P: MKULTRA/LSD/Jolly West etc.

[Thomas Eckhardt]

'While that program [MKULTRA] is exhaustively detailed elsewhere, Kinzer 
does add some colorful vignettes to the story that seem like they jumped 
from the pages of a Thomas Pynchon novel rather than the historical record: 
secretly dosing colleagues at dinner parties, most famously Frank Olson, who 
of course “jumped or fell” from a 13-story Manhattan hotel room after having 
an acid-induced nervous breakdown and frantically seeking an exit from the 
intelligence field, paying crooked cops in cash to sit behind two-way 
mirrors in rented San Francisco brothels to watch prostitutes try to illicit 
sensitive information from acid-dosed patrons, injecting an elephant at an 
Oklahoma zoo with a lethal dose of LSD, releasing “benign” but actually 
toxic bacterial aerosols off the coast of California (Operation Seaspray) to 
test their dispersal pattern on an unaware American population getting their
Sunday morning newspapers. The list goes on and only gets more absurd as it 
does.'

https://kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/review-of-stephen-kinzer-poisoner-in-chief-sidney-gottlieb-and-the-cia-search-for-mind-control