It was always known that the CIA and the US federal government has conducted expieriments with LSD. Now comes word that the CIA may have possibly staged LSD on New York City subways.

In a book written by H.P. Albarelli titled ‘A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA’s Secret Cold War Expieriements’, declassified documents from the FBI dated from August 25, 1950 unveiled an LSD test was done on the New York City Subway system. At the time it was called a BW test or biological weapons test and at first was said that it did not happen. In the book though, Dr. Henry Eigelsbach, who at the time was a CIA research scientist said that the test did occur but little is known about the results.

The test involved a Narcotics agent who worked with the CIA by the name of George Hunter White. White was the administrator of the test and it involved him posing as an artist at the Greenwich Village subway station and he would take passerbys and give them the drug. White gave them a safe space to ‘trip’ and after overdosing them would try interrogation tactics on them to see how much information he could get out of them, according to the CIA document.