Did the CIA Attack New York Too?

According to one investigative author, the answer is yes. H.P. Albarelli Jr., author of A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments, says the CIA planned and executed a test of LSD on unwitting passengers of the New York subway system.

According to the New York Post, "Albarelli spent more than a decade sifting through more than 100,000 pages of government documents and his most startling chestnut might be his claim that the intelligence community conducted aerosol tests of LSD inside the New York City subway system."

"The experiment was pretty shocking — shocking that the CIA and the Army would release LSD like that, among innocent unwitting folks," Albarelli said according to the report. 

But is it true? The Post, at least, thinks the story has merit:

"A declassified FBI report from the Baltimore field office dated Aug. 25, 1950 provides some tantalizing support for the claim. 'The BW [biological weapon] experiments to be conducted by representatives of the Department of the Army in the New York Subway System in September 1950, have been indefinitely postponed,' states the memo, a copy of which the author provided to The Post."