The CIA, LSD, and the Sixties Rebellion

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Introduction: Whose Worlds Are These? By Andrei Codrescue

Prologue

Dr. Albert Hofmann recounts his amazing discovery... A buzz at Sandoz... Conflicting assessments of acid... CIA LSD hearings on Capital Hill... Damage control... "A never-never land of 'eyes only' memos and unceasing experimentation"... The central irony of LSD...

PART ONE: THE ROOTS OF PSYCHEDELIA

1. IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS MADNESS...

The Truth Seekers Marijuana, a truth drug... Getting stoned with the Office of Strategic Services... Nazi mescaline experiments at Dachau... The US Navy trips out on mescaline... The "twilight zone" of CIA special interrogations... The disposal problem...

Enter LSD

Operation Artichoke... CIA begins to dabble with acid... Office of Scientific Intelligence pegs LSD as "Potential New Agent for Unconventional Warfare"... If not a truth serum, a lie serum?... Russian ergot... Acid as a CIA mind control vaccine... Operational use of LSD for spy interrogations...

Laboratories of the State

Psychiatrists tout LSD as a psychotomimetic ("madness-mimicking") substance and use it to study mental illness... CIA contemplates dosing a city's water supply with acid... CIA brainwashing studies in Montreal... Heroin addicts become CIA guinea pigs at Lexington Narcotics Hospital... An espionage network of scholar-informants... Eli Lilly Company secretly produces acid for U.S. intelligence...

Midnight Climax

The MK-ULTRA program... High spies... Electric Kool Aid Acid test at the CIA's Christmas office party in 1954... Agency freak-outs... Deadly pranks... The CIA's X-rated science... Acid as a discrediting agent... The hallucinogenic hit-list...

The Hallucination Battlefield

War without death... The US Army's mad scientist... War games on acid... Super-hallucinogens... Military-industrial surrealism...

2. PSYCHEDELIC PIONEERS

The Original Captain Trips

Al Hubbard, the superspy who became the first Johnny Appleseed of LSD... Aldous Huxley and the Doors of Perception... An improbable duo... LSD psychotherapy...

Healing Acid

Dr. Humphry Osmond coins the word "psychedelic"... Hollywood turns on... Allen Ginsberg's first acid experience... The Beat poets as cultural and chemical rebels...

Psychosis or Gnosis?

LSD and creativity... The efficacy of the bummer... Drug shamanism... Tripping through history... A clash of scientific paradigms... A big scientific LSD pow-wow...

3. UNDER THE MUSHROOM, OVER THE RAINBOW

Manna From Harvard

Henry Luce turns on... Life publishes R. Gordon Wasson's glowing article on magic muchrooms... Timothy Leary has his initial psychedelic experience... Leary strategizes with Huxley and Osmond... Leary's controversial drug experiments at Harvard...

Chemical Crusaders

Allen Ginsberg's messianic vision... The jazz cats sample psychedelics... Jack Kerouac reports to Leary... Warnings from Charles Olson and William Burroughs... Leary tries LSD... Leary under CIA surveillance... JFK's lover smokes grass, drops acid before she is murdered under mysterious circumstances... Trouble at Harvard... Leary and Richard Alpert are fired... Turn on, tune in, drop out...

The Crackdown

Shortly after the CIA reorients its covert R&D drug program, Congress enacts new pharmaceutical safety regulations that restrict promising above-ground LSD studies... Sandoz stops marketing LSD to research scientists... Senator Robert F. Kennedy challenges medical authorities who are down on LSD psychotherapy... LSD becomes a Schedule I substance... The FDA's hidden relationship with the CIA...

4. PREACHING LSD

High Surrealism

Buzzed in Mexico... Huxley dies on the same day JFK is assassinated... The psychedelic commune at the Millbrook estate... William Mellon Hitchcock, the fast-money, multimillionare acid patron... Stoned hijinks... "Vitamin shots" from Dr. Max "Feelgood" Jacobson, JFK's personal physician... A parade of visitors... NASA space drugs... Arthur Kleps and the Neo-American Boo-Hoo Church...

The Psychedelic Manual

A journey into unknown waters... Leary adapts the Tibetan Book of the Dead as an LSD guide-book... Ginsberg's wrestles with bad trips... Satori...

The Hard Sell

Hyping acid... An inspired impresario... Czech LSD comes to London... England swings... A stint at Wormwood Scrubs... G. Gordon Liddy tries to bust Leary and his communards... The golden age of anarchy at Millbrook comes to an end...

5. THE ALL-AMERICAN TRIP

The Great Freak Forward

The U.S. Army turns on Ken Kesey... Wild parties in La Honda... The Merry Prankster's cross-country bus trip... The revolt of the guinea pigs... Electric Kool-Aid Acid Tests...

Acid and the New Left

The Berkeley Free Speech Movement... A dual-pronged radical project... The storms of youth... The first big surge of street acid coincides with the rapid growth of the New Left... SDS takes off... Hipsters versus politicos or political hipsters?... Bob Dylan goes electric... "Everybody must get stoned..."

PART TWO: ACID FOR THE MASSES

6. FROM HIP TO HIPPIE

Before the Deluge

The emergence of Haight-Ashbury, the psychedelic city-state... Acid rock frenzy... The Trips Festival... Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead... Owsley and the psychedelic super-market... The Oracle... The Love Pageant Rally...

Politics of the Bummer

Congress scolds Leary and friends... News media sensationalize dangers of LSD... Politicians hype war on drugs... Repressive precedents... The phoney chromosome scare... Bad trips proliferate... Wise words from Laura Huxley...

The First Human Be-In

Behind the crystal ball... The San Francisco Be-in: Happening of happenings... Riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave... Flower power... Ronald Reagan versus the "Hippies"... Tensions within the youth culture... Revolution ala Artaud...

7. THE CAPITAL OF FOREVER

Stone Free

The Death of Money and the Birth of Free... The Diggers... Human zoo on Haight Street... A tourist attraction... Sanitation sweeps... A psychedelic Grapes of Wrath... Joplin and Hendrix at the Monterey Pop Festival... Doomsday's children inundate the Haight...

The Great Summer Dropout

The Beatles turn on... Sgt. Pepper's Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band... John Lennon in a funk... The dark side of the Summer of Love... Charles Manson and other mind vamps... Hard drugs... A human guniea pig farm?... The Diggers hold a funeral for "Death of the hippie, devoted son of the mass media"... Planet drumbeat...

8. PEAKING IN BABYLON

A Gathering Storm

From hip community to mediated counter-culture... Big business coopts the psychedelic style... CIA-linked think tanks analyze impact of LSD of radical politics... Catalyzing a catalyst and blasting into hyperspace...

Magical Politics

The antiwar movement goes day-glo... Levitating the Pentagon... An FBI dirty trick backfires... Yippie!... Karmic salesmenship... Black Panther party militants...

Gotta Revolution

Political earthquakes in 1968... Campus riots... "I bleed, therefore I am"... The Living Theater tour Europe... Worker-student strikes in France... A sweeping anti-imperial analysis... Revolution for the hell of it... The Democratic Convention in Chicago...

9. SEASON OF THE WITCH

Armed Love

A school for snitches... Government provocateurs infiltrate the radical scene... The FBI versus the underground press and rock n' roll stars... No-knock laws and set-ups... Street fighting men... Acid armed consciousness... Molotov cocktails and LSD... SDS implodes... The Weather Underground gets high and crazy...

The Acid Brotherhood

Bringing the war back home... Madness gas in Vietnam... The Brotherhood of Eternal Love... Guru Tim... A Bed-in for peace... Manic drug dealers... Owsley gets popped and Hitchcock stumbles... A CIA-mafia funny-money bank in the Bahamas... Partying with Richard Nixon... Financial chicanery... Orange sunshine... A fatal overdose... Ronald Stark: The Rasputin of LSD...

Bad Moon Rising

Woodstock... A commercial bonanza... Contaminated acid at Altamont... The Manson killings... Year of the fork...

10. WHAT A FIELD DAY FOR THE HEAT

Prisoner of LSD

Leary in the slammer... Tripped-out urban guerrillas... Kent State killings... Beatles break-up... Wasted... Operation Intercept... CIA heroin scams... New age panaceas for acid casualties on the mend... Leary escapes... A plea from Kesey...

A Bitter Pill

Leary in Algiers with exiled Black Panthers... Rubbing shoulders with the CIA in Switzerland... Busted in Afghanistan and jailed again... The feds go after the Acid Brotherhood... Paranoia strikes deep... "The Sixties are dead"...

The Great LSD Conspiracy

Hitchcock sings... Stark arrested in Italy... Terrorist plots... Startling revelations... An autopsy of the youth movement... CIA paper-shredding... Confidence trickster or espionage whiz?
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