Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD
Subtitle: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond
Edition: Revised edition
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: January 21, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780802130624
Subjects: Alcoholism; Drug addiction & substance abuse; Social history; United States; History; Central Intelligence Agency; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; History: American; USA; Anthropology - Cultural; Social Science / Popular Culture; General; 1960-1970; Drug abuse; LSD (Drug)
First sentence: In the spring of 1942 General William "Wild Bill" Donovan, chief of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the CIA's wartime predecessor, assembled a half-dozen prestigious American scientists and asked them to undertake a top-secret research program.