So Then What Happened?
A fascinating book on this whole era and the MK Ultra CIA project is, “Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science” by Benjamin Breen. Mead and her husband, Gregory Bateson, were radical proponents of LSD and mushrooms as a way to accelerate human cultural evolution. In the early days when LSD was legal, one of its biggest advocates was Carey Grant, who credited it with helping his acting career in testimony before Congress.
When all is said and done, one thing we can know about the whole mind control scheme is how stupid they were to try it in the first place.