The CIA Used Its Top-Secret MK-ULTRA Program to Alter and Control Human Behavior Via Drugs and Sexual Abuse, Including Rape

By: Donald V. Watkins

Copyrighted on June 21, 2026

During MK-ULTRA's "scientific experiment" known as Midnight Climax, CIA operative Georgia Hunter White was responsible for dosing gangsters, pimps, prostitutes, and other American citizens with a variety of narcotics and drugs without their knowledge, and reporting their behaviors to Dr. Sidney Gottlieb.

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Under the Central Intelligence Agency’s top-secret Project MK-ULTRA, everyday citizens, psychiatric patients, soldiers, scientists, and prisoners were subjected to involuntary drug dosing, extreme sleep deprivation, prolonged isolation, intensive electroshock therapy, and/or sexual abuse as a means to alter and control their behavior. The drugs administered to these unwitting test subjects included LSD, heroin, Ecstasy (MDMA), methamphetamine, marijuana, and host of other mind-altering drugs.

The research was conducted through standing arrangements with specialists in universities, pharmaceutical houses, hospitals, state and federal prisons, and private research organizations. The annual grants of funds to these specialists were made under ostensible research foundation auspices, thereby concealing the CIA's interest from the specialist's institution.

The MK-ULTRA program ran from 1953 to 1973. It was publicly disclosed in 1973 during the Church Committee hearings in Congress on CIA and FBI lawlessness in the U.S. In 1977, Sen. Edward chaired further Congressional hearings on the program.

The June 11, 1973 Washington Post articles on the CIA's MK-ULTRA program.

Operation Midnight Climax documented MK-ULTRA’s episodes of emotional and physical sexual assault, coerced sex, and sexual exploitation orchestrated by the government. Women were subjected to severe psychological violations, sexual abuse, and non-consensual exploitation within the MK-ULTRA program, including acts of rape. The total abandonment of human rights and medical ethics resulted in documented instances of sexual violation against women.

One of the program directors -- CIA operative George Hunter White --recounted drugging women who rejected his personal or sexual advances. In one instance, he covertly dosed a local club singer named Ruth Kelly with LSD right before she walked on stage, purely to observe her psychological distress.

The Racial Component

Over 1,000 male and female test subjects participated in MK-ULTRA, many of whom did so under false pretenses and without informed consent. The test subjects were disproportionately black. Dana Strauss, who led Ottawa University’s participation in MK-ULTRA, explains why:

“Prisons were already filled with Black bodies. They could have experimented on free individuals, but they would not have been able to get away with these kinds of experiments. There were no protections at this time for vulnerable populations such as incarcerated research participants, so the researchers could basically do what they wanted…These people were targeted for these dangerous studies specifically because they were Black and prisoners and therefore less valued.”

The top brass at the CIA, including its directors, knew the unethical medical tests and nonconsensual sexual assaults were unlawful. In 1973, Director Richard Helms ordered all records of MK-Ultra destroyed, particularly those records documenting MK-ULTRA RAPE.

At least one unwitting test subject – CIA scientist Frank Olson – was killed in 1953 when he tumbled from a New York City hotel window after he was administered a cocktail spiked with LSD.

News article on Frank Olson's death. Was it murder or a drug-induced suicide?

Outsourcing Nonconsensual Medical Experimentation on Humans

On February 18, 1976, President Gerald Ford placed restrictions on human experimentation via Executive Order 11905. In 1981, President Ronald Reagan replaced it with Executive Order 12333, which carried forward the strict post-MK-ULTRA restrictions forbidding any agency within the Intelligence Community from sponsoring or conducting drug or medical experimentation on human subjects without their informed, written consent.

After 9/11, the CIA outsourced a second-generation version of MK-ULTRA to Israel’s Mossad spy agency and private CIA contractors. Both groups operated the program at black op sites around the world.

What is more, Jeffrey Epstein was the “access agent” for Mossad's blackmail and behavioral modification programs that were conducted on U.S. soil.

The unwitting subjects in the Epstein programs were 1,000+ white underaged girls and boys who were drugged, sexually molested, raped, and photographed in pornographic poses, together with adult sexual predators.

Inside of Israel, the Zionist government used unsuspecting and innocent Palestinian children, teens, women, men, and prisoners as subjects for Israel's version of MK-ULTRA nonconsensual medical experiments on humans.

Meanwhile, a May 2024, 103-page report issued by the U.S. Department of State confirms that a modern version of MK-ULTRA continues in Israel, particularly within the Israeli Prison Service. None of these clandestine behavoiral modification activities is ethical or lawful.