CIA GIVING LOVE POTIONS TO INFORMANTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-01208R000100210003-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 29, 2011
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: October 15, 1978
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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giving love potions to informants?
;$HILADELPHIA (AP) - A CIA- the Pedlow Nesse Chemical Co. of prostitutes in an apartment on.,
-offTeiaL connected with a "safe Lock Haven 2S years ago. New York's Bedford place.
honWe:' in New -Rork City -where The drug. usid for centuries by "The Bulletin said potential in-
; poii4ntial. informants' were se- ...African. natives to. increase their . formants were drugged and se-
dined by: prostitutes purchased a. sexual powers, was purchased for - duced by-'the: prostitutes while
;rte African love potion from?a:;..by Dr.:RobertV. Lashbrook. agents-made- recordings and took
Pebnsylvama. chemical firm,. the+ who,_was,thn tchieL-aide.: to Dr. pictures ? through two-way mir-
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ssed . with. LSD-, andother? behanor-- ,Edward Kennedy's health and
:i ormatios._ one. CIA _records.. odifyintdrugs ?_?
rereased under'' the- Freedoca. oft ,7 scientific research subcommittee i
:Information ?Act,usa , the'-spy.?.1i ~ k s jo~j;was to monitor last -year, Lashbeook admitted
'agency purchased?two:pounds.ot^ and kapprove?-:materials . for 'visiting the' house) and knowing
Yohimbine -hydrochloride- --b? " ration-Midnight: Climax," a.. ? that drugs. and prostitutes west
: e4ough for_ 200,000 doses. - from ,; =DroJe.L.. ime9lving. CIA-hired involved, in the operation-
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WIL14INGTON NEWS JOURNAL
15 October 1978
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