LSD

LSD  (drug)
Interest of	• Sidney Gottlieb • Martin A Lee • Bruce Shlain

LSD is a drug used recreationally. It is used by millions of people annually.

History

LSD was first made by Albert Hofmann in Switzerland in 1938 from ergotamine, a chemical from the fungus, ergot. He discovered its psychoactive properties accidentally.

MK Ultra

MK Ultra, Subproject 8 - A $40,000 effort to investigate the effects of LSD

In the late 1940s, the drug was investigated by the Naval Medical Research Institute's mind control research Project CHATTER. This continued until 1953 and inspired a more extensive set of studies in the 1950s by the CIA's MK Ultra (and associated projects), seeking a 'truth drug' which would make people disclose secrets. The agency gave the drug to thousands of people, both with and without warning of its effects. It was found to be too unreliable for the intended use. Moreover, it had the capability of opening people's minds to new perspectives, undoing the effect of brainwashing. It began to be used recreationally in the 1960s, and was made illegal.

Legal status

The drug was declared illegal in UK by Roy Jenkins, the Home Secretary in 1966. It remains illegal more or less globally to this day. Licenses for research into its therapeutic use are hard to obtain.

 

LSD victims on Wikispooks

Title	Description
Stanley Glickman
Yuri Nosenko	Soviet KGB defector who ended up being tortured in secret CIA prison.
Frank Olson	A US bioweapons researcher who fell to his death after having been unwittingly given LSD under the umbrella of MKNAOMI and MKULTRA.

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:CIA Experiments on Children	article	12 August 2010	H.P. Albarelli Jr. Jeffrey Kaye
File:Acid dreams.pdf	EBook	1985	Martin A Lee Bruce Shlain

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