Thursday, August 9, 2007

LSD and CIA

today i was planning to post about Astral travel but felt an urge to write about the LSD.

many of you would have heard about it, because it is one of the hottest topic on the net.LSD stands for lysergic acid diethylamide, this is a hallucinogen, a psychedelic drug... the term psychedelik was termed after creating this drug, so this drug can be coinsidered the mother of all psychedelic drugs. i think this is the only drug in the human history which has pulled so much attention towards it...so wats odd about this drug...actually speaking there is nothing normal about this drug....this drug was created by Albert Hoffman at the sandoz lab... he accidentally tasted it and was on the Acid trip...

this drug mainly creates a profound distortions in a person’s perception of reality.LSD cause their effects by disrupting the interaction of nerve cells and the neurotransmitter serotonin.well the CIA was the most interested in this drug during the cold war. the reason is this drug was believed to change the personality of a person and a lot tests were conducted in this regard. CIA even got a sanctioned project name for this tests...MKULTRA....


MK-ULTRA was a CIA "mind-control" project backed up by the usual Cold War rationale. Because the Soviets were supposedly on the track of a "truth serum," the CIA set out to beat them to the punch with heavily- funded research into hypnosis, electroshock, mind-bending drugs, and other techniques of behavioral control. According to Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, MK-ULTRA's resident Dr. Strangelove, the CIA's grail was discovering how "to modify an individual's behavior by covert means." But Gottlieb's gray language disguises what this quest meant in practice: e.g., dosing unwitting subjects with LSD, and then standing back to watch them lose it. MK-ULTRA compromised scientists, and left behind both scrambled psyches and a full- blown counterculture -- all without adding to our real knowledge of the human mind.

CIA also tried to covertly add some LSD in the cocktail of Fidel Castro to kill him, for that he said" if there was an Olympics for escaping assassinations, i would win the gold medal"


Conceived by Richard Helms of the Clandestine Services Department (yes, the CIA actually gives its departments silly names like that), it went beyond the construction of mere truth serums and ventured into disinformation, induction of temporary insanity, and other chemically-aided states. The director of MK-ULTRA, Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, figured LSD's potential as an interrogative agent paled in comparison to its capacity to publicly humiliate. the CIA imagined a tripping public figure might be amusing, producing a memo that says giving acid "to high officials would be a relatively simple matter and could have a significant effect at key meetings, speeches, etc." But they knew that giving LSD to people in the lab was a lot different than just passing it out, and felt the department did not have an adequate grasp on its effects.
The target never knew when his turn would come, but as soon as the drug was ingested a ... colleague would tell him so he could make the necessary preparations (which usually meant taking the rest of the day off). Initially the leaders of MK-ULTRA restricted the surprise acid tests to [their own] members, but when this phase had run its course they started dosing other Agency personnel who had never tripped before. Nearly everyone was fair game, and surprise acid trips became something of an occupational hazard among CIA operatives.... The Office of Security felt that [MK-ULTRA] should have exercised better judgment in dealing with such a powerful and dangerous chemical. The straw that broke the camel's back came when a Security informant got wind of a plan by a few [MK-ULTRA] jokers to put LSD in the punch served at the annual CIA Christmas office party ... a Security memo writer... concluded indignantly and unequivocally that he did 'not recommend testing in the Christmas punch bowls usually present at the Christmas office parties.'


The in-house testing phase now over, MK-ULTRA decided to use the drug surreptitiously in the street to gauge its effects. They contract-hired a narcotics officer, to set up Operation Midnight Climax, "in which drug-addicted prostitutes were hired to pick up men from local bars and bring them back to a CIA-financed bordello. Unknowing customers were treated to drinks laced with LSD while White sat on a portable toilet behind two-way mirrors, sipping martinis and watching every stoned and kinky moment."

but there were people who felt that LSD can be used for good of the people, they thought that LSD gave a spiritual experience they never had, according to them the drug gave a different understanding of the working of the human mind and a different perspective of the world.a number of cults were started after these drugs and many future gurus and priests were born of tis drug. this started a cult in America, the revolution in 1960's... the youth came to road to protest against the government, they felt that there was something fundamentally wrong wioth the world, the famous hindi song "hare krishna hare rama" depicts zeenath aman as one of these psychedelic drug adict, but the portrayal was not so good.these had great passion for love for unity, they protested against the Vietnam war. they believed in flower power, they were called the hippies, they had a different spiritual perception of the world.

even today these drugs are available, and are used in some spiritual celebrations of certain cults to attain the required state of mind.

LSD can be considered a boon as well as a bane, in good hands it could have been used in a proper way to bring the common public close to the spiritual experience but in bad hands can be used to erase a person's Mind and create a new personality or perform some covert operation in hypnotic state.

If u want to get them, these are the few names of these drugs used in streets in America...
acid,boomers,yellow sunshine,Back breaker,Battery acid,Doses,Dots,Elvis,Loony toons,Lucy in the sky with diamonds,Pane,Superman,Window pane,Zen. they can be used to have a spiritual experience.... they are odourless, tasteless, colorless.....but high doses are lethal....


suggestions and corrections are welcome.
take care...
blessed be...
may the flower power come again...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

For more on the CIA-side of human experimentation, see Human Drug Testing by the CIA.