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Operation Midnight Climax by iHeartPodcasts

Mar 17, 202128:13Society & Culture

In the 1950s, the CIA conducted highly controversial research on mind-altering drugs to prepare for brain warfare with global superpowers. But after a checkered past, George White’s off-the-books Operation Midnight Clima...

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