Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD (56 page)

“I declare that the Beatles are mutants”
B
quoted in Philip Norman,
Shout!,
p. 365.

“John was crying and banging his head against the wall”
ibid., p. 305.

“We didn’t know what was going on”
B
quoted in Jann Wenner, ed.,
Lennon Remembers,
p. 73.

“an understanding of the principles of brainwashing”
B
quoted in Norman, p. 366.

“trip all the time”
B
quoted in Wenner, p. 76.

“I got a message on acid”
ibid., p. 77.

childhood’s lost “tense of presence”
B
quoted in Charles Perry,
The Haight-Ashbury: A History,
p. 259.

“It’s enabled people to see a bit more”
B
quoted in Richard Poirier,
The Performing Self,
p. 133.

“It was an experience we went through”
ibid.

“the haze that blurs the corner”
B
Mairowitz,
Soap Opera,
p. 184.

“the pious attitudes of those spiritual bigots”
B
John Ashbery,
Three Poems,
p. 75.

“the ego-death of easy-prey LSD takers”
B
Mairowitz,
Soap Opera,
p. 190.

“The whole catalogue of crazmess”
B
Gaskin, p. 51.

“Rape is as common as bullshit”
B
quoted in Perry, p. 181.

“Acid is like being let out of a cage”
B
McNeill, p. 74.

Scientists at Edgewood tested STP
B
B. Wolfe, p. 149.

The drug was actually phencychdme
B
David E. Smith and John Luce,
Love Needs Care,
p. 265.

the CIA employed Dr. Ewen Cameron to administer PCP
A
Nicholas M. Horrock, “Drugs Tested by CIA on Mental Patients,”
New York Times,
August 3, 1977.

high dosages . . . can “lead to convulsions and death”
CR
Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents,
Hearings before the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with respect to Intelligence Activities of the United States Senate, Vol. 1, September 16–18, 1975, p. 197.

“Hard-core Cosa Nostra-type criminal figures”
A
“Cosa Nostra Tied to Traffic in LSD,”
New York Times,
June 28, 1967.

“Syndicate acid stinks”
B
von Hoffman, p. 35.

West.. rented a pad in the heart of the Haight
ibid., pp. 213–14. See also A Louis Joylon West and James R. Allen, “Flight From Violence: The Hippies and the Green Rebellion,”
American Journal of Psychiatry,
September 3, 1968.

“The CIA is poisoning the acid these days”
B
quoted in Perry, p. 269.

“The Haight-Ashbury was our town”
B
quoted in Myra Friedman,
Buried Alive,
p. 102.

“We’re trying to sabotage the word”
B
quoted in McNeill, p. 135.

“We’re not going to listen to any crybabies”
B
quoted in Smith and Luce, pp. 277, 279.

“LSD hand-holding is not the end”
B
Peter Berg quoted in Leonard Wolf,
Voices from the Love Generation,
p. 263.

CHAPTER EIGHT: PEAKING IN BABYLON

—A Gathering Storm—

“a process whereby an individual casts off”
O
Frank Zappa, album liner notes of
Freak Out!,
1966.

“No corporate leader can afford to ignore”
A
“David Rockefeller Bids Business Heed Disaffection Among Youth,”
New York Times,
March 14, 1968.

Four million North Americans are said to have tried acid
B
Richard Alpert and Dr. Sidney Cohen,
LSD.

“If some of the subjects are drawn”
A
William H. McGlothhn, “Long-lasting Effects of LSD on Certain Attitudes in Normals: An Experimental Proposal,” RAND Corporation Study, May 1962.

Stanford Research Institute received a number of grants from the U.S. Army to conduct classified research
B
John Cookson and Judith Nottingham,
A Survey of Chemical and Biological Warfare,
p. 95.

“There’s a war going on”
I
Michael Rossman (quoting Willis Harman) with M. Lee, November 11, 1978.

“
Our investigations of some of the current social movements”
L
Willis W. Harman, Director, Educational Policy Research Center, SRI, to Dr. A. M. Hubbard, October 2, 1968.

“His services to us consisted in gathering”
L
Willis Harmon, Director, Center for the Study of Social Policy, SRI, “To Whom It May Concern,” January 14, 1974.

“Impure drugs are very dangerous”
O
Al Hubbard interviewed by Oscar Janiger, October 13, 1978.

“Don’t give LSD to Che Guevara”
B
quoted in “Digger Papers,”
The Realist,
August 1968.

“a condition, a kind of internal ‘landscape’”
A
Peter Marin, “The Open Truth and Fiery Vehemence of Youth,”
Center Magazine,
January 1969.

“its first-ever dose of real fun”
B
Mairowitz,
Soap Opera,
p. 186.

—Magical Politics—

“I wear this uniform”
B
quoted in J. Anthony Lukas,
Don’t Shoot—We are Your Children!,
p. 385.

“A modern revolutionary headed for the television station”
B
Hoffman,
Major Motion Picture,
p. 86.

“If everyone did it”
B
quoted in Lukas, p. 389.

“makes you want to take off your clothes”
B
quoted in Norman Mailer,
Armies of the Night,
p. 272.

“Now, here, after several years of the blandest reports”
ibid., p. 143.

“What possibly they shared”
ibid., p. 103.

the plan never got off the ground because of a dirty trick by the FBI
CR
Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans,
Final Report of the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operation with respect to Intelligence Activities, Book III, p. 32.

“We had symbolically destroyed the Pentagon”
B
quoted in Lukas, pp. 389–90.

“Once the media announces it”
B
Jerry Rubin,
Growing (Up) at
37, p. 97.

so they “could look at the problem”
B
Jerry Rubin,
Do It!,
p. 81.

a recipe for social change
B
Keith Melville,
Communes in the Counter Culture,
p. 67.

“We figured we could create a new myth”
B
Milton Viorst,
Fire in the Streets,
p. 431.

“Some day, we dreamed, the myth will grow”
B
Jerry Rubin,
We Are Everywhere,
p. 230.

“No need to build a stage”
B
Hoffman,
Major Motion Picture,
p. 102.

“Our lifestyle—acid, long hair”
”
B
quoted in Gene Marine “Chicago and the Trial of the New Culture,” in Editors of
Rolling Stone,
eds.,
Age of Paranoia,
p. 232.

“Once one has experienced LSD”
B
Abbie Hoffman,
Revolution for the Hell of It,
p. 13.

“Mostly it’s a catch-as-catch-can affair”
B
Hoffman,
Major Motion Picture,
p. 244.

“At community meetings all over the land”
B
Rubin,
Do It!,
p. 256.

“We had many analytical discussions”
B
Leary,
Flashbacks,
p. 269.

“I studied his technique of karmic salesmanship”
B
Hoffman,
Major Motion Picture,
p. 90.

“When movements become too ‘mediated’”
B
quoted in David Armstrong,
Trumpet to Arms,
p. 133.

“I don’t know if I was headed”
B
Rubin,
Growing (Up),
p. 90.

“I purposefully manipulated the media”
ibid., p. 98.

“seemed like Central Casting’s gift”
I
Todd Gitlin with M. Lee, August 13, 1980.

“These brothers would get halfway high”
A
Bobby Seale, “The Biography of Huey P. Newton,”
Ramparts,
November 17, 1968.

“Eldridge wanted a coalition”
B
Rubin,
Do It!,
p. 196.

“Let us join together”
ibid., p. 199.

“the fateful merging of antiwar and racial dissension”
B
quoted in Todd Gitlin,
The Whole World is Watching,
p. 55.

—Gotta Revolution—

“This is a ferocious but effective way to be”
B
Carl Oglesby, “The Idea of the New Left,” in Oglesby, ed.,
New Left Reader,
p. 15.

“We were willing to experiment with anything”
I
Julian Beck with M. Lee, April 19, 1984.

“LSD carried with it a certain messianic”
ibid.

“We pushed reefers on them all the time”
ibid.

“We competed for attention like media junkies”
B
Rubin,
Growing (Up),
p. 191.

“Television (kept) us escalating”
B
Rubin,
Do It!,
p. 107.

“We will burn Chicago to the ground”
B
Hoffman,
Revolution for the Hell of It
, p. 106.

“It’s not the Republicans and Democrats”
B
Rubin quoted in Armstrong, p. 122.

“The effect of LSD was really heavy”
I
John Sinclair with M. Lee, February 3, 1981.

“Anything to the right of Malcolm X”
ibid.

“In my case it was the idealistic poetry stuff”
ibid.

“When the beatniks started taking acid”
O
John Sinclair interview with Bret Eynon, February 1977.

“They’re the ones who had it”
I
John Sinclair with M. Lee, February 3, 1981.

“School sucks. The white honkie culture”
B
John Sinclair, “White Panther State/ Meant,”
Guitar Army,
p. 104.

“I could never see what was more important”
O
John Sinclair, interview with Bret Eynon, February 1977.

“We believe that people should fuck all the time”
B
quoted in Viorst, p. 448.

“but young, you know, and nice”
B
quoted in Gene Marine, “Chicago and the Trial of the New Culture,” in
Age of Paranoia,
p. 237.

“We were dirty, smelly, grimy, foul”
B
Rubin,
Do It!,
p. 169.

“Forme that week in Chicago”
B
Hunter S. Thompson, “Freak Power in the Rockies,” in
Age of Paranoia,
p. 186.

“Chicago, I think, was the place where all America”
B
quoted in Nancy Zaroulis and Gerald Sullivan,
Who Spoke Up,
p. 200.

CHAPTER NINE: SEASON OF THE WITCH

—Armed Love—

the school they attended was known as “Hoover University”
A
Jeff Cohen, “Cril Payne: Undercover for the FBI,”
L A. Weekly,
December 28, 1979-January 3, 1980.