06-06-2016, 03:53 PM
Hi, Lauren,
Haven't read MK-ULTRA Iceberg, but I have read Don's Hidden History, and it's a terrific book. But it covers much of American history from the Kennedy assassination to modern times, and there are a few things I was far from sold on. I don't believe the Clinton "body count" business for example. My opinion is that he was less of a serial killer than most U.S. presidents.
The evidence clearly shows that the CIA was intimately involved in the drug business (from the MK-ULTRA days to the Contra-supporting crack cocaine epidemic and no doubt beyond that), but that does not mean everyone involved in the drug culture over the years was directly associated with the CIA.
All the charges of direct contact between Timothy Leary and the CIA in Don's book are sourced to author Walter Bowart. Admittedly, I haven't read Bowart's Operation Mind Control, but the vague CIA documents Don described prove little, at least to me, and I would want corroboration of the Leary confessions supposedly made near the end of his life directly to Bowart.
CIA personnel who knew about LSD surely realized that it is not a pacifying drug. Leary's campaign at least appeared to be antithetical to the Warfare State, and profoundly influenced the anti-war effort. Nixon called Leary "the most dangerous man in America," or something close to that. If this was the best the brilliant minds who scripted the Kennedy assassination could come up with, they surely indulged in way too much of their own products.
Haven't read MK-ULTRA Iceberg, but I have read Don's Hidden History, and it's a terrific book. But it covers much of American history from the Kennedy assassination to modern times, and there are a few things I was far from sold on. I don't believe the Clinton "body count" business for example. My opinion is that he was less of a serial killer than most U.S. presidents.
The evidence clearly shows that the CIA was intimately involved in the drug business (from the MK-ULTRA days to the Contra-supporting crack cocaine epidemic and no doubt beyond that), but that does not mean everyone involved in the drug culture over the years was directly associated with the CIA.
All the charges of direct contact between Timothy Leary and the CIA in Don's book are sourced to author Walter Bowart. Admittedly, I haven't read Bowart's Operation Mind Control, but the vague CIA documents Don described prove little, at least to me, and I would want corroboration of the Leary confessions supposedly made near the end of his life directly to Bowart.
CIA personnel who knew about LSD surely realized that it is not a pacifying drug. Leary's campaign at least appeared to be antithetical to the Warfare State, and profoundly influenced the anti-war effort. Nixon called Leary "the most dangerous man in America," or something close to that. If this was the best the brilliant minds who scripted the Kennedy assassination could come up with, they surely indulged in way too much of their own products.
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Chief Justice Earl Warren: "Full disclosure was not possible for reasons of national security." – 1964
CIA accountant James B. Wilcott: Oswald received "a full-time salary for agent work for doing CIA operational work." – 1978
HSCA counsel Robert Tanenbaum: “Lee Harvey Oswald was a contract employee of the CIA and the FBI.†– 1996
Chief Justice Earl Warren: "Full disclosure was not possible for reasons of national security." – 1964
CIA accountant James B. Wilcott: Oswald received "a full-time salary for agent work for doing CIA operational work." – 1978
HSCA counsel Robert Tanenbaum: “Lee Harvey Oswald was a contract employee of the CIA and the FBI.†– 1996