1960s/Counterculture
| Date | early 1960s - early 1970s |
|---|---|
| Location | Worldwide |
| Interest of | Ronald Stark |
| Description | An anti-establishment cultural phenomenon and political movement that developed in the Western world during the mid-20th century |
The counterculture of the 1960s was an anti-establishment cultural phenomenon and political movement that developed in the Western world during the mid-20th century. It began in the early 1960s, and continued through the early 1970s.[1] It is often associated with cultural liberalism.
Contents
Vietnam war
In the US opposition to the Vietnam War was widespread.
Cooptation and control
Drugs
Widespread psychedelic drug use emerged in the 1960s, possible due to deep state influence.
Carl Oglesby, the one-time president of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the leading 1960s-era campus anti-war organization, wrote in 1988 that "we have to contemplate the possibility that the great American acid trip, no matter how distinctive of the rebellion of the 1960s it came to appear, was in fact the result of a despicable government conspiracy...If U.S. intelligence bodies collaborated in an effort to drug the entire generation of Americans, then the reason they did so was to disorient it, sedate it, and depoliticize it.”[2]
The single most copious source of American street LSD throughout a three-year period around late 1960s-early 1970s was Ronald Stark, identified later in an Italian court as a CIA asset from 1960 at latest. Stark could supply phenomenal amounts of acid; his calling card to Timothy Leary was a two-kilo block of LSD-25 in pure crystalline form, enough to stone the whole state of California for a month. Stark could supply acid in such quantities because he had a mysterious East Bloc source of ergotamine tartrate, the crucial manufacturing ingredient, and a state-of-the-art lab in France that apparently operated under CIA protection[3]
Laurel Canyon
The Laurel Canyon music milieu in Los Angeles of the late 1960s was the start of an uncanny number of rock music superstars, beginning in the mid-1960s. According to David McGowan's research, many of these rock ’n’ roll idols had former incarnations steeped in the world of military/intelligence operations.[4]
Related Quotation
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Satanism | “I do believe that what you refer to as power networks, otherwise known as secret societies, are occult in nature. The symbolism can be seen everywhere, if you choose not to maneuver your way through the world deaf, dumb and blind. And I believe that it has been that way for a very long time. As for them being Satanic, I suppose it depends upon how you define Satanic. These are belief systems that are used to manipulate the minds of impressionable followers,.. a way to covertly sell a fascist mindset.” | David McGowan | 28 March 2014 |
References
- ↑ https://archive.org/details/cubanc_000104
- ↑ Quoted in https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/04/24/timothy-leary-1960s-acid-guru-may-have-been-among-the-cias-greatest-assets/
- ↑ https://ia601503.us.archive.org/33/items/national-reporter-vol.-11-no.-2-fall-1988/National%20Reporter%2C%20vol.%2011%2C%20no.%202%20%28Fall%201988%29.pdf
- ↑ https://centerforaninformedamerica.com/inside-the-lc-the-strange-but-mostly-true-story-of-laurel-canyon-and-the-birth-of-the-hippie-generation-part-i/
