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Forbidden Facts 1: Timothy Leary

Timothy Leary, LSD guru, was a FBI & CIA Informant

Recent evidence suggests that Timothy Leary, guru of LSD, was an FBI and CIA informer in the later years of his life.

Born in 1920 and called the “most dangerous man in America” by Richard M Nixon, Leary became a professor of psychology at Harvard before taking his first dose of LSD in 1962. Over his life time Leary was reported to have taken 5000 doses of LSD as well as smoking “one marihuana joint a day” whenever he could.

After announcing that his first trip was the “most shattering experience” of his life, Leary became the guru of choice for the acid generation, advocating LSD use with the phrase that was to become like a mantra: “Turn On, Tune In, and Drop Out”.

After being caught with a tiny amount of marijuana and sentenced to 30 years in jail Timothy Leary escaped and went on the run before finally being recaptured in Switzerland and extradited to the United States.

It was at this time that Leary allegedly cooperated with the FBI and CIA in identifying members of the Weather Underground who had assisted his escape. In his statement Leary talked about his motives; “I would like to work constructively and collaboratively with the intelligence and law enforcement people who are ready to forget the past” and stated that he “wanted to get out of jail as soon as possible”.

Leary, whose subsequent career included advocacy for cyberspace and lecture tours with G.Gordon Liddy, the notorious Watergate burglar, died of prostrate cancer at the age of 76.

His ashes, along with those of Gene Rodenberry, the creator of Star Trek, and others were launched into space, their last resting place.

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Authors note: if this seems tame it's because the publisher rejectecd the original piece which investigated the rumours flying around that Leary's drunken wife-beating and general mis-behaviour contributed to his wife Marianne's suicide.

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