Word: lsd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BRAINWASHING. Concerned over Soviet and North Korean brainwashing techniques, the CIA in the late 1940s and early '50s began testing the effects of behavior-influencing drugs, radiation and electric shock. Many of the records were later destroyed. But the commission learned that the CIA had fed LSD to a number of unsuspecting people between 1953 and '63. In one case in 1953, an employee of the Army developed such serious side effects that he was sent to New York for psychiatric treatment. Several days later, he jumped to his death from the tenth-floor window of his hotel...
...threatened to have "Yippie girls dressed up as whores, but young, you know, and nice" slip LSD into convention delegates' drinks, recruit "Yippie studs whose job is to seduce the delegates' wives and daughters," and spike Chicago's water supply with LSD...
...third way to take your audience for a ride. Here the subject and the object are long gone, so that while the pretense of naturalism exits the needlessness of thinking critically about real people in real life lingers on. This method is the Trip. Though hypothetically borrowed from LSD culture, the Trip has little to do with subliminal imagery or altered consciousness--it's a distorted mirrors routine, psychedelic feelings, as though emotions come in bright colors and relationships make loud noises. There's no time except to react, Nothing to say except that it makes you feel good...
...judged mentally competent, he will probably be executed by decapitation, according to Saudi tradition. Reports from California and Colorado, where the prince had been a university student, described him as a quiet, likable, notably unstudious young man who had once been arrested in Boulder for selling LSD and hashish. To his blonde former girl friend, sometime Movie Actress (Bite of the Co bra) Christine Surma, 26, an ambitious young woman who also bills herself "the country's only female auctioneer," the prince was a "perfect gentleman" who was proud of his family and his country...
...dances; she modeled for artists in New York. She remembers a painter's astonishment when she arrived at his studio early in the morning wearing a red velvet dress; it was a cast-off sent by relatives in Cuba where women didn't stifle themselves. During an experiment with LSD, she blurts: "I want to explain to you why women weep. IT IS THE QUICKEST WAY TO REJOIN THE OCEAN." The ocean mimes this woman's fluidity, color and sensuality...