Hearken back to the Ed Sullivan Show of the mid-1950's. The new found Rock 'n Roll star, Elvis Presley, was invited on the show to sing his wildly popular 'You Ain't Nuthin' But A Hound Dog'. There was an addendum added to his appearance. The KIng flipped his hips when he was doing this song and the government decreed that the cameras could not show him below the waist. Take that Cardi B.
Yes, the government dictated what we could and couldn't see.
However, between 1954-63 there was another government program instituted that should make your hair fall out.
Operation Midnight Climax was an operation known only to Richard Helms and Gottlieb’s Technical Support Division; it was a free-wheeling illicit criminal operation headed by George Hunter White, an Army Captain, OSS officer, veteran agent of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN) who was also a CIA operative. During the day, White worked as an FBN agent to keep psychoactive drugs out of circulation, and when night fell, he and his minions dispensed these drugs widely to strangers in in San Francisco and New York. Thousands of unwitting men were lured to CIA-sponsored drug and sex sessions by prostitutes at CIA’s “safe houses.” The prostitutes received $100 a night and were guaranteed protection from police harassment. The walls of CIA’s bordellos were decorated with photos of women in bondage and other suggestive sexual images. White had unrestricted use of surveillance technology; LSD and other mind-altering substances were slipped into the johns’ liquor by the hookers, and their sexual encounters were monitored and recorded from behind two-way mirrors. These taped sexual encounters were useful for blackmailing johns — some of who were prominent upstanding citizens. https://ahrp.org/1953-1964-operation-midnight-climax-cias-lurid-ventures-into-sex-hookers-and-lsd/
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