Special Agent Roy Ibble reporting . . .

[Doug Millison]

At 9:42 AM -0700 10/4/99, Doug Millison wrote:
[snip]The truth serum passages in GR seem to me to lend
>themselves to interpretation as a commentary on the CIA experimentation
>with drugs in the 50s and 60s that have been amply documented by
>investigative journalists.

I left out another key point of agreement with Andrew's post:  TRP seems to
have tapped into this CIA drugs skullduggery before most of the
investigative work was done that has, in the years since GR was published,
aired the CIA's role in this business. Andrew McCoy's trailblazing _The
Politics of Heroin:  CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade_  (to name one
of the earlier exposes) didn't appear in print until 1972 (a revised and
edition appeared in 1991), probably too late to be a TRP source for GR.

And, as Charles Hollander's fine article on COL49 and the CIA in the latest
Pynchon Notes suggests, TRP seems to have been on the CIA's case long
before GR appeared.

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