LSD
Where each worldview places it
A mind-control drug, not a liberation: made widely available by a Brotherhood-CIA operation[1] and "unleashed" to destroy any chance of positive change emerging from the 1960s[2].
- Controls / directs
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- Answers to / controlled by
- Dates
- 1950s (experiments)
- 1953 (CIA takes the whole supply)
- 1960s (promoted as the 'freedom' drug)[3]
- Key events
- Author's claims · 3
- 01"The CIA experimented with LSD before it was promoted as the 'freedom' drug of the 1960s"[4].
- 02It was widely used in Ewen Cameron's experiments, "creates confusion", and was given to thousands of US soldiers[5].
- 03Richard Helms, CIA chief at the time of Watergate and Angleton's patron, destroyed most of the MKUltra documents in 1973[6].