Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD (57 page)

Between lectures on the New Left, drug abuse, and FBI procedure
ibid.

the Yippies were infiltrated by an FBI agent named George Demmerle
B
Rubin,
We Are Everywhere,
pp. 142–43, 216–18.

one out of six demonstrators at the Chicago Convention was an undercover operative
A
Todd Gitlin, “Seizing History,”
Mother Jones,
November 1983.

Bob Pierson, a Chicago cop disguised as a .. biker
B
Viorst, pp. 453, 455, 461.

a quarter-million Americans were under “active surveillance”
B
Robert Justin Goldstein,
Political Repression in Modern America,
p. 463.

Nixon pressed CIA director Richard Helms to expand the parameters of Operation CHAOS
ibid., pp. 477–479.

the CIA provided training, technical assistance, exotic equipment
A
Philip H. Melanson, “The CIA’s Secret Ties to Local Police,”
Nation,
March 26, 1983.

The Agency (sprinkled) itching powder . . . on toilets near leftist meetings
O
Tuli Kupferberg, “News Poem”; and
A
Toronto Star,
July 7, 1975.

“depraved nature and moral looseness”
D
(FBI) Memorandum from Director, FBI, to SAC, Albany, 9 October 1968.

“Since the use of marijuana and other narcotics”
D
(FBI) Memorandum from Director,
FBI; to SAC, Albany, “Counter Intelligence Program—Internal Security, Disruption of the New Left,” 5 July 1968.

targets of the antidrug campaign were often involved in radical politics
B
Goldstein, p. 514.

Jack Martin . . . testified that he was asked to (frame) Allen Ginsberg
A
Peter Stafford, “Law and the Future of Psychedelics,”
L.A. Free Press,
September 30, 1966.

the nares maintained a file . . . which included a photograph of the well-known poet “in an indecent pose”
D
(Narcotics Bureau) “Photograph of Allen Ginsberg,” 28 September 1967.

Hoover’s men shadowed John Lennon . . .
B
John Wiener,
Come Together,
pp. 225–55.

the FBI kept tabs on Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, the Fugs
D
(FBI) Letter from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to Hon. Charles Crutchfield, 26 March 1969; memorandum from SAC, Buffalo to Director, FBI, 16 June 1968, “James Marshall Hendrix”; memorandum from SAC, Miami, to Director, FBI, “Possible Racial Violence,” 4 March 1969.

“All of these and many more items of popular culture”
B
Gitlin,
The Whole World is Watching,
p. 202.

“armchair bookquotmg live-ass honky leftists . . .”
B
Peter Stensill and David Zane Mairowitz, eds.,
BAMN (By Any Means Necessary): Outlaw Manifestos and Ephemera
1965–1970, p. 155.

“A permanent fermenting agent, encouraging action”
ibid. p. 158.

they denounced Timothy Leary . . . for “limiting the revolution”
B
Mairowitz, Soap Opera,
pp. 186–187.

“We are the freaks of an unknown space/time . . .”
B
Stensill and Mairowitz, p. 161.

PL castigated SDS regulars for being “escapist”
B
Kirkpatnck Sale,
SDS,
pp. 485, 537.

PL also criticized propaganda tactics like guerrilla theater
ibid., p. 540.

they even claimed that Timothy Leary was a CIA agent
A
Stew Alpert, “Free Timothy Leary,”
Georgia Straight,
April 1–9, 1970.

“The SDS prize continues to be fair game”
D
(CIA) “Situation Information Report,” April 1969.

“I remember when it hit the Weathermen”
O
Ken Kelley, interview with Bret Eynon, September 1978.

“We have one task”
B
Billy Ayers quoted in Sale, p. 583.

“You’re right, I am a pig”
B
Sale, p. 625; and Goldstein, p. 476.

“We all live in a Weather machine”
B
Jonah Raskin,
Out of the Whale,
p. 127.

“Inside the movement . . . without time to learn from the experience.”
B
Gitlin,
Whole World,
p. 234.

“It was like a cheap form of shnnkdom”
O
Ken Kelley, interview with Bret Eynon, September 1978.

“a sequence of tenuously linked exclamation points”
B
Gitlin,
Whole World,
p. 234.

“Organizing is just another way of going slow”
B
quoted in Gitlin,
Whole World,
p. 204.

—The Acid Brotherhood—

“Operation White Wing”
B
Wil D. Wervey,
Riot Control Agents and Herbicides in War,
p. 181.

the super-hallucinogen was used on at least five other occasions,
ibid.

“have dosage ranges into lethality”
B
S. Hersh, p. 49.

One scheme involved the use of tiny remote-controlled model airplanes
A
Zodiac News Service, “Civil War Plans,”
Colorado Daily,
December 15,1976; and “Army Stockpiles BZ Drug in Bombs,”
Washington Post,
August 3, 1975.

“Trends in modern police action”
D
(CIA) “Proposal to Study the Toxic Properties of Highly Poisonous Natural Products,” 4 September 1970.

80% of American servicemen got stoned
B
Editors of
Ramparts
and Frank Browning,
Smack!,
p. 29.

15% of those who saw action . . . returned home as heroin addicts
ibid.

Federal investigators described them as a “hippie Mafia”
B
Tendier and May, p. 13.

“Although unschooled and unlettered”
ibid., pp. 90–91.

“to bring to the world a greater awareness”
B
Joe Eszterhas,
Narc!,
p. 103.

“Big deal”
B
quoted in Tendier and May, p. 158.

“It was like the Dead End Kids who took acid”
ibid., p. 96.

(Hitchcock) helped Scully move to the premises, hauling large
A
Mary Jo Worth, “The Acid Profiteers,”
Village Voice,
August 22, 1974.

“to pay tribute to this most honorable profession”
A
Timothy Leary, “Deal for Real,”
East Village Other,
September 3, 1969.

“They were very good dealers on a spiritual trip”
A
quoted in Terry McDonnell, LA, August 19, 1972.

IOS, a fast-money laundry for organized crime
B
Jim Hougan,
Spooks,
pp. 161–74.

At Clapp’s urging he poured over $5,000,000
ibid., pp. 390–91.

Hitchcock maintained a private account at Castle Bank
B
Hougan, pp. 390–91; and
B
Penny Lernoux,
In Banks We Trust,
p. 86.

Castle Bank . . . set up by the CIA
A
Jim Dnnkhall, “1RS Versus CIA: Big Tax Investigation . . .”
Wall Street Journal,
April 18, 1980.

A number of Melions served in the OSS
B
R. Harris Smith,
OSS,
pp. 15–16, 163 64, 223.

Mellon family foundations. . conduits for Agency funds
A
John S. Freeman, “Culture War II,”
Nation,
April 18, 1981.

Helms was a frequent weekend guest of the Mellon patriarchs
B
Thomas Powers, The Man Who Kept the Secrets,
p. 40.

$67,000,000
illegally sloshed through Paravacini Bank
B
Burton Hersh,
The Mellon Family,
p. 487.

“It’s just between me and God”
B
quoted in Tendier and May, p. 160.

“We were definitely very gullible in believing the stuff”
I
Tim Scully with M. Lee, November 10, 1982.

Stark claimed a relationship to the Whitneys
B
Tendier and May, p. 174.

The Brothers . . . had no idea he was running a separate cocaine ring
I
Tim Scully with M. Lee, November 10, 1982.

It was a tip from the Agency . . . that prompted him to shut down his French operation
B
Tendier and May, p. 202.

Stark communicated on a regular basis with officials at the American embassy in London
A
Maurizio de Luca and Pino Buongiorno, “Giallo Amerikano,”
Panorama,
October 31, 1978.

Stark had made twenty kilos of LSD
I
Tim Scully with M. Lee, November 10, 1982.

“He must have pegged us as real softies”
ibid.

—Bad Moon Rising—

Woodstock “was less a festival than a religious convocation”
B
Friedman, p. 206.

“Fuck hippie capitalism. . . . Events like the Woodstock gentleness freakout”
B
Zaroulis and Sullivan, p. 261.

“The revolution is more than digging rock”
B
Abbie Hoffman,
Woodstock Nation
, p. 77.

“a completely frustrating and pointless exercise”
B
Jann Wenner, “Everybody’s Chicago Blues,” in
Age of Paranoia,
p. 199.

“It’s like television, loud, large television”
B
quoted in Michael Lydon, “The Grateful Dead,” in LaValley, p. 559.

“We are a people . . . a nation.”
B
Sinclair, pp. 207–27.

“which mistook its demographic proliferation”
B
Stanley Aronowitz, “When the New Left was New,” in Sayres, et al., eds., 60s
Without Apology,
p. 25.

“Woodstock was political because everybody was tripping”
I
Carl Crazy with M. Lee, April 11, 1982.

“I didn’t have a sense of how unique I was”
I
John Sinclair with M. Lee, February 3, 1981.

“Drugs had a lot to do with placing people”
B
quoted in John Burks, “The Underground Press,” in
Age of Paranoia,
p. 10.

“The pill was no longer a sacrament”
I
Michael Rossman with M. Lee, June 3, 1985.

Manson’s “cherub face and sparkling eyes”
B
Viorst, p. 523.

“First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner”
B
quoted in Sale, p. 628.

“Any kind of action that fucks up the pig’s war”
ibid., p. 629.

CHAPTER TEN: WHAT A FIELD DAY FOR THE HEAT

—Prisoner of LSD—

“Drug Crazed Hippies Slay Mother and Children”
B
Leary,
Flashbacks,
p. 288.

“using violent tactics which were light-years removed”
B
quoted in Mairowitz,
Soap Opera,
p. 236.

“As the beast falls, a new culture of life arises”
ibid., p. 268.

“Somewhere in the nightmare of failure”
B
Hunter Thompson, “Freak Power in the Rockies,” in
Age of Paranoia,
p. 171.

“the new depression”
B
quoted in Robert Sam Anson,
Gone Crazy and Back Again
, p. 160.

Subsequent revelations, however, topped any conspiracy theory
B
Alfred W. McCoy,
The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia;
Henrik Kruger,
The Great Heroin Coup;
and the editors of
Ramparts
and Frank Browning,
Smack!
.

“Better to be good than to do good”
A
Martin A. Lee, “Disarmament on the Material Plane,” Win, July 15, 1982.