Re: IVIV: chapter seven—Lords of Acid

[Mark Kohut]

The CIA has surrounded us, at the least---at worst, well ....----like TV from much earlier than TV..........



--- On Mon, 9/28/09, Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: IVIV: chapter seven—Lords of Acid
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Monday, September 28, 2009, 6:16 PM
> 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.
> 
>