Pynchon's California

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

Could imagine that Pynchon heard about Ultra during his time at the Navy.

About the simply incredible Ronald Hadley Stark - a Pynchonian character 
if there ever was one - do see here:

http://www.brainsturbator.com/posts/188/ronald-hadley-stark-the-man-behind-the-lsd-curtain 



On 27.10.2014 19:19, Thomas Eckhardt wrote:
> 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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