LSD, JFK, CIA?

[jbor]

on 8/8/01 6:03 AM, Doug Millison at DMillison at ftmg.net wrote:

> The point is not was LSD secret.

But Oedipa doesn't seem at all non-plussed about Hilarius's use of those
various hallucinogens in "the experiment he was helping the community
hospital run." (10) The point certainly doesn't seem to be that the use of
LSD, cactus juice, mushrooms etc was being kept secret by anyone either. I
think the image which immediately follows (Uncle Sam as a junky) doesn't so
much indict the C.I.A. for the irresponsible use of mind-altering substances
in research as it does the mainstream of American science and govt. (cf. Who
put the coke in Coca-Cola in _GR_?)

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