“You can’t spell ACID without CIA” Grand Royal Magazine (1995)

FADE IN:
EXT. THE WHITE HOUSE - SUNSET

Jack Kennedy stands on the balcony overlooking the Rose Garden fountain, a soothing sight before him: prisms of lighted water, the white spike of the Washington Monument, auto headlights flickering along Executive Avenue. He begins to feel a deep seated goodness within. From the bedroom behind him, through white chiffon curtains, float the chords of Sinatra’s “All I Need Is the Girl,” and JFK can make out every note…

Behind the curtains moves the shadow of a tall woman who is not his wife. She is deeply connected to the CIA, and has just given the President a dose of LSD. She is “brainwashing” him under the direction of a Harvard psychologist, Dr. Timothy Leary, whose colleagues are all taking CIA money, and who has himself designed a personality test used by the CIA…

This, or something like it, actually happened. To understand how and why requires digging through government documents and reading between the lines of Leary’s autobiography, Flashbacks. It’s a trip through the secret psychedelic underground, a mystery that must be solved by the reader’s own detective work. What follows are the clues, i.e. undisputed facts.

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