Comments on: John Lennon on the LSD-CIA Connection

By: alistair

alistair — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 11:02:56 +0000

my opinion, on an intuitive level, since i was a teenager, was and still is that john lennon was a communist, or at least a paid agitator for the left. i have always been suspicious of unwashed millionaires that sleep with thier mother.

By: james

james — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 19:03:31 +0000

Anyone ever seen that Harry Shearer movie “The Teddy Bear’s Picnic” (aka “Call O’ The Glen”)? It’s a satire of Bohemian Grove. Never seen it myself, but being a Shearer fan, I think I might dig it.

By: K

Tue, 12 Jul 2005 10:52:49 +0000

Speaking of Bohemian Grovers.. Sasha Shulgin, the master (al)chemist, is also a member by his own admission.

http://www.erowid.org/culture/characte...er/shulgin_alexander_interview1.shtml

By: albion

albion — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 07:08:58 +0000

more great stuff tim! i dunno what happened with that whole art linkletter’s daughter thing (i think no drugs were found in her system) but it was also part of the whole lame ‘celebrity’ aspect (along with elvis & sammy davis jr) of nixon’s phony war on drugs. yet another quote from ed epstein’s agency of fear :

The president was slightly more successful in recruiting Art Linkletter into his anti-LSD campaign, after the entertainer’s daughter committed suicide in 1969. An Air Force plane was sent to fly Linkletter from California to the governors’ conference in Washington in December, 1969, and after an emotional session with the assembled governors, Linkletter agreed to head a national advisory council on drugs.

& look who makes a cameo a bit later in the psychodrama:

Donald Rumsfeld, then ambassador to NATO, had sent Egil Krogh a memorandum [...] mentioning that President Nixon had suggested sending “Art Linkletter … to do a world tour of military bases . . . linked with the drug program because he could talk so effectively about his daughter and the problem.”

i think linkletter was a bohemian grover. i wonder what the backstory on that one is.