The Artichoke program

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Precursor to MK-ULTRA, as discussed in the new book "Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control”

https://nypost.com/2019/09/16/the-mad-scientist-behind-americas-mind-con...

"In time, though, reality set in, and Gottlieb realized that LSD had no effect as a mind-control agent. As we now know, it has very much the opposite effect, and became a favored drug of the counterculture. LSD pioneer Ken Kesey, Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter and Beat legend Allen Ginsberg all came to know the drug as volunteers in Gottlieb’s experiments."

If Jerry was Captain Trips, this guy was Kommandant Trips.

check out a very good book "The Devil's Chessboard", re: history of CIA and the Dulles bros.

Fresh Air episode, interview with journalist Stephen Kinzer:

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/09/758989641/the-cias-secret-quest-for-mind-...

 

whitey bulger?!?