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The Sleep Room: A Very British Medical Scandal by Jon Stock

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[PDF file]: […] including the intelligence services, would turn to him for advice and help’. (p. 103) These included Porton Down, where Sargant was involved in the non-consensual administering of LSD to soldiers. Sargant and his wife appear to have been ‘swingers’ and this ‘liberated’ attitude extended, in Sargant’s case, to books – namely novels. Stock recounts […]

The Atlantic and its Enemies: a personal history of the Cold War by Norman Stone

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[PDF file]: […] beneath the small bathroom window of his flat. Murder? Suicide? Stone offers this explanation of the still unexplained death: ‘Perhaps the affair can be explained by drugs. LSD, which had been discovered in Switzerland at the end of the 1930s, can cause a sort of birth trauma: a foetus, struggling inside the womb, then […]

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