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Speaker 1: In Eden, there was Linda King, the actress who visited

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Speaker 1: where she insisted to everyone that George White had done

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Speaker 1: this to her. She wasn't scared of White. She wanted

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Speaker 1: that George White was on a psychedelic rampage. That's what

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Speaker 1: could have and should have happened. But Lynda King didn't

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Speaker 1: been contacted by the CIA, and the message was simple,

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Speaker 1: if anyone should come in with a complaint about George White,

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Speaker 1: it should be torn up and forgotten. He was on

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Speaker 1: a state sanctioned mission. Whatever happened to Linda King wasn't

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Speaker 1: the business of the New York Police Department. Decades later,

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Speaker 1: at Lenox Hill Hospital, they didn't exist. George White was

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Speaker 1: something worse than dangerous. He was untouchable. The only thing

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Speaker 1: that could come between White and the CIA's mission to

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Speaker 1: master mind Control was from the game finally went too far.

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Speaker 1: It would take a fall from a tenth story window

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Speaker 1: for George White's fantasy life to finally shatter and for

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Speaker 1: the Snake to no longer be in charge about it. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Operation Midnight Climax is hosted by Noel Brown. This show

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Speaker 1: is written by Jake Rosin, editing, sound design and mixing

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Speaker 1: by Ernie Indradad and Natasha Jacobs. Original music by Aaron Kaufman.

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Speaker 1: Research and fact checking by Austin Thompson and Marissa Brown.

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Speaker 1: Show logo by Lucy Quintanilla. Special thanks to Spencer Gibson,

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Speaker 1: David Crumholtz, Vanessa Crumholtz, Ted Raymie, and Jason Thompson. Julian

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Speaker 1: Weller is our supervising producer. Our executive producers are Jason

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Speaker 1: English and Mangesh a Ticketter. See you next week.