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From CDAN: (apologies for length)
THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 2020
Today’s Blind Items - Tripping
Most of the materials of a long time retired professor are at his archive here in Los Angeles. However, that is not the only place he taught. Last summer at a Southwestern university, a treasure trove of documents were discovered. Many of those had also previously been seen. What had not been seen were several letters between the professor and his handler at the CIA. Even though the professor had long denied working for the CIA, other letters have been found over time, proving that to be a lie. The CIA also funded one of his most famous studies.
In this series of letters, the CIA is asking for his help. They wanted him to take a sabbatical from school for a year and offered to pay his salary plus expenses. The reason they wanted him to go on sabbatical? Several months earlier they had contracted out some work in San Francisco to a group who were conducting tests on people taking LSD that were designed to look like parties. Their experiment had two groups that were essentially divided in the room. One half was involved in more of a hands on kind of listening experience/spoken word performances and the other half would listen to a band. More often than not, the band was this permanent A list band that had been formed specifically for these experiments.
Apparently the groups listening to the bands had the kinds of results that made the CIA want more like that, so they sent this professor out there for a year to take charge of the experiments and look for further applications. Meanwhile, the CIA would continue passing out free LSD to concert goers to not only the permanent A list band but dozens of others at that time.
Unlike his previous big experiment, it is unknown if there is a report he wrote to the CIA after the year. He definitely went and definitely lied to his contemporaries and even to his bosses at the university about what he was doing there. Those lies were discovered many years later, but no one knew exactly what he was doing there or this band’s involvement until the letters were found this past summer.
POSTED BY ENT LAWYER AT 10:10 AM
10:12 AM
Alf Landon said...
Gottlieb?
10:16 AM
Cinnamon Sticker said...
I also thought Leary but his archives are in New York.
10:19 AM
Someone Said said...
James Ketchum for the doctor?
10:22 AM
Guesser said...
Timothy Leary,the Greatful Dead,and the locations being red herrings.
10:33 AM
gauloise said...
Oscar Janiger? Did LSD experiments and was a professor at UC Irvine.
He’s the guy who gave LSD to Carey Grant
10:35 AM
gauloise said...
Janiger was mostly interested in how LSD effected creativity, so maybe fits with the band music angle?
10:36 AM
E said...
Louis Jolyon “Jolly” West. Look him up.
10:37 AM
Rosemary Young said...
+1 Someone Said. James Ketchum was an army doctor who studied at Stanford (N. California) and died in May 2019 in Arizona.
10:43 AM
Moose said...
Brilliant can be tied to the CIA directly through his smallpox studies (the “other experiment” referred to in the blind). And he was a big part of the San Francisco hippie scene that spawned the Dead, Airplane,...
10:49 AM
MissDavie said...
Timothy Leary.
The Doors.
The entire “Hippie” youth movement was created to stop the youth of the time from really becoming educated and revolting. A good percentage were lost to drugs and faux philosophical baloney.
They then ended the hippie movement with Charles Manson, making that into a hippie cult randomly killing people they didn’t know when it was really just a series of botched cover ups for cover ups done by a bunch of stoned out of their minds losers.
12:14 PM
MeliticusBee said...
James Ketchum died in May...which would give credence to files being found last summer...
12:32 PM
Badsaw said...
CIA Grateful Dead lsd experiments. Mind blowing when you have been a concert goer and whiteness to the dead thing first hand. Jerry is a god and the remaining members held in very high regard. Once I learned about this stuff it broke me free of many ideas.
12:48 PM
MissDavie said...
“Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & the Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream” by David McGowan is required reading for anyone who wants to shatter that illusion of and nostalgia for the glorious days of the hippies. That myth ruined so many lives and it’s still ruining lives to this very day.
I’m a later Boomer so came of age in the 70s instead of the 60s but it still ruined so many of my generation.
The 80s kids escaped a lot of it but the 90s kids really got fucked over with the resurgence. The 00s got fucked up with something else but the 10s are really being used and abused by the old hippie relics.
It’s time to end it once and for all.
It was all the Government. It was all a lie.
1:10 PM
PhillyWilly said...
+++ miss davie. It cannot simply be coincidence that an abnormally large percentage of
Prominent members of the 60s hippie bands had A direct familial connection to the US military/intelligence establishment.
2:03 PM
Half Domer Homer said...
Rock and Roll wasn’t an accident. From the shock of the JFK assassination to the Beatles to lift you up again, and BAM! A new political order slipped right by under your nose while you were high and worlds away..
2:10 PM
Half Domer Homer said...
There was a reason that Bob Weir and Mickey Hart spent the summer of 2008 at the Bohemian Grove hobnobbing with globalist scumbags. While there, they stayed at the same small camp as George H.W.(CIA) Bush. Sad for me...
2:52 PM
Half Domer Homer said...
Read “Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon” by Dave McGowan if you want to know how far the military-connected-to-rock rabbit hole goes. Not only were these famous rockers related to military, but they were all connected to each other through military. Also look up the “Lookout Mountain Laboratory” in the heart of Laurel Canyon (on Wonderland Ave) that was constructed as a secret Air-Force movie studio base.
3:06 PM
bollybiy said...
I second the recommendation of Dave McGowan’s fascinating research on Laurel Canyon, the hippie movement and the intelligence agencies. You can read it for free at CenterForAnInformedAmerica.com/laurelcanyon/
molly said...
The Laurel Canyon book is probably the most mind blowing book I ever read. Seems like most of the musicians who lived there had fathers who were high ranking officers in Navy intelligence. Bill Cosby was also in navy intelligence when he was young.Dave McGowan, the author, was struck with stage IV cancer and died soon after. He wrote another book that is also mind blowing, Programmed to Kill.