[…] of SOMA, who had been an unwitting part of the CIA’s MKUltra programme while a post-grad student at Oxford; and the section on the mysterious Ronald Stark, LSD entrepreneur and apparent American intelligence asset, has been elaborated. Most importantly, all the technical foul-ups which marred the first edition have gone. Vision were really crap […]
[PDF file]: […] in former Iron Curtain countries, may have played a subtle but carefully-planned role in LSD’s discovery and penetration of western culture. It is suggested these agencies introduced LSD into certain demographics for reasons ranging from observing how psychedelic drugs affect individuals to the intentional creation of the hippie counter culture with the aim of […]
[…] It came out around the same time as John Marks’ The Search for the Manchurian Candidate, a rather anodyne book which, after dealing with CIA and military LSD experiments which caused at least one unwitting victim to jump out a window, decided that ‘mind control’ of the Manchurian Candidate variety did not exist. Bowart’s […]
[…] have become familiar: for example MK-Ultra and Ewen Cameron’s insane experiments with reprogramming the human mind which Hollings discusses. But also: by 1959 Cary Grant had taken LSD over 60 times as part of a Hollywood set who were using it with a therapist (and Grant talked about it to the press). And on […]
[…] and ‘ethnic minorities’ (Native Americans? Hispanics? Black Americans?). Puharich’s role in this remains unclear. His work concerned ‘shamanic drugs’ — i.e. altered states of consciousness caused by LSD, hallucinogenics, and various types of mushroom found in Mexico. By 1956 Puharich was in Mexico meeting people who claimed to have been contacted by UFOs. Throughout […]
[…] Dowling wheat from the La Rouche chaff. Trippy squaddies In the New Statesman and Society of 14 October 1994, Rob Evans had a piece ‘Our Lads on LSD’, exploring roughly the same ground as Armen Victorian’s piece on LSD testing in Lobster 26. The same river twice John Hope had an interesting piece in […]
[…] (I’d never seen a picture of Mary Meyer before.) The picture illustrates the second part of a long essay entitled ‘The High and the Mighty: JFK, MPM, LSD and the CIA’, the first part of which appeared in Steamshovel Press Number Nine. The two pieces are a reworking of some of the information we […]
[…] always said the CIA were behind the psychedelic revolution. Maybe not, but there are some interesting characters and international crooks like Robert Vesco behind the financing of LSD production. Tendler and May’s book is a fairly straightforward account of the early days of the Brotherhood, a period of idealistic adventure, the later involvement of […]
[…] of human consciousness.’ Human experiments were conducted by ‘185 nongovernmental researchers at eighty institutions, including forty-four universities and twelve hospitals.’ Initially the focus of research was on LSD with the Agency adopting testing methods marked by cruelty, illegality and, with surprising frequency, failure. Seeking unwitting subjects, the CIA injected not only North Korean prisoners, […]
[…] nothing like being stoned a lot to distort the perception of reality. At Keele University the year before, also fuelled by dope (and a lot of cheap LSD), a group of students burned down the university’s administration building and misdirected the police inquiry which followed. Whatever the AB was it wasn’t the ‘urban […]
