Yes, the CIA ran a brothel in San Francisco and tested LSD on unsuspecting patrons

The CIA once ran a fake brothel where they secretly drugged men with LSD and watched through two-way mirrors. They called it Operation Midnight Climax.
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Snopes is reporting that "In the summer of 2025, a rumor spread that the CIA once ran a fake brothel in San Francisco, California, in order to test drugs, including LSD, on its unsuspecting patrons. For example, on July 31, 2025, a post on Reddit said CIA staff watched drugged patients through two-way mirrors. As of this writing, the post had garnered 29,000 upvotes and 870 comments. The claim appeared earlier in July on Reddit, but also on X in January 2025."

"The rumor was further relayed by a 2021 podcast, but also a 2023 article from SFGate, and an in-depth report by Popular Mechanics, a monthly magazine dedicated to gear reviews and scientific and technological advances."

"A search of news reports the CIA documented and released in 2004, old newspaper clippings, the National Security Archive at George Washington University and the archive of a 1977 Senate Intelligence Committee hearing revealed that the claim was true. In fact, the CIA effort, named Operation Midnight Climax, was one of 149 subprojects run under the umbrella MKULTRA project." One of 149 subprojects they admit to.

"One of the 149 subprojects was indeed Operation Midnight Climax. It was run by George Hunter White, a federal narcotics agent. White had been hired by the man who led MKULTRA, chemist Sidney Gottlieb, about whom the book "Poisoner-in-Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control" journalist Stephen Kinzer later wrote."

So the CIA ran a brother in San Francisco and gave patrons drugs. Who else ran a brothel in San Francisco and sold Drugs? Odis Garret. Iran Contra never stopped and as Candace Owens pointed out, neither did MK Ultra. The ATF run humaniplex.