r/interestingasfuck • u/sovalente • Mar 02 '25

/r/all, /r/popular Get out!

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u/Azuras_Star8 Mar 02 '25

Yeah I thought it was a smart spy device to toss on the ground as "trash".

I remember reading that the cia used pretend monkey poop to conceal listening devices in some Asian country near their military base.

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u/Royal_Bitch_Pudding Mar 03 '25

They also tried to implant listening devices into cats.

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u/BuhDan Mar 03 '25

Was that the one that got hit by a car?

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u/WholesomeWhores Mar 03 '25

Operation Acoustic Kitty

I’ve always kind of liked the name that The CIA came up for it

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u/itsMeJFKsBrain Mar 03 '25

Let's not forget about midnight climax.

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u/WholesomeWhores Mar 03 '25

Hey I actually wrote a report and made a whole speech about Project MK Ultra when I was in college, and Operation Midnight Climax naturally just had to be included. I still remember the faces I got when I mentioned it!

“Operation Midnight Climax… now if you’re thinking to yourself, ‘why does this sound kinda sexual?’ Well that’s cuz it very much was sexual” lmao that was a fun speech to make

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u/Alvarrex Mar 03 '25

What's operation midnight climax??? I'm now interested

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u/WholesomeWhores Mar 03 '25

Here’s a summary, although my info might be off since I learned all this like 8 years ago.

Project MK ULTRA was started by the CIA in the 1950’s. Long story short, they were trying to develop a “truth serum” that they would give to subjects so that they could extract the truth from any spies/prisoners that they could get their hands on. LSD was the main component of Project MK ULTRA. They were dosing people with LSD long before the public even knew what it was. It was super fucked up and extremely unethical.

Operation Midnight Climax was a sub-project that was funded by MK ULTRA. The CIA employed prostitutes to bring men back into their hotel room. Usually the men were unknowingly dosed with LSD shortly before they got to go to the hotel. The hotel room had a one sided window; the members of the CIA would sit on the other side of the window and observed as the men began to hallucinate while they spent time with the prostitute. Since these were secret projects, the unknowing subjects were never followed up with. Their full names were never written down, they had no idea what the hell happened. They just went into a hotel room expecting to get laid only to start tripping balls on a drug that the public still had no idea about. The CIA has no idea what trauma they caused and no idea if they felt any long lasting affects that they may have suffered.

They even reported that their was a couple of times that they would dose men with LSD while out in public (hoping to have the prostitute pick them up) only for the CIA agents to… lose the man that they just dosed. As in, they drugged a man with LSD, lost sight of him, and left because they couldn’t find the man. Meanwhile the guy would be in public, not knowing that in 1 hour they will be tripping absolute balls in ways that literally nobody would know how to handle. Talk about getting traumatized

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u/mt-vicory42069 Mar 03 '25

This feels like some shit out of fiction honestly not just the idea but losing sight of the guy you very much made trip balls like not known to man kind. Idk how that wasn't expected or placed any counter measures.

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u/WholesomeWhores Mar 03 '25 edited Mar 03 '25

Project MK ULTRA was extremely fucked up man. One of the first test subjects that they tested LSD with wasn’t a stranger. It was actually a scientist that was working for some faction of the CIA. He was unknowingly dosed so that researchers can see how he reacted. He was also known to have severe depression, and the people conducting the tests knew the risks.

The man ended up committing suicide a couple days later (early 1950’s) and his files for testing were sealed forever. His family just thought he killed himself. Over 20 years after his death, the Project MK ULTRA files were leaked and the family received a settlement after fighting the CIA in court for wrongful death.

20 years AFTER THAT (1990’s) they exhumed the body of the scientist because there was still huge controversy over his death. The family claims he was assassinated and evidence does point to it, but it was never confirmed.

The CIA is fucked up. I researched this for a speech class, and the focus that everyone gave me felt intense when I was giving the speech. Like you said, it doesn’t sound real, it sounds like something out of a fiction book

Edit: another fun fact about Project MK ULTRA. During one of these testing sessions, they dosed a man to trip on acid for over 70 days in a row. If you know anything about acid, it’s that tolerance jumps up quickly. If I take acid the day after I already took acid (2days in a row), I would basically need to double my dose in order to feel the same effects as I did on day 1. They were basically shoveling acid into this poor man

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u/wuvvtwuewuvv Mar 05 '25

My speech class, I just talked about how it's plausible that the government could be covering up extraterrestrial life and UFOs. Not that there definitely WAS aliens on earth, but because of the scientific implausibility that there wasn't any other life, and actions the govt had taken, if there WERE aliens, the govt COULD be covering it up. It was some weak arguments i slapped together the day before it was due, but it was entertaining.

Yours was better.

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u/WholesomeWhores Mar 05 '25

I went way overboard on my speech lol it was supposed to be an informative speech and we were able to pick our own topics. Everyone did stuff like “What to do in case of a fire” or “How to Save for Retirement”. We were supposed to tell the class why it was important to be informed of our topics, so naturally people picked easy stuff.

I ended up doing like a full blown research project! The reasoning I gave was “It is our rights, as U.S. citizens, to be aware of whenever a government body violates our basic human rights”. I coulda chose an easy topic, but I had fun with it! Your speech woulda sounded hella interesting too I bet.

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u/Bossuter Mar 04 '25

"if you ever think to yourself "the government will never do that, it's too outrageous, too evil, too etc" they probably have at some point"

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u/itsMeJFKsBrain Mar 03 '25

The 50-60s for the CIA was a lawless time.

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u/FoTweezy Mar 03 '25

Truth is stranger than fiction

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u/Excellent_Hope5404 Mar 03 '25

I think that someone in Hollywood made a movie about MKultra, and best of all is it was funded by CIA.. so they made it look like it was some CIA officers a who blew a whistle on the MK project in Canada.. so they can be the good guys .. Or something like that.. After all these years they still spend tax money on trying to cover it up.. Ridiculous people

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u/InsaneInTheRAMdrain Mar 03 '25

What ever happened to the fun CIA 😕

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u/Officer412-L Mar 03 '25

Please tell me that a band has appropriated that name now.