Timothy Leary—1960s Acid Guru—May Have Been Among the CIA’s Greatest Assets - CovertAction Magazine

Leary Helped Destroy the 1960s New Left by Turning the Youth onto Drugs [This article follows CAM’s efforts to expose the CIA’s dark and often bizarre history to new generations of people.—Editors] During the mid-1960s, as political activism against the Vietnam War and other social ills skyrocketed, Dr. Timothy Leary, a former University of California