The End of the Hippie

Tate LaBianca murders turned public opinion against the hippies, recasting peace and love flower power ethos as a thing of latent drug-addled criminality. Details of MK Ultra finally broke out into public knowledge after a report from Seymour Hirsch for the New York Times in 1974. Sydney Gottlieb was investigated for federal crimes due to his destruction of government files, which is absolutely illegal. But the case was quietly dropped by the Justice Department; Gottlieb never prosecuted.