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By Jonas E. Alexis, Assistant Editor<\/p>\n
In the 1960s, it was widely reported that \u201cheroin began flowing into the United States from Southeast Asia in body bags returning from the war, courtesy of the CIA.\u201d[1]<\/a>\u00a0During the same time, John Lennon declared that \u201cWe must always remember to thank the CIA and the Army for LSD\u2026They invented the LSD to control people, and what they did was give us freedom.\u201d[2]<\/a>\u00a0Virtually all the intellectuals, gurus, drug addicts, and even musicians of the counterrevolution agreed with Lennon.<\/strong><\/p>\n Timothy Leary, who believed that he was Aleister Crowley reborn, said: \u201cThe LSD movement was started by the CIA. I wouldn\u2019t be here now without the foresight of CIA scientists.\u201d[3]<\/a>\u00a0Allen Ginsberg acknowledged: \u201cAm I, Allen Ginsberg, the product of one of the CIA\u2019s lamentable, ill-advised, or triumphantly successful experiments in mind control? Had they, by conscious plan or inadvertent Pandora\u2019s Box, let loose the whole LSD fad on the US and the world?\u201d[4]<\/a>\u00a0Ginsberg, like Ken Kesey, was part of the \u201csuccessful experiment\u201d the CIA was conducting in the 1950s and 60s.<\/p>\n Kesey was studying creative writing at Stanford when he first took LSD in 1959. When Menlo Park Veterans Administration Hospital offered to give mind-altering drugs to volunteers, Kesey couldn\u2019t be more excited: he quickly put his name on the dotted line. His drug trip at the hospital was an epiphany. In order to test his experiment further, he took a job at the same hospital and spread the gospel of LSD to his comrades. Stephen Kinzer writes that Kesey\u2019s home \u201cturned into a twenty-four-hour psychedelic party as friends and neighbors got high and danced to loud music, electric rock music.\u201d[5]<\/a><\/p>\n Under the influence of LSD, Kesey got enough material for his new novel,\u00a0One Flew Over the Cuckoo\u2019s Nest<\/em>, the book which ultimately became a bestseller. \u201cWith the money he earned from royalties, Kesey bought a new home and began throwing \u2018acid tests\u2019 at which he served LSD to a wild roster of guests including poets, musicians, and bikers from the Hells Angels gang\u2026Kesey gave LSD a new role in American society.\u201d[6]<\/a><\/p>\n MK-Ultra<\/strong><\/p>\n Leary, Kesey, Ginsberg, Aldous Huxley, Robert Hunter of the Grateful Dead, among others, were all the product of MK-Ultra, a secret program which the CIA brought about through one man, Sidney Gottlieb, who actually was \u201cthe Government chemist who dosed Americans with psychedelics in the name of national security.\u201d[7]<\/a>\u00a0Under the director of Allen Dulles, both the CIA and Gottlieb deliberately spread LSD virtually everywhere during the 1950s and 60s in order to control people.<\/p>\n In fact, Dulles explicitly declared that one of the main purposes for developing MK-Ultra was to control people,[8]<\/a>\u00a0particularly mental patients, prisoners (from Japan, Korea, Germany), and drug addicts, prostitutes, and even children.[9]<\/a>\u00a0As they put it, these people \u201ccould not fight back.\u201d[10]<\/a>\u00a0What was the false pretense that the CIA and Gottlieb used to dose these people? In the name of \u201cscience\u201d and \u201cpatriotism,\u201d they were trying to find a cure for schizophrenia. One patient in particular \u201cwas dosed with LSD continuously for 174 days\u201d in Kentucky. Other patients went mad, others had to suffer psychological damage for the rest of their lives, and others ended up dead because of the diabolical experiment.[11]<\/a>\u00a0And between 1953 and 1963 oligarchic institutions like Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Stanford, Columbia University, Cornell, etc., all supported MK-Ultra\u2014directly or indirectly.[12]<\/a>\u00a0Other institutions such as \u201cMassachusetts General Hospital, Mount Sinai Hospital, the Universities of Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Denver, Illinois, Oklahoma, Rochester, Texas and Indiana as well as Berkeley, Harvard, Columbia, MIT, Stanford, Baylor, Emory, George Washington, Vanderbilt, Cornell, John Hopkins New York University\u201d were all involved in MK-Ultra.[13]<\/a><\/p>\n Kinzer calls Gottlieb \u201cthe most powerful unknown American of the 20th century\u2014unless there was someone else who conducted brutal experiments across three continents and had a license to kill issued by the U.S. government.\u201d[14]<\/a>\u00a0Hunter, who himself experimented with the drug at Stanford under the auspices of the CIA[15]<\/a>\u00a0and who got hypnotized by the drug, eventually came to the conclusion that \u201cthe United States government was in a way responsible for creating the \u2018acid tests\u2019 and the Grateful Dead, and thereby the whole psychedelic counterculture.\u201d[16]<\/a><\/p>\n Like Agave in Euripides\u2019\u00a0The Bacchae<\/em>, Hunter eventually realized that he was duped. His moral integrity had awakened, and he eventually realized that he was a guinea pig in a social experiment. But for him and others, it was already too late. An entire culture and indeed a nation were hooked on a drug that was hatched by a man whose diabolical plan was to control much of humanity. That man again was none other than Jewish revolutionary Sidney Gottlieb. John Marks, a sympathizer, declared that if one used the Nuremberg standards, Gottlieb would have been executed on the spot precisely because he did the same thing that the Nazis were allegedly doing.[17]<\/a><\/p>\n Gottlieb was aptly called \u201cthe Black Sorcerer.\u201d[18]<\/a>\u00a0He was a scientist at the US Army\u2019s laboratory at Fort Detrick, Maryland, and was specifically assigned by the CIA to create a lethal toxin that would allow the CIA to not only manipulate people at will but to assassinate perceived enemies and dissidents.<\/p>\n Gottlieb also had a plan to upgrade the social engineering that was part of the CIA\u2019s program in the United States. He wanted to see how individual behavior could be altered via drugs, most specifically through LSD and other powerful psychoactive drugs. According to Kinzer, the CIA and the psychological warfare program called this \u201ca new era of humane warfare.\u201d[19]<\/a><\/p>\n Gottlieb joined the CIA in 1951, and he quickly created the poison that they wanted. No, he did not invent LSD; the man responsible for concocting the drug was Albert Hofmann, a Swiss chemist and author who synthesized the drug with ergot and other supplements in November of 1938. Hoffman also wrote the book\u00a0LSD: My Problem Child<\/em>. It was indeed his problem child, for Hoffman tried the drug on himself and, like Aleister Crowley, discovered something powerful. After absorbing the drug, he said that he felt<\/p>\n \u201ca remarkable restlessness, combined with a slight dizziness. At home I lay down and sank into a not unpleasant intoxicated-like condition, characterized by an extremely stimulated imagination. In a dreamlike state, with eyes closed (I found the daylight to be unpleasantly glaring), I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colors. After some two hours this condition faded away\u2026. I see the true importance of LSD in the possibility of providing material aid to meditation aimed at the mystical experience of a deeper, comprehensive reality.\u201d[20]<\/a><\/p>\n This \u201cmystical experience\u201d was again felt by Crowley and a host of black magicians over the centuries.<\/p>\n How does the drug work? Simple: \u201cAfter receiving the toxin orally or by pinprick, a victim first feels a tingling sensation in the fingers and lips and dies ten seconds later from a painless paralysis.\u201d[21]<\/a><\/p>\n Gottlieb, throughout his life, was never prosecuted for his crime. He was protected by the CIA, oligarchic institutions, and the elite. If there was one person who deserved to be hanged before he died, then that person should have been Sidney Gottlieb.<\/p>\n First published on July 19,\u00a02<\/a>02<\/a>0.<\/em><\/p>\n [1]<\/a>\u00a0Dennis McNally,\u00a0A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead<\/em>\u00a0(New York: Broadway Books, 2002), 341.<\/p>\n\n
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