PART 1 OF 2
REFERENCES
The citations for sources from which material in the text is derived are arranged by Section and Chapter, with the beginning of a quotation or relevant phrase in italics.
CODE:
A = Article
B = Book
CR = Congressional report
D = Declassified document (CIA, FBI, military, etc.)
I = Interview
L = Letter
O = Other (including unpublished interviews by other authors!
PROLOGUE
Description of discovery of LSD-25. B Albert Hofmann, LSD: My Problem Child, pp. 1-15.
"Dr. Hofmann ... there are thousands" A quoted in Spencer Rumsey, "The Most Exquisite Rascals of the Age," Berkeley Barb, October 21-27, 1977.
"Am I, Allen Ginsberg" B Allen Ginsberg, "From Journals," Poems All Over the Place, p. 53.
"The LSD movement was started by the CIA" A quoted in Walter Barney, "Grandfather of LSD Meets the Acid Children," San Francisco Sunday Chronicle and Examiner, October 16, 1977.
"As I look at my colleagues" A quoted in Rumsey.
"LSD came along before" A quoted in Rumsey.
"We must disentangle ourselves" A quoted in Daniel Golden, " Allen Ginsberg, Politics of Emptiness," City on a Hill Press, October 20, 1977.
"close the book on this chapter" CR Human Drug Testing by the CIA. 1977, Hearings before the Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research of the Committee on Human Resources, United States Senate, p. 2.
"The knowledge that the Agency" D (CIA) Inspector General's Memorandum to the Director of Central Intelligence, "Kennedy Committee Interest in IG Surveys of OTS," 31 October 1975, p. 2.
"to investigate whether and how it was possible" CR Human Drug Testing By the CIA, p. 169.
"The bottom line on this whole business" A Assassination Information Bureau. "Congress and the MK-ULTRA Whitewash," Clandestine America, November December 1977.
witnesses conferred among themselves, agreeing to limit B John Marks, The Search for the Manchurian Candidate, p. 207.
programmed assassins who would kill on command D (CIA) "ARTICHOKE Report," 22 January 1954.
"hypnotically-induced anxieties" D (CIA) MK-ULTRA, Subproject 5, Memorandum for the Record, 11 May 1953.
"We lived in a never-neverland" A Tad Szulc, "The CIA's Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test," Psychology Today, November 1977.
nearly every drug that appeared on the black market A Martin A. Lee, "High Spy"
Rolling Stone, September 1, 1983.
CHAPTER ONE: IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS MADNESS...
The Truth Seekers
"We were not afraid to try" O quoted in Mission: Mind Control, ABC News Close up, January 30, 1979.
"There is no reason to believe" D (OSS) Memorandum for the File, 5 April 1946.
"injected into any type of food" ibid.
"TD appears to relax all inhibitions" ibid.
"to discuss psychologically charged topics" D (OSS) "Report on TD 'Truth Drugs,'"
2 June 1943.
"The drug defies all but" D (OSS) Memorandum for the File, "TD Material," 31 January 1946.
Description of Project CHATTER. D (CIA) Memorandum for the File, "Meeting with IAC Representatives of Project BLUEBIRD," 25 July 1951; and CR Biomedical and Behavioral Research, 1975, Joint Hearings before the Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare and the Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, September 10, 12, and November 7, 1975, p. 989.
"impossible to impose one's will" D (navy) "German Aviation Medical Research at the Dachau Concentration Camp," US Naval Technical Mission (Report no. 331- N45), October 1945.
Strughold, the German scientist whose chief subordinates A Charles R. Allen, Jr.,
"Hubertus Strughold, Nazi in USA," Jewish Currents, December 1974.
"the amounts of scopolamine" D (CIA) 8 June 1954 (untitled.).
"we're now convinced that we can maintain" D (CIA) "'ARTICHOKE,' Special Comments," 26 November 1952.
"to justify giving the green light" D (CIA) "ARTICHOKE Techniques," 21 June 1952.
"not fit for public consumption" D (CIA) "Subconscious Isolation," July 1951.
"broad and comprehensive, involving both domestic" D (CIA) Memorandum to the File, "Notes on meeting held 23 July 1951 in Room 2519 H Building and Room 2505-A H Building."
"exploitable alteration of personality" D (CIA) "Report of the Ad Hoc Medical Study Group," 15 January 1953.
"potential agents, defectors, refugees" D (CIA) "Organization of a Special Defense Interrogation Program," 11 June 1951.
fact-finding missions ... to procure samples of rare herbs D (CIA) "Exploration of Potential Plant Resources in the Caribbean Region," 7 February 1956.
"Cocaine's general effects have been" D (CIA) "Cocaine" (undated).
"produced free and spontaneous speech" ibid.
heroin that ex-Nazi pilots under CIA contract smuggled B William R. Corson, Armies of Ignorance: The Rise of the American Intelligence Empire, pp, 321 -22.
mobsters who moonlighted as CIA hitmen B Henrik Kruger, The Great Heroin Coup: Drugs, Intelligence, and International Fascism.
"can be useful in reverse because of the stresses" D (CIA) Memorandum for Assistant Director of Scientific Intelligence from R. J. Williams, Project Coordinator, "ARTICHOKE," 26 April 1952.
Enter LSD
Stoll reported that LSD produced A Arthur W Stoll, "LSD, a Hallucinatory Agent from the Ergot Group," Swiss Archives of Neurology 60 (1947): 279.
"on the conscious suppression of experimental" D (CIA) 21 October 1951 (untitled).
"at least twelve human subjects" D (CIA) "Experiments with LSD-25," 13 August 1954.
"he gave all the details of the secret" D (CIA) 2O July 1954 (untitled).
"for eliciting true and accurate statements" D (CIA) "Potential New Agent for Unconventional Warfare, LSD," 5 August 1954.
"We had thought at first that this was the secret" B quoted in Marks, p. 101.
"The most fascinating thing about it" O John Gittlinger quoted in Mission Mind Control.
"serious mental confusion, and render the mind" D (CIA) "An OSI Study on the Strategic Medical Significance of Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD-25)," 30 August 1955.
"Since information obtained from a person" CR "Truth Drugs in Interrogation, " Project MK-ULTRA. The CIA's Program of Research In Behavior Modification, Joint Hearing before the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research of the Committee on Human Resources, United States Senate, August 3, 1977, p. 32
"Although no Soviet data are available" D (CIA), "An OSI Study on the Strategic Medical Significance of Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD-25)," 30 August 1955.
"I'm sure they were" O quoted in Mission: Mind Control
"to produce anxiety or terror" CR "Truth Drugs in Interrogation," Project MK-ULTRA, p. 32 Security officials proposed that LSD be administered D (CIA) Memorandum for the Record, to Chief of Security Research Staff, from Chief, Technical Branch, "ARTICHOKE conference 22 October 1953," 16 November 1953.
"confined merely to male volunteer trainee" D (CIA) Memorandum for the Record, 19 November 1953.
smart shots, memory erasers, "anti-vitamins" D (CIA) Draft pertaining to MK-ULTRA, Subproject 35, 5 May 1955; "Report of Trip, 6 11 April 1955 to [deleted]"; Memorandum for Deputy Director of Plans, from Marshall S. Carter, "Report of Inspection of MK-ULTRA," 14 August 1963; Memorandum for Inspector General,
"Project OFTEN," 6 May 1974; and A Martin A. Lee, "CIA Carcinogen," Nation, June 5, 1982.
LSD was employed as an aid to interrogation D (CIA) "Specific Cases of Overseas Testing and Application of Behavioral Drugs" (undated); and Office Memorandum, 20 January 1959.
Laboratories of the State
CIA-linked conduits or cutouts A "Private Institutions Used in CIA Efforts to Control Behavior," New York Times, August 2, 1977.
The Boston Psychopathic Institute ... one hundred volunteers A Joseph B, Treatser,
"Researchers Say That Students Were among 200 Who Took LSD in Tests," New York Times, August 9, 1977.
"LSD and mescaline disorganize the psychic integration" A Paul H. Hoch, "Comments: Experimental Psychiatry," American Journal of Psychiatry, III (April 1955): 789.
"Don't worry ... it won't work" O Nick Bercel, comments at LSD Reunion in Los Angeles, February 16, 1979.
"If the concept of contaminating" D (CIA) "Information from Europe Related to the Ego-Depressants, 6 August to 29 August 1952," 4 September 1952.
"open the mind to the power of suggestion" D (CIA) "An OSI Study on the Strategic Medical Significance of Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD-251," 30 August 1955.
Description of Dr. Ewen Cameron's CIA research. B Marks, pp. 131-42.
NIMH and NIH were fully cognizant D (CIA) Memorandum for Liaison &. Security Officer/TSS, " An Account of the Chemical Division's Contacts in the NIH, " 24 July 1953.
a new drug (usually supplied by American pharmaceutical firms) D (CIA) Memorandum for Director of Central Intelligence on CIA R &. D Testing of Behavioral Drugs, from Inspector General Donald F. Chamberlain, 5 February 1975.
black inmates ... given LSD for more than seventy-five consecutive days B Marks,
p. 63.
"double, triple, quadruple doses" D (CIA) untitled report from Dr. Harris Isbell, 14 July 1954.
"continuous gales of laughter" D (CIA) H. Isbell, "Comparisons of the Reactions Induced by Psilocybin and LSD-25 in Man," 5 May 1959.
"will most probably be found in the biochemistry departments" D (CIA) untitled cable, 26 May 1954.
the purchase of ten kilos of LSD D (CIA) Memorandum to Chief of Security Research Staff, from Chief of Technical Branch, "ARTICHOKE Conference, 22 October 1953," 16 November 1953
"This is a closely guarded secret" D (CIA) Memorandum to Director of Central Intelligence via Deputy Director of Plans, "Potential Large-Scale Availability of LSD through Newly-Discovered Synthesis by [deleted]," 26 October 1954.
Midnight Climax
"The minds of selected individuals" D (CIA) "Summary of Remarks by Dulles at the National Alumni Conference of the Graduate Council of Princeton University -- Brain Warfare," 10 April 1953.
"Aside from the offensive potential" D (CIA) Memorandum from Assistant Deputy Director of Plans Helms to Director of Central Intelligence Dulles, 3 April 1953.
attempting to have a hypnotized subject kill D (CIA) "ARTICHOKE Report," 22
January 1954; and A "CIA Document Tells of 1954 Project to Create Involuntary Assassins," New York Times, February 9, 1978.
"to high officials would be a relatively simple matter" D (CIA) "Summary of Conversations with [deleted] on 11 January 1952," 5 February 1952.
"There was an extensive amount of self-experimentation" CR Human Drug Testing by the CIA, p. 185.
"produce serious insanity for periods" D (CIA) Memorandum to Chief of Security Research Staff, "Subject: Attached," 15 December 1954.
"I didn't want to leave it" B Marks, p. 69.
"He reported afterwards ... that every automobile" B ibid., p, 71.
"a psychotic state ... with delusions of persecution" B ibid" p. 81.
a mildly worded reprimand D (CIA) Memorandum from Allen W Dulles to Chief of Chemical Division, TSS, 10 February 1954.
White's harem of prostitutes became the focal point B Marks, pp. 94-97.
"So far as I'm concerned ... 'clear thinking' was non-existent" L George Hunter White to Harvey Powelson, September 30, 1970.
There he sat with gun in hand shooting wax slugs O Mission: Mind Control.
"concepts involved in manipulating human behavior" D (CIA) "Report of Inspection of MK-ULTRA," 14 August 1963.
"positive operational capacity to use drugs" D (CIA) Memorandum for Director of Central Intelligence, via Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, "Unwitting Testing," 9 November 1965.
"Soviet research in the pharmacological agents" D (CIA) Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee Rankin, General Counsel, President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, "Soviet Brainwashing Techniques," 26 June 1964.
"I was a very minor missionary" B quoted in Marks, p. 101.
Helms, who characterized the drugs as ''dynamite" CR "Kirkpatrick Diary," 2 December 1953, Biomedical and Behavioral Research, p. 1090.
One scheme involved dusting Castro's shoes CR Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders, Interim Report of the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with respect to Intelligence Activities, United States Senate, November 20, 1975, p. 72.
Gottlieb carried a stash of acid overseas D (CIA) "Project MK-ULTRA," 9 June 1954.
The Hallucination Battlefield
"I do not contend that driving people crazy" A "An Interview with Major General William M. Creasy," This Week, May 17, 1959.
"attacks the sensory, perception, and nerve centers" CR Biological and Radiological Warfare Agents, Hearings before the Committee on Science and Astronautics, United States House of Representatives, June 16 and 22, 1959, p. 3.
"How can we determine it? What is the test" ibid., pp. 24-25.
"we could possibly have you dancing on the desks" ibid.
Blauer, a tennis professional, was the subject of a drug study D (army) "Inspector General's Report of Inquiry into the Facts and Circumstances surrounding the Death of Mr. Harold Blauer at the New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI) and Subsequent Claims and Actions, DAIG-IN 27-75, 1975.
"immediate, massive, and almost shocklike picture" ibid.
"It is possible that a certain amount of brain damage" B Hoch quoted in Marks, p. 123.
a hallucinogen was administered along a local A Martin Porter, "Crimes over the Cuckoo's Nest," Village Voice, September 4, 1978.
"obviously having paranoid ideas" O Mission: Mind Control.
"from total incapacity to marked decrease" D (army) "Use of Volunteers in Chemical
Agent Research," Report of the Inspector General, DAIG-IN 21-75, 1975, pp. 116-18.
Some staff members even tried to teach ibid., pp. 118-25.
Soldiers ... were given LSD and confined to sensory deprivation chambers CR Foreign and Military Intelligence, Final Report of the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with respect to Intelligence Activities, United States Senate, Vol. I, p. 412.
"interrogator of limited experience could compel" D (army) "Use of Volunteers in Chemical Agent Research," P 117.
"Stressing techniques employed included silent treatment" D (army) "SPT Trip Report, Operation THIRD CHANCE,!' 6 September 1961.
"The subject often voiced an anti-communist line" D (army) "Report on Army Drug Testing: Material Testing Program EA 1729, Project THIRD CHANCE, and Project DERBY HAT," 23 January 1976.
"I was attempting to put on, with a good cover" CR Chemical, Biological and Radiological Warfare Agents, p. 5.
four hundred chemical "rejects" every month ibid., p. 32.
"During the period of acute effects" CR Biomedical and Behavioral Research, pp. 210-21.
Sim said he sampled LSD "on several occasions" A Bill Richards" Army Stockpiles BZ Drugs in Bombs," Washington Post, August 3, 1975.
"It's not a matter of compulsiveness" A "Self-Exposure to Psychochemicals," Armed Forces Journal, May-June 1960.
"It zonked me for three days" A Bill Richards, "Army Stockpiles BZ Drugs in Bombs," Washington Post, August 3, 1975.
"at the risk of grave personal injury" A "Self-Exposure to Psychochemicals," Armed Forces Journal, May-June 1960.
"The Army's testing of BZ was just a sideshow" A quoted in Bill Richards, "Army Test Subjects Got Super Hallucinogen," Washington Post, July 25, 1975.
"The last time I saw him" A quoted in Normal Kempster, "U.S. Didn't Check Gas Test Subjects," Los Angeles Times, July 19, 1979.
The superhallucinogen was ready for deployment B Seymour Hersh, Chemical and Biological Warfare, p. 45.
"We will use these things" CR Chemical. Biological and Radiological Warfare Agents, p. 3.
CHAPTER TWO: PSYCHEDELIC PIONEERS
The Original Captain Trips
Unless otherwise indicated, all quotes from Captain Al Hubbard in this section of the text are based on an interview with Hubbard by Dr. Oscar Janiger, October 13, 1978.
"Most people are walking in their sleep" B quoted in Gunther M. Weil, Ralph Metzner, and Timothy Leary, eds. The Psychedelic Reader, p. 83.
"I did not relish the possibility" B quoted in Aldous Huxley, Moksha, p. 36.
"It was ... without question the most extraordinary" ibid., p. 42.
"what Adam had seen on the morning" B Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception, p. 17.
"come about as the result of biochemical discoveries", B Moksha, p. 156.
"Your nice Captain tried a new" ibid., p. 69.
"What came through the closed door" ibid. p. 81
"What Babes in the Wood" ibid., p. 70.
"a deep and genuine religious experience" B quoted in John W. Aiken, "The Church of the Great Awakening," in Osmond and Aaronson, eds., Psychedelics, p. 174.
"extensive emotional re-education" A J. R. MacLean, B.C. MacDonald, U.P. Byrne, and A.M. Hubbard, "The Use of LSD-25 in the Treatment of Alcoholism and Other Problems," Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcoholism, 22 (1961): 43-44.
"Cost me a couple of thousand dollars" O Hubbard, remarks at LSD Reunion in Los Angeles, February 16, 1979.
"We humbly as Our Heavenly Mother" O church bulletin by Rev. J. E. Brown, "Introduction to the LSD Experience," December 8, 1957.
"We waited for him like the little old lady" O Dr. Oscar Janiger, remarks at LSD Reunion in Los Angeles, February 16, 1979.
"I don't know how Al's Washington affairs" I Dr. Humphry Osmond with M. Lee, May 13, 1978.
[Hubbard] was employed by Teledyne, L Leon H. Steinman, Assistant to the Executive Vice-President, Teledyne, Inc., to J. L. Goddard, FDA Commissioner, May 23, 1966.
"Cappy was sort of a double agent" I Oscar Janiger with M. Lee, February 2, 1979.
"If you don't think it's the most amazing thing" I A. M. Hubbard with M. Lee, February 16, 1979.
Healing Acid
"perhaps by coincidence, LSD" CR Letter from Robert Bernstein to Lieutenant Colonel William R Jordan, in Biomedical and Behavioral Research, pp. 96-97.
"To make this trivial world sublime" B quoted in Peter Stafford, Psychedelics Encyclopedia, p. 5.
"To fathom hell or soar angelic" ibid.
"include concepts of enriching the mind" B Humphry Osmond, "Clinical Effects of Psychotomimetic Agents," in David Solomon, ed., LSD: The Consciousness Expanding Drug, p. 148.
"corresponds better to the effects" A Michael Horowitz, "Interview with Albert Hofmann," High Times, July 1976.
schizophrenics did not experience the wealth, A John M. MacDonald and James A. Calvin, "Experimental Psychotic States," American Journal of Psychiatry 112 (June, 1956): 972.
"The self disappears" B Octavio Paz, Alternating Current, p. 84.
"You start with yourself, A quoted in J. R. MacLean, et al., "The Use of LSD-25 in the Treatment of Alcoholism and Other Problems," Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcoholism, 22 (1961): 43
"All my life" B quoted in Allen Celler and Maxwell Boas, The Drug Beat, p. 220.
"[Whatever] reduces integrative capacity" D (CIA) "Report of the Ad Hoc Medical Study Croup," 15 January 1953.
"LSD favors the prepared mind." I Oscar Janiger with M. Lee, May 28, 1985.
Description of Allen Ginsberg's first LSD experience. I Allen Ginsberg with M Lee and B. Shlain, April 1980.
"It is a multiple million eyed monster" B Allen Ginsberg, "Lysergic Acid," Kaddish, p.86.
"being part of a cosmic conspiracy" B quoted in Larry Sloman, Reefer Madness, p. 177.
Psychosis or Gnosis?
"what they felt might be an essential matrix" A Oscar Janiger "The Use of Hallucinogenic Agents in Psychiatry," California Clinician, July-August 1959.
"Under the influence of mescaline" B William Burroughs, "Points of Distinction Between Sedative and Consciousness-Expanding Drugs," in David Soiomon, ed., The Marijuana Papers, p. 443.
"Our preoccupation with behavior" B Humphry Osmond, "Clinical Effects of Psychotomimetic Agents," in Solomon, LSD: The Consciousness Expanding Drug, p 144.
"Those idiots want to be Pavlovians" B Huxley, Moksha, p. 186.
"Primitive man explored the" ibid., p. 23.
Certain scholars believe that the fabled Soma B R. Cordon Wasson, Soma Divine Mushroom of Immortality.
strong evidence that ergot ... was the mysterious kykeon B R. Cordon Wasson, Carl A.P. Ruck, and Albert Hofmann, The Road to Eleusis.
"a truth which the world of Europe" B Antonin Artaud, The Peyote Dance, p. 34.
"the cataclysm which was my body" ibid., p. 45.
"Once one has experienced a visionary state" ibid., p. 38.
"it transcends those fashionable ruts" B Humphry Osmond, "Clinical Effects of Psychotomimetic Agents," in Solomon, LSD: The Consciousness Expanding Drug, p 146.
Hoch was ..."an opinion leader" B Sanford M. Unger, "Mescaline, LSD, Psilocybin and Personality Change," in Solomon, LSD: The Consciousness Expanding Drug, p. 207.
"essentially anxiety producing drugs" A Paul H. Hoch, "Remarks on LSD and Mescaline," Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 125 (1957): 442.
"results obtained in patients where tranquilizing drugs" A Paul H. Hoch, "Remarks on LSD and Mescaline," Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 125 ( 1957): 444.
"In my experience ... no patient asks for it" B "Group Interchange," in Harold Abramson, ed., The Use of LSD in Psychotherapy: Transactions of a Conference, p. 58.
"He had some visual hallucinations" A Paul H. Hoch, "Experimentally Produced Psychoses, American Journal of Psychiatry, 107 (February 1951): 609.
"It did not influence the symptoms" ibid.
"An interesting theory can always outrun" A Audrey R. Holliday, "The Hallucinogens: A Consideration of Semantics and Methodology with Particular Reference to Psychological Studies," in R. Featherstone and A. Simon, eds., A Pharmacologic Approach to the Study of the Mind, p. 260.
CHAPTER THREE: UNDER THE MUSHROOM, OVER THE RAINBOW
Manna From Harvard
[Luce] encouraged his correspondents to collaborate ... with the CIA A Carl Bernstein, "The CIA and the Media," Rolling Stone, October 20, 1977.
[Luce] turned on a half dozen times B W. A. Swanberg, Luce and His Empire, p. 463; and Wilfred Sheed, Clare Boothe Luce, p. 125.
"Oh sure, we all took acid" O Clare Boothe Luce, remarks on The Dick Cavett Show, April 9, 1982.
"We wouldn't want everyone doing too much" B quoted in Abbie Hoffman, Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture, p. 73.
"We were never more awake" A R. Gordon Wasson, "Seeking the Magic Mushroom," Life, May 27, 1957.
"The Leary," which was used by the CIA A Richard Levine, "Ram Dass' USA," Rolling Stone, April 22, 1976.
"It was above all and without question A Timothy Leary, "The Religious Experience: Its Production and Interpretation," in Weil, et. al., The Psychedelic Reader, p. 191.
"I discovered that beauty" B Timothy Leary, High Priest, p. 12.
"handsome, clean-cut, witty" B quoted in Stewart Tendler and David May, The Brotherhood of Eternal Love, p. 46.
"We rode out to his place" O Humphry Osmond, remarks at the LSD Reunion in Los Angeles, February 16, 1979.
"We would avoid the behaviorist approach" B Leary, High Priest, p. 66.
"indistinguishable from, if not identical with" B quoted in Huston Smith, "Do Drugs Have Religious Import?" in Solomon, LSD: The Consciousness Expanding Drug, p. 159.
Chemical Crusaders
"We're going to teach people to stop hating" B quoted in Leary, High Priest, p. 120.
"the very technology stereotyping" B Allen Ginsberg, Introduction to Jail Notes by Timothy Leary, p. 9.
"We were thinking far-out history thoughts" B Leary, Neuropolitics, p. 3.
"Politics, religion, economics" B Leary, High Priest, p. 340.
"Oh yeah, anything" I Allen Ginsberg (quoting Dizzy Gillespie, with M. Lee and B. Shlain, April 1980.
"perceived the interrelationship of all life" B quoted in J. C. Thomas, Chasin' the Trane, p. 215.
"It's philosophical ... the Rolls-Royce of dope" B quoted in Leary, Flashbacks, p. 55.
"Mainly I felt like a floating Khan" L Jack Kerouac to Timothy Leary, undated.
"I was so high on bourbon" B Charles Olson, Muthologos, Vol, I, p. 22.
"a love feast, a truth pill" ibid., p. 32.
"wretched shame that we don't have it" ibid" p. 23.
"When they come after you" I Allen Ginsberg, quoting Charles Olson, with M. Lee and B. Shlain, April, 1980.
"Leary used to argue" B Olson, p. 38.
"we were probably too proselytizing" I Allen Ginsberg with M. Lee and B. Shlain, April 1980.
"Love conquers all" ibid.
"This is wonderful, no doubt" B quoted in Leary, Flashbacks, p. 59.
"You don't need drugs to get high" A William Burroughs, "Academy 23," Village Voice, July 6, 1967
"At the immediate risk of finding" B William Burroughs, Nova Express, p. 13.
"What I had experienced" B Michael Hollingshead, The Man Who Turned on the World, p. 10.
"The reality on which I had consciously" ibid., p. 12.
"It came sudden and irresistible" B Leary, High Priest, p. 246.
"LSD involved risk" B Hollingshead, p. 12.
"Uncontrolled experimentation has in the past" D (CIA) Memorandum for the Record, "International Federation for Internal Freedom (IFIF), ALPERT, Richard, LEARY; Timothy," 1 November 1963.
"I have this friend who's a very important" B quoted in Leary, Flashbacks, pp. 128-29.
"I can't give you all the details" ibid., p. 154.
she and JFK smoked pot together A Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, review of The
Kennedys by Peter Collier and David Horowitz, New York Times, June 13, 1984.
"De Quincey's Confessions of an Opium Eater" B quoted in Alan Harrington, "A Visit to Inner Space," in Solomon, LSD: The Consciousness Expanding Drug, p. 87.
Kelman, recipient of a small grant A AI Larkin, "The CIA Funded Opponent of Leary," Boston Globe, September 1, 1977.
"I question whether this project" A quoted in Noah Cordon, "the Hallucinogenic Drug Cult," New Yorker, August 15, 1963.
"These drugs apparently cause panic" B quoted in Geller and Boas, p. 166.
"I liked Tim when we first met" O Al Hubbard, interview with Oscar Janiger, October 13, 1978.
"LSD is so powerful ... a thousand rumors" O Leary to reporter Bob Caines, quoted in "LSD. Hollywood's Status-Symbol Drug."
"Some day it will be quite humorous" A quoted in Noah Cordon, New Yorker, August, 15, 1963.
"the Establishment's apparatus for training" B quoted in Geller and Boas, p, 164.
"From this time on ... dimly understand" B Leary, High Priest, p. 131.
The Crackdown
"with the proper precautions psychedelics are safe" A Sidney Cohen, "Lysergic Acid Diethylamide: Side Effects and Complications," Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 130 119601: 30, 39.
"sensitive to their scientific integrity" CR Letter from Alexander Naimon to Senator Edward Kennedy, Biomedical and Behavioral Research, p. 1144.
"It was a very intense period" A "The Compass Rose of Consciousness: An Interview with Dr. Oscar Janiger," L.A. Weekly, November 13-19, 1981.
"may have been subject to the deleterious effects" B Jonathan O. Cole and Martin M. Katz, "The Psychotomimetic Drugs: An Overview," in Solomon, LSD: The Consciousness Expanding Drug, p. 237.
"At one time it was impossible to find" A Roy S. Grinkler, Sr., "Editorial: Lysergic Acid Diethylamide," in Solomon, LSD: The Consciousness Expanding Drug, pp. 228-29.
"latent psychotics are disintegrating under the influence" ibid.
to orient its behavioral activities exclusively toward operations CR "Report of Inspection of MK-ULTRA," August 13, 1963, Biomedical and Behavorial Research, p. 903.
"Why if they were worthwhile six months ago" CR Organization and Coordination of Federal Drug Research and Regulatory Programs: LSD, Hearings before the Subcommittee on Executive Reorganization of the Committee on Government Operations, United States Senate, May 24-26, 1966, pp. 72-75.
"We are abdicating our statutory responsibilities" CR Letter from William V. Vodra to Richard A Merrill, July 28, 1975, Biomedical and Behavioral Research, p. 513.
The FDA collaborated with the Agency D (CIA) "Report of Inspection of MK-ULTRA," 13 August 1963; "ARTICHOKE Conference, 16 April 1953," 11 May 1953; Office Memorandum for Acting Deputy Assistant Director of Scientific Intelligence, from Chief of Medical Division, SI, "Secured Personnel for Special 'ARTICHOKE' Project," 7 April 1953.
"The whole thing was just moving geometrically" O Oscar Janiger, remarks at the LSD Reunion in Los Angeles, February 16, 1979
CHAPTER FOUR: PREACHING LSD
High Surrealism
"It's only a matter of time" O Leary, comments to reporter Bob Gaines, quoted in "LSD: Hollywood's Status-Symbol Drug."
"Light and free you let go" B Laura Huxley, "Oh Nobly Born!" in Huxley, Moksha, pp. 265-66.
"We lived out a myth" B Hollingshead, p. 99.
"It hardly registered" B Arthur Kleps, Millbrook, p. 51.
"How can I make more money" ibid.
Dr Max Jacobson served as JFK's personal physician B Leary, Flashbacks, p. 200.
"LSD was fun" B Paul Krassner, "My First LSD Trip," in Paul Krassner, ed. The Best of the Realist, pp. 145-46.
NASA scientist Steve Groff turned up at Millbrook B Hollingshead, p. 124.
"Objects are seen that are not objectively there" A Ralph Metzner, "Subjective Effects of Anti-Cholinergic Drugs," Journal of Psychedelic Drugs October-December 1977.
"All night, I alternated between eyes open terror" B Kleps, Millbrook, p. 12.
"I was knocked to the floor" ibid., p. 74.
"Apparently, those in control of the instrumentalities of coercive power" ibid., p. 125.
"Art, this is not a psychedelic love message" ibid., p. 208
The Psychedelic Manual
"For every clarification that one arrives at" B Kleps, Millbrook, p. 211.
"Zen and Buddhist stock rose sharply" ibid., p. 58.
"I have never recovered from that shattering ontological confrontation" B Leary, High Priest, p. 256.
"recurring science fiction paranoia" ibid., p. 257.
"incredibly specific about the sequence and nature" B Leary, Psychedelic Prayers, p. 3.
"the comforting darkness of selfhood" B Huxley, Doors, p 56.
"everything that happened would be proof of the conspiracy" ibid., p. 57.
"if there was somebody there to tell me about the Clear Light" ibid.
"Let's face it -- LSD is not the key" B Hollingshead, p. 9.
"If you can't let go and instead grab the first life-saver" B Kleps, Millbrook, p. 242.
"Is it entirely inconceivable" A Leary, "The Religious Experience Its Production and Interpretation," in Weil, Leary, and Metzner eds, The Psychedelic Review, p. 203.
"God does exist and is to me" B Timothy Leary, The Politics of Ecstasy, p. 223
"Nine times out of ten" B Kleps, Boohoo Bible, p. 19.
"faster and sneakier" ibid.
"It is as if Leary" B Kleps, Millbrook, p. 29.
"what I, as a poet" B quoted in Leary, High Priest, p. 110.
"the whole fucking cosmos broke loose around me" B Letter from Allen Ginsberg to William Burroughs, Yage Letters, p. 55.
"Your own heart is your guru" B quoted in Paul Portuges, The Visionary Poetics of Allen Ginsberg, p. 93.
"I spent about fifteen-twenty years" B Allen Ginsberg, Allen Verbatim, p. 18.
The Hard Sell
"Find the wisdom" B Leary, Politics, p. 288.
"would be sold like beer" B Kleps, Millbrook, p. 25.
"In a carefully prepared, loving LSD session" B Leary, Politics, p. 106.
"It's all God's flesh" B quoted in Kleps, Boohoo Bible, p. 207.
"I would say that at present our society" B Leary, Politics, p. 243.
"Tim had what we needed" B Kleps, Millbrook, p. 203.
"Of course I'm a charlatan" ibid., p. 290.
"It was easier to see him" B Hollingshead, p. 57.
George Blake, the convicted spy who penetrated ibid., p. 177.
"the panties were dropping as fast as the acid" A G. Gordon Liddy, "The Great Dutchess County Dope Raid," True, June 1975.
CHAPTER FIVE: THE ALL-AMERICAN TRIP
The Great Freak Forward
"Before I took drugs" B quoted in Burton Wolfe, The Hippies, p. 201.
"The first drug trips were" B Ken Kesey, Garage Sale, p. 175.
"tootling the multitudes" B Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, p. 88.
"The purpose of psychedelics" B quoted in B. Wolfe, p. 203.
"Neal Cassady drove Jack Kerouac" B Ginsberg, Introduction to Leary, Jail Notes, p. 8.
"the yoga of a man driven to the cliff edge" B Kesey, p. 220.
"creeping religiosity" B T. Wolfe, p. 113.
"It was like hail and farewell" ibid., p. 90.
"they thought we were square" I Michael Hollingshead with M. Lee, July 21, 1981.
"When you've got something like we've got" B quoted in T. Wolfe, p. 172.
"We're in the same business" A quoted in Warren Hinckle, "A Social History of the Hippies," Ramparts, March 1967.
"It was a very electric atmosphere" B Hunter Thompson, Hell's Angels, p. 300.
Acid and the New Left
"the storms of youth" B Lautreamont, Poesies, quoted in Point Blank by the Situationist International, October 1972, p. 41.
"There's a time when the operation" B quoted in Paul Jacobs and Saul Landau, The New Radicals, p. 61.
"Social radicals tend to be 'arty' " B Hunter Thompson, "The Nonstudent Left," The Great Shark Hunt, p. 403.
"When a young person took his first puff" I Michael Rossman with M. Lee, November 11, 1978.
"a dead wet dog on a cool morning" B Michael McClure, Meat Science Essays, P. 41.
"The acid experience is so concrete" I Carl Oglesby with M. Lee, April 24, 1979.
"Do you want to know how to stop" B quoted in T. Wolfe, p. 199.
"Being a musician means" B quoted in Miles, Bob Dylan: In His Own Words, p. 114.
"He was LSD on stage" B quoted in Anthony Scaduto, Dylan, p. 235.