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is why nothing he says should ever be taken seriously.

The real avatar of the hippie culture was Johnny Griggs. Tim Leary moved in
with him and adopted his style. The CIA had zero to do with inspiring Griggs,
unless of course, it was the CIA that put a vial of LSD into a Hollywood
producer’s refrigerator, where it was discovered and stolen by Griggs. After his
first LSD experience, Griggs threw away his weapons and became a peacenik for
the remainder of his short life.

He was killed a few years later after building the biggest cannabis distribution
network in the country. After his death, his group was likely infested by intel
ops. The leading candidate for an intel penetration would have been Ron Stark,
who later in life got released from an Italian jail after convincing the judge he
worked for the CIA.

So yeah, the CIA and FBI had informants and undercover operatives placed
strategically throughout the hippie movement, but this was almost entirely
about getting their fingers into the flow of money from illegal drugs. There were
not driving the hippie zeitgeist as McGowan claims.

The hippies were a direct result of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. The rise of the
middle class led to a lot of teens with spendable income and an interest in
Eastern enlightenment. Their ranks were increased greatly as the war in
Vietnam expanded and many became vulnerable to the draft. As soon as the
draft ended, the movement began to dissolve.

Hippies were anti-capitalistic, anti-racist, apolitical, back-to-the-land, pot-

smoking and interested in alternative forms of spirituality. While there was a lot
of experimentation with LSD early on, there were also a lot of LSD casualties. It
was not the sort of substance people could use daily for years without
experiencing some negative psychological impacts. Also impacting this was the
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flooding the market with dangerous drugs, some of whom may have been
knowingly working for intel.

After Kesey realized people were taking too much acid, he arranged a
“graduation event” to help steer people towards responsible use. Unfortunately,
the message was lost on many.

Tim Leary was a product of West Point and moved freely through the upper
realms of the oligarchy, so he had a much better idea of the machinations than
anyone else. However, he was hounded by law enforcement (as were Kesey and
Cassady). After being jailed, he decided to tell everything he knew about the
violent Weather Underground that had seized control of the previously non-
violent SDS. They had busted Leary out of the country and encouraged him to
support violence, something he relented to only briefly in their press release.

But Leary’s testimony against the Weather Underground amounted to nada.

Leary didn’t realize the violent side of the counterculture was a CIA operation,
and those leaders were working for intel, which is why their slates were wiped
clean and the leaders ended up teaching at prestigious universities, and getting
tenure and pensions.

Hippies were non-violent. They were a natural emanation of a zeitgeist towards

peace. The violent revolutionaries like the Weather Underground and the
Symbionise Liberation Army were intel-sponsored stooges headed in the
opposite direction.

Because intel feared a revolution, they did what they know best: outflank the
movement on both sides, and foster as much violence and confusion as possible,
while flooding the markets with cheap synthetic psychedelics.

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In the aftermath of Watergate and Nixon's resignation, President Gerald Ford

faced a lot of political pressure to investigate past abuses committed by the
United States government.  In response to this pressure, he created the
President's Commission on CIA Activities within the United States to
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previously unknown secrets of the CIA, but one of the commission's most
unusual discoveries was the scientific program, Project MKULTRA .

When CIA director Allen Dulles authorized Project MKULTRA in April 1953,
the United States was only a few months away from completing the Korean War.
At the time, the intelligence community was extremely concerned about rumors
coming back from the battlefield about American soldiers being brainwashed by
Soviet or Chinese Communists.  As a consequence, the CIA began
experimenting with all sorts of drugs and chemicals so that they would not only
be able to anticipate what the Communists might do to their agents in the field,
but also so they could exploit these mind-altering chemicals for themselves.

As you might have already guessed, one of the mind-altering chemicals that
attracted the CIA's attention was LSD, which Project MKULTRA began
experimenting with from Day One.  One of MKULTRA's more bizarre LSD
"research projects" brought to light by the Rockefeller Commission Report was 
Midnight Climax , an operation that paid prostitutes in San Francisco and New
York to dose johns with LSD so that they could be lured to a CIA safe house,
where agents would watch and film the prostitutes with their clients from
behind a two-way mirror.  Another LSD-related scandal uncovered by the
Rockefeller Commission was the 1953 death of biological warfare specialist,
Frank Olson , who jumped (or was pushed?) out the window of his New York
hotel room after experiencing a nervous breakdown about a week and a half
after his drink had been spiked with LSD at a work retreat with his CIA
colleagues.  When the real cause of Frank Olson's death was finally made public
by the Rockefeller Commission in the summer of 1975, the revelation proved to
be a short-term public relations nightmare for the Ford Administration, which
selected Dick Cheney to run damage control on the issue before issuing an
official apology to Frank Olson's widow.

The death of Frank Olson and Operation Midnight Climax easily overshadowed
most of the other revelations about Project MKULTRA, but another relevant
finding was that the CIA had funded significant academic research into LSD
before the drug was criminalized in 1966.  Some academics working on LSD
research knowingly took money from the CIA, while many others had CIA
money indirectly funneled to them without their knowledge through various
front groups.  Other researchers who did scientific experiments with LSD didn't
have any funding from the CIA, but the CIA might send a covert agent to keep
track of any interesting findings.

As a result of this CIA funding into academic LSD research, there were more
than a few college campuses in the late 1950s and early 1960s that had some
hidden caches of LSD. In addition, like most psychology experiments you can
find on a college campus, academic LSD experiments heavily depended on
student volunteers or volunteers from the local campus community.  In 1959, the
Beat Generation poet Allen Ginsberg took LSD in an experiment at the
Stanford Mental Research Institute headed by the anthropologist Gregory
Bateson .  Robert Hunter , who later became a lyricist for the Grateful Dead,
also took part in LSD experiments at Stanford in the early 1960s, but the most
influential figure involved in campus LSD experiments was Ken Kesey .

In 1959, Ken Kesey was a graduate student in creative writing at Stanford

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wrestler as an undergrad, and he was more of a jock than a beatnik.  According

to a later interview he had with Terri Gross of the NPR program, Fresh Air,

I'd never been drunk on beer, you know, let alone done any drugs. But this is
the American government. They said, come in here. We've just discovered this
new spot of space, and we want somebody to go up there and look it over, and
we don't want to do it. We want to hire you students. And I was one of 140 or
so that eventually turned out.

In that era, scientists would refer to LSD as a psychotomimetic , because they

believed that it could be used to mimic the symptoms of psychosis in an
otherwise sane individual.  Similarly, Ken Kesey began using LSD, peyote, and
other hallucinogens outside the laboratory so that he could better understand
what it was like to be insane at the Menlo Park Veterans Hospital, an experience
that he would put to good use while writing One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest .
Here's an excellent documentary recreation of Kesey's experiences in the
Veterans Administration LSD research:

After the mid-1970s disclosures from the Rockefeller Commission about how
much academic research into LSD had been funded or monitored by the CIA,
some leading figures from the 1960s counterculture began reassessing what role
the CIA may have played in the formation of their movement.  The first major
public statements in the 1970s by countercultural figures to speculate on the
relationship between the CIA and LSD occurred at an October 1977 conference at
the University of California, Santa Cruz titled LSD: A Generation Later .  Allen
Ginsberg, who compared the conference to an acidhead "class reunion," said,
"Am I, Allen Ginsberg, the product of one of the CIA's lamentable, ill-advised, or
triumphantly successful experiments in mind control?  Had they by conscious
plan or inadvertent Pandora's Box, let loose the whole LSD fad on the U.S. & the
World?" 

LSD guru Tim Leary, who was also at the conference, addressed questions about
the LSD/CIA issue with much more mischievious intent.  Leary said, "The LSD
movement was started by CIA.  I wouldn't be here now without the foresight of
the CIA scientists.  It was no accident. It was all planned and scripted by Central
Intelligence, and I'm all in favor of Central Intelligence."  Leary already had a
history of making outrageously unbelievable claims in the media about LSD
(e.g., he claimed in his Playboy Interview that LSD could give a woman a
thousand orgasms and that it could cure homosexuality), which suggests this
claim about the CIA may have been just as full of hot air.  On the other hand,
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To use Allen Ginsberg's terminology, the role of the CIA in creating the hippie
counterculture was more likely an example of "Pandora's Box" than "conscious
plan." When the CIA began doing research with LSD in 1953, the United States
was still involved in the Korean War.  The first march on Washington by the
movement against the Vietnam War didn't happen until April 1965, over 10 years
later. When CIA scientists played around with LSD in their own in-house
experiments in the 1950s, they used it to spike people's drinks.  They had no
conception that people would take it voluntarily for recreational purposes.

In 1979, a former foreign service officer John Marks published The Search for
the Manchurian Candidate , a work of historical investigative journalism that
delved into all the CIA's attempts to control the human mind for espionage
purposes.  In a chapter covering the CIA's interest in mind-altering drugs, Marks
concluded:

CIA officials never meant that the likes of Leary, Kesey, and Ginsberg should
be turned on. Yet these men were, and they, along with many of the lesser-
known experimental subjects, like Harvard's Ralph Blum, created the climate
whereby LSD escaped the government's control and became available by the
early sixties on the black market. No one at the Agency apparently foresaw
that young Americans would voluntarily take the drug—whether for
consciousness expansion or recreational purposes. The MKULTRA experts
were mainly on a control trip, and they proved incapable of gaining insight
from their own LSD experiences of how others less fixated on making people
do their bidding would react to the drug.

The CIA financed at least hundreds of experiments into LSD, if not more, but
they simply couldn't control all the supplies of LSD that were around back then. 
Kesey was no employee of the CIA, but in his role as a janitor, he was able to walk
off the job with a few pharmaceutical "office supplies."

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Operation CHAOS

From 1967 to 1974, the CIA operated a program known as Operation CHAOS to
collect information and produce studies regarding various dissident movements
in the United States.Initiated pursuant to a presidential request, the purpose of
the program was to assess whether these groups had been penetrated by, or were
being used by, foreign intelligence services.

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agents generally were not directed to collect information about United States
domestic affairs.

However, the Rockefeller Report found that several of these agents ended up
acquiring such information while they were in the United States bolstering their
dissident credentials, and on three occasions agents were specifically directed to
collect information on domestic U.S. matters.The operation also resulted in the
accumulation of large amounts of information on U.S. citizens.

There is no indication, however, that anyone connected to Operation CHAOS

utilized clandestine means, such as electronic surveillance, wiretaps, or break-
ins, to acquire any of this information.The CIA terminated the program in 1974
after the New York Times published a front-page story about the operation.

The Family Jewels describe the three foci of Operation CHAOS-student groups,
the anti-Vietnam War protestors, and the “black power” movement. The CIA
initiated collection on worldwide student dissidence in 1968 at the request of
Walt Rostow, then Special Assistant to the President for National Security
Affairs. According to an Agency document, the purpose of the study was to
assess whether the various international student dissident groups were
interconnected, whether they bred from the same causes worldwide, and
whether they were “financed and hence manipulated by forces or influences
hostile to the interests of the US and its allies; or likely to come under inimical
sway to the detriment of US interests.”

The resulting paper was given the whimsical title “Restless Youth.” The CIA
created two versions of the document-the highly sensitive version, which
included a chapter on radical students in the United States, was distributed to
only nine individuals, including the President and Mr. Rostow; the other
version, which excluded that chapter, was provided to approximately twenty
people outside the CIA.

The CIA’s collection on the anti-Vietnam War movement emerged from a 1967
order from President Lyndon B. Johnson for the CIA to gather evidence
supporting the President’s conviction that communist governments led and
financed the movement. When then CIA Director Richard Helms informed
President Johnson that the Agency could not spy on Americans, President
Johnson stated: “I’m quite aware of that. What I want for you is to pursue this
matter, and to do what is necessary to track down the foreign communists who
are behind this intolerable interference in our domestic affairs.”

It appears that the Agency did just that-focusing not on the domestic facets of
the movement, but rather on the connection of foreign entities to it.The result
was several short memoranda prepared in 1967 and 1968 that analyzed foreign
connections to the movement in the United States. In the end, the CIA assessed
that while some informal connections existed, there was “no evidence of
direction or formal coordination” by any foreign entity.

The CIA also conducted limited analysis of the “black power” movement. Two
papers on the topic were produced, one in 1969 and the other in 1970.In each
paper, one paragraph considered the ties between the black power movement
and various Caribbean movements, focusing mostly on contacts and visits
between U.S. activists, including Stokely Carmichael, and the Caribbean
activists. The CIA produced other memoranda regarding the connections
between the two entities.

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CIA Director Helms stated that, through these programs, “we’re not trying to do
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inside and outside the Agency believed that the CIA was doing just that, and that
such activities violated the Agency’s Charter, the National Security Act. Indeed,
on the cover memo of the more restricted report on student dissident
movements, Director Helms stated that the section on American students “is an
area not within the charter of this Agency, so I need not emphasize how
extremely sensitive this makes the paper. Should anyone learn of its existence it
would prove most embarrassing for all concerned.”

Whether the Agency violated the National Security Act in collecting information
on these dissident groups hinges on whether the Act permitted the Agency to
collect intelligence on Americans within the United States, and, if so, under
what conditions.As of 1973, the Act vaguely permitted the Agency to collect
“intelligence,” but did not define the term, and did not indicate the limits to
such collection.

The Church Commission, after evaluating the legislative history of the Act,
concluded that “in establishing the CIA Congress contemplated an agency
which not only would be limited to foreign intelligence operations but one
which would conduct very few of its operations within the United States.” Those
U.S. operations were restricted to training in the United States, protecting the
Agency’s physical headquarters, and gathering information from willing
Americans who had traveled abroad and had information of interest to the
Agency.

The Rockefeller Commission took a more expansive view. It noted that though
the Act does not expressly limit the CIA’s intelligence activities to “foreign
intelligence,” that was nonetheless the intention of Congress. The Commission
then stated that the term “foreign intelligence” had no settled meaning, but that
the legislative history of the National Security Act indicated that the CIA was
expected to collect foreign intelligence from inside the United States,and that in
1948 the National Security Council, pursuant to the Fifth Function, had
expressly given the CIA responsibility for collecting foreign intelligence in the
United States by overt means.

As the only restriction in the Act on the CIA’s collection capability precluded the
use of police powers or internal security functions, the Commission concluded
that the Agency could collect on Americans in the United States, so long as the
purpose was to gather information on foreign countries, individuals, or
organizations, and not on domestic matters.” As the Report stated: “The subject
matter of the information and not the location of its source is the principal
factor that determines whether it is within the purview of the CIA.”

The Rockefeller Report has the better argument. If Congress wished to preclude
the Agency from engaging in intelligence collection in the United States,
Congress clearly had the ability to so state in 1947, when it passed the Act, or in
any of the decades subsequent. As Congress never took such action, the Agency
had to follow the actual authorities and restrictions contained in the Act.

That Act permitted the Agency to collect intelligence so long as the CIA did not
engage in “police, subpoena, or law enforcement powers or internal security
functions.” Collection of foreign intelligence information in the United States
does not, in and of itself, fall within that latter restriction. Therefore, the
collection of foreign intelligence information was permissible under the
Agency’s charter, as it existed in 1973 when the Agency compiled the Family
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of the Agency’s activities in tracking dissident movements was to determine the

foreign influences, if any, on those movements.” Thus, the purpose was not to
collect domestic information, nor to collect information for the purpose of
prosecution (i.e., law enforcement), but rather for foreign intelligence purposes.
The same applies as well to the NSA’s Project MINARET and Project
SHAMROCK.

The collection therefore fell within the confines of the Act and was entirely
permissible. The Rockefeller Commission came to the same conclusion, though
it did note that some of the collected information contained no foreign or
counterintelligence and should be purged from the Agency’s files. The
Commission also properly found that the sporadic use of Agency recruits to
collect purely domestic information within the United States “was beyond the
CIA’s authority” and that the dissemination of the portion of the Restless Youth
report that concerned only domestic affairs was “improper.”

Subsequent to 1973 and the compilation of the Family Jewels, Congress

amended the Act to define “intelligence” as including “foreign intelligence,”
which is then denoted as “information relating to the capabilities, intentions, or
activities of foreign governments or elements thereof, foreign organizations, or
foreign persons, or international terrorist activities.” This clearly does not
restrict the Agency’s intelligence collection activities solely to overseas
endeavors, though Congress certainly had the ability to impose such a
restriction had it so desired.

However, section 2.3 of EO 12,333, issued in 1981, does create such a limitation.
That section explicitly authorizes the CIA to engage in the collection, retention,
and dissemination of information concerning Americans, including foreign
intelligence and counterintelligence information. However, the section provides
that the FBI, not the CIA, is to engage in such collection in the United States.

The CIA may engage in such collection in the United States only if it concerns
“significant foreign intelligence” (not defined) that does not involve “the
domestic activities of United States persons.” Further, collection techniques in
the United States cannot include electronic surveillance, unconsenting physical
searches, mail surveillance, physical surveillance, or monitoring devices absent
a FISA warrant, or Attorney General approval. As stated previously, however,
executive orders can be amended or negated by presidential directive.

Thus, the Act permits the Agency to collect intelligence within the United States
so long as it is for foreign intelligence purposes, and not for domestic purposes
or law enforcement actions. EO 12,333 would allow the CIA to engage in this
collection so long as it consists of “significant foreign intelligence,” though the
CIA could engage in any foreign intelligence collection in the United States with
a presidential directive.

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