Martin A. Lee

Bruce Shlain

Provides a social history of how the CIA used the psychedelic drug LSD as a tool of espionage during the early 1950s and tested it on U.S. citizens before it spread into popular culture, in particular the counterculture as represented by Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg, Ken Kesey, and others who helped spawn political and social upheaval.

The Complete Social History of LSD : the CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond

Acid Dreams

And what was the CIA up to while its perennial partner of convenience, organized crime, was dumping bad acid on the black market?

The capacity to absorb its critics is among the chief characteristics of American capitalism, and one of the keys to its enduring hegemony.

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