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To: Casaubon who wrote (3335)	2/25/2001 12:02:09 AM
From: John Madarasz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33421

O/T Apologies to John,...and thread. I'll try to make this my last market "un" related post<gg> Blame it on Cas, he can always get a good discussion going<g> THE ACID TEST To test LSD, the CIA had set up both clandestine operations and academic fronts. For instance, it established a "Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology" at the Cornell University medical school, which dispensed "grants" to institutions in the US and Canada to conduct experiments with LSD. The LSD project was administered by the CIA's Technical Services Staff. A freewheeling atmosphere developed in which anyone was likely to be dosed without warning in the name of research. Before the program concluded, thousands of people had been involuntarily dosed. Not only the CIA, but also the US Army was involved in the LSD experiments. Acid Dreams reports that in the ]950's "nearly fifteen hundred military personnel had served as human guinea pigs in LSD experiments conducted by the US Army Chemical Corps." The Army even made a film of troops trying to drill while stoned on acid. WHAT HAPPENED The government admitted giving LSD to about 1,000 unsuspecting people from 1955 to 1958 and has paid millions of dollars to settle lawsuits that were filed when subjects given drugs became permanently incapacitated or committed suicide. In a San Francisco operation code-named "Midnight Climax prostitutes brought men to bordellos that were actually CIA safe houses. There, they would spike the drinks of unlucky customers while CIA operatives observed, photographed, and recorded the action. In one experiment, black inmates at the Lexington Narcotics Hospital were given LSD for 75 consecutive days in gradually increasing doses. "In 1953, a civilian working for the Army was slipped LSD at a CIA party. He jumped to his death from a tenth story window. It was ruled a suicide until 1975, when the government revealed the truth. The CIA apologized and Congress awarded his family $750,000. A CIA-funded psychiatrist in Canada dosed patients with LSD and used other mind-control techniques trying to "reprogram" them. Nine of the patients sued the CIA for damages. The The CIA had something big in mind. According to a November 16,1953 document, the CIA ordered ten kilos of LSD - enough for 30 million doses from the Swiss manufacturer Sandoz. When Sandoz got suspicious in 1954 and refused to supply the drug, the CIA asked Eli Lilly Company to crack Sandoz's formula for LSD. Shortly, Lilly scientists assured the Agency, "LSD would be available in tonnage quantities." One ton would yield more than 2.5 billion doses. What did the CIA intend to do with all that acid? In 1967, the CIA's formula for STP (a psychedelic even more powerful than LSD) was released to the scientific community. Within a few weeks, the drug was available all across America. According to factual documentation, "a former CIA contract employee reported that CIA personnel actually helped underground chemists set up LSD labs in the San Francisco Bay area. "Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave." --Lord Brougham planet-peace.org