Joe Rogan on history: what the evidence says · JRE #2018

FACT CHECK // JRE #2018 // EXHIBIT LOG
EPISODE AIRED AUG 8, 2023 · THE JOE ROGAN EXPERIENCE
CLAIM CMRGC3HSSTATUS: PUBLISHED
SUBJECT: HISTORY
SpeakerJoe Rogan (host)
Timestamp1:30:41
Aired
RulingNeeds Context

Not a true/false call. Every claim is logged with its sources; read the exhibits below.

// THE CLAIM · ON TAPE
What what the CIA was doing is they were they were experimenting with? Prostitutes so what they would do is they would set up a brothel And they would have these guys go in to try to get with the prostitute and the prostitute was a CIA agent She would give them a drink that was laced with acid, and they would watch these guys through two-way mirrors.
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What the evidence says 01 / RECORD

This describes Operation Midnight Climax, a real CIA subproject of MKUltra that ran from the mid-1950s into the mid-1960s. The 1977 Senate joint hearing record confirms that unwitting drug testing, including surreptitious LSD administration, was carried out in CIA safehouses in San Francisco and New York City. Historical accounts and Snopes document that federal narcotics agent George Hunter White ran the safehouses, that prostitutes on the CIA payroll lured men who were then dosed without their knowledge, and that agents observed the subjects through one-way (two-way) mirrors. Rogan's summary matches the documented record, with the minor imprecision that the drug was specifically LSD and the observation glass is technically a one-way mirror.

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