MWN Episode 113 - John Potash on the CIA and Its Use of Drugs Against Musicians and Activists
Midnight Writer News · S.T. Patrick
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Show Notes
Author and Filmmaker John Potash joins S.T. Patrick to discuss the ways in which the CIA has used drugs to de-radicalize musicians and activists. On this episode, Potash discusses the opium trade and how it influenced the Ivy League universities, the rise of secret societies, how and why the CIA got into the culture business, Acid Tests, Timothy Leary, Ken Kesey, Eldridge Cleaver, why Timothy Leary went to Algeria, how the Black Panthers were infiltrated by Elaine Brown, and more on the suspicious deaths of Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and John Lennon. For our free archives, go to www.MidnightWriterNews.com