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A Waste of Sin

Operation Midnight Climax by iHeartPodcasts

Apr 28, 202131:55Society & Culture

After Frank Olson’s death in New York, George White had to move his whole operation to San Francisco. And the CIA added a twist: while they’d been occupied with using LSD as a mind-control drug, now they wanted him to we...

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A Waste of Sin is an episode from Operation Midnight Climax by iHeartPodcasts. After Frank Olson’s death in New York, George White had to move his whole operation to San Francisco. And the CIA added a twist: while they’d been occupied with...

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Published Apr 28, 2021, 31:55 long, audio available.

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