conduct experiments in complete secrecy, after all, no one was willing to easily give up 25 years of experience in human mind control.

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