Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD (58 page)

“You may remember me as Mr. LSD, Jr.”
A
Richard Levine, “Ram Dass’USA,”
Rolling Stone,
April 22, 1976.

“If he’s there, that’s where he should be”
B
quoted in Rubin,
We Are Everywhere,
p. 165.

“We are at war”
B
quoted in Tendier and May, p. 192.

“To Shoot a genocidal robot policeman”
A
Timothy Leary, “Shoot to Live,”
Berkeley Barb,
January 13–20, 1971.

—A Bitter Pill—

“Panthers are the hope”
L
Leary to Ginsberg, October io, 1970.

“Dr. Leary is part of our movement”
A
“Leary, If It Was Leary, Appears Briefly in Beirut,” New
York Times,
October 27, 1970.

“you’ve got to free yourself”
A
quoted in Michael Zwerin, “Revolutionary Bust,”
Village Voice,
February 11, 1971.

“the split with Panther leader Huey Newton, fomented . . . by FBI subterfuge”
A
Lowell Bergmann and David Weir, “Revolution on Ice,”
Rolling Stone,
September 9, 1976.

Tim and Rosemary were busted at gunpoint . . . while black CIA agents who had penetrated Cleaver’s entourage monitored the situation
D
(CIA) “Situation Information Report,” 12 February 1971; and
A
Seymour Hersh, “CIA Reportedly Recruited Blacks for Surveillance of Panther Party,” New
York Times,
March 17, 1978.

“Something’s wrong with Leary’s brain”
A
quoted in Michael Zwerin, “Acid, Guns, and Love,”
Vancouver Free Press,
February 24, 1971.

“We want people to gather their wits”
A
Michael Zwerin, “Acid, Guns, and Love,” Vancouver Free Press, February 24, 1971.

“To all those of you who look to Dr. Leary”
A
“Panthers Bust Learys,”
Vancouver Free Press,
February 3, 1971.

“He’s liberal CIA”
B
Leary,
Flashbacks,
p. 308.

a mysterious benefactor named Michel-Gustave Hauchard
ibid., p. 313.

“aid to meditation aimed at the mystical experience”
B
Albert Hofmann, LSD:
My Problem Child,
p. 209.

Joanna met Michel Hauchard for drinks
A
Craig Vetter, “Bring Me the Head of Timothy Leary,”
Playboy,
September 1975.

“Whoever eats this”
ibid.

“The predawn raids were ordered on the basis of twenty-nine secret indictments”
B
Eszterhas, p. 99.

“Leary is responsible for destroying”
ibid., p. 99.

Joanna was permitted to accompany Leary to Los Angeles at a cost to taxpayers of $1,086
B
Bryan, p. 228.

“the right to speak for me”
A
Vetter.

“We’ll simply leave our bodies”
B
Bryan, p. 231.

“Oh, you know, he just hates women”
I
Allen Ginsberg with M. Lee and B. Shlain, July 23, 1978.

Vacaville prison, previously the site of an extensive CIA drug testing program
B
Marks, p. 201.

Martino had struck a deal with the BNDD
A
David Weir, “Timothy Leary: Soul in Hock,”
Rolling Stone,
August 28, 1975.

Joanna met U.S. marshalls at the door in the nude
A
Vetter.

Joanna later told Ginsberg she was trying to blackmail the feds
I
Allen Ginsberg with M. Lee and B. Shlain, July 23, 1978.

The FBI . . . pegged him with the code name of the songbird
A
Weir.

“You’ve got to tell the truth”
A
quoted in Tom Thompson, “The Drug Puzzle,”
Los Angeles Free Press,
April 4, 1975.

Leary told a grand jury that Chula had given him a small chunk of hash
A
Vetter.

Joanna also gave damaging testimony
A
Thompson, “The Drug Puzzle.”
“to be dishonest, lying people”
A
quoted in Weir.

“It’s obvious to me he’s talked”
B
Abbie Hoffman and Anita Hoffman,
To America with Love: Letters from the Underground,
p. 108.

“He may have gotten frightened—experienced an ego break”
A
David Johnston, “The Bitter Pill,”
Berkeley Barb,
September 20–26, 1974.

“Om Ah Hum: 44 Temporary Questions on Dr. Leary”
B
Ginsberg quoted in Bryan, p. 271.

“The 1960s are finally dead”
B
quoted in Bryan, p. 273.

—The Great LSD Conspiracy—

“In many ways,” explained DEA Director John Bartels
CR
Hashish Smuggling and Passport Fraud: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love,
Hearings Before the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and other Internal Security Laws of the Senate Judiciary Committee, 1973, p. 3.

it operated “m a virtually untouchable manner”
ibid., p. 30.

Four LSD factories have been seized
ibid., pp. 23–24.

He acknowledged his own drug use had been extensive
B
David E. Koskoff,
The Melions,
pp. 549–50.

a team of 1RS and BNDD agents visited his drug lab in Brussels
CR
Hashish Smuggling and Passport Fraud,
p. 22.

Stark claimed to be a business representative of Imam Moussa Sadr
A
Jonathan Marshall, “The Strange Career of Ronald Stark,”
Parapolitics,
November 1984 (Paris); and
A
Maurizio de Luca and Pino Buongiorno, “Giallo Amenkano,”
Panorama,
October 31, 1978.

An American expatriate bumped into him in the streets of Pans
I
David Solomon with M. Lee, June 28, 1982.

Italian investigators soon discovered that “Mr. Abbott” was actually Ronald Stark
B
Tendier and May, pp. 269–70.

a safe deposit box in Rome that contained
A
de Luca and Buongiorno,
Panorama,
October 31, 1978.

Stark befriended Renato Curcio
ibid.; and
B
Tendier and May, p. 271.

Stark asked prison officials to arrange a meeting
B
Tendier and May, p. 271.

he received a steady flow of visitors from the American and British consulates
A
Marshall, “The Strange Career of Ronald Stark,”
Parapolitics,
November 1984.

Stark also communicated . . . with members of the Libyan diplomatic corps
ibid.; and
A
“Ronald Stark, agente triplo fra Gheddafai, I fedain e la eia,”
Giorno,
November 6, 1981.

he was in direct contact with General Vito Micelh
A
Marshall,
Parapolitics,
November 1984.

Stark changed identities once again
A “Stark e americano o un palestinese?”
Giorno,
November 8, 1978; and
B
Tendier and May, p. 272.

he was part of an international terrorist organization . . . called “Group 14”
A
Marshall,
Parapolitics,
November 1984.

The objective, according to Paghera
A de Luca and Buongiorno,
Panorama,
October 31, 1978.

he was released from prison . . . on orders from Judge Giorgio Floridia
A
Marshall,
Parapolitics,
November 1984; and
B
Tendier and May, p. 272.

“an impressive series of scrupulously enumerated proofs”
A
quoted in Marshall,
Parapolitics,
November 1984.

“Many circumstances indicate that . . . Stark belonged to the American secret services”
ibid.; and
B
Tendier and May, pp. 272–73.

an adventurer who was used by the CIA
B
Relazione della Commissione Parlamentare d’Inchiesta sulla strage di via fam sul sequestro e l’assassinio di Aldo Moro e sul terrorismo in Italia,
Roma, 1983, pp. 144–46.

“It could have been that he was employed by an American intelligence agency”
I
Tim Scully with M. Lee, November 10, 1982.

“LSD makes people less competent”
I
William Burroughs with B. Shlain, February 6, 1978.

“It makes perfect sense to me”
I
John Sinclair with M. Lee, February 3, 1981.

“Could have been”
I
Ken Kesey with M. Lee, July 21, 1978.

“We had come to a curious place together”
B
Michael Rossman,
New Age Blues
, p. 101.

“What subverted the sixties decade”
B
Murray Bookchin, “Between the 30s and the 60s,” in Sayres, et al., eds., 60s
Without Apology,
p. 250.

“We do not target American citizens”
B
quoted in Thomas Powers,
The Man Who Kept the Secrets,
pp. 350, 479.

“a burgeoning paper problem”
A
quoted in Assassination Information Bureau, “Congress and the MK-ULTRA Whitewash,”
Clandestine America,
November-December 1977.

“LSD: Some Un-Psychedehc Implications”
CR
Biomedical and Behavioral Research
, p. 935.

“facts are wiped out by artifacts”
B
Norman Mailer, “A Harlot High and Low,”
Pieces and Pontifications, p.
160.

Stark’s name surfaced once again in 1982
B
Tendier and May, p. 274.

“A genius, but a tortured soul”
I
Claudio Nunziato with M. Lee and Dorianna Fallo, October 29, 1983.

“History is hard to know”
B
Hunter Thompson,
Fear and Loathing in Los Vegas
, p. 67.

POSTSCRIPT: ACID AND AFTER

Kemp’s group succeeded the Brotherhood of Eternal Love as the main psychedelic distribution operation
A
Heathcote Williams, “The Great LSD Bust,”
Village Voice,
April 17, 1978.

all of the acid later disappeared, prompting speculation
ibid.

Kemp’s group produced half the world’s supply of LSD in the mid-1970’s
ibid.

A United Nations survey in the early 1980s
B
Tendier and May, p. 218.

According to the National Institute of Drug Abuse
A
Lloyd Johnson, Patrick M. O’Malley, and Gerald G. Bachman, “Use of Licit and Illicit Drugs by America’s High School Students, 1975–1984,” Department of Health and Human Services, 1985.

“You don’t hear about it anymore”
A
John Lennon and Yoko Ono Interview,
Playboy,
January 1981.

“It’s just another high now”
A
Katy Butler, “LSD Is Back, After a Long Trip,”
San Francisco Chronicle,
October 27, 1979.

“They seek a nostalgic cultural experience”
A
David Smith,
Zodiac News Service
, January 1980.

bad trips are much less frequent
A
Bunce, “Social and Political Sources of Drug
Effects: The Case of Bad Trips on Psychedelics,”
Journal of Drug Issues,
Spring 1979, pp. 218, 230.

“The American people today are quantum jumps more”
O
Timothy Leary, remarks at the LSD Reunion in Los Angeles, February 16, 1979.

“Oh Al, I owe everything to you,”
ibid.

“You sure played your part”
O
Al Hubbard, remarks at the LSD Reunion in Los Angeles, February 16, 1979.

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