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All of these musicians were at the peak of a creative period and success at the time they were offered LSD. Their personalities altered drastically. Optimism and gratification were replaced with doubt and misery. OPERATION CHAOS The CIA's War Against the Sixties Counter-Culture by Mae Brussell, November 1976
When you sit across the room from a woman during an LSD session, you're aware of thousands of penetrating chemical messages floating from her through the air into your sensory center: a symphony of a thousand odors that all of us exude at every moment -- the shampoo she uses, her cologne, her sweat, the exhaust and discharge from her digestive system, her sexual perfume, the fragrance of her clothing -- grenades of eroticism exploding in the olfactory cell. Chapter 7: She comes in colours
I'm saying simply that sex under LSD becomes miraculously enhanced and intensified. I don't mean that it simply generates genital energy. It doesn't automatically produce a longer erection. Rather, it increases your sensitivity a thousand percent. Let me put it this way: Compared with sex under LSD, the way you've been making love no matter how ecstatic the pleasure you think you get from it is like making love to a department-store window dummy. In sensory and cellular communion on LSD, you may spend a half hour making love with eyeballs, another half hour making love with breath. As you spin through a thousand sensory and cellular organic changes, she does, too. Ordinarily, sexual communication involves one's own chemicals, pressure and interactions of a very localized nature in what the psychologists call the erogenous zones. A vulgar, dirty concept, I think. When you're making love under LSD, it's as though every cell in your body -- and you have trillions -- is making love with every cell in her body. Your hand doesn't caress her skin but sinks down into and merges with ancient dynamos of ecstasy within her. Chapter 7: She comes in colours
LSD is a specific cure for homosexuality. It's well known that most sexual perversions are the result not of biological binds but of freaky, dislocating childhood experiences of one kind or another. Consequently, it's not surprising that we've had many cases of long-term homosexuals who, under LSD, discover that they are not only genitally but genetically male, that they are basically attracted to females. The most famous and public of such cases is that of Allen Ginsberg, who has openly stated that the first time he turned on to women was during an LSD session several years ago. Bui this is only one of many such cases. Chapter 7: She comes in colours
An extremely attractive girl came down to our training center in Mexico. She was a Lesbian and she was very active sexually, but all of her energy was devoted to making it with girls. She was at an LSD session at one of our cottages and went down to the beach and saw this young man in a bathing suit and flash! for the first time in her life the cellular electricity was flowing in her body and it bridged the gap. Her subsequent sexual choices were almost exclusively members of the opposite sex. Chapter 7: She comes in colours
LSD is also a powerful panacea for impotence and frigidity, both of which, like homosexuality, are symbolic screw-ups. The LSD experience puts you in touch with the wisdom of your body, of your nervous system, of your cells, of your organs. And the closer you get to the message of the body, the more obvious it becomes that it's constructed and designed to procreate and keep the life stream going. When you're confronted with this basic cellular fact under LSD, you realize that your impotency, or your frigidity, is caused by neuropsychological hang-ups of fear or shame that make no sense to your cells, that have nothing to do with the biochemical forces inside your body urging you to merge and mate with a member of the opposite sex. Chapter 7: She comes in colours
we've found that in giving LSD to members of monastic sects, there has been a definite tendency for them to leave the monastic life and to find a mating relationship. Several were men in their late 40s who had been monks for 15 or 20 years, but who even at this mature age returned to society, married and made the heterosexual adjustment. It's not coincidental that of all those I've given LSD to, the religious group -- more than 200 ministers, priests, divinity students and nuns -- has experienced the most intense sexual reaction. And in two religious groups that prize chastity and celibacy, there have been wholesale defections of monks and nuns who left their religious orders to get married after a series of LSD experiences. The LSD session, you see, is an overwhelming awakening of experience; it releases potent, primal energies, and one of these is the sexual impulse, which is the strongest impulse at any level of organic life. For the first time in their lives, perhaps, these people were meeting head-on the powerful life forces that they had walled off with ritualized defenses and self-delusions. Chapter 7: She comes in colours
In over 3000 people that I have personally observed taking LSD, we've had only four cases of prolonged psychoses -- a matter of, say, two or three weeks after the session. All of these had been in a mental hospital before, and they were people who could not commit themselves to any stable relationship. And all of these people had nothing going in their lives. They were drifting or floating, with no home or family or any roots, no stable, ongoing life situation to return to. It's dangerous to take a trip if you have no internal trust and no external place to turn to afterward. Chapter 7: She comes in colours
Government protection of drug
pushers:
Owsley soon began cooking up both Methedrine and LSD in a
makeshift bathroom lab near the campus of the university. On February 21, 1965,
that lab was raided by state narcotics agents who seized all his lab equipment
and charged Stanley with operating a meth lab. As Barry Miles recounted in
Hippie, “Berkeley was awash with speed and Owsley was responsible for much
of it.” Nevertheless, Owsley walked away from the raid unscathed, and, with the
help of his attorney, who happened to be the vice-mayor of Berkeley, he even
successfully sued to have all his lab equipment returned. He quickly put that
equipment to work producing some 4,000,000 tabs of nearly pure LSD in the
mid-1960s. Inside The LC: The Strange but Mostly True Story
of Laurel Canyon and the Birth of the Hippie Generation by
Dave McGowan
Hippies came out of no where and sort of co opted it, I think it was quite
deliberate...they wanted to give the anti-war movement a face that would be
completely unacceptable to mainstream America...I mean everything about them was
offensive to mainstream America, to middle America, the hairstyles, the clothing
styles, the open drug use, the music, everything about them was designed to
repel mainstream America and prevent the anti-war movement from gaining any
additional speed by putting this face on it...I think the whole hippy flower
child thing.....was a creation of the Intelligence community to take the steam
out of the anti-war movements and various other movements...Black Empowerment,
Women's rights, Civil rights movement. (25:29)
....The battle cry of the hippy movement was turn on, tune in, drop
out...telling people don't worry about it, get high (49:13).
Interview with Dave McGowan about Laurel Canyon
LENNON: "... We must always remember to thank the CIA and the Army for LSD. That's what people forget. Everything is the opposite of what it is, isn't it, Harry? So get out the bottle, boy... and relax. They invented LSD to control people and what they did was give us freedom. Sometimes it works in mysterious ways its wonders to perform. If you look in the Government reports on acid, the ones who jumped out the window or killed themselves because of it, I think even with Art Linkletter's daughter, it happened to her years later. So, let's face it, she wasn't really on acid when she jumped out the window. And I've never met anybody who's had a flashback on acid. I've never had a flashback in my life and I took millions of trips in the Sixties..." Playboy Interview With John Lennon and Yoko Ono
The U.S. Army got interested in LSD for interrogation purposes in 1950. After
May, 1956, until 1975, the U.S. Army Intelligence and the U.S. Chemical Corps
"experimented with hallucinogenic drugs."
The CIA and Army spent $26,501,446 "testing" LSD, code name EA 1729, and
other chemical agents. Contracts went out to forty-eight different institutions
for testing. The CIA was part of these projects. They concealed their
participation by contracting to various colleges, hospitals, prisons, mental
hospitals, and private foundations.
The LSD I will refer to is the same type of LSD that the CIA used because of
the similarity of symptoms between their reports and what happened to musicians
or hippies after 1967. We shall be speaking of CIA-LSD, not pure LSD.
Government agents and the ability to cause permanent insanity, identical to
schizophrenia, without physician or family knowing what happened to the victim.
"No physical examination of the subject is required prior to the
administration of LSD. A physician need not be present. Physicians might be
called for the hope they would make a diagnosis of
mental-breakdown which would be useful in discrediting the individual who
was the subject of CIA interest. Richard Helms, CIA Director, argued that
administering drugs, including poisonous LSD, might be on individuals who
are unwitting as this is the only realistic method of maintaining the
capability considering the intended operational use to influence human
behavior as the operational targets will certainly be unwitting."---Senate Report to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to
Intelligence Activities", Book I, page 401, April 1976.
When the first reports came out that the CIA could administer a tasteless
substance into the beverage of one of their most responsible co-workers, and
drive that man into a mental institution, or cause him to jump out of a window
to his death, all existing CIA records were destroyed.
Hippies and musicians, previously normal and creative, with families and
loved ones identical to Dr. Frank Olson, responded in the same manner as Dr.
Olson after their introduction to the same drugs.
U.S. agents were able to destroy any persons reputation cause by inducing
hysteria or excessive emotional responses, temporary or permanent insanity,
suggest or encourage suicide, erase memory, invent double or triple
personalities inside one mind, prolong lapses of memory, teach and induce racism
and hatred against specific groups, cause subjects to obey instructions on the
telephone or in person, hypnotically assure no memory remains of the
assignments.
While pure LSD is usually 160 micrograms, the CIA was issuing 1600
micrograms. Some of their LSD was administered to patients at Tulane University
who already had wired electrodes in their brain.
Was being crazy an occupational disease of being a musician? Or does this
LSD, tested and described in Army documents, explain how a cultural happening
that was taking place in 1967-68 could be halted and altered radically? [1976]
OPERATION CHAOS The CIA's War Against the Sixties Counter-Culture
by Mae Brussell
Frank Olson was a CIA employee, working under cover as a civilian employee of the Army, doing biological warfare research. In 1953 he was dosed with LSD without his consent by Sidney Gottlieb of the CIA. He suffered psychological repercussions from this nonconsensual experimentation, and tried to resign from the agency. He was taken by the CIA to New York where he ended up "falling" out a hotel window to his death. It now appears that he was directly murdered. See this New York Times article, "What Did the C.I.A. Do to Eric Olson's Father?" for more information. Eric Olson also has a web page, www.frankolsonproject.org, with news and many articles about his father's death. The page also has some information about questions of whether the CIA was involved in the death of Paul Robeson. (Here is a better formatted version.)
When the first reports came out that the CIA could administer a tasteless substance into the beverage of one of their most responsible co-workers, and drive that man into a mental institution, or cause him to jump out of a window to his death, all existing CIA records were destroyed. OPERATION CHAOS The CIA's War Against the Sixties Counter-Culture by Mae Brussell, November 1976
Leary supervised mind control experimentation at a CIA front in Berkeley, CA for 15 years prior to his massive media promotion in the latter '60s. Leary's role was to drug, distract and discredit the American anti-war movement. At the same time, the Agency - after an Army study proposed using potent hallucinogens for chemical warfare purposes - planted directions for the manufacture of LSD and STP in academic journals accessible to the public. Lysergic acid was in large part responsible for the decimation of the left in the '70s, just as heroin would be used to destroy the Haitian Rastafarian movement - it took no more than one year - a decade later. Hippies who defend Leary are wrong-headed and have an unconscionable view of Vietnam-era progressive history, IMhO. The drug's influence was destructive, and any "revelations" that came from it were personal and subjective, like reading Proust, self-indulgent, politically useless. - AC
A single common denominator identifies the common Tavistock strategy---the
use of drugs. The infamous MK Ultra program of the CIA, in which unsuspecting
CIA officials were given LSD, and their reaction studied like "guinea pigs",
resulted in several deaths. The U.S. Government had to pay millions in damages
to the families of the victims, but the culprits were never indicted. The
program originated when Sandoz AG, a Swiss drug firm, owned by S.G. Warburg Co.
of London, developed Lysergic Acid. Roosevelt's advisor, James Paul Warburg, son
of Paul Warburg who wrote the Federal Reserve Act, and nephew of Max Warburg who
had financed Hitler, set up the Institute fir Policy Studies to promote the
drug. The result was the LSD "counter-culture" of the 1960s, the "student
revolution", which was financed by $25 million from the CIA.
One part of MK Ultra was the Human
Ecology Fund; the CIA also paid Dr. Herbert Kelman of Harvard to carry out
further experiments on mind control. In the 1950s, the CIA financed extensive
LSD experiments in Canada. Dr. D. Ewen Cameron, president of the Canadian
Psychological Association, and director of Royal Victorian Hospital, Montreal,
received large payments from the CIA to give 53 patients large doses of LSD and
record their reactions; the patients were drugged into weeks of sleep and then
given electric shock treatments. One victim, the wife of a member of the
Canadian Parliament, is now suing the U.S. companies who provided the drug for
the CIA. All the records of the CIA's drug testing program were ordered
destroyed by the head of MK Ultra. TAVISTOCK -- THE
BEST KEPT SECRET IN AMERICA by Dr. John Coleman
Who provided the drugs that swamped the anti-war movement and the college campuses of the United States in the late 1960s? The organized crime infrastructure which had set up the Peking Connection for the opium trade in 1928 -- provided the same services in the 1960s and 1970s it had provided during Prohibition. This was also the same network Huxley had established contact with in Hollywood during the 1930s. The LSD connection begins with one William "Billy" Mellon Hitchcock. Hitchcock was a graduate of the University of Vienna and a scion of the millionaire Mellon banking family of Pittsburgh. (Andrew Mellon of the same family had been the U.S. Treasury Secretary throughout Prohibition.) In 1963, when Timothy Leary was thrown out of Harvard, Hitchcock rented a fifty-five-room mansion in Millbrook, New York, where the entire Leary-Huxley circle of initiates was housed until its later move back to California. The Aquarian Conspiracy by Executive Intelligence Review