Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD (53 page)

“attacks the sensory, perception, and nerve centers”
CR
Biological and Radiological Warfare Agents,
Hearings before the Committee on Science and Astronautics, United States House of Representatives, June 16 and 22, 1959, p. 3.

“How can we determine it! What is the test”
ibid., pp. 24–25.

“we could possibly have you dancing on the desks”
ibid.

Blauer, a tennis professional, was the subject of a drug study
D
(army) “Inspector General’s Report of Inquiry into the Facts and Circumstances surrounding the Death of Mr. Harold Blauer at the New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI) and Subsequent Claims and Actions, DAIG-IN 27–75, 1975.

“immediate, massive, and almost shocklike picture”
ibid.

“It is possible that a certain amount of brain damage”
B
Hoch quoted in Marks, p. 123.

a hallucinogen was administered along a local
A
Martin Porter, “Crimes over the Cuckoo’s Nest,”
Village Voice,
September 4, 1978.

“obviously having paranoid ideas”
O
Mission: Mind Control.

“from total incapacity to marked decrease”
D
(army) “Use of Volunteers in Chemical
Agent Research,” Report of the Inspector General, DAIG-IN 21–75, 1975, pp. 116–18.

Some staff members even tried to teach
ibid., pp. 118–25.

Soldiers . . . were given LSD and confined to sensory deprivation chambers
CR
Foreign and Military Intelligence,
Final Report of the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with respect to Intelligence Activities, United States Senate, Vol. I, p. 412.

“interrogator of limited experience could compel”
D
(army) “Use of Volunteers in Chemical Agent Research,” p. 117.

“Stressing techniques employed included silent treatment”
D
(army) “SPT Trip Report, Operation THIRD CHANCE,” 6 September 1961.

“The subject often voiced an anti-communist line”
D
(army) “Report on Army Drug Testing: Material Testing Program EA 1729, Project THIRD CHANCE, and Project DERBY HAT,” 23 January 1976.

“I was attempting to put on, with a good cover”
CR
Chemical, Biological and Radiological Warfare Agents,
p. 5.

four hundred chemical “rejects” every month
ibid., p. 32.

“During the period of acute effects”
CR
Biomedical and Behavioral Research,
pp. 210–11.

Sim said he sampled LSD “on several occasions”
A
Bill Richards “Army Stockpiles BZ Drugs in Bombs,”
Washington Post,
August 3, 1975.

“It’s not a matter of compulsiveness”
A
“Self-Exposure to Psychochemicals,”
Armed Forces Journal,
May-June 1960.

“It zonked me for three days”
A
Bill Richards, “Army Stockpiles BZ Drugs in Bombs,”
Washington Post,
August 3, 1975.

“at the risk of grave personal injury”
A
“Self-Exposure to Psychochemicals,
Armed Forces Journal,
May-June 1960.

“The Army’s testing of BZ was just a sideshow”
A
quoted in Bill Richards, “Army Test Subjects Got Super Hallucinogen,”
Washington Post,
July 25, 1975.

“The last time I saw him”
A
quoted in Normal Kempster, “U.S. Didn’t Check Gas Test Subjects,”
Los Angeles Times,
July 19, 1979.

The superhallucinogen was ready for deployment
B
Seymour Hersh,
Chemical and Biological Warfare,
p. 45.

“We will use these things”
CR
Chemical, Biological and Radiological Warfare Agents
, p. 3.

CHAPTER TWO: PSYCHEDELIC PIONEERS

—The Original Captain Trips—

Unless otherwise indicated, all quotes from Captain Al Hubbard in this section of the text are based on an interview with Hubbard by Dr. Oscar Janiger, October 13, 1978.

“Most people are walking m their sleep”
B
quoted in Gunther M. Weil, Ralph Metzner, and Timothy Leary, eds.
The Psychedelic Reader,
p. 83.

“I did not relish the possibility”
B
quoted in Aldous Huxley,
Moksha,
p. 36.

“It was . . . without question the most extraordinary”
ibid., p. 42.

“what Adam had seen on the morning”
B
Aldous Huxley,
The Doors of Perception
, p. 17.

“come about as the result of biochemical discoveries”,
B
Moksha,
p. 156

“Your nice Captain tried a new”
ibid., p. 69.

“What came through the closed door”
ibid. p. 81.

“What Babes in the Wood”
ibid., p. 70.

“a deep and genuine religious experience”
B
quoted in John W. Aiken, “The Church of the Great Awakening,” in Osmond and Aaronson, eds.,
Psychedelics,
p. 174.

“extensive emotional re-education”
A J.R. MacLean, B.C. MacDonald, U.P. Byrne, and A.M. Hubbard, “The Use of LSD-25 in the Treatment of Alcoholism and Other Problems,”
Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcoholism,
22 (1961): 43–44.

“Cost me a couple of thousand dollars”
O
Hubbard, remarks at LSD Reunion in Los Angeles, February 16, 1979.

“We humbly as Our Heavenly Mother”
O church bulletin by Rev. J.E. Brown, “Introduction to the LSD Experience,” December 8, 1957.

“We waited for him like the little old lady”
O
Dr. Oscar Janiger, remarks at LSD Reunion in Los Angeles, February 16, 1979.

“I don’t know how Al’s Washington affairs”
I
Dr. Humphry Osmond with M. Lee, May 13, 1978.

(Hubbard) was employed by Teledyne
L
Leon H. Steinman, Assistant to the Executive Vice-President, Teledyne, Inc., to J.L. Goddard, FDA Commissioner, May 23, 1966.

“Cappy was sort of a double agent”
I
Oscar Janiger with M. Lee, February 2, 1979.

“If you don’t think it’s the most amazing thing”
I A.M. Hubbard with M. Lee, February 16, 1979.

—Healing Acid—

“perhaps by coincidence, LSD”
CR
Letter from Robert Bernstein to Lieutenant Colonel William R. Jordan, in
Biomedical and Behavioral Research,
pp. 96–97.

“To make this trivial world sublime”
B
quoted in Peter Stafford,
Psychedelics Encyclopedia,
p. 5.

“To fathom hell or soar angelic”
ibid.

“include concepts of enriching the mind”
B
Humphry Osmond, “Clinical Effects of Psychotomimetic Agents,” in David Solomon, ed.,
LSD: The Consciousness Expanding Drug,
p. 148.

“corresponds better to the effects”
A
Michael Horowitz, “Interview with Albert Hofmann,”
High Times,
July 1976.

schizophrenics did not experience the wealth
A
John M. MacDonald and James A. Galvin, “Experimental Psychotic States,”
American Journal of Psychiatry
112 (June, 1956): 972.

“The self disappears”
B
Octavio Paz,
Alternating Current,
p. 84.

“You start with yourself”
A
quoted in J.R. MacLean, et al., “The Use of LSD-25 in the Treatment of Alcoholism and Other Problems,”
Quarterly fournal of Studies on Alcoholism,
22 (1961): 43.

“All my life”
B
quoted in Allen Geller and Maxwell Boas,
The Drug Beat,
p. 220.

“(Whatever) reduces integrative capacity”
D
(CIA) “Report of the Ad Hoc Medical Study Group,” 15 January 1953.

“LSD favors the prepared mind.”
I Oscar Janiger with M. Lee, May 28, 1985.

Description of Allen Ginsberg’s first LSD experience.
I
Allen Ginsberg with M. Lee and B. Shlain, April 1980.

“It is a multiple million eyed monster”
B
Allen Ginsberg, “Lysergic Acid,”
Kaddish,
p. 86.

“being part of a cosmic conspiracy”
B
quoted in Larry Sloman,
Reefer Madness,
p. 177.

—Psychosis or Gnosis?—

“what they felt might be an essential matrix”
A
Oscar Janiger “The Use of Hallucinogenic Agents in Psychiatry,”
Californio Clinician,
July-August 1959.

“Under the influence of mescaline”
B
William Burroughs, “Points of Distinction Between Sedative and Consciousness-Expanding Drugs,” in David Solomon, ed.,
The Marijuana Papers,
p. 443.

“Our preoccupation with behavior”
B Humphry Osmond, “Clinical Effects of Psychotomimetic Agents,” in Solomon,
LSD: The Consciousness Expanding Drug,
p. 144.

“Those idiots want to be Pavlovians”
B
Huxley,
Moksha,
p. 186.

“Primitive man explored the”
ibid., p. 23.

Certain scholars believe that the fabled Soma
B R
. Gordon Wasson,
Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality.

strong evidence that ergot . . . was the mysterious kykeon
B R
. Gordon Wasson, Carl A.P. Ruck, and Albert Hofmann,
The Road to Eleusis.

“a Truth which the world of Europe”
B
Antonin Artaud,
The Peyote Dance,
p. 34.

“the cataclysm which was my body”
ibid., p. 45.

“Once one has experienced a visionary state”
ibid., p. 38.

“it transcends those fashionable ruts
” B Humphry Osmond, “Clinical Effects of Psychotomimetic Agents,” in Solomon,
LSD: The Consciousness Expanding Drug,
p. 146.

Hoch was . . . “an opinion leader”
B Sanford M. Unger, “Mescaline, LSD, Psilocybin and Personality Change,” in Solomon,
LSD: The Consciousness Expanding Drug,
p. 207.

“essentially anxiety producing drugs”
A
Paul H. Hoch, “Remarks on LSD and Mescaline,”
Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease,
125 (1957): 442.

“results obtained in patients where tranquilizing drugs”
A
Paul H. Hoch, “Remarks on LSD and Mescaline,”
Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease,
125 (1957): 444.

“In my experience . . . no patient asks for it”
B
“Group Interchange,” in Harold Abramson, ed.,
The Use of LSD m Psychotherapy: Transactions of a Conference,
p. 58.

“He had some visual hallucinations”
A
Paul H. Hoch, “Experimentally Produced Psychoses,
American Journal of Psychiatry,
107 (February 1951): 609.

“It did not influence the symptoms”
ibid.

“An interesting theory can always outrun”
A
Audrey R. Holliday, “The Hallucinogens: A Consideration of Semantics and Methodology with Particular Reference to Psychological Studies,” in R. Featherstone and A. Simon, eds.,
A Pharmacologic Approach to the Study of the Mind,
p. 260.

CHAPTER THREE: UNDER THE MUSHROOM, OVER THE RAINBOW

—Manna From Harvard—

(Luce) encouraged his correspondents to collaborate . . . with the CIA
A
Carl Bernstein, “The CIA and the Media,”
Rolling Stone,
October 20, 1977.

(Luce) turned on a half dozen times
B
W.A. Swanberg,
Luce and His Empire,
p. 463; and Wilfred Sheed,
Clare Boothe Luce,
p. 125.

“Oh sure, we all took acid”
O
Clare Boothe Luce, remarks on
The Dick Cavett Show,
April 9, 1982.