"If it was said on the floor of the Senate, why didn't the media have it pasted all over the place????"
It was. I can't cite chapter and verse of where and when, but then it was 30 years ago. I know it was a few years after I finished grad school in 1973 when it made the news.
Okay, there's lots out there. Here's an article from TIME magazine dated August 1977.
www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,915244,00.html
Part of it:
"At night, women lured men to the hideaways and fed them LSD or marijuana, while other men watched the action through two-way mirrors and tape-recorded the sounds.
Scenes from seamy bordellos? Havens for desperate voyeurs? No, these were taxpayer-financed operations of the CIA, which was experimenting with drugs during the 1950s and '60s in a project with the sophomoric code name Midnight Climax. The women, apparently moonlighting prostitutes, were paid $100 for each assignment by the CIA. The operation, conducted by CIA alchemists from 1954 until 1963, was part of a quarter-century hunt for a psychogenic philosophers' stone. The purpose was to discover the secret of brainwashing, to protect U.S. agents and gain control over enemy spies.
Operation Midnight Climax was disclosed last week at a Senate hearing, adding bizarre details to the story of CIA drug research exposed in 1975 and 1976 by Government investigations."
In conclusion, after years and years of thoughtless stunts, why is anyone surprised when a rogue element rears its ugly head - in government or anywhere else.
John