Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD and the Sixties Rebellion

Cultural Anthropology

Author: Martin A. Lee

Acid Dreams is the complete social history of LSD and the counterculture it helped to define in the sixties. Martin Lee and Bruce Shlain’s exhaustively researched and astonishing account—part of it gleaned from secret government files—tells how the CIA became obsessed with LSD as an espionage weapon during the early 1950s and launched a massive covert research program, in….Read More

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