Vincent Bugliosi pre Reclaiming History

[Jan Klimkowski]

Anyone who has taken acid trips or babysat for a person tripping knows that LSD is not an addictive drug and that it is not a drug of overt control.

However, it is a drug that enables one person to influence and manipulate the perceptions of another person. This is why shrinks have a long and ongoing history of continuing to use LSD in therapy, sometimes in specially licensed clinics.

Set and setting.

LSD, like many natural hallucinogenices, can also be used in rites of passage.

In journeys from one emotional state to another.

My own considered suspicion is that LSD can be used in "imprinting". To "record" an incident at the neuronal level is a particularly vivid fashion, in the same fashion that neurologists have now proven that trauma causes memory to be laid down in a dangerously potent fashion.

There are also claims that "Manson Acid" was not always LSD.

Adam Gorightly made the following observations in the The Shadow over Santa Susana:

Through his lectures, written material and personal correspondence, I have pieced together John Judge's version of the Manson Family Conspiracy, extrapolated from the seeds of Mae Brussell's seminal research. Part of Judge's argument stems from a conversation Charles Manson had with Tim Leary in Folsom Prison - when the two were located in cells next to each other - and Manson asked Leary why he did not "use acid to control people?" To Judge, Charlie's question revealed a basic contradiction, because LSD - in his opinion - was a drug that would be useless as a control agent of any sort, except to create a state of confusion. For anyone who's experimented to any degree with LSD, it quickly becomes evident that - as an agent to control minds - it's a highly unpredictable compound.

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It is Judge's opinion - along with that of the late Mae Brussell - that the type of "acid" the Mansonoids were using was a military version, unlike the stuff found on the streets, and though it was called "acid" was actually different from LSD-25. Judge believes that the MK-ULTRA version of "acid" was a psilocybin derivative called EA1729 that was used at Wright Patterson Air Force Base as part of MK-ULTRA experiments. According to Judge, this is the same "acid" that a buddy of David Berkowitz's named Terry Patterson - who served with him in Korea - claimed Berkowitz was given by the "brass" while in the Army, when he was placed in a special program reportedly for "profiled" candidates, after he asked for conscientious objector status. Mae Brussell was convinced that Berkowitz was another in a long list of MK-ULTRA patsies, and more correctly referred to him as "Son of Uncle Sam".

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It has also been documented that Tex Watson tripped out on a belladonna concoction - Telache - a short time before the Tate-LaBianca murders, and was never "quite the same". Belladonna has a long history in the annals of espionage, another of the slew of chemical compounds used under the auspices of MK-ULTRA during the 50s. The derivative of belladonna that was used in these experiments was Atropine, a natural extract of the plant.

Would I want my set and setting for any kind of hallucinogenic trip to be controlled by Charlie Manson? Hell - No.

This thread is about Bugliosi and the Manson family.

I certainly do not believe that every great rock or folk band of the sixties is some sort of MK-ULTRA creation.

I do believe that there are lots of loose ends and provocative traces surrounding the Manson family.

I'm also intrigued by the claims that Joan Baez may have been a victim of trauma programming. See here.