Quote:

---

April 13, 1953 - The CIA's Technical Services Staff initiates the MK-ULTRA Project

(http://www.levity.com)

---

Quote:

---

Project MK-ULTRA, or MKULTRA, was the code name for a covert, illegal CIA human research program, run by the Office of Scientific Intelligence. This official U.S. government program began in the early 1950s, continuing at least through the late 1960s, and it used United States and Canadian citizens as its test subjects.  The published evidence indicates that Project MK-ULTRA involved the surreptitious use of many types of drugs, as well as other methods, to manipulate individual mental states and to alter brain function.

Project MK-ULTRA was first brought to wide public attention in 1975 by the U.S. Congress, through investigations by the Church Committee, and by a presidential commission known as the Rockefeller Commission. Investigative efforts were hampered by the fact that CIA Director Richard Helms ordered all MK-ULTRA files destroyed in 1973; the Church Committee and Rockefeller Commission investigations relied on the sworn testimony of direct participants and on the relatively small number of documents that survived Helms' destruction order.

Although the CIA insists that MK-ULTRA-type experiments have been abandoned, 14-year CIA veteran Victor Marchetti has stated in various interviews that the CIA routinely conducts disinformation campaigns and that CIA mind control research continued. In a 1977 interview, Marchetti specifically called the CIA claim that MK-ULTRA was abandoned a "cover story."

On the Senate floor in 1977, Senator Ted Kennedy said:

    The Deputy Director of the CIA revealed that over thirty universities and institutions were involved in an "extensive testing and experimentation" program which included covert drug tests on unwitting citizens "at all social levels, high and low, native Americans and foreign." Several of these tests involved the administration of LSD to "unwitting subjects in social situations." At least one death, that of Dr. Olson, resulted from these activities. The Agency itself acknowledged that these tests made little scientific sense. The agents doing the monitoring were not qualified scientific observers.

To this day most specific information regarding Project MKULTRA remains highly classified.

(wikipedia)

---

Quote:

---

Leo J. Zeff

May 14, 1912 - April 13, 1988

Summary

Leo Zeff was a psychologist and pioneer in the psychedelic therapy movement. As a young man, Zeff was a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army. Later, after obtaining his PhD, he opened a private practice specializing in Jungian psychology. Eventually he discovered how effective psychedelics could be in helping heal his patients. When psychedelics were outlawed, Zeff went underground.

Using the pseudonym "Adam Fisher", Zeff is mentioned by Alexander and Ann Shulgin in their book PIHKAL. In 1977, at a point in his life when he was about to close down his Oakland-based practice, Zeff was turned on to MDMA by Alexander Shulgin. After trying the drug, he abandoned his retirement plans and traveled across the country introducing MDMA to other therapists. It has been speculated by one of his friends that Zeff was responsible for turning on around 4,000 other therapists to MDMA. Zeff is responsible for coining the term "Adam" for MDMA, as he felt that it stripped away the ego's defense mechanisms and returned the user to a primordial state of innocence.

Under the pseudonym "Jacob", Zeff's work is detailed in Myron J. Stolaroff's book The Secret Chief. Published in 1997, the book is based on a series of interviews that Myron and Jean Stolaroff did with Zeff in 1981. It describes the materials and methods that Zeff found to be of value, and provides numerous first-person accounts attesting to the value of psychedelic therapy. A second edition, published in 2004, reveals Zeff's real name for the first time, as his family felt that enough time had passed that there was no longer any risk to his past patients and associates due to drug prohibition laws.

By all accounts, Leo Zeff was a remarkable person, beloved by his friends, colleagues, and clients.

(http://www.erowid.org)

---

Quote:

---

AbstraKt_I_Am said:
In my past year at Shroomery your articles have been my routinely thing to look forward too. Thanks Learyfan!

Anyone think/know if the Gov. is currently using psychedelics in anything atm?

---

Wow, that's really great to hear.  Right on.  As for your question, I have no idea.  But I wouldn't put anything past them. 

Quote:

---

HeiligBoomerz said:
What if they infused the clouds with LSD somehow.

ACID RAIN...

---