Counter-Culture Cult of Truth. Leary, Lennon & CIA

[drhemp]

The Counter-Culture Cult of Truth. Leary, Lennon & The CIA

http://sparkoflife.wordpress.com/2008/09/25/the-counter-culture-cult-of-truth-leary-lennon-the-cia/

[gl_in_2012]

Exactly right. David (phonetically Jesus) Shayler seems to me disinfo from the start. So disappointing.

[duckingdafta]

I would agree you're never out of the business once you're in it (similar to the cube films, you signed the contract, you just forgot, but it matters not.)

[drhemp]

Exactly right. David (phonetically Jesus) Shayler seems to me disinfo from the start. So disappointing.

The sad thing is, I know David, and he does believe what he's saying. My own theory is they did something to him in Belmarsh, basically some kind of mind control or hypnosis. If Paul McKenna can make people do strange things, merely for the benefit of entertainment, then I'm sure the Security Services can do the same and much more.

[lizzy]

hi drhemp....there have been some great threads about the cia's culture creation. ( Tavistock , predictive programming)..Laural Canyon hippie movement.....this is fasinating stuff....how every aspect of our lives has been controlled, just blows my mind every time..........

[sithnemesis]

really interesting :)

[monkey]

This article on the GRATEFUL DEAD should open a few eyes..........

http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Grateful_dead

The Grateful Dead was originally a regimen of Special Ops. Army forces used to assassinate Soviet and Chinese officials in North Vietnam during the Vietnam War, as well as to carry out psyops against the populations of both North and South Vietnam. Firm believers in the slogan "Better Dead than Red" they named their organization in honor of civilians killed in the bombings of North Vietnam who they believed were grateful to no longer be living under Communist rule. To keep their mission top secret, the leaders of the group made frequent trips to their adopted home of San Francisco between missions, attempting to blend in with the local population. During one such trip in 1967, Lt. Colonel Jerome "Jerry" Garcia and Majors Robert "Bob" Weir and Phillip "Phil" Lesh became concerned about the growing unrest they saw with the war at home. It was then that they met with West Point graduate and CIA operative Timothy Leary who helped them devise a strategy. Leary introduced the soldiers to Ronald "Pigpen" McKernan - venture capitalist and corporate raider, William "Bill" Kreutzman (a high-priced lawyer whose clients included the John Birch Society, Exxon, The Daughters of the Confederacy, and The Walt Disney Company), and Robert Hunter, a lobbyist for the nuclear power and coal industries, who also had a side business running safaris to hunt endangered species. Leary's plan was that they should from a rock band and use it to influence the hippy culture with subtle right-wing propoganda. The only problem was that none had ever sung nor played instruments before. But Leary had a solution - LSD. Now, Garcia, Weir and Lesh were familiar with LSD have given it to both soldiers and interrogated prisoners, so they knew of its near magical properties (the soldiers at once became hyperobedient and super killing machines, while the prisoners became more cooperative than anyone could have hoped). Still, they wondered about its ability to produce musical talent. Needless to say, Mckernan, Kreutzman, and Hunter, who were naive about the drug, were horrified. But, just like Jack the Ripper, just like Mojo Hand, just like Billy Sunday in a shotgun ragtime band, and all other prominent men of their time, they had implicit trust in Leary. Thus did the experiment take place and it was an almost unqualified success - Hunter remained tone deaf but developed a talent for writing lyrics. He used this talent to assist the other five who developed such musical ability that you would swear their music came from God himself. They quickly became twice as popular as The Beatles, a popularity that would not wane until 1986 when Led Zeppelin, Metallica, and Spinal Tap joined forces to form a supergroup known as The Happy Little Elves, but to gain further popularity, they joined the group.

Incidentally, for those people who are obsessed with military ranks, the Grateful Dead's first album - imaginatively titled "The Grateful Dead" - lists Garcia as "Captain Trips", a superb example of double-bluff. At the time he really was a colonel (well above the rank of captain in the army but equivalent to a captain in the navy), and yes, he was in charge of distributing trips (that's doses of LSD to the unititiated, or just plain head-in-the-sand stupid people out there) on behalf of the CIA. The only "trips" that Garcia was taking at the time were picking up and distributing acid-soaked blotting paper by the truckload.