Re: IVIV: chapter seven—Lords of Acid

[Robin Landseadel]

On Sep 28, 2009, at 11:05 AM, Michael Bailey wrote:

> Robin Landseadel wrote:
>
>>> and consider the source.
>>
>> The source is an article from the OC Weekly.
>>
>> http://www.ocweekly.com/2005-07-07/features/lords-of-acid/1
>>
>> Plenty of citations. It's true that there's oodles of  
>> disinformation buzzing
>> around Timothy Leary.
>>
>
> wait, that's what I meant.  The source is this "Stubby" guy who  
> strikes me
> as not the most veracious cat in the room.
> I read the article.  There isn't anything else about Leary's CIA
> connection except that
> one statement.  Is there?  I don't want to reread it just now, but
> should I - if I missed what I was specifically looking for...
>
> -- 
> "Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the
> revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world
> declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism." -
> Martin Luther King

Those connections may not be in the OCWeekly article, meanwhile here's  
a few articles from the interweb:

	"Don't you understand," Leary barked, "I'm talking about a very
	narrow segment of CIA activity which has to do with personality
	assessment. The OSS was the forerunner of CIA mind stuff...
	OSS founded... Howard Murray, who was the head of the OSS,
	the started the personality research. MacKinnon who was OSS,
	started personality assessment research, so that all personality
	assessment in the 1950's was basically CIA initiated..."

	http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/hambone/tlcia.html

	1969: Leary critics will eventually point with suspicion to his
	close connections during this time to an international LSD-
	smuggling cartel, the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, which is
	rumored to be a CIA front. The Brotherhood is controlled by
	Ronald Stark, whom an Italian High Court will later conclude
	has been a CIA agent since 1960, and the Brotherhood's funds
	are channeled through Castle Bank in the Bahamas, a known
	CIA "proprietary." For two years Leary lives at Brotherhood
	headquarters, located on a ranch in Laguna Beach. During this
	period, the Brotherhood corners the U.S. market on LSD and
	begins distributing only one variety of the drug, "Orange
	Sunshine." Stark says he plans to distribute the product to CIA-
	backed guerillas fighting Chinese occupation; he reportedly
	knows a high-placed Tibetan close to the Dalai Lama, and
	wants to provide enough LSD to dose all Chinese troops in
	Tibet. In the U.S., meanwhile, Stark provides enough Orange
	Sunshine to dose the hippie culture and radical left many times
	over. This is the "bad acid" on which Charles Manson's
	followers murder Sharon Tate, and on which Hell's Angels stab
	to death a black man during a concert by the Rolling Stones.
	The Summer of Love has been supplanted by a Season of
	Hate. Because of this, many countercultural insiders -- including
	William S. Burroughs, White Panther leader John Sinclair, and
	Merry Prankster Ken Kesey -- will eventually entertain the
	theory that Stark, Leary, and Orange Sunshine are all part of
	CIA plot to discredit and neutralize the radical left. According to
	former radicals Martin Lee and Bruce Shalin, widespread use of
	Orange Sunshine "contributed significantly to the demise of the
	New Left, for it heightened the metabolism of the body politic
	and accelerated all the changes going on... In its hyped-up 	
	condition, the New Left burned itself out."

	. . .1973-78: After two years of "jet-setting" in Switzerland, Leary
	returns to the U.S. By his own account, this has occured through
	 the machinations of CIA; Leary says they have "kidnapped"
	him. He is convicted on drug charges, and begins doing hard
	time at Folsom Prison. This seems clear evidence, again, that
	suspicions about his ultimate loyalties are merely left-wing
	paranoia. But after a few months out of public view, Leary
	comes into the open as a government informant. Under the
	code-name CHARLIE THRUSH, he turns State's evidence
	against the Weather Underground. Freed from prison, he is
	taken into custody for fear that radical revolutionaries have
	marked him for execution. His former colleagues in the
	movement form a group calling itself People Investigating
	Leary's Lies (PILL). Abbie Hoffmann declares that "Timothy
	Leary is a name worse than Benedict Arnold." Allen Ginsburg
	says that Leary is "like Zabbath Zvi, false Messiah, accepted by
	millions of Jews centuries ago."
	
	http://home.dti.net/lawserv/leary.html

I don't know the level of veracity of these articles. But it looks  
possible to me. There are other articles on the same general subject  
and of course they will not be displaying signs of association with  
the MSM but that's how it goes, at least for the moment. So this sort  
of thing may be coming from the wingnut community or conversely may  
have created the wingnut community.