During the Cold War in the early 1950s, the CIA experimented and developed LSD as a mind control espionage weapon. It launched a massive covert program in which countless innocent civilians were used as guinea pigs. Though the CIA was intent on keeping the drug for its own purposes, it could not prevent it from spreading into the popular culture resulting in major social consequences.

Martin Lee
Martin Lee is co-founder of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), a New York-based media watch organization, and an award-winning journalist and author. He is co-author of Unreliable Sources: A Guide to Detecting Bias in News Media. He has investigated the CIA and its drug experiments. His classic book on the topic is Acid Dreams.