Pynchon's California

[Thomas Eckhardt]

Am 27.10.2014 um 15:57 schrieb Dave Monroe:
> Pynchon's California Trilogy and the CIA
>
> http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pynchon's_California_Trilogy_and_the_CIA 
> <http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pynchon%27s_California_Trilogy_and_the_CIA>

Naaah, it is all about family and work...

But seriously: This is good stuff. The important question, which I 
assume has been addressed elsewhere, is: How did Pynchon know about 
MK-Ultra? If not by name, then about what Gootlieb etc. did (and let us 
not forget that the conditioning of children -- which as yet is an 
unproven assertion about MK-Ultra, conspiracy lore -- not only provides 
the background to Slothrop in GR but turns up again in BE). John Marks' 
seminal study "The Manchurian Candidate" was published in 1979.

pynchonwiki mentions "The Brotherhood of Eternal Love" which also 
inspired Don Winslow's "Kings of Cool". I haven't gotten around to 
reading the article --

http://www.ocweekly.com/2005-07-07/features/lords-of-acid/full/

-- but recommend "Acid Dreams" by Shlain and Lee. There you will also 
encounter a guy named Ronald Hadley Stark (starting p. 191) who was one 
of the most intriguing characters in the murky world of 1960s/1970s deep 
politics.

Stark turned out to be a CIA agent, of course, but certainly off off the 
record.

Thomas



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