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CIA involvement in 20th century literature

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I've Been a C I a Agent All Along

Harold holmes took a huge amount of lsd and lost his mind. He would speak frequently about believing that he was being followed. The c i a, in the 19 50 sixties, had a secret operation where they were testing lsd and all other substances on american citizens to try and it was a mind control program run by a felle called sidney gotleap. Now, hume ended up institutionalisd. And the parson who founded the paris review with hume felt sorry that his friend, whom he founded the magazine with, had gone psychotic,. Had become paranoid, thought he was being following. But matherson went to hume in the psychiatric

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