CIA LSD spray tests reveal MK Ultra Urban plot details
A CIA agent testified that in 1959 he and another operative traveled to San Francisco to lure people to a party where LSD 25 would be sprayed as part of MK Ultra drug testing. The plan failed due to weather and equipment issues. The agent admitted taking LSD himself eight to ten times. He also described attending a Daughters of Bilitis meeting and testing behavior prediction methods. Another witness described assembling the aerosol device used in the tests.
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John Gittinger
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CIA tests used LSD aerosols and stink bombs in overseas plots
The CIA explored devices to spread LSD and stink fumes at demonstrations abroad, testing a crush ampule powder and a water dissolving coating among others. Witnesses described safe houses in California and New York where experiments occurred from 1953 to 1966, with figures like Rhodes Pasternak and Gittinger linked to aerosol tests and funding through CSA channels.
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