Acid Dreams; Author: Lee, Martin A.; Author: Shlain, Bruce; Paperback; Large size

Author: Lee, Martin A.; Author: Shlain, Bruce
New ed; Paperback; Large size; 12 B&w Photographs
384 pages
Published: January 2001
Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 0330484818
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The complete social history of LSD and the counterculture it helped to define in the sixties. This exhaustively researched and astonishing account - part of it gleaned from secret government files - tells how the unwitting citizens - and other CIA agents - were used as guinea pigs.A social history of LSD and the counterculture it helped to define in the Sixties. This 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 how the drug then spread into the popular culture.