Document Gallery
The following documents were obtained by the authors in researching
Acid Dreams: the CIA, LSD, and the Sixities Rebellion.
Shown here are correspondences between Jack Kerouac, Timothy Leary, and
Aldous Huxley.
Also included are a number of once-classified documents obtained through the Freedom
of Information Act. Though there is much that government censors have seen fit
to keep secret even today, tantalizing glimpses of CIA-sponsored research into drugs are found
amid the blacked-out names.
Click on any document for a close-up look at its contents.
Letters to Leary, Ginsberg
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Aldous Huxley to Timothy Leary, June 1961
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| January 1960 letter from Jack Kerouac to Timothy
Leary, describing his reactions to psilocybin mushroom extract
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1978 letter from New York Times publisher
C. L. Sulzberger to Allen Ginsberg concerning CIA activity in
the southeast Asian drug trade.
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Declassified: CIA Mind Control Documents
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This 1954 document outlines CIA
experiments in tolerance to LSD at the Addiction Research Center in
Lexington, Kentucky
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1954 memo from CIA Director Richard Helms affirming the
Agency policy of using unwitting guinea pigs in drug tests
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This Office of Security document outlines some strange
behavior at the CIA.
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| In this 1953 memo, CIA director Allen Dulles
takes stock of the LSD owned by the Agency
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Memo outlining LSD as a "potential new agent for unconventional
warfare"
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| This memo, provided to the CIA by a medical consultant, rather
zealously suggests possible tactical uses of LSD against an enemy force
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This memo, produced after a joint meeting of the Artichoke and Bluebird
teams, describes the CIA's concern that human guinea pigs were becoming harder to come by for
involuntary drug tests
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