LSD, JFK, CIA?

[wood jim]

http://www.salon.com/sept97/news/news970925.html


If you type LSD AND CIA AND JFK into a search engine
you will get the story below. You will also get the
Salon article. 

How did Richard Farina know about government 
research of hallucinogens in 1961-63? 

Like Pynchon, it seems, he read the newspapers and
popular magazines. 

P has great fun with all this paranoid stuff
in GR where LSD is but one of the chemicals 
produced by THEM. 





--- Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:
> Oh yeah, Mary Pinchot had been the wife of Cord
> Meyer of CIA
> renoun  and then had an affair with Leary and
> perhaps was
> married to him for a while. Leary was suspected
> probably not
> very seriously of being a CIA agent because of the
> Pinchot
> connection. Meyer by the way was Ben Bradlee's
> brother in
> law. Bradlee was Washington Post editor and famous
> for
> Pentagon Papers publication and directing  the
> Watergate
> investigative reporting. In a related angle the CIA
> contemplated slipping Castro LSD while he was making
> one of
> his speeched but dropped idea because of uncertainty
> over
> individual reactions to the drug. Kennedy had no
> doubt had
> an affair with Mary Meyer. He did with everyone
> else.
> 
>                 P.
> 
> 
> 
> Paul Mackin wrote:
> 
> > I just thought of an obvious connection between
> JFK and
> > LSD. Mary Pinchot a friend of JFK and his wife was
> shot
> > and killed on the C&P towpath. Pichot had been
> connected
> > with Leary in a way  I don't precisely remember. 
> Should
> > look it up. It may be in the Hollander essay.
> Feeling
> > conspiratorial this morning.
> >
> >                                                 P.
> > Paul Mackin wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> Tim Strzechowski wrote:
> >>
> >> > By the way, who the hell first put JFK on the
> subject
> >> > line of this thread?  We
> >> > haven't discussed anything regarding JFK
> directly, have
> >> > we?  It's all so
> >> > disconcerting!
> >>
> >> Thought it was you adding to Wood Jim on who was
> doing
> >> what with LSD in the early 60s inluding the CIA. 
> The
> >> inclusion of the JFK initials made it sound like 
> a
> >> takeoff on or echo of on the Charles Hollander
> essay.
> >> All in all it was quite an appropriate thread
> title for
> >> Doug and my discusion which had actually started
> under
> >> another heading.
> >>
> >>                 P.
> >
> 


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