Revisiting Tripping Johns

About this episode

This episode features live commentary on the earlier episode 'Tripping Johns' about the CIA's LSD experiments.

Today's True Weird Stuff - Revisiting Tripping Johns   One of our first episodes of True Weird Stuff was about the CIA dosing unsuspecting men with LSD and luring them to surveillance brothels. We're doing something a little different in this episode; we're providing live commentary as we listen back to "Tripping Johns."  

People in this episode

Host: Now! Media

Topics covered

• CIA
• LSD
• surveillance
• brothels
• live commentary
• True Weird Stuff

Keywords

• CIA
• LSD
• Tripping Johns
• surveillance brothels
• True Weird Stuff

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: CIA

Products: LSD

Books & works: Tripping Johns

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