Found some more stuff in which Leary allegedly admitted to CIA involvement:
In an interview for High Times magazine in February 1978, Leary said:
“If you look back, many things that we thought were accidents turned out were not accidents. The entire LSD movement itself was sponsored originally by the CIA, to whom I give great credit. I would not be here today if it had not been for the foresight and prestige of the CIA psychologists, so give the CIA credit for being truly an intelligence agency. ”
Mind control researcher Walter Bowart interviewed Leary in the 1970s, and the acid guru had some interesting things to say about his association with the CIA. Asked, “Do you think CIA people were involved in your group in the sixties?” Leary responded, “Of course they were. I would say that eighty percent of my movements, eighty percent of the decisions I made were suggested to me by CIA people… I like the CIA! The game they’re playing is better than the FBI. Better than the Saigon police. Better than Franco’s police. Better than the Israeli police. They’re a thousand times better than the KGB. So it comes down to: who are you going to work for? The Yankees or the Dodgers?”
I quoted from that Bowart interview elsewhere, but that High Times one is news to me. The article I nabbed this from also paints a rather suspicious view of Aldous Huxley, but I’ll be coming back to that later.
Another article on that from Conspiracy Archive reads:
That conspiracy goes back to the 1930s, when the British sent Aldous Huxley to the United States as the case officer for an operation to prepare the United States for the mass dissemination of drugs. We will take this conspiracy apart step-by-step from its small beginnings with Huxley in California to the victimization of 15 million Americans today. With ‘The Aquarian Conspiracy’, the British Opium War against the United States has come out into the open.
Not really sure I buy any of that, but the Huxley connections are certainly compelling - nevermind the Opium War reference.
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are you gonna post on that metahistory connexion?
Yeah, I’m figuring out the best way
The last article you cited is definitely written by a member of the Lyndon LaRouche movement–the pejorative references to homosexuality, the linkage of rock’n roll music and the occult to British Intelligence and the general tone of pinning everything on the Brits. All of the aforementioned are stock and trade of Lyndon LaRouche’s ideology and that of his disciples. They have their own intelligence agency and do some excellent research–LaRouche’s researchers were the first to (re)expose the Bush family’s funding of the Nazi’s during WWII. However, they also tend to have quite a bit of this wonky anti-Brit and homophobic stuff mixed in, plus, once you read a bit of their stuff, you start to notice a veiled anti-semitism also (strange for folks who rail against world fascism…or maybe not so strange) and they’ve been linked to far-rightwing groups worldwide. The research is generally good, like I said, but the distortions and underlying bile of many of their articles needs to be taken into account.
All of that said, the overwhelming evidence is that LSD was a part of MK Ultra and that Leary had a deleterous effect on political activism in his role as a CIA accomplice. Which makes me wonder–what involvement, if any, might Robert Anton Wilson have had with U.S. intelligence? He is closely linked with Leary, had praise for Ferguson’s the Aquarian Conspiracy, etc. The only people I know who have claimed anything of the sort have been the late Kerry Thornley (Oswald’s alleged double and founder of Discordianism) and, of course, wonky Lyndon LaRouche, who at one time seemed to believe Wilson really REALLY was the head of the Illuminati…
Well yeah, I’m not totally on board with the LaRouchean “It’s the Brits!” story either. I dont think the Brits needed to wait until the 1960’s to “reclaim” America via the Beatles. Especially not when they probably allowed the American Revolution to happen in the first place. And did anybody notice that we didn’t win the War of 1812?
But anyway, I am curious about just what the hell Huxley was up to - who was he really working for, or was he working for himself? I’ve seen claims now that he, Wells and Orwell were all British Intelligence. Who knows? It’s an interesting story if it’s not true. And if it is true, then holy fuck - I don’t know what to make of that quite yet.
In any event, I’m more or less convinced the CIA had a very large hand in LSD, and that Leary was more or less definitely working for them either knowingly or unknowingly for much of his career - especially after he turned on the Weathermen and the Brotherhood of Eternal Love in the mid-70’s. That seems pretty indisputable.
Definitely want to figure out how Wilson plays into this….
which wilson, r.anton or harold?
anton. not familiar with harold
This thread certainly adds a new twist (for me anyway) to the CIA/crack cocaine thing from the 1980’s, you know Los Angeles, dead reporter, etc….
Anyone notice Asa Hutchinson was governor of Arkansas during that time (Mena airstrip)? Now he’s bopping around the federal executive branch.
-tc
“setup like a bowling pin, knocked down, gets to wearing thin, just won’t let you be”
-Grateful Dead
harold wilson was prime minister of england in the sixties.