[cia] Timothy Leary—1960s Acid Guru—May Have Been Among the CIA’s Greatest Assets … This article presents a fascinating conspiracy theory the that 1960s Psychedelic era was a CIA-orchestrated operation, with Timothy Leary as its frontman. (via) ‘Leary himself said in an interview with journalist Walter Bowart near the end of his life that he was working as an intelligence agent since 1962. “I was a witting agent of the CIA” which, he claimed, had recognized him as “an important national asset.” Asked by Bowart to elaborate on whether CIA people were involved in his LSD-proselytizing groups in the 1960s, Leary responded: “Of course they were. I would say that eighty percent of my movements, eighty percent of the decisions I made were suggested to me by CIA people.” Leary continued: “I like the CIA!”’

Timothy Leary – CIA Asset?

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