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    Operation Midnight Climax

    The Operation (finally one with an interesting name) was part of a CIA mind-control research program that began in the 1950s. It consisted of safe houses in San Francisco and New York where non-consenting adults were given LSD and monitored behind one-way glass. The safe houses closed in 1965 and 1966 after a report by the CIA Inspector General recommended their closure.