Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD (14 page)

Richard Helms, CIA Director from 1967-1973, described LSD as “dynamite”
(AP/Wide World Photos)

Dr. Sidney Gootlieb, chief of the CIA’s Technical Service Staff, who ran the super-secret MK-ULTRA program.
(George Tames/The New York Times)

George Hunter White, high-ranking narcotics official, shown in December 1952, when he began administering LSD to unwitting American citizens at the behest of the CIA. “It was fun, fun, fun,” White said. “Where else could a re-blooded American lie, kill, cheat, and rape, with the sanction of the all-highest?”
(New York Daily News Photo)

Major General William Creasy, chief officer of the US Army‘s Chemical Corps in the 1950‘s preached a new military gospel of “war without death.” During Congressional testimony Creasy called for the testing of hallucinogenic gases on subways in Amercian cities.
(The New York Times)

Captain Alfred M. Hubbard, the spy who became the first Johnny Applessed of LSD. “If you don‘t think it‘s amazing,” said Hubbaard, “just go ahead and try it.”
(Courtesy of Bill Darling)

Aldous Huxley, author of
Doors of Perception
, the seminal psychedelic manifesto, and his wife, Laura.
(AP/Wide World Photos)

The molecular structure of d-lysergic diethylamide.

Dr. Albert Hofmann, the grandfather of the acid generation in his laboratory at Sandoz Pharmaceuticals in Basel, Switzerland.
(Sandoz, AG, Basel)

Cover page of a once-classified CIA memorandum on LSD-25

Ralph Metzner (left) and Timothy Leary (right) in front of the palatial Millbrook estate.
(New York Daily News Photo)

William Mellon Hitchock (right), millionaire owner of Millbrook, taking part in a Tai Chi session with Leary (left) at the mansion.
(Eugene Anthony)

The Merry Pranksters traveled across the US in a psychedelic bus in the summer of 1964.
(Eugene Anthony)

Ken Kesey first turned on to LSD through a government-funded drug program at Stanford.
(UPI/ Bettmann Newsphotos)