MKULTRA and "Operation Climax"

An interesting article appeared yesterday in The San Francisco Sentinel about "Operation Climax", a brothel run by MKULTRA for ten years in San Francisco. Most people associate MKULTRA with drug experimentation, but that was mostly the cover story. The real story is about sex, mind control and blackmail. The article reveals that, unknown to Congress, 6% of the CIA's massive budget in the sixties went towards MKULTRA's many projects. The widow of the man who ran the San Fran brothel, George Hunter White, gifted his diaries to Foothills Junior College.

Quoted from the article (emphasis mine):

Richard Stratton interviewed George White’s last living Operation Midnight Climax associate for Spin Magazine in 1994. According White lieutenant Ira “Ike” Feldman:

“White was a son of a bitch, but he was a great cop. He made that fruitcake Hoover look like Nancy Drew. The LSD, that was just the tip of the iceberg. Write this down. Espionage. Assassinations. Dirty tricks. Drug experiments. Sexual encounters and the study of prostitutes for clandestine use. That’s what I was doing when I worked for George White and the CIA.”

And also:

Upon retirement George Hunter White wrote to Harry Anslinger, his old boss at the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, reflecting on White’s many years of service:

“I was a very minor missionary, actually a heretic, but I toiled wholeheartedly in the vineyards because it was fun, fun, fun. Where else could a red-blooded American boy lie, kill, cheat, steal, rape, and pillage with the sanction and blessing of the All-Highest?”

Full article available here:

http://www.sanfranciscosentinel.com/?p=11209